Tairswith Quotes & Sayings

I prefer to think that no writer has got time to be too concerned with style, that he is simply telling this dramatic instance in the most effective way he knows, that the book, the story, creates its own style. — William Faulkner

CHAPTER LXII FINAL — Charles Dickens

The Wretched of the Earth is an explosion. — Emile Capouya

Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope. Then get back to work! Subconsciously, we should be constantly asking ourselves this question: Do I need to freak out about this? — Ryan Holiday

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well. — Leonard Lauder

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion. — Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes I think the city is naturally conducive to coincidences in the same way that Plains states like Nebraska and Oklahoma are conducive to twisters, in the same way that mountain lakes are conducive to lightning. — Robert Sullivan

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. — Ronald Reagan

Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating. — Robert Walser

What he works at makes no matter. What matters is, he works. The Father rules, the Warrior fights, the Smith labors, and together they perform all that is rightful for a man. — George R R Martin

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual. — Karen Kingsbury

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates. — James Thurber

Sometimes the gods smile," he grunted. "Yes, sir." And sometimes they kick you over and stomp you flat. — Tanya Huff

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare. — Ryan Holmes

Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. — Niccolo Machiavelli