Talani Quotes & Sayings

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. — Peter De Vries

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell. — Veronica Roth

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think. — Fred D'Aguiar

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. — Knut Hamsun

The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates. — Howard E. Wasdin

I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had have turned out to be my best days. And when God has seemed most cruel to me he has then been most kind. If there is anything in this world for which I would bless him more than for anything else it is for pain and affliction. I am sure that in these things the richest tenderest love has been manifested to me. Our Father's wagons rumble most heavily when they are bringing us the richest freight of the bullion of his grace. Love letters from heaven are often sent in black-edged envelopes. The cloud that is black with horror is big with mercy. Fear not the storm. It brings healing in its wings and when Jesus is with you in the vessel the tempest only hastens the ship to its desired haven. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues. — Mitt Romney

Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die. — Thea Bowman

The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west. — Bear Bryant

I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference. — Emily Giffin

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ... it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought — Roy Hattersley

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. — John Berger