Terhi Tervashonka Quotes & Sayings

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts. — Randy Alcorn

Development is the solution to all problems. All other types of caste, communal and dynasty politics will not do good. — Narendra Modi

I couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. — Rumi

Well, I try my best to be just like I am,
But everybody wants you to be just like them,
They sing while you slave and I just get bored — Bob Dylan

Nobody is ever convinced by argument, anyway. They just think up new reasons for maintaining old positions and become more defensive. — Louis L'Amour

But the most extraordinary is this relationship with Jesus. It's not mass produced - one size fits all. No, it's one to one, customized to fit the shape of who you have been, what you have done and where you want to be in the future. He's taken that time to tune into me, into my patterns and my past. — Emily Silver

Police and prosecutors did not declare the War on Drugs - and some initially opposed it - but once the financial incentives for waging the war became too attractive to ignore, law enforcement agencies had to ask themselves, if we're going to wage this war, where should it be fought and who should be taken prisoner? — Michelle Alexander

If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succeed it will be because it finds the political will and means to tame its economic forces. — Robert L. Heilbroner

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante