Thereve Contraction Quotes & Sayings

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus. — Robert Cormier

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. — Frederick Lenz

But nobody yet had been able to dig down to what was most captivating about her: this was the mysterious ability of her soul to apprehend in life only that which had once attracted and tormented her in childhood, the time when the soul's instinct is infallible; to seek out the amusing and the touching: to feel constantly an intolerable, tender pity for the creature whose life is helpless and unhappy; to feel across hundreds of miles that somewhere in Sicily a thin-legged little donkey with a shaggy belly is being brutally beaten. Whenever she did come across a creature that was being hurt, she experienced a kind of legendary eclipse - when inexplicable night comes down and ash flies and blood appears on the walls - and it seemed that if at once, at once, she did not help, did not cut short another's torture (the existence of which it was absolutely impossible to explain in a world so conducive to happiness), her heart would not stand it, and she would die. — Vladimir Nabokov

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: 'Do this or you'll burn in hell. — Ricky Gervais

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge. — Henry Louis Gates Jr.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. — John Polkinghorne

And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. — Mark Haddon

I have been drawing all my life. — Dick Bruna

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business. — Jim Walton

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch. — John Britt Daniel

Call me the happy girl see a smile on my face when I'm Passing by, you don't gotta ask me why, see a tear in my eye its a happy cry. — Information Resources Management Association