Thieme Connect Quotes & Sayings

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations. — Aldous Huxley

Do you see how commercial obligations bind people more closely than love? — Rafael Chirbes

Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working. — Kelli Russell Agodon

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next. — Matt Taibbi

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. — Thomas Jefferson

Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer. — Heidi Priebe

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. — John Piper

The world will never be safe for democracy - it is a dangerous trade — G.K. Chesterton

Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again. — Caroline Lawrence