Umpateedle Quotes & Sayings

In truth, this was a bad thing that Yan Chang had done, telling me my mother's story. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth. After — Amy Tan

We're just helping out the Christians by bringing about the apocalypse. They can all go to heaven — Stephen Bier Jr.

They unlike their deceitful brothers, uphold the laws of our realm. — Candace Knoebel

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior. — Jonah Goldberg

I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard. — Amy Richards

You see, my friends ... you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?' — Martin Luther King Jr.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It's easy to lose our way when we lose our why. — Michael Hyatt

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Hope opens the door of opportunity and shines the way to possibilities. — Debasish Mridha

But God has a way of making things even out, I guess. — Sherman Alexie

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble. — Terry Pratchett