Undeciding Quotes & Sayings

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them. — John Ruskin

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose — Joshua Reynolds

Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. — Haruki Murakami

Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God. — Neal A. Maxwell

[A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds. — Edmund Burke

We are criminals and we do not know how to express or prove that we are criminals. The problem is that if, as criminals, we were recognized as such, we would have to pay for the crime. Yet if we paid, the crime would disappear and our debt would be wiped out. We must keep our crime in order to keep our crime safe, to avoid the terrible fate of being forgiven. — Helene Cixous

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea."
"That's only three."
Alvis finished his wine. "You have to do disappointment twice. — Jess Walter

For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head. — Curtis Sittenfeld

I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don't want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson. — Lisette Model

When all is said and done, everyone should be able to look back on their life and know that they made it exactly as they wanted it to be. — A.J. Darkholme

Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes. — Patton Oswalt

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself. — Francis Quarles

A Conceit
Give me your hand
Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.
Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.
For me
Give me your hand. — Maya Angelou

magic does not live in the unwilling soul. — Diane Duane

I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest. — Sienna Miller