Uruguay Beaches Quotes & Sayings

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open
the only way to stop the story running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants. — Jeanette Winterson

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush. — Florence Littauer

Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried. — Henry David Thoreau

Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries? — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

One of the reasons I'm lucky is to be around an owner like Jerry Jones. I'm not just saying it. The reality of it is the guy wants to win. As a quarterback, you need ownership and people in the front office and organization to help you win. If you don't get that help, you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. You feel that, being a part of this organization with Jerry, that he's going to bring in people and sign people and want to improve this football team every year. It allows you to feel like, hey, we have a chance and I have a chance to do some special things around here. — Tony Romo

Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb. — Agatha Christie

Storytelling is easy. All that's needed is a beginning, a middle and an end, and about 53,000 words. Not true. There is nothing more difficult than inventing a story. — Dennis Macaraeg

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things. — Thomas Paine

Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can. — Jim Rohn

Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man. — Albert Speer

Bartleby is never happy, but he never can be, you know. Life in general offends him. Happiness is something that happens to other people, because life happens to Bartleby. It happens to him frequently and unwarrantedly, and every time he is forced to suffer it, he is always disappointed. — Michelle Franklin

Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn't, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow. — Sarah Dessen