Valentine Smore Quotes & Sayings

People should say what they mean and not make other people stumble around. — Stephanie Perkins

But far beyond my reach is the Enchanted Mountain, And you are on the other side, ten thousand peaks away. — Emily Browning

Bluefur sighed. Now that he'd moved into the warriors' den, there would be no getting away from the conceited young tom. If Snowfur had to find a mate, why couldn't she pick a cat that Bluefur actually liked? — Erin Hunter

It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow. — Katie Uhlaender

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. — Ernst Fischer

In the confusions of the next hours the Earth's population was substantially reduced, the biosphere was altered, and the Earth itself was marked with numbers of more conventional craters. For some years thereafter the survivors were existentially preoccupied and the peculiar dustbowl at Bonneville was left to weather by itself in the changing climatic cycles.

"The Man Who Walked Home — James Tiptree Jr.

Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends — Dean Cavanagh

Mindfulness is the awareness of what is going on in us and around us in the present moment. It requires stopping, looking deeply, and recognizing both the uniqueness of the moment and its connection to everything that has gone on before and will go on in the future. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else. — Mati Klarwein

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be. — Ai Weiwei

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate task of putting our public household in order. We need a rigid and yet sane economy, combined with fiscal justice, and it must be attended by individual prudence and thrift, which are so essential to this trying hour and reassuring for the future. — Warren G. Harding

school wouldn't help them fight the Germans. — Lauren Wolk

In Paris, even the subways are required to be beautiful. — Jenny Offill