Venerated Def Quotes & Sayings

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Still, he could feel a fine cord stretched between them, a thin luminous fiber that ran from his chest all the way across the continent and forked into theirs. Never before had he lived through a fever without his mother; when he'd been sick in Debrecen she'd taken the train to be with him. Never had he finished a year at school without knowing that soon he'd be home with his father, working beside him in the lumberyard and walking through the fields with him in the evening. Now there was another filament, one that linked him to Klara. And Paris was her home, this place thousands of kilometers from his own. He felt the stirring of a new ache, something like homesickness but located deeper in his mind; it was an ache for the tie when his heart had been a simple and satisfied thing, small as the green apples that grew in his father's orchard. — Julie Orringer

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. — John Updike

When people don't have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries. — Anne Lamott

The world is a wheel," he said. "When we rise or fall, we do it together." Will — Cassandra Clare

The escalation of attitude's impressive, Ace. — Kristen Ashley

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment. — George Nethercutt

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. — David Sedaris

My creative powers have been reduced to a restless indolence. I cannot be idle, yet I cannot seem to do anything either. I have no imagination, no more feeling for nature, and reading has become repugnant to me. When we are robbed of ourselves, we are robbed of everything. — Sally Brampton

We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature. — Edwin J. Delattre

I know I please where I must please the most. — Sophocles

I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream. — Jane Lotter

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name. — Anatole France