Vindictiveness Def Quotes & Sayings

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do. — Marianne Williamson

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles. — Samuel R. Delany

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you? — Cecelia Ahern

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have. — Nadine Gordimer

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted. — John Betjeman

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. — Marcel Duchamp

Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one's body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form ... — J.K. Rowling

It's as though the inhabitants of the cities were outdistanced by the wisdom and the aspirations of the cities themselves. Things have a better feeling for the future than people do. People feel historically, i.e. retrospectively. Walls, streets, wires, chimneys feel prospectively. People get in the way of progress. They hang sentimental weights on the winged feet of time. — Joseph Roth

A few modern philosophers ... assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. ... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before. — Carol S. Dweck

I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you. — Pablo Neruda

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.
If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away. — Rainbow Rowell