Vinisterra Quotes & Sayings

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be. — Alistair Begg

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books. — Johnny Rich

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project. — Leni Zumas

I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things ... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude. — Amy Adams

My father, Zeus, did not love me. The demigods at Camp Half-Blood did not love me. Python and the Beast and his comrades at Triumvirate Holdings did not love me. It was almost enough to make me question my self-worth.
No, no. That was crazy talk. — Rick Riordan

Most of us live in a state of perpetual "could be better." We're so used to having control over every little parameter of our lives that we cannot focus on what's going right, only on what's going wrong. That's the viewpoint we always seem to be coming from, and it means that we are perpetually unsatisfied, unhappy, disappointed, and ungrateful. — Michael Taft

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you. — Allen Lacy

Your mind was given to you to use to create the person you want to be. — Steve Chandler

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me. — Marge Piercy

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive. — Buzz Aldrin

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. — Hermann Hesse

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own. — Marianne Williamson

Remember what they did to Broadleaf, and remember what they did to us. Now it's time for us to kill 'em back. — Henry V. O'Neil

We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. — Fred G. Gosman

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it. — Ambrose Bierce