Wendell August Quotes & Sayings

The mystery of grace is the power of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science. — Thomas Carlyle

Their black eyes were like shards of obsidian. — Brandon Sanderson

The United States is both a conservative power, defending the international status quo against those who would change it through violence, and a revolutionary power seeking to replace — Walter Russell Mead

Without extraneous words or phrases or clauses, there will be room for implication. The longer the sentence, the less it's able to imply, And writing by implication should be one of your goals. Implication is almost nonexistent in the prose that surrounds you, The prose of law, science, business, journalism, and most academic fields. It was nonexistent in the way you were taught to write. That means you don't know how to use one of a writer's most important tools: The ability to suggest more than the words seem to allow, The ability to speak to the reader in silence. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

[1. I fancy my readers — Allan Macpherson

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs. — AB De Villiers

Every problem is the result of a previous solution. — Stephen Discher

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat. — Erin Wasson

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh. — Mark Bittman

It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly. — Theodore L. Cuyler

But when this slip of a girl with trust blazing in her bright blue eyes looked at him, all he could think about was protecting the one piece of the outside world that had found a way in. — Karen Witemeyer

I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is. — Kat Dennings

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. — Colin Powell