Wheeeee Its Friday Quotes & Sayings

The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. — Harry Truman

There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighbouring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence. — Reuven Rivlin

I have heard people say that the short story was one of the most difficult literary forms, and I've always tried to decide why people feel this way about what seems to me to be one of the most natural and fundamental ways of human expression. After all, you begin to hear and tell stories when you're a child, and there doesn't seem to be anything very complicated about it. I suspect that most of you have been telling stories all your lives, and yet here you sit - come to find out how to do it.
Then last week, after I had written down some of these serene thoughts to use here today, my calm was shattered when I was sent seven of your manuscripts to read.
After this experience, I found myself ready to admit, if not that the short story is one of the most difficult literary forms, at least that it is more difficult for some than for others. — Flannery O'Connor

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. — Margaret Atwood

Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, his eyes wide and deep like the oceans in other tales or like the sky in his own. — Ally Condie