Wise Wor Quotes & Sayings

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person. — Laurie Graham

How many vampires do you think have the stamina for immortality? They have the most dismal notions of immortality to begin with. For in becoming immortal they want all the forms of their life to be fixed as they are and incorruptible: carriages made in the same dependable fashion, clothing of the cut which suited their prime, men attired and speaking in the manner they have always understood and valued. When, in fact, all things change except the vampire himself; everything except the vampire is subject to constant corruption and distortion. Soon, with an inflexible mind, and often even with the most flexible mind, this immortality becomes a penitential sentence in a madhouse of figures and forms that are hopelessly unintelligible and without value. — Anne Rice

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things. — Vladimir Putin

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world. — Hiro Mashima

Your strength is greater than your struggles. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist. — Marilynne Robinson

Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost. — Eudora Welty

I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched. — Gautam Gambhir

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. — Havelock Ellis

Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality. — William Barrett

The door to nature is a door to your very self! — Mehmet Murat Ildan