Xciiii Quotes & Sayings

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home
all the more powerful because forbidden
terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. — Winston S. Churchill

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out. — Aravind Adiga

There was a small part of me that was still childish, stubborn in her hope, thinking I could somehow have everything.

...That I could be all the versions of me, stacked inside one another, and find someone who would want them all. But that's childhood. Before you realize that every step is a choice. That something must be given up for something to be gained. Everything on a scale, a weighing of desires, an ordering of which you want more--and what you'd be willing to give for it. — Megan Miranda

On a certain day in the blue-moon month of September
Beneath a young plum tree, quietly
I held her there, my quiet, pale beloved
In my arms just like a graceful dream.
And over us in the beautiful summer sky
There was a cloud on which my gaze rested
It was very white and so immensely high
And when I looked up, it had disappeared. — Bertolt Brecht

My father used to say, 'Never let your guard down, never turn your back.' Never — Kelly Gardiner

Catie Conrad, just because we think we deserve something, it doesn't mean God is going to allow it to happen in the snap of a finger. — Angie Spady

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part. — Pat Boone

Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives — Sunday Adelaja

Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish. — Daniel D. Maurer

There are these fantasies among people who watch movies where they're like, "Oh, there's a chemistry between them - something going on." And sometimes there is. But for me, it's more like, I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home. — Henry Cavill

I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team to distribute your film. — Aurora Guerrero

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. — Anne McCaffrey

the liquor aiding the shorthand of my loneliness. It was strange that I could feel differently so easily, that there was a sure way to soften the crud of my own sadness. — Emma Cline

Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse." — Frederick Lenz