Your Memory Is In Our Hearts Like The Rose Quotes & Sayings

When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win. — Thomas Crum

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor. — Henry David Thoreau

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings

But the truth is, there's little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy all the books, observe friends and relations, review their own memories of childhood. But the distance between those proxy experiences and the real thing, ultimately, can be measured in light-years. — Jennifer Senior

Rule number one for kids: They must ask to play with the dog. Ultimately, your — Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect. — Ruth Glick

Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine. — Edmund De Waal

You got a name?"

"Uhad Ul-badir Taruk Ultani," the wizard said with a small dip of his chin.

Jackal blinked. "That name is a fucking nightmare. I'm going to call you Crafty. — Jonathan French

Every girl wants her very own Jack Dawson. — J.M. Darhower

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up. — Josh Billings

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover. — Virginia Woolf

The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success. — Brian Simo

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could. — Nadia Boulanger

This question about Iraq has gotten personal. — Gerhard Schroder

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art. — Luis Von Ahn