Zackowitz Quotes & Sayings

Solitude is good for a time, but not for all time. Don't forget to come back and embrace a community. Build one, if you must. Don't neglect the sharing of yourself. Even those parts that are not so clean have value. In fact, the best lessons you have to offer in life come from your struggles in the darkness and grit of life. — LaShawnda Jones

Then he was done. He pulled away, rolled onto his back. "I'm sorry," he said. "You're welcome," she said. She believed in answering what people meant, not what they said. — Orson Scott Card

What would I do without you? You're never going to find out. — Sylvia Day

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business. — Juan Pablo Montoya

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. — Zach Galifianakis

Take the humble road, and listen before you speak. Ask before you suggest, and think before you act. — Pierre Quinn

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative. — Haruki Murakami

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that. — Peter Gould

President [Barack] Obama has talked about fundamentally transforming this country. There's 7 billion people across the face of the globe, many of whom want to come to this country. If they come legally, great. But if they come illegally and they get amnesty, that is how we fundamentally change this country, and it really is striking. — Ted Cruz

Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into action by the steady-state lostness and suffering of the world. It is the emptiness that comes from thinking of godliness as the avoidance of doing bad things instead of the aggressive pursuit of doing good things. — John Piper

I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine. — Edie Sedgwick

When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another. — Dallin H. Oaks

I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the second sentence, and I might be several weeks on the first page instead of writing a draft and trying to figure it out from there. — Donald Ray Pollock

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs. — P.D. Ouspensky