Zaring Quotes & Sayings

Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up. — Katie Hopkins

I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment. — Sugar Ray Leonard

But telling a giraffe killer that I need someone is not an option. — Nikki Godwin

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. — Maurice Blanchot

A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters. — Grace Zaring Stone

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling. — Bill Peet

Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake. — Liane Moriarty

Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work. — Eckhart Tolle

I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face — Kourtney Kardashian

In religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate. — Grace Zaring Stone

I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light. — Enoch Fitch Burr

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte

No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding. — W.G. Sebald

Adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all. — Grace Zaring Stone

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. — Bill Gates

As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated. — John Evelyn