Zayas Website Quotes & Sayings

One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling. — Jeannette Walls

Briony scared?" said Eldric. "I've never seen anyone less scared in my life. She has nerves of iron. — Franny Billingsley

If you # fail , learn. If you succeed, relish your # success . You can only know the sweet taste of # victory after many bitter struggles. — Robert Kiyosaki

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

I'd lost count of the disappointments. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I believe all of my talents come from the Lord. All of my talents are God-given - that's how I was able to write music without any professional musical training. — Stan Freberg

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook — Steven Biko

I slunk
off in the direction of the cocktail table - the only place in
the garden where a single man could linger without looking
purposeless and alone. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person. — James Mercer

Our pasts haunt us all.
I regaled my beautiful audience of one with the tale of my life, not so much for entertainment, but for bold, barefaced, honest truth. — Ross Turner

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind. — Gautama Buddha

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing's broken? — Trenton Lee Stewart

You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Isolation is a way to know ourselves — Franz Kafka