"Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves."
John Weece
"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process."
Elif Shafak
"But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism."
Fiona Apple
"Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?"
Hannah More
"Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words."
John Ashbery
"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."
William Gaddis
"Please don't fool yourself cause you can't fool me. I know what exactly you think right now and I also know what excuses you will bring to cover your nasty lies, but never forget that I will never ever believe you."
Arash Tabish
"Why is the Chosen One always a he?"
J.D. Cunegan
"When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer."
Donna Quesada
"The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a moment about surprise. What is surprising is never what is revealed but the grace with which it has been hidden."
David Burr Gerrard
"Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.” “Every man?”“Yes,” he answered emphatically. ...“What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked. “You."
Julie Garwood
"All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill."
George R.R. Martin
"The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering."
Melvin Jules Bukiet
"Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs."
Alan Gibson
"You’re playing with a blow torch, andit’s pointed at your head. Think about what you’re saying."
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