"Asking the right question makes all the difference to your outcome."
Liz Hester
"You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."
Hilary Mantel
"If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation."
G.S. Jennsen
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
"All great works start with mistake. Ain’t no exception in this fact."
Sandra Newman
"You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus 'Gus' McCrae."
Larry McMurtry
"It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers—he has an almost uncanny ability to perceivehypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness."
Billy Graham
"Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones."
Kay Redfield Jamison
"I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy."
Bauvard
"But the book! The siren song of the book!"
Ellen Douglas
"There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you."
T.F. Hodge
"But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!"
Hope Mirrlees
"My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? Or does every act intend some good?..."
Brent Weeks
"…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Rex Curry, a passionate libertarian, has made the issue his white whale."
Jonah Goldberg
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
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