Yann Martel Quotes
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
Yann Martel
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra
I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
Eddie Redmayne
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
Edgardo Osorio
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian
Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
Faith Hill
There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.
Margaret Stohl
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
Mikhail Lermontov
We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.
Dilma Rousseff
You will probably have what is called a Christian Church here; they will not admit that we are Christians, but they cannot think us further from the plan of salvation as revealed from heaven than we know them to be, so we are even on that ground, as far as it goes.
Brigham Young
The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
J. I. Packer
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
Yann Martel