Eric Shinseki Quotes
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
Karin Slaughter -
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
Jack Adams -
My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
Victoria Aveyard -
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
Barbet Schroeder -
The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
Laura Anne Gilman
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
Patrick Labyorteaux -
You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
R. L. Stine -
Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
D. L. Hughley -
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
Dale E. Turner -
Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
Marianne Williamson -
An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
Cheri Huber
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I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
R.A. Dickey -
Only longing can fill with more of itself.
Virginia Woolf -
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.
Sarah Vowell -
When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I was serious and had no interest in occupying any political position, so they started to fall out one by one.
Wole Soyinka -
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
William James -
Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.
Simon Sinek