Karin Slaughter Quotes
Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
-
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
-
I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
-
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
-
I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
-
You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
-
Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
-
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
-
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
-
Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
-
From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
-
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
-
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
-
Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
-
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
-
My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
-
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
-
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
-
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
-
For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
-
The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.
-
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
-
Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.
-
Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
