Kathryn Erskine Quotes

I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

Kathryn Erskine

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• Don't Think

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• We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Hope
  • Hurt
  • Dinner

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Individual

• There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Hurt

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • Born

• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Women
  • Strong

• In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Strong
  • Try
  • Realism

• I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strong

• A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Strong
  • Speed
  • Push

• If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Country
  • Society

• Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Service
  • Information
  • Profound

• For Man's grim Justice goes its way,And will not swerve aside:It slays the weak, it slays the strong,It has a deadly stride:With iron heel it slays the strong,The monstrous parricide!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strong
  • Justice
  • Weak

• All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

  

  William Davenant
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Birth

• No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • World
  • Earth
  • Strong

• Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

  

  James Agate
  • Theatre
  • Management

• It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.

  

  Martin Rees
  • World
  • Everyday

• I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

  

  Kathryn Erskine
  • Strong
  • Hurt
  • Don't Think