Jean Guitton Quotes
It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’
Jean Guitton
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg
I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
Sally Mann
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
La'Porsha Renae
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.
Paul Gallico
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell
There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
Nancy Kress
If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you
Jon Bon Jovi
There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
Uwe Reinhardt
It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’
Jean Guitton