C. J. Dennis Quotes
Every great thing that's ever been achieved started with the belief that it could be.
Telling you how I know…what I know…it could make things worse than they already are…for all of us
Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.
In the end, Nora, there’s only time. All we have is time…and even if this wasn’t happening, we still don’t ever have much…no one does. We only have the moment we’re in. We have right now.
I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey
She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.
Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.
Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.
Peace doesn't mean never offending anyone. Peace means never taking offense from anyone.
It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.
Children are God’s or nature’s practical joke on couples—that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it.
Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?" ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams.
Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.
A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.
It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup.
Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
To receive children’s love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.
(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.
And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow
The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.
It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn’t change back. One second.
One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny.
Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")
Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.
What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet?
What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?
But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.
Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.
A woman should be mindful that the key to one man's heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.
If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely.
The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.
Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.
Admit to yourself women are equal. In fact go ahead and say it. They're superior. Nuff said.
Guys, you should always fight the urge to put your mouth in gear before taking your brain out of park.
