J. F. Stone Quotes
To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.
A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
My life is nothing more than bad timing separated by unimaginable moments of tragedy. I'd reconciled my pain with the promise of revenge ... until her.
Ah, music, " he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!
I'm looking at you through the glassDon't know how much time has pastOh God it feels like foreverBut no one tells that forever feels like homeSitting all alone in your head
In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.
Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me, " said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.
But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.
You of all people should know that women play a bigger factor in the game of thrones than men.
Once upon a time, there had been a seventeen-year-old assassin who had never let anyone get closer to her. Then, with the turning of a page, her story changed forever.
We the caregivers, have the power to do things proactively to benefit our present and future generations.
Family is a choice...Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other.
Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.
Because it is my destiny, Zabdas! Because I've always known the gods made me for something more -- more than just a wife, just a mother, just a woman. They made me for power!
My nails clawed against the smooth tiles as I pushed up onto my hands and knees. I rose unsteadily to my feet.Speed is my ally. Breathe. In and out. Focus. Time is my power.
I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.
She'd just thrown gasoline on the fire. Now it was up to fandom to keep it burning.
She turned his hand over, tracing letters into his palm. I…L.O.V.E…Y.O.U…
A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world...
One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person, ” she said nastily, “Can make your life around here a living nightmare and I definitely don’t think that you want that.
The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!
Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.
She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?
That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.
Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don’t settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram.
It would be wise to define ‘living’ as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I’m not.
To ‘live’ is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived.
He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.
With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.
She was all about the present. Paint and blood and lust. The now.
Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow.
It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...
Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.
We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.
Like humans, birds mourn the loss of fledglings and mates. There are a thousand variant weeping songs to sing. I had to sign mine and get on with it. That is what I did
Sometimes, ” she whispered, her lips brushing his cheek, “you need to be lost in order to be found.