K. Taylor Quotes
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.
Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.
In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.
You know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them.
I have the ability to make a choice in how I respond. My natural response does not have to be the only response I have.
The two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.
I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.
It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.
We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system
Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.
The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.
I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.
A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.
These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.
I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
