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Wells Quotes (page 189)

I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are. Fyodor Dostoevsky
he asked, "what makes a man awriter?"well," I said, "it's simple, it's either youget it down on paper or you jump off abridge. writers are desperate people and when they stopbeing desperate they stop beingwriters."are you desperate?"I don't know... Charles Bukowski
Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it. Mercedes Lackey
the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. C. S. Lewis
Where are your sons?" asked the prince."Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman. Hans Christian Andersen
Anthony Burgess quote: "Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not..."
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. Anthony Burgess
Zooey Deschanel quote: "I might as well just call you “Bridge to Terabithia” since you..."
I might as well just call you “Bridge to Terabithia” since you make children cry! Zooey Deschanel
Suzanne Collins quote: "And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you..."
And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her Suzanne Collins
This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out. Jodi Picoult
Rudyard Kipling quote: "I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e..."
I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not. Rudyard Kipling
The community of the saints is not an "ideal" community consisting of perfect and sinless men and women, where there is no need of further repentance. No, it is a community which proves that it is worthy of the gospel of forgiveness by constantly and sincerely proclaiming God's forgiveness...Sanctification means driving out the world from the Church as well as separating the Church from the world. But the purpose of such discipline is not to establish a community of the perfect, but a... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity. Howard Schultz
The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Orson Welles quote: "If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the..."
If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story" - Orson Welles Orson Welles
You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it We’re destroying words—scores of them hundreds of them every day. It’s a beautiful thing the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms there are also the antonyms. George Orwell

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