1022 Quotes

#1. At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love (CCC 1022; by St. John of the Cross)

San Juan De La Cruz

#2. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

Coco Chanel

#4. I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

Drew Goddard

#5. Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee - at least not all the time.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. Face your financial issues head on. Open your bills, pick up the phone, call your lender. If applicable, tell them you're struggling and explain why. If you lost your job or took a pay cut, be ready to prove it.

Jean Chatzky

#7. No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.

Therese Fowler

#8. Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Randy Pausch

#9. The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.

Katherine Dunn

#10. Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#11. My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

Jean Cocteau

#12. The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

Lawrence M. Krauss