Approximated Incision Quotes

#1. Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Dean Bakopoulos

#2. A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

Maureen O'Hara

#3. Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

George Saunders

#4. Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

Addison Moore

#5. No one wants you to apologize," Catherine said. "And you know we all have an interest in politics." "I don't," Wes said. "We all have an interest in politics except for Wes,

John Scalzi

#6. No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.

Gail Carson Levine

#7. Where is the direction of influence going to run? It's going to run - and the research confirms this again and again - it's going to run from the experienced to the inexperienced. The net outcome of sex education, styled as Rogerian encountering, is more sexual experience.

William Coulson

#8. I've never been all that comfortable in real life.

Nick Nolte

#9. She took a right, and then another right. Shouldn't the long corridor leading to the stairs be just ahead? Where had she made a wrong turn?

Matthew J. Costello

#10. Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

Joyce Meyer

#11. You can indeed become lost, in dreams. And you may not always find yourself when you wake up.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

Nelson Mandela

#13. For some reason, it didn't feel right. Victor's words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he'd come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn't all. Something else was coming.
There is more.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. I try to make things that are not elitist. There's enough places in the world where we're excluded. I do not ever want to be contributing to that. I want to be contributing to opening the doors and gates for women.

Amanda De Cadenet