Backhanded Inspirational Quotes

#1. Gardens were weeded and watered and

Libbie Hawker

#2. Each tear longs to kiss sorrow

Munia Khan

#3. 'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.

Lesley Nicol

#4. The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene ...

William Faulkner

#5. I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.

Will Self

#6. A hero is just somebody who tries to do the right thing even when it's hard.
There are more of us than you think.

G. Willow Wilson

#7. If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Carl Sagan

#8. When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

Nora Roberts

#9. War is a part of human nature, and we Japanese are human. But we have never fought, we have certainly never built weapons of mass destruction, to convince the world of the rightness of an idea. It took America and its bastard twin, communism, to do that." He

Barry Eisler

#10. Perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

Anais Nin

#11. This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she felt so easy and careless that she was surprised to see that the glass of champagne beside her plate was untouched. She felt as if all its sparkles were whirling through her.

Edith Wharton

#12. When the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority ...

John Geddes

#13. It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

Samuel R. Delany

#14. I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

Paul Feig

#15. You are mine," he whispered into her. "And the world is ours. There is nowhere beneath this sky that we do not belong together.

Tessa Dare