Bernice Rubens Quotes

#1. [On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

Bernice Rubens

#2. Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you

Bob Marley

#3. You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again.

Jeff Buckley

#4. No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. Something had to happen between them. Two people cannot play a conspiracy for so long, and play it each on his own. There came a moment, when, in the dross of lies, the truth, known to them both, had to be asserted, and for their own sanity, shared.

Bernice Rubens

#6. God accepts only the love with which things are offered to Him.

Anonymous

#7. If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.

Bernice Rubens

#8. Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter