Coffee Stain Quotes

#1. The vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.

Brian Stableford

#2. I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

Malachy McCourt

#3. The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

Selima Hill

#4. To be able to put oneself in another's position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.

Amma

#5. Love must not suffocate but breathe on its own.

Soraya Naomi

#6. Heterodogmatize (v.) To have an opinion different from the one generally held. Just because you are in proud possession of opinions that differ from those of the majority of the population is no reason to start patting yourself on the back. Usually it just means you are wrong. also

Ammon Shea

#7. My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'

Judy Woodruff

#8. You know, Shayla called dibs on you earlier. Perhaps you
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"I call dibs on you. Dance with me.

Beth Mikell

#9. The most important thing is how we react at the time of trials

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

W. H. Auden