Confinde Quotes

#1. What could two men, so different from each other, see in this "brown patch", as Mary called hereself? It was certainly not her plainness that attracted them (and let all plain young ladies be warned against the dangerous encouragement given them by Society to confinde in their want of beauty)

George Eliot

#2. All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing ...

Audre Lorde

#3. When the train stopped the local townspeople along the way offered us coffee and sandwiches. It gave you a good feeling, seeing them come out to the train. These were the people we would be fighting for.

Craig Siegel

#4. In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#5. Everything in her wanted to run -fly back to California, back to her quiet existence working among strangers. Hiding out in the folds of tree trunks and tropical petals, tucked away safely among so many foreign plants and people.

Alice Sebold

#6. The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?

Josephine Winslow Johnson

#7. I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.

Sarah Dessen

#8. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Intellectual: One who knows no craft.

Idries Shah

#9. The job of an elected president is to overcome the past and change the playing field.

Ashraf Ghani

#10. There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Heraclitus

#11. The painting you saw in your mind was beautiful when it was your secret. Once it's on the canvas it's as if someone else has got hold of your secret and sullied it, distorted it.

Glenn Haybittle

#12. I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Mark Twain