D Skale Quotes

#1. I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ...

Ann Beattie

#2. Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.

Sadako Ogata

#3. Just as I defend myself, therefore,
From all unpleasant happenings however small,
Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
To guard and to protect them with compassion.

Shantideva

#4. Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.

Martin Edwards

#5. I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.

Robert E.Lee

#6. We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

Pliny The Elder

#7. Does not our lives consist of the four elements?"
"Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists of eating and drinking.

William Shakespeare

#8. Wilson was very much school of Montaigne. Like Montaigne, he was not exactly misogynistic but he felt that the challenge of another male mind was the highest sort of human exchange while possession of a beautiful woman was also of intense importance to him.

Gore Vidal

#9. Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Bill Maher

#10. Your demons are always with you," Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. "Don't you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.

James Dashner

#11. That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

William Shakespeare

#12. It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.

Meghan Daum

#13. If one is not prepared to fail, there is no way to achieve success in
business and life.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together

William Shakespeare

#15. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Loretta Young

#16. You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.

Jean Nidetch