Equipped For Reading Success Kilpatrick Quotes

#1. There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny.

Robin Hobb

#2. By no means was crazy unique to the South,but it sure did love to parade it around on the front porch, give it a drink and welcome the world to stare.

Robert Reeves

#3. So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.

Joel Spolsky

#4. Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.
(Something About a Soldier (1940))

William, Saroyan

#5. Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Arthur Golden

#6. The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

Chris Pine

#7. When I meet somebody in the street who knows about 'Humans of New York,' a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.

Brandon Stanton

#8. I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

Therese Of Lisieux

#9. I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

Tom Stoppard

#10. I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

Henry Flagler

#11. Even today we raise our hand against our brother ... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Pope Francis

#12. Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#13. I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

Ayad Akhtar

#14. Go, little book, and wish to all
Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
A house with lawns enclosing it,
A living river by the door,
A nightingale in the sycamore!

Robert Louis Stevenson