Esther Broner Quotes

#1. I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.

Rachel Johnson

#2. The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he was doing something. The world provided resistance, and as we struggled through, we learned our final lessons.

David Vann

#3. Negativity is your great enemy; positivity is your great friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. When the hour is nigh me,
Let me in a tavern die,
With a tankard by me.

Archpoet

#5. Paul wisely taught, 'Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.' [Rom. 12:21]

Richard G. Scott

#6. The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. Traditional nursing facilities are sterile institutions rather than homes - which is why many Americans do not want to live in one or want this as their only option for themselves or their family members.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

#8. ...he couldn't help but think that nearly anything could be used as a weapon, if one was in a weaponry mood.

Lemony Snicket

#9. Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

Robyn Davidson

#10. At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

Joseph Kanon

#11. I was starting to fall for him,
He didn't say it but the way
He looked at me,
Told me he felt the same.

Nikki Rowe

#12. Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

Kenny Marchant