Excerpta Et Collectanea Quotes

#1. This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

Robert Byrd

#2. Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

Joe Bastianich

#3. If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

Thomas Browne

#7. War had rearranged my priorities. I now clung to memories more than goals or material things. But there were a few irreplaceable items that buoyed my spirit and fight for life. It was at that moment that I realized. Something was missing from my suitcase.

Ruta Sepetys

#8. I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are just for them.

Josh Groban

#9. [T]here's a fine line between wild and full-on whack job.

Kimberly McCreight

#10. If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

Janet Yellen

#11. Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.

J.R. Moehringer

#12. All Being within this order, by the laws
of its own nature is impelled to find
its proper station round its Primal Cause.
Thus every nature moves across the tide
of the great sea of being to its own port,
each with its given instinct as its guide.

Dante Alighieri