Hardwon Quotes

#1. Pope John XXIII's motto might be heard here: "In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things, charity." That is second-half-of-life, hardwon wisdom.

Richard Rohr

#2. Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except ... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

Phil Klay

#4. ...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.

When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

A. Ashley Straker

#5. Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

Os Guinness

#6. If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.

Timothy Keller

#7. One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.

John Trudell

#8. concept: me, sleeping in a forest. flowers grow from my scars. moss fills the lonely parts of me. ferns are growing in the pit of my stomach where fear used to live

L.J. Buchanan

#9. I like songs that are simple.

Syd Barrett

#10. I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

Sally Kellerman

#11. I would love to do a period piece. That would be really cool. And also like to do something transformative and have to transform yourself physically to become that character. Any interesting, fun roles, I'm attracted to.

Tracy Spiridakos

#12. I went and kissed him to wake him up just like Sleeping Beauty. Although I guess with me it was more like Beauty and the Beast.

J.L. Merrow

#13. I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.

Charlaine Harris

#14. But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

Scott Westerfeld

#15. I'd been caught up in some wild cyclone, like Dorothy throw into Oz, with not a good witch in sight to save me.

Sarah Dessen