Top 15 Ostrichlike Quotes
#1. God calls each and every star by name. It's not likely He has forgotten yours.
Louie Giglio
#2. There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
Ken Robinson
#3. Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#4. I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#6. I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Francis Ford Coppola
#7. You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.
Alan Furst
#8. Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
Mark Kennedy
#9. we will never be truly capable of 'loving our neighbour' as long as we continue to view the people around us as commodities, capital or competition
Tristan Sherwin
#10. This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#11. I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it ... I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
George Bernard Shaw
#12. I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.
Tom Drury
#13. Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.
Philip Zaleski
#14. Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.
George Saunders
#15. In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Chris Patten
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