Pasternaks Children Quotes

#1. Not much. I never really spent anything. I've often wondered what being poor was like." "You're going to get a huge opportunity to find out." "Will I need training?" "It comes naturally," said Rincewind. "You pick it up as you go along.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

Ann Patchett

#3. He who humbles himself before God is likely to humble himself before others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Instead of sitting down and waiting for miracles to come, is better to start planning your miracle.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

Roy Baumeister

#6. We had left the flea market - collecting Malena from a stall that sold live birds, where she'd purchased a box of pigeons which she had proceeded to suck dry in the car -

Seanan McGuire

#7. In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

Jemaine Clement

#8. I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

Ben Nicholson

#9. If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they'll say it's the variety.

Ben Aaronovitch