Politburos Quotes

#1. What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

Gunter Grass

#2. Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

Jean Giono

#3. I am so addicted to crystals, it's like a sickness. I've spent $500,000 on crystals this year. I checked my bank account last night, and I have $203 left.

Spencer Pratt

#4. Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations.

Matt Taibbi

#5. Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.

Shaun White

#6. But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere ...

Elif Shafak

#7. Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

Barbara Corcoran

#8. Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see their all just hiding behind false truths.

Nikki Rowe

#10. It doesn't look much from the outside. But what you get outside is often like that. People, especially, can be so different from what you can see that you'd never guess what goes on in their secret places. What they are capable of.

Teri Terry

#11. Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

M.J. Rose

#12. And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference ...

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#13. We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

Gloria Steinem

#14. We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Tennessee Williams

#15. I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

George Eliot

#16. Grant me the strength to focus this week, to be mindful and present, to serve with excellence, to be a force of love.

Brendon Burchard