Preparatory Command Quotes

#1. There Will Always Be Suffering
It Flows Through Life Like Water

Nick Cave

#2. I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It's very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel.

Bobby McFerrin

#3. After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Dolly Parton

#4. This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

Diana Wynne Jones

#5. I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

Paul Bloom

#6. I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

George Q. Cannon

#7. Every dog has a few flea's, but you, you're just crawling with them."
~Thomas

Christina Mobley

#8. sometimes life presents Herculean obstacles. We are all but small participants on the chessboard of life.

Belle Ami

#9. It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.

John Scalzi

#10. I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Sheldon Adelson

#11. I like poems that are complex.

Peter Davison

#12. I look up to a lot of old school drummers from the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

Ashton Irwin

#13. I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother - a process that happened without conscious thought, as if the heart knew what the mind and body took time to learn. Love is the one thing that matters. That makes everything else matter. That makes everything worthwhile.

Lisa Wingate

#14. I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

Cory Booker

#15. Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

Anthony Marra