Putrefied Corpse Quotes

#1. You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

Hilary Mantel

#2. The bad leader is he who the people despise; the good leader is he who the people praise; the great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves

Peter M. Senge

#3. I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.

Marissa Meyer

#5. A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn't you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

Jonathan Renshaw

#6. Look. This has been ... fun." Lie. This had been nerve-racking and I needed to go masturbate. "But I have to go. I've got stuff to do before I head out again." Masturbate. "Wizard stuff. Like ... secret wizard stuff." Masturbate.

T.J. Klune

#7. Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action - and consequently accumulate grain on grain of willful choice like a very miser - never forgetting how one link dropped undone and indefinite number. - William James

Mason Currey

#8. Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

Gerald Edelman

#9. There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Jeanette Winterson

#10. The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#11. much of our rhetoric is less about persuading unbelievers, or maintaining the faith of believers, than about, as Thomas Merton put it a generation ago, our search for "an argument strong enough to prove us 'right.'"9

Russell D. Moore

#12. The beauty that lies hidden, makes my soul tremble with awe.

Patricia Robin Woodruff