Quotes About Hard Journeys

#1. Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. They each have their own journeys. It's hard to accept, but people leave us along the way. People don't always stay with us until the end of the story.

Yasmine Galenorn

#3. Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

Jess Walter

#4. China
Whales follow
the whale-roads.
Geese,
roads of magnetized air.
To go great distance,
exactitudes matter.
Yet how often
the heart
that set out for Peru
arrives in China,
Steering hard.
consulting the charts
the whole journey.

Jane Hirshfield

#5. But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

Haruki Murakami

#6. gods were always demanding that their followers acted other than according to their true natures, and the human fallout this caused made plenty of work for witches. The

Terry Pratchett

#7. Sunrise is a necessary concomitant of long railway journeys, like hard-boiled eggs, illustrated papers, packs of cards, rivers upon which boats strain but make no progress.

Marcel Proust

#8. Cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.

Anonymous

#9. I always get that cautionary warning right before I get off the phone with an interviewer. It's: 'Good luck with the show. I really like it, and if this goes wrong, you'll be hearing from my attorneys.

Jon Stewart

#10. Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.

Serena Williams

#11. Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself.

Kresley Cole

#12. It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is woking.

Douglas Adams

#13. Journalists assigned to an issue often cover the coverage, creating the notorious media echo chamber.

Steven Pinker