Renouncing Inheritance Quotes

#1. Duane pulled a chair out for me and claimed the seat adjacent as I sat. Or, I tried to sit. I didn't know quite how to sit. Sitting suddenly felt weird. I was super-conscious of my limbs.

Penny Reid

#2. Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.

Chris Nicolaisen

#3. Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast.

Ken Follett

#4. Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.

Kevin Conroy

#6. 'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.

Lionel Richie

#7. Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

Nick Carter

#8. The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

Tracey Ullman

#9. There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought
you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.

Jennifer DuBois

#10. There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace

Frederick Lenz

#11. Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.

Ann Aguirre

#13. And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.

Tobias Wolff