Shepherded Quotes

#1. I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Richard Crossman

#2. Expecting people to follow rules just because they should is being too hopeful. Rules must be designed to dovetail with selfish interest because people are primarily driven by it. They need to be shepherded into good behaviour through this proclivity.

Amish Tripathi

#3. The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.

Eugene Jarecki

#4. Get back!" shouted Ron, and he, Harry, and Hermione flattened themselves against a door as a herd of galloping desks thundered past, shepherded by a sprinting Professor McGonagall ... As she turned the corner, they heard her scream, "CHARGE!

J.K. Rowling

#5. Desperate need to believe in a God that shepherded his own creations.

Richard Matheson

#6. Neverfell shepherded her herd of frightened, woolly suspicions.

Frances Hardinge

#7. Sometimes I think I look like a sheep between wolves so I answer where is shepherded? Sometimes I think I am the wolf so I answer where are the sheep-dogs?

Ali Rezavand Zayeri

#8. [Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

Jordan Peele

#9. Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

Natalie Merchant

#10. I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.

Cleveland W. Gibson

#11. For her, this was one of the happiest things on earth--to be in love with someone who is more in love with you.

Marione Ashley

#12. Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)

Patti Smith

#13. How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join?

Trebor Healey

#14. [Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

Warren Farrell

#15. People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

Sara Paxton

#16. Too many people who know more about the lives of others than they do their own.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#17. You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

Kim Edwards

#18. Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Laini Taylor

#19. The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you'll hear footsteps.

Tom T. Hall

#20. The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

Carlisle Floyd

#21. Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.

Paulo Coelho