Skyward Misd Quotes

#1. One of the things that I've learned from the Selection so far is that moving forward means joining your life before coming to the palace with the future that lies in front of you. I'm hoping to make another step in joining those two worlds today.

Kiera Cass

#2. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing

Veronica Roth

#3. My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

Margaret Mahy

#4. There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#5. I have no tolerance for maudlin affection, and less for women who want to fix me."
"Fix you?" Miranda said. "Why would anyone want to fix you? You're not broken.

Courtney Milan

#6. Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

Richard Simmons

#7. Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Eric Mabius

#8. Success is in the journey, but the reward is the view from the top.

Larry Stevens

#9. It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.

James Payn

#10. Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

#11. Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.

Fran Lebowitz

#12. It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Eric Hoffer

#13. Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

Saul Williams