Speckles Quotes

#1. Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.

Confucius

#2. The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

Jamais Cascio

#3. I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend,
that together we may succeed in building a better world
through human understanding and love,
and that in doing so we may reduce
the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts.

Anne Tyler

#5. I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#6. Feeling giddy, I needed to share the exuberance I had inside me.

Kelli Jean

#7. If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

Harlan Coben

#8. Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Elif Shafak

#9. Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

Tupac Shakur

#10. There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

Nikolai Gogol

#11. This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

Sidney Jourard

#12. Gazzy sniffed the air. "That's explosives. It smells like Christmas!"
Okay, so we've had somewhat untraditional Christmases. With explosives.

James Patterson