Stenhouse Publishing Quotes

#1. You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.' That's my hope.

Pegi Young

#2. At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

Ian McEwan

#3. I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.

Mike Weaver

#4. A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Walter De La Mare

#5. Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#6. Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

Michael Hayden

#7. Sometimes it seems that the leaders of nations are little boys with chips on their shoulders, daring each other to knock them off.

John Steinbeck

#8. But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Nick Rahall

#9. The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

John C. Maxwell

#10. In none of Dostoevsky's novels is there any evolution of a unified spirit; in fact there is no evolution, no growth in general,

Mikhail Bakhtin

#11. Sure he (Fred Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,..backwards and in high heels.

Robert Thaves

#12. I try my hardest to not let hate mail influence me - because anybody can put out hate, it takes a much stronger person to put out themselves.

Tyler Oakley

#13. Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.

Samuel R. Delany

#14. You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Leopold Von Ranke