Stern Taskmaster Quotes

#1. An empty belly makes a stern taskmaster.~Victor Radcliff

Harry Turtledove

#2. Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Bill Griffith

#3. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#4. We put words between ourselves and things.

Thomas Merton

#5. As I pressed the doorbell button it popped off the wall and hung by two colored cords. Obviously it didn't work, so I knocked.

Elle Klass

#6. The change, I think, that conversion gradually effects on your heart is this: you come, over some stretched-out time, to want to do the things that God wants you to do, because you want to be close to Him.

Lauren F. Winner

#7. My insides twist in a flurry of excitement, and I stifle
the laugh welling inside.
Parker Whalen knows I'm alive.

Katie Klein

#8. I can't say for sure what I feel, and love has already destroyed me once.

Paulo Coelho

#9. When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

Tim Story

#10. We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.

Veronica Roth

#11. I know there's a lot of emotion going into a fight, but everything in a fight - none of it comes out of an evil heart.

Holly Holm

#12. And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

Frank Langella

#13. There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Max Frisch

#14. A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#16. A politician ... one that would circumvent God.

William Shakespeare