Urbanising Quotes

#1. Always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
quoted by Evan Osnos to describe the rapidly urbanising China

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.

Kathe Koja

#3. You say I'm a freak, I say I'm eccentrically awesome.

Dreamer Girl

#4. If only we could manage to see the beam in our own eye in time, how kind we should be.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

Tom DeLay

#6. My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

Steven Wright

#7. My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

Curtis Jackson

#8. Robb, listen to me. Once you have eaten of his bread and salt, you have the guest right, and the laws of hospitality protect you beneath his roof.

George R R Martin

#9. They [Democrats in Congress] believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.

Glenn Beck

#10. In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Carrot Top

#11. Hatred happens when we refuse to see someone for their entire selves; we fear that if we see more than the qualities we hate, we will become them or worse, allow them to enter our hearts.

Katherine Russell

#12. If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

Francis Of Assisi

#13. Sometimes it's very interesting, those things that are very important to you, when they first appear in front of you, you resist them.

Yixing Zhang

#14. May God be your strong defender.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Successful people fail their way to the top!

Jeff Olson