Veepstakes Competition Quotes

#1. With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Jane Smiley

#2. DANTON: Could you indeed? It's you idealists who make the best tyrants.
ROBESPIERRE: It seems a bit late to be having this conversation. I've had to take up violence now, and so much else. We should have discussed it last year.

Hilary Mantel

#3. Don't keep fighting battles that are already lost.

David Nicholls

#4. What's the use in waiting until the right moment if that moment never comes?" I say. "What if the moment escapes you in a split second when your focus was elsewhere?

Nina LaCour

#5. No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

Sharon Creech

#7. Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

Craig Brown

#8. I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Russell Peters

#9. Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

Michael Foot

#10. And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.

Oliver North

#11. I like it when you're in control of me, Isa. Not all of the time, but sometimes.

Ella Dominguez

#12. On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine ... no matter what you've done or haven't done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!

Joyce Meyer