Written Body Winterson Quotes

#1. Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

Bill Gates

#2. Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

Jeanette Winterson

#3. The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

Hamza Yusuf

#4. Maybe it's all too simple for the big brains to figure it out.
What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about?

Jimmy Buffett

#5. The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Ernest Becker

#6. Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ...

Pauline Kael

#7. When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day
there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.

Will Rogers

#8. I didn't teach you that. Catch the ball with your glove.

Willie Mays

#9. This thought didn't make me cringe like most teenagers would have.

Tiffany King

#10. It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

Christopher Marlowe

#11. In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Max Lucado

#12. If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.

Selena

#13. The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

George Bernard Shaw

#14. After all, how often do we get a second chance?

Jay Asher

#15. The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Ulysses S. Grant

#16. A civilization has the ethics it can afford

Larry Niven

#17. I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you've learned, forget them. Forget that you've been here before in other bedrooms in other places. Come to me new. Never say you love me until that day when you have proved it.

Jeanette Winterson