A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Cecil Parkinson

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Andrei Platonov

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Junius

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin

It's time to stop just talking, it's time to stop just intending, it's time for action; it's time to shut-up and say something!

Steve Maraboli

There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.

Victor Hugo

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Charles de Montesquieu

Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives....gone through many different phases of Destines and that's what made me to pen down... hope it won't screw-up me again....Something beyond love...

Atul Purohit

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

Carlos Fuentes

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds

Albert Einstein

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Quentin Crisp

The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options

Stephenie Meyer