Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Neel Mukherjee

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

Geoff Lawson

It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about.

C. S. Lewis

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

Charles Spurgeon

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Baha'u'llah

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.

Abu Bakr

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

Daniel Defoe

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

Alfred Adler

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

Ruth Draper

You see -- he's got a perfectly new idea. He never sees his patients. He's not interested in individuals, he prefers to treat a crowd. And he's organized these mass cures . . . And he cures thirty thousand people every Thursday.

Brian Tracy

If there is no cure, you must endure.

Jane Austen

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

Barton Gellman

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

Craig Venter

There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

Bill Self

We didn't play a lot better than Nebraska. We just made shots. Certainly, that cures a lot of ills.

Aldous Huxley

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

John Milton

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

Marge Piercy

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Audrey Tautou

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Austin Grossman

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.