Quotes by Writers

I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward. Malorie Blackman

If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities. Mara Brock Akil

Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious. Marian Keyes

Me You Focus Sugar Find Magic Totally Delicious Weighing Stuff Baking Also Fairness Sort Because Calming Makes Off End Up Eggs Rewarding Different Disparate Butter Flour Start

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. Marilyn vos Savant

Alcohol Cigarettes Alternatives Person Being Interesting Interesting Person Avoid Using

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. Mario Vargas Llosa

Democracy Dictatorship Maintain Go Stake Elections

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. Mark Davis

You Teeth Claire Kind Bailey Like Reacting Another Boxer Female Makes Years Itch Left Did Senator Modern Being Sanctimonious Barbara Kay Million Million Years Imagine

The elephant can survive only if forests survive. Mark Shand

Only Forests Survive Elephant

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. Marsha Sinetar

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. Mary Frances Berry

Good You Confidence Law Police Job Citizens Law Enforcement Unsafe Abuse Police Officers Makes Officers Public Enforcement Who

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. Mary Wollstonecraft

World Progress Mind Will Long Ministers Abolish Freeing Deadly Itself Human Stops Which Human Mind Grasp Monarchs Whose Slavery

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust. Mary Wollstonecraft

Me Joy Impossible Dust Active Alive Restless Spirit Only Sorrow Equally Exist Cease Cease To Exist Should Organized Appears

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Mary Wollstonecraft

Good Political Evil Every Extreme Carried Must Productive

Even cats grow lonely and anxious. Mason Cooley

Cats Pet Lonely Anxious Even Grow

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters. Mason Cooley

Books Characters Colorful Outside Avoid

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. Mason Cooley

Compliments Baffled Insults Leave Us Prepared

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. Mason Cooley

Truth Simple Challenge Every Simple Truth Irony Regards

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Mason Cooley

Faith You Mountains Pushing Praying Moves While Keep

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. Mason Cooley

Soul Immortality Threat More Doctrine Comfort Than

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. Mason Cooley

Art People Believe Photographs True Cannot Therefore

Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road. Melody Beattie

Relationships Our Recovery Take Road Where

Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about 'the Land of the Eagles,' relax. You're not alone. Michael Paterniti

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer. Mike Royko

Conservative Goals Achieve Will Rich Approach Stay Remain Reagan Same Little Poor Poorer Even Basic Things Basically

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking. Mike Royko