The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
EZRA POUNDFriends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE -
To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.
NOSTRADAMUS -
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”
BEN STILLER -
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
IRIS MURDOCH -
When you start getting into a full-band, democratic context the little things almost immediately get thrown out the window because you don’t think they’re important.
ADAM GRANDUCIEL -
Sports help us to spread a culture of encounter and solidarity.
POPE FRANCIS -
Weaponization of a candidate’s words against him or her is something we’re seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a pejorative way, but Obama again reclaimed it.
BEN ZIMMER -
“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.
ANDY STANLEY -
The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.
MICHAEL HUDSON -
I’ve always been a fighter and I’ve always fought through things my whole life.
SERENA WILLIAMS -
I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we’re trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.
MARY J. BLIGE -
A man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
ADONIRAM JUDSON -
He who would live must fight. He who doesn’t wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
ADOLF HITLER -
What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
D. A. CARSON