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“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
Source : Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1775, Macmillan
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“I think about the college graduating classes and high school classes that are coming up now they're in a unique position. I mean they're entering one of the toughest economies of all time. At the same time if they're willing to work really hard the ability they have to learn something much faster than we ever did before is there and it's really a question of are you willing to put in the effort and go that extra mile. Because if you are I think there's actually more opportunities out there.”
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“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”
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“I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.”
Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press
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“There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.”
Source : Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.240, Anchor
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“Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.”
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“Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.”
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“If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.”
Source : Robert Liparulo (2009). “Watcher in the Woods: Dreamhouse Kings, Book #2”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc
