"You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated."

-- Erin McKean

#Nice Quotes #Littles Quotes #Being Nice Quotes

“Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.”
“Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.”
“Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.”
“And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”

Source : Sarah Doudney (1871). “Psalms of life”, p.82
“Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.”
“Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.”
“Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~”
“How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.”

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