"Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them."

-- Gunter Grass

#Writing Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Drawers Quotes

“Time wounds all heels.”
“Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and ends in recovery or death.”

Source : Civilisation and Disease p. 196. Phoenix Books, New York (1962)
“Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able to reach down into some of those same people and pull out this racism inside them.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.”

Source : "Self-efficacy: The exercise of control". Book by Albert Bandura (p. 77), February 15, 1997.
“I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.”
“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”
“I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.”
“In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.”

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