#non

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#difficult #end #fiction #fiction writer #figure

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#characteristics #decent #grateful #gratitude #happier

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#difference #feedback #hate #hates #i

A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#deny #doctrine #ever #false #full

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#champion #compassion #courage #day #democracy

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#any #fiber #going #hurt #i

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#fear #grief #grieve #happen #happened

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#beloved #desire #god #heart #humble

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#almost #anonymity #because #continued #dreaded

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures