#tracts

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fiction writer #i #i write #novels #preacher

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#body #bold #breaking #contracts #curve

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#evil #often #power #promise #sense

Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus. ↗

— Dana Hussein

#despite #distracts #energy #focus #full

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts. ↗

— John Surtees

#because #contracts #dictated #driver #other

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#fiction #irritates #life #perfection #well

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#boston #contracts #face #felt #i

Working is hard and distracts from having fun. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#fun #hard #having #having fun #working

Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#delaware #delaware state #diversity #established #excellence