quotes about Old Ideas

“Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.”

“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.”

“What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.”

“My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece.”

“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.133, Open Road Media

“There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.”

“A compliment would be the last thing out of my mouth to a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a luau.”

“I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.”

“The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.”

“I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'”