#lent

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #lent




Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.


Rod Serling


#curse #happens #others #people #possess

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.


Robert W. Service


#hand #means #mother #poetry #public

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze


Brandon Sanderson


#remaining-silent #reticence #humor

Since my trips to Earth, I've only managed to assemble a few basics facts about humans, condensing them in to four, overall points: kids got Reese's, teens got recess, adults got recessions, and seniors got receding.


Tai Odunsi


#greek-mythology #humor #mount-olympus #satire #valentines-day

From his bedroom window on the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Nathaniel Dixon watched in awe at the four-ship formation of V-22 Ospreys chewing up the Virginia air with their massive, wingtip-mounted tilt rotors as they made a pass over the flight line. The aircraft grew in his window as they approached the small bungalow he lived in with his mother and father on base. Just before they flew out of sight, Nathaniel clapped his hands together over the window and imagined smashing each Osprey like a dragonfly. Then, he imagined each falling to earth in flames, smashing in a great ball of fire in his backyard.


Jonathan Marker


#osprey #psychotic #violent #imagination

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.


Criss Jami


#envious #envy #excellence #greatness #jealous

I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.


Cassandra Clare


#life

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.


Kurt Vonnegut


#writing #life

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.


Charles Bukowski


#life

You were born, and with you endless possibilities―very few ever to be realized.  It's okay.  Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. 


Richelle E. Goodrich


#birthday #drive #effort #hope #possibilities