Quotes of Jeanette Winterson

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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

- Jeanette Winterson

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“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ True Love is not something that will ever happen in an instant....because the summary of our lives is not in an instant. Love at First sight is just infatuation. True Love.....is like a fine wine. It has layers upon layers of depth and flavor, all of which gets better if it is aged and cared for correctly. True Love is the gradual deep understanding of your Spouse, and a spiritual empathy towards them. As they get older, and change, you eagerly continue to turn pages of your lives together, studying and empathizing with a person that you do not need to be defensive or suspicious of. ”

- sangeeta mann

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ The night still bold The cold singing by The crickets on their turbo Ushering in a celestial night in beautiful robe For tonight he will wonder into a glorious quest of the night As he lay down his head, will the Angels guard him Good night and sweet dreams ”

- Perpetua Ukakogu

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ We will either find a way, or make one. ”

- Hannibal