Quotes of Joyce Carol Oates

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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

- Joyce Carol Oates

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“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My poetry has been engraved with your name And my heart is by your memory scarred ”

- Zubair Ahsan

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

- E. L. Simpson

“ Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow. ”

- David Kofi Awusi

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Being positive in life it does not mean everything is going the way you want it, but it also means that when things don’t go right or your way. Then you believe ,hope and pray that they will be right and go your way. Not only that but you are making plans, decisions ,effort and action in making sure they turn right and your way. ”

- De philosopher DJ Kyos

“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON. ”

- John Paul Warren

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ feeling upset? look up a lover ”

- Arif Naseem

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

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