Sharon Kay Penman Quotes

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Sharon Kay Penman

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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.

John Burroughs

LifeWinterStruggleTogetherSoul

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

Jennifer Connelly

LifeGoodYouBadNobodyMatter

All indications are that three and a half billion years ago, Mars looked like Earth. It had lakes. It had rivers. It had river deltas. It had snow-capped peaks and puffy clouds and blue sky. Three and a half billion years ago, it was a happening place. The same time on Earth, that's when life started. So did life start on Mars?

John M. Grunsfeld

LifeTimeSkyBlueRiverClouds

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LifeReligionHumanityIntellectual

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Jeff Bezos

BusinessBelieveCareBetterYou

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Stephen Covey

SuccessOpportunityKnowledgeSucceed

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

Roland Emmerich

SuccessMatterOutBecauseMovie

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes

CommunicationLivePeopleBetterHow

Trump is going to drain the swamp; he's going to get back control of America's borders, and if the establishment try and stand in his way, they'll go the way of the Clintons and the Bushes. Stumped.

Milo Yiannopoulos

ControlStandAmericaBackGoWay

One second here and there will make all the difference between something being funny and not being funny. That's why I like going, 'Well, we wrote that six months ago, and it was funny one time we read it, but it's not funny anymore. So what? Just dump it.'

Jonathan Krisel

FunnyTimeWhyWillBeing Funny

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.

Dolores Huerta

WorkMeThinkThoughtCreditWrong

If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.

Dean Ornish

FearBecomeCarefulMostWhich

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