Linda Yezak > Linda's Quotes

“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t." — Lucille Ball”
― Lucille Ball

“If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician

“If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.”
― Linda Yezak

“I keep my feet candy-coated because I never know when one or both of them will wind up in my mouth.”
― Linda Yezak

“. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician

“Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Dear and Glorious Physician

“. . . if you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.”
― Karen Witemeyer, To Win Her Heart

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

“All human life must be regarded as sacred, or one's own may be endangered as well.”
― Ann Perry

“Disillusionment [is] one of the deepest of human wounds.”
― Ann Perry

“Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.”
― Linda Yezak

“God is not afraid of pain. He does not try to keep us from it. He does not avoid it for Himself.”
― Rachel Phifer, The Language of Sparrows

“Ideas originate in the shower and evaporate in a towel.”
― Linda Yezak

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, or making friends. It's about doing what you love the best you know how. It's about making a heart pound in fear, shrink from rage, weep with understanding, or soar with excitement. It's about making worlds and living in them deeply enough someone else can join you there. It's about life changed to words, words changed to life, over and over and over again. It's about giving.”
― Billie Sue Mosiman