ZZ Ward Quotes

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

Everybody hurts when you lose. But he takes it hard.

And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.

When she didn't continue, he shrugged. "Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you. Makes me happy

Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be. “Why?” he said to his lover. “Because I want you for however long I have you.

He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate.

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel

I must confess. Of all of the brotherhood, he was the one I loved first and he remains the one I love the most. For me, he is just the...one.

And Vishous. . . V was the worst of them. He stood by the door, staring into space. Icy before, he was glacial now, a sinkhole in the room. -Phury's thoughts

She is more beautiful than I have words for. And last night, I was blessed beyond measure to serve her.

She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.

Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.

One shot. That was all you got. - Isaac

"Say the word, Qhuinn. Do it and I'll spend the night with you.""Better yet, why don't you just kiss me..."

I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood.

If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you.

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.