Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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- A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. – Mignon McLaughlin
- What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. – Mignon McLaughlin
- Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway. – Mignon McLaughlin
- It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child-”at least till you try to get him to do something. – Mignon McLaughlin
- Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. – Mignon McLaughlin
- Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. – Mignon McLaughlin
- It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t. – Mignon McLaughlin
- We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. – Mignon McLaughlin
- Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. – Mignon McLaughlin
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- There’s no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. – Elizabeth von Arnim
- I’d rather have a book, but in a pinch I’ll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions. – Anne Fadiman
- Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. It’s brings great reward to those who believe, trust and obey the Holy instructions. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Matt is grinning at me like I’m the new Christmas toy he really wanted, but can’t play with yet because he hasn’t read the instructions. – Jillian Dodd
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- The sacred writing gives instructions on how to live life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Instructions for successful living: Dream it. Plan it. Do it. Repeat. – Steve Maraboli
- Opportunity is being in God’s place, at God’s time, following God’s instructions, to obtain God’s results. – Bidemi MarkMordi
- Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions. – Donald A Norman
- To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe – Sunday Adelaja
- As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe. – Katarina Bivald
- War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost. – Ruta Sepetys
- It’s a blip, not a catastrophe. – Donald J Trump
- Not every minor inconvenience leads to a major catastrophe. – Lynn C Tolson
- Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they’re pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted – Aharon Appelfeld
- Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.] – Gianrico Carofiglio
- Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere. – Sunday Adelaja
- Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. – Yukio Mishima
- One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe. – Billy Graham
- Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece. – ER Eddison
- Don’t you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good. – KJ Wignall
- Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe. – Bidemi MarkMordi
- People, imperfect and corruptible are society’s building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting. – AE Samaan
- Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe. – Victor Hugo
- And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness. – Jennifer Lane
- You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. – Lauren DeStefano
- …one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. – Markus Zusak