Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.
You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.
Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you.
There is a big difference between just learning something, and actually LIVING what you learn.
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."
Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.
Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism.
I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history
We're not mad at God, just like atheists don't hate Santa or Unicorns, they're just not there!
If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.
The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.
Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.