Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.
The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.
Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight.
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.
Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.
How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn’t exist, now that it’s taken so much of me?
The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.
The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.
When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.
You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.
To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy. Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman
To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.
Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.
Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!
Think of today as an opportunity to discover and grow beyond your mental and emotional discomfort.
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.
I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.
Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.
When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
The servants must wait like ninjas for me to leave so they could render this place spotless again.
Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.
Point? Maybe you aren't a Carrie or a Samantha or a Charlotte or a Miranda. Maybe you're just you.
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed.