Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.
What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)
If the Chinese are the first to the asteroids or the first to Mars, good for them, as far as I'm concerned.
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.
The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?
He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!
It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.
Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.
In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer
I know just how he feels that it’s come to this. Sometimes, love isn’t enough, even when it’s all you have.
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.