Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Individuals who are out there to make transactions with pay-per-tweets, it's a turnoff for their fans, rightfully so.
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.
I'm an asthmatic so if you want to ask someone about asthma, ask a doctor. I'm asthmatic but I'm not an expert on it.
My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.
My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.
For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.
For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.
You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.
The question is, why are we doing so well? The answer is, I try not to think about it too much. I just do what's fun.
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.
I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.
The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.
I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.
Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.
Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.
I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.
She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it