Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.
When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.
I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?
They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.
The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.
There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away
I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.
And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.
Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!
I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?
I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.
'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and...actually, no it's just those two things.
...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.
Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.
She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.
When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.