Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.
Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.
Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.
A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
Meeting your soulmate has a certain amount of meant-to-be-ness to it, AND it requires a big dose of make-it-happen-ness.
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.
I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.
Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.
In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.
The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.
Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.
People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.
Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.
If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.
You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.