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You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.
A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.
Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.
He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.
Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.
Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.
I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.
But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
Good coffee is a benefit, but great coffee is a reward, and the difference between good and great is just pennies a day.
And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form
Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.
Hey Mason, wipe that drool off you face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time. -Rose to Mason
True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.
I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed.
If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.
You can really find yourself at sea when you're becoming an adult and suddenly have to feed yourself for the first time.
When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.
You might want to write 'War and Peace,' but that might not be who you are. You might be better off with nursery rhymes.
the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.
Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.
The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.
The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.
When I lived in Louisiana, 'Django Unchained' was shot at my neighbor's house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym.
If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.
How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.