Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.
I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.
You can give them the opportunity to thrive, but when it comes to finding happiness or success, kids are really on their own.
... you just turned down the woman who put a marshmallow duck in your hot chocolate. I hope you feel like a real asshole now.
That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.
Then Park reached up and wrapped one of her red curls around his honey finger. "Back to missing you," he said, letting it go.
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.
Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.
Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).
There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.
Being a warrior doesn’t mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.
The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.
Setting out around midnight, I couldn't help shaking my head, "We're the goddamned hottest vampire hunters ever." I muttered.
The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be.
Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.
In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.
I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.
The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.
Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest.
As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.
It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.
I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.
The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.
All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.
Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
Even top fashion models get critical about one certain part of their body that they do not like. So perfection is impossible.
What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free.
I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.
It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.
I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.
You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.