Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.
I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.
I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.
Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.
Some people, such as the unemployed coal miners and steelworkers of the Rust Belt, have been left behind by growing prosperity.
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.
In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.
I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.
There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it'll show up for you. That's the truth.
When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.
And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.
We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.
If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?
The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.
It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.
Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.
I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.
Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.
What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?
If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.
You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream
Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.