Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.
Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.
Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin
So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets.
In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.
I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.
Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome.
I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.
Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?
Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.
Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
True love is unconditional. And if it is a 'Conditions Apply' scenari, then it isn't true love. It is as good as a mutual fund.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'
the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.
The fact is that there is nothing wrong with most of us that a good, clean change of attitude and some new skills wouldn't fix.
The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.
It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.
The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.
Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.
Is it true? You had a clean getaway and risked it all for me?" I Swallowed. "It wouldn't have been a clean getaway without you.
Coming to my rescue?' 'Of course. It's what we do. I rescue you; you rescue me. We just take turns whenever the other needs it.
Look at it this way," Ms. Terwilliger said, after several moments of thought. "The callistana thinks of you two as its parents.
Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.
Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.
opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.
My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.
It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.
First you believe, and then you see the Light. Next you go towards the Light. Soon you are IN the Light. Now you ARE the Light.
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India… He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.