Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.
I love what I do and realize I am supremely lucky to be able to make my living by writing and speaking about the news of the day.
Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.
How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?
Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.
It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.
It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.
I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?
Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.
Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.
It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.
From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.
How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.
I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.
The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.
There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.
There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.
Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.
You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries
I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.
All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .
A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information.
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.