Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith.
Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"
God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?
See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.
The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.
We must keep the pressure on Congress to curb Obama's continued abuse of power. We must always expose that abuse to fellow citizens.
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.
I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.
I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
Be the kind of person you want to be with... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.
I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.
I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.
We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don't deal with ALL OF LIFE you're not going to get all that life has to offer.
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.
I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.