Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Bon chance, mon ami," Dante called softly. Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.
The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.
Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.
Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.
If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.
The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.
We are not these bodies; we're neither our accomplishments nor our possessions—we are all one with the Source of all being, which is God.
The way to find your happiness joy is to make a list of all the things that are fun for YOU to do. Then do some of those things everyday.
Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.
Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?
There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.
The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
The whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns... Thus we are not separated parts of a whole. We are a Whole.
You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.
Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.
I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.
I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.
I’m going to grab a cheeseburger,” I told Patch. “Want anything?” “Nothing on the menu.” I smiled. “Why, Patch, are you flirting with me?
We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star
On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.
Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.
Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.