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Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.
How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?
The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.
Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.
Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?
Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.
A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.
I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.
I'm going to marry you one day, you know." "Is that a promise?" "If you want it to be.
I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.
A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?
More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.
One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.