Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
I believe that Indonesia has to first be ruled by some form of a socialist system, before we can even start talking about 'democracy'.
Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.
Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.
Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.
Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.
But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.
My mom said there's a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.
Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.
NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.
I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?
It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.