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Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?
We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.
Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!
It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.
When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.
I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?
And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.
Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.
And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.
There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.
That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.
I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.
Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.
I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest of her.
Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.
Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.
the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .
Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.
I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat writer's block.
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.
We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!
People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.