Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.
What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or whether I was on track.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.
I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.
Ask people to pitch in - hand them a spoon and ask them to stir. Doing things together, having everyone help, makes for a nicer party.
I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour.
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.
There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
I get in a temper with inanimate objects. I can't bear plastic. I do get in a complete rage with something that's been shrink-wrapped.
I have a son and two daughters, and I care equally about all three of them, and I want the world to be a better place for all of them.
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
Home in Ireland, I went to Collins Barracks and spent some time wandering around, making notes on the various guns, knives and swords.
If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.
We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.
Well, I should like a plan that doesn’t result in the death of my heir. (Eli) Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)
What do I do? (Jeff) Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but…run, Forrest, run. (Rafael)
So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick) No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)
If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.
I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.
If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.
I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.
The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface.
Immigration has been [Donald] Trump`s signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it.
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.