Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.
Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.
July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.
The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.
I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.
Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.
'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'
My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere.
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.
There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?
A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.
Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson
I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.
To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.
Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others." —Cornflower
I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.