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Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.
No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.
I'm living every day that it could be my last, and I'm grateful for every day.
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm
Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.
All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.
I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.
Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.
I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.
Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.
Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.
Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.
The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.
Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.
I often wonder what the world would be like if more companies were like Apple.
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.
People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.
If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.