Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.
And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.
One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
A lot of people who wrote for 'Sex and the City' have gone to write about marriage and motherhood.
Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.
Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us
Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.
I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.
A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.
A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.
Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?
When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.
A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!
Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!
A tram cannot discover every road! To discover every road, one must leave the predetermined roads!
As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!
Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!
Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.
If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!