Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
Jihad is misused by fundamentalists. The Quranic meaning is not meant for war at all, in the sense of killing.
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.
and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food.
The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
Nathan Sutter," the teacher read. Here. My mother never calls me Nathan." Is it Nate?" She calls me Honeylips.
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
Denny O'Neil did some great things with Joker - I thought Greg Rucka used him really well in 'Gotham Central.'
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.
I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!
Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.
Today's my wedding day, Mom," he said softly aloud. "I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.
Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.
We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.
This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.
How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.