Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.
The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.
My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.
What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.
I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.
Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
Even though it's hard to believe, but people who know me really well know I'm shy. I have to go past that fear.
Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.
It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.
So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.
You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.
Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles.
One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes.
No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.
You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine.
You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb)
Look and you wlll see, that which was can never be. When they seek a boy your age, Run, you flippin moron, run!
Shut up. What did you ask me, anyway?” – Sundown “Really? Good thing I didn’t tell you to duck a bomb.” – Sasha
And you, Kibbles, had better lay off me. One more growl and I swear I’m going to geld you with a spoon. (Zarek)
I just want to be warm. Just once let me be warm. Is there no star capable of sharing its fire with me? (Zarek)
...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.
In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.
It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.