Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Ciabattari is a master of transformation as she gives these stories of loss, woe, crisis and collapse the salutary and sometimes bracing pleasures of plain ...
Nicotine addicted, persecuted, her day is a maddening circle of tea and biscuits, baking, smoking, the necessary fiction of the housewife.
Reading only a bit of a great book (e.g., Plato's Republic) is like getting engaged but never marrying. The initial experience is pleasurable but can ...
People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring ...
The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high
All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.
The self can be a cup or a cosmos.
A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.
Art is bad when 'you see the intent and get put off.' (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the ...
Do they want to keep me in a glass box so nothing and no one can hurt me?
Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.
The unassuming inconspicuous halfway time between tomorrow and today, those slow frozen hours in-between, they're something of a comfort to the drunk rolling home.
Give people a break. It's not easy doing a life.
That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable ... but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any ...
One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.
We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.
Losing your child is a very difficult situation to deal with. It is not something you get over; it is something you learn to work ...
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.
I can't define it, I can't tell someone who isn't a cougar what it's like. There's something that happens at Washington State; you quietly and ...
Pain can drive you to a sense of hopelessness and despair, or it can drive you to God. It's your choice.
The chinese yunjae fans are very kind. They sent me and Yunho links to fanfictions. *giggles* They were 'fun' to read.
Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that ...
I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied ...
The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but ...
Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you're dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, ...
When we win on an issue we call it leadership. When we lose, we call it politics. Practicing politics simply means increasing your options for ...
The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is.
Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake before the United ...
Church, delivered this message to his troops at the outbreak of war: "Remember that the German people are the chosen of God. On me, on ...
I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.
I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the ...
What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated ...
Last summerwe livedon the planetof purest sadnesslooking at peoplein the streetslike aliens - looking at each dayas if it were the last.We spoke to the ...
He wore baggy sweatpants, because Mennonites thought it immoral for a man to show his legs.
I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.
Love was real. Painfully real. He loved Julianne. Wholly, completely and irrevocably. And in exchange, he was getting exactly what he deserved. An abysmal whipping ...
The man who is too captious, walks in the shadow of death, and on the verge of his sepulchre.
My life proves over and over again that discoveries don't matter at all; you have to conquer what life throws at you if you want ...
Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run ...
One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected ...
There is nothing like the whites of someone's eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act ...
Rationalize all you like, I don't care. All that matters is that your body reacts to mine, which means I won't have to try too ...
We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
In this business, we have to travel so far away from our families. We have two children, so if we can work together, that's awesome. ...
In the name of God and humanity I protest!
I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.
Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands. I should ...
I've been a good teacher for eleven years, and then they come up with this mandated testing crap? With the state pushing for performance, the ...
. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.