Quotes By Famous Authors: [M]
Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.
If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like ...
Never let fear disable you ~ forever follow your dreams!
Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of ...
You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.
It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are No. 1.
I may have been stupid, but I've done nothing wrong.
Finding A WayI'd like you for a friend.I'd like to find the wayof asking you to be my friend.I don't know what to say.What would ...
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.
An open and receptive attention to and awareness of what is occurring in the present moment
I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality....And ...
You can't force someone to love you. All you can do is be lovable, then hope for the best".
The trees on the shore," he said at their urging, "Wish they were sailing vessels "But care not to die "To achieve their dreams. "Thus ...
Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer,
Hyperbole comes easily to us. To find measured prose and even tone in the midst of aching grief was tough.
Televangelist Pat Robertson took to the world's airwaves and tried to suggest that the earthquake was God's vengeance for the Haitian Revolution, alleging that the ...
Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.
I don't usually have those 'twin experiences' that people talk about.
He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.
You're never fully dressed without a smile.
Management is the art of getting things done through people.
Go On. Write. I dare you.
Don't fall into line- you'll never be noticed then!
Why can't life be easy, why can't love be just wonderful, why can't math be counting 1,2,3 Why it can't be you and me..?
Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.
Life is a quarry, out of which we have to mod and chisel and complete character?" ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language.
When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death ...
Dreams are meant to be realized, not broken.
To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in, is just thrilling. ...
Aspirations after the holy,the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.
The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they ...
I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids ...
To become a 'good reader' one must give oneself over to a regime of concentrated pleasure. One does not set out to read a book ...
Therefore, when I approach God with my petitions I need to be aware that ultimately He must decide what needs to stay and what needs ...
But as I listened to my various mentors argue away the afternoon, I finally caught on to the basic point of it all. With chocolate, ...
Letting her go wasn't a choice because he would never let her go; she was taken away from him.
Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting ...
I do not employ tricks when I attack.
I wasn't a good student, and even now I never say that I am better than anybody, but I know I love Jiu Jitsu more ...
Myrrh (Arabic, "bitter") was used for the healing of wounds and bruises. Myrrh was also a symbol of self-sacrifice. [329]
She didn't get the subtle nuances of female friendship that other women seemed to have been born knowing. She
We live among magnificent opportunities cleverly disguised as hopeless situations.
One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening ...
Desk. I had just gotten a call from her doctor telling me that Blaize was ten weeks pregnant.
God's self-revelation to humanity does not occur from the centers of world power but in the margins of society.
A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it