Quotes By Famous Authors: [R]
Growing up means learning to dig beneath surface behavior and discern the true motives of others, and to respond to intent, not behavior.
Father, you are asking me to sacrifice the only girl I love so you can openly have the woman you love.
Kyr gazed at Medari and the others with eyes still golden and full of compassion. "I'm sorry, my friend. Zhovanya has shown me that the ...
Author is the prisoner of his thoughts .
Success is a journey, not a destination.
There is one thing that destroys anyone's ability to advance spiritually: the inability to control the mind and emotions. In order to free the mechanism ...
Superman was adopted.
The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured suggests that we ...
Trust grows by trusting.
During the days that followed our return, we were all, I think, seized by a veritable delirium. We wished to speak, to be heard at ...
Whenever you employ your ego to identify yourself as the doer of an action, that action becomes a karma for you.
Liberal democracy is a powerful unifying mechanism, blurring differences between people and imposing uniformity of views, behavior, and language.
But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
What skill am I teaching my child to develop independence?
I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even ...
Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
My goal was to reach this literary crowd, but I didn't want to alienate my core fan base. I grew up speaking that language, this ...
Bread were being baked, or gold or silver purified in a furnace." Afterwards the Christians of Smyrna wish to collect his remains, desiring "to have ...
Sloppy kiss, and then I said, "Someone'll
Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.
How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure ... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time ...
It is noteworthy, however, that this areas also contains neurons which when stimulated can trigger female sexual posturing (Benson, 1988; Rose, 1990); i.e. the lordosis ...
When you're really tested, that's what shows you who you are as a person.
Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of new ...
As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.
Take it and be thankful.
I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing; I didn't need it ...
Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.
Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as ...
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn.
Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can ...
A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.
One Nice Guy asked me, If a man is talking in the forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war.
Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and ...
When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already ...
Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck ...
You know you're dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn't help to cover up a murder.
No liquid investment alternatives with stable guaranteed principal values exist that can provide real returns by consistently beating the combined impact of inflation and income ...
I don't fear stopping a 100 mph slap shot. I fear not stopping it!
I leave love notes all around the house. They're on your pillow, in the fridge, in your sock drawer, but you don't see them. They ...
Valor represents bravery and strength of character, boldness, and fortitude - all qualities that prepare a person to act responsibly in times of need, of ...
I was referencing the Bible: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" But I'm not religious. I just thought it was a good title.
I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll ...
Blood is thicker than water, as they say, and money is thicker than blood. Interpret that however you like.
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.