Bill Yoast Quotes

#1. When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#2. I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it.

Po Bronson

#3. And for many of the other questions, the answers I received were cloaked in the sort of highly polished public relations vagueness that makes responses so measured and couched in nuance that they are essentially meaningless.

Ammon Shea

#4. I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

Susan Jacoby

#5. My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.

Shaun Tan

#6. What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

Edwin Gaustad

#7. The earth recedes from me into the night, I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.

Walt Whitman

#8. if you went through life expecting gratitude for the help you provided, you might end up leading a miserable life.

Terry Goodkind

#9. You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there.

Ron Suskind

#10. If you offer yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted one, then your light will shine in the darkness. Isaiah 58:10

Beth Moore

#11. And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?

Ray Bradbury