Catholic Authors Quotes

#1. This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

Ron Ziegler

#2. Katie had slept through morning mass but she could still go to confession and make an effort to banish her unholy and unhealthy thoughts. Mother never asked what she was thinking and feeling on these trips; she just assumed that anything Katie had on her mind was dirty and sinful.

Carol Storm

#3. Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors.

Stanislaw Lem

#4. Even disasters
there are always disasters when you travel
can be turned into adventures.

Marilyn French

#5. I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

PJ Harvey

#6. Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

Steve Yegge

#7. that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around. Writing

Anne Lamott

#8. One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

Sara Zarr

#9. If we had not endured, we will never have succeeded.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. It's not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don't want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.

Tony McCoy

#11. Does lowering the plasma cholesterol level through dietary modification prevent or delay heart disease in man? This question would never be answered, but it no longer seemed to matter.

Gary Taubes

#12. Breasts are uniformly zeppelinesque and in various perilous stages of semiconfinement.

David Foster Wallace

#13. With the full assurance God is okay with me even when I'm not okay with me. And I realize, I can't hold on to the desire to run and at the same time go where God wants to lead me.

Lysa TerKeurst

#14. This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience

Sam Harris

#15. Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#16. A woman should never have to fight so hard to be with a man. He should just want her.

Tarryn Fisher

#17. And God help them both, if it hadn't been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid.

J.R. Ward