Keep Shining Anyway Quotes

#1. The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

Nick Cave

#2. Our God isn't stingy with His grace, like we are sometimes.

Alicia G. Ruggieri

#3. I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Jeff Bezos

#4. The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

Ruth Bernhard

#5. Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

Thomas Pynchon

#6. There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

Steve Maraboli

#7. There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.

Heather Brewer

#8. Her worst nightmare and her wettest dream.

Gail McHugh

#9. What does he know of the force that drives the utmost strangers into each other's arms, making them kin, kind, beyond all prudence?

J.M. Coetzee

#10. The principal task of the messiah, who was popularly believed to be the descendant of King David, was to rebuild David's kingdom and reestablish the nation of Israel. Thus, to call oneself the messiah at the time of the Roman occupation was tantamount to declaring war on Rome.

Reza Aslan

#11. One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#12. I ... Why do you want me to?"
There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness, and then she said, "Why wouldn't I want you to?"
Because you hate me, I thought, but I didn't say it.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#13. It doesn't matter how simple your name is; it's always a surprise to hear it spoken aloud by someone new, how the specific arrangement of syllables sounds coming out of their mouth.

Katie Heaney

#14. The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.

Jacob Lew

#15. Wind comes in, your candle tips over and flares up, and a loose tent-flap catches fire, and through the widening black-edged gap you can see the eyes of the howlers, red and shining in the light from your burning paper shelter, but you keep on writing anyway because what else can you do?

Margaret Atwood