Leonard Michaels Quotes

#1. What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved
what then?

Carl Jung

#2. In 1982, Raphael Nachman, visiting lecturer in mathematics at the university in Cracow, declined the tour of Auschwitz, where his grandparents had died, and asked instead to visit the ghetto where they had lived.

Leonard Michaels

#3. I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#4. Most offensive is what he imagines a person thinks about himself.

Leonard Michaels

#5. Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

Mercy Otis Warren

#6. And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. If you're having a bad hair day or a bad boy day, he'll whip up one of his yummy mango smoothies for you, sit you down, and say, "Little one, remember what's really important in life: a family that loves you, good friends, and not putting too much garlic in the pesto."
- Chloe Carlson

Nancy Butcher

#8. I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Winston Churchill

#9. I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.

Leonard Michaels

#10. It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

Steven Biko

#11. Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

Leonard Michaels

#12. Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

Leonard Michaels

#13. So many writers make dope glamorous; a form of romantic transgression, or world-weariness, or poetic sensitivity, or hipness. Mainly it's the stuff of ritualistic communion among inarticulate bores.

Leonard Michaels

#14. Feb. 1, 1965
Storm late at night, heavy rain, a thunderous racket, the windows shaking. I heard my name called. A woman's voice in hell pleading with me to join her.

Leonard Michaels

#15. There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

Leonard Michaels

#16. Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

Leonard Michaels

#17. Arthur was simply there in their midst, the sword in his hand.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#18. There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

Leonard Michaels

#19. We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

Kim Il-sung

#20. There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.

Betty Williams

#21. The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

Leonard Michaels

#22. It occurred to Mo that he didn't have any pictures of himself as a boy. Every photo he owned, every memento of his life, was from after. It was as if he had been born the day he left. He had gone out from here and invented himself.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

#23. Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.

Leonard Michaels

#24. People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Megan Fox

#25. Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.

Leonard Michaels

#26. Self-confidence can be crippling.

Leonard Michaels

#27. Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

Leonard Michaels

#28. I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.

Lesley Manville

#29. I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

Leonard Michaels

#30. Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

Leonard Michaels

#31. Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

Leonard Michaels