Lightman Group Quotes

#1. It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

Nelson Mandela

#2. Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

Jodie Foster

#3. Don't compare yourself. Celebrate yourself.

Joel Osteen

#4. Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.

Doris Lessing

#5. Well, normal is relative.

Anna Jarzab

#6. Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other peoples too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway ...

Nancy Gibbs

#7. Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less.

Donna Lynn Hope

#8. Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When the outward battle is lost, and the outward world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interiour world which otherwise would be an empty waste.

William James

#9. In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

Alan Lightman

#10. Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?

Gregory Maguire

#11. It's not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the one who knows to go outside after a rainstorm.

James Schannep

#12. Give freedom to colours and then you shall meet the rainbow everywhere!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.

Kathleen Edwards