Lydia Evans Quotes

#1. Do you have the belief in you to move on, even when the whole world is against you, with swords in their hands?

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Norman Cousins

#3. Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn't see but she could.

Carol Oates

#4. Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out.

Glen Hirshberg

#5. The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

Kinky Friedman

#6. I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

Joe Haldeman

#7. When she's gone, Tom dares to look at Sam and then the ultrasound photo again. You've fathered the elephant man. Someone has to tell her.

Melina Marchetta

#8. 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.

Maria Semple

#9. We always blame the woman when a man falls in love, as though no man had the courage of his inclinations.

Samuel Taylor

#10. Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place.
She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

Craig Ferguson

#11. Than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would

Oscar Wilde

#12. However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,
i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

William Ernest Hocking

#13. I will not be someone who abandons my principles as soon as they become inconvenient. I will not be someone who says that certain things have to be done ... as long as somebody else does them.

Zoe Cannon

#14. Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

Euripides

#15. I was just making lei out of these papers. Majority of them was trash, so I guess they need to join a blood relative.

Shyrill Silversong