Miscounted Quotes

#1. Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things - otherwise I've miscounted.

Ann Voskamp

#2. It had to be the most surreal, embarrassing, awkward moment of his life, standing petrified in his mother's backyard in front of a broken lawn mower, sporting a woody and discussing sex for sale with the landlady.

Linda Kage

#3. Meditation is like an oven that forces the truth out.

Adyashanti

#4. The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it.

Chris Bradford

#5. The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity ... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

Brian Swimme

#6. Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

Anna Silk

#7. I am a daring soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Fleur Adcock

#9. You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Ludivine Sagnier

#10. The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

George Lucas

#11. You can choose fear. Or you can choose love.

Karina Halle

#12. To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. I like that Barack got that job.

Hannibal Buress

#14. Both citizens and noncitizens bribed by the Party by means of jobs and liquor cast as many illegal ballots as they can in a single day, after which said votes will be either tossed in the river or purposefully miscounted.

Lyndsay Faye

#15. Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.

Christopher Lee

#16. Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

Jentezen Franklin

#17. When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

Dennis Banks