Top 100 Myles Quotes
#1. Finally, thank you very much to Jeaniene Frost and Jill Myles. This book does have sex in it. Please don't hit me anymore."
~Ilona Andrews in the Acknowledgements section of Magic Bleeds
Ilona Andrews
#2. After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks.
Claire Dyer
#3. Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath
Dorothea Lasky
#4. Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles)
Tamora Pierce
#5. I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
-Myles of Olau
Tamora Pierce
#6. And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortune befall some, whiles others laugh and sing for hope and joy, as though such grievous things as sorrow and death could never happen in the world wherein they live.
Howard Pyle
#7. And if wishes were pies, I'd weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau
Tamora Pierce
#8. I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the '60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield.
Eileen Myles
#9. Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.
-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift
Tamora Pierce
#10. The little boys did as they were told, eager to please their deranged brother.
"Ici, garcon," they chorused, pudgy fingers raised. And then from the corner of his mouth, Myles whispered to his twin, "Artemis simple-toon.
Eoin Colfer
#11. The past is dead except for the life you give it
Myles Munroe
#12. You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries
Myles Munroe
#13. Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
Eileen Myles
#14. I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
Eileen Myles
#15. God's purpose is more important than our plans.
Myles Munroe
#16. It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.
Eileen Myles
#17. If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.
Myles Munroe
#18. If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
Eileen Myles
#19. It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it.
Myles Munroe
#20. The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
Myles Munroe
#21. Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
Myles Munroe
#22. The person who exudes a love of life, infused with charm and a smile, this is the person of value.
Colin Myles
#23. I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.
Sophia Myles
#24. I have a big belief that whatever your passion is in life, pursue it to the fullest and try to be the best at it.
Myles Jury
#25. Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
Myles Munroe
#26. Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
Eileen Myles
#27. Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.
Myles Horton
#28. Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.
Myles Munroe
#29. I think it's odd how it's mirrored my life so much.
Eve Myles
#30. Move what you can do at level one when you get to level one. When you get to level two, you need a bigger power to move it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. Vision is a conception that is inspired by God in the hearts of Human
Myles Munroe
#32. We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
Myles Munroe
#33. Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
Eileen Myles
#34. You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.
Myles Munroe
#35. You are everything to me, Princess."
"Then come and love me," I said softly to him. "I've waited forever for you to touch me again.
Jill Myles
#36. Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.
Myles Munroe
#37. Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.
Myles Horton
#39. Sky is the limit, never doubt yourself, stay focused, never let anything slow or stop you from concurring your goals and making your dreams happen!
Myles Jury
#40. A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.
Myles Munroe
#41. When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with.
Myles Munroe
#42. You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential.
Myles Munroe
#43. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." No human being is going to be truly satisfied with life until he or she loves God.
Myles Munroe
#44. You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream
Myles Munroe
#45. God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.
Myles Munroe
#46. I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.
Sophia Myles
#47. If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
Eileen Myles
#48. I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.
Sophia Myles
#49. Success is not a pursuit ... but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator
Myles Munroe
#50. What Is Prayer? Prayer is man giving God the legal right and permission to interfere in earth's affairs.
Myles Munroe
#51. Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you
Myles Munroe
#52. Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.
Eileen Myles
#54. Leaders are not worried about what they can't do; they know themselves very well and focus on what they can do. Think this way if you are willing to lead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
Eileen Myles
#57. The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
Myles Munroe
#58. You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.
Myles Munroe
#59. The shortest distance to leadership is service.
Myles Munroe
#60. The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.
Sophia Myles
#61. Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
Eileen Myles
#62. True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.
Myles Munroe
#63. Attracting loyal customers based on price is like believing in the tooth fairy.
Colin Myles
#64. You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans to be your companions and close friends.
Myles Munroe
#65. There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.
Myles Munroe
#66. Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.
Eileen Myles
#67. I'm very grateful that I have one of those faces that seems to blend back into the crowd. A lot of people pay lip service to wanting a normal life, but it's actually very important to me.
Sophia Myles
#68. Damn, girl. You are a kinky fuck."
I glanced down. The sheet was spattered with blood, my skin covered with dried red lines. Awkward. "Oh. I tripped and fell."
"On his fangs? Over and over?
Jill Myles
#69. The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.
Myles Munroe
#70. In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.
Eileen Myles
#71. When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
Eileen Myles
#72. Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.
Myles Munroe
#73. If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.
Sophia Myles
#74. As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen.
Eve Myles
#75. Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
Myles Munroe
#76. We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.
Myles Munroe
#77. Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.
Eve Myles
#78. When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.
Myles Munroe
#79. Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.
Myles Munroe
#81. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. Your value in life is determined by the problems you solve through your gift.
Myles Munroe
#83. Let me get this straight. You've just told me that I was bitten by a vampire, had sex with an angel, then I died, but I've risen again as a succubus. And you've wondering why I don't believe you?"
(Jackie)
Jill Myles
#84. How someone else perceives and understands us depends only 7 percent on what we say, 38 percent on how we say it, and 55 percent on what we are doing when we say it.
Myles Munroe
#85. A 'Torchwood' movie would be incredible. It would be sensational to have a beginning, a middle and an end in ninety minutes. A big walloping 'Torchwood' crunched into ninety minutes would be breathtaking.
Eve Myles
#86. We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.
Myles Munroe
#87. All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.
Myles Munroe
#88. We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.
Myles Munroe
#89. Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.
Myles Munroe
#90. You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.
Myles Munroe
#91. The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.
Myles Munroe
#93. I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.
Sophia Myles
#94. The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.
Myles Munroe
#95. Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.
Myles Munroe
#96. Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
Eileen Myles
#97. Your purpose can be fulfilled only during the time you are given on earth to accomplish it.
Myles Munroe
#98. I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.
Eileen Myles
#99. Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.
Myles Munroe
#100. Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
Colin Myles
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