Olden Day Quotes

#1. No. Seriously. Speak American and not this ancient and very fucked-up, confusing olden-day Euro crap. Without the confusing woo-woo refrences, explain why the hell you're writing Zoey off.

P.C. Cast

#2. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

Jodi Picoult

#3. It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

Joe Garagiola

#4. Spirit cannot fulfill any desire until you release it.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

Mark O'Connell

#6. When we stop pursuing God's purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.

Kenneth Burke

#8. There is a story of a spiritual seeker who one day came to his master and asked, "In the olden days it is said that there were people who walked and talked with God. Why doesn't this happen anymore?" The master replied, "Because nowadays no one will stoop so low.

Robert A. Johnson

#9. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Kahlil Gibran

#10. Actually I feel more sure than I ever have in my life that I am obeying the Lord and am on the way He wills for me, though at the same time I am struck and appalled (more than ever!) by the shoddiness of my response.

Thomas Merton

#11. You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Christopher Pike

#12. I am too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.

Ronnie Screwvala

#13. It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many people only dream about.

Daniel Schwabauer