Titles Being Earned Quotes

#1. Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book.

Dinty W. Moore

#2. You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth ... Each person enters the world called.

James Hillman

#3. If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

Chris Bosh

#4. This is nobody's fault, swiftly be assured; being human beings with personal opinions and brains, we are respondent to any shreds of beauty we can get; I myself am hopelessly respondent to it!

J.D. Salinger

#5. Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.

Dennis Prager

#6. It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

Eric Bachmann

#7. The television was on. Leslie Mitchell had been watching a program about how to cook lamb when Hungry Jack came in and started eating him.

Andrew Smith

#8. We must make democracy the popular creed ... If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer ... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#9. This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Margaret Fuller

#10. He had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

Henry James

#11. My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

Christopher Bollen

#12. Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

James Baldwin

#13. So Septimus will be the eighty-second Lord of Stormhold," said Tertius.
"There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of unhatched chicks," pointed out Quintus.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Fake Self-Actualization Loophole: Often, a loophole is disguised as an embrace of life or an acceptance of self, so that the failure to pursue a habit seems life-affirming - almost spiritual.

Gretchen Rubin