I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
#quotes #zach-johnson #cinderella #work

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
#quotes #robert-edison-fulton #stories

A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs

If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #helping #happiness

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
#quotes #lydia-davis #russell-edson #style #writing #stories

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton Mackenzie
#quotes #compton-mackenzie #cat

The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin. ~Pope Pius IX
#quotes #pope-pius-ix #christianity

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time. ~Jerry Bridges
#quotes #jerry-bridges #christianity

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
#quotes #steig-larsson #desire #addiction

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
#quotes #albert-einstein #knowledge #imagination

Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
#quotes #cecelia-ahern #love

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
#quotes #james-herbert #hypocrisy #politics

I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful. ~Dennis Haysbert
#quotes #dennis-haysbert #emotions #love #entertainment

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
#quotes #nikola-tesla #nuclear

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
#quotes #jon-meacham #religious #christianity #politics #united-states

I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
#quotes #randy-houser #parenting

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ~Harry A. Blackmun
#quotes #harry-a-blackmun #individual

When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
#quotes #henry-b-eyring

The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
#quotes #andrea-gibson #sorrow

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
#proverbs #hindu-proverbs #helping

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
#quotes #nick-flynn #self #universe #ego

And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
#quotes #kerry-greenwood #helping

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
#quotes #colum-mccann #democracy #stories

Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
#quotes #sydney-j-harris #age

There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
#quotes #will-cotton #painting #art #women