All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling…

“And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die—take your eye off…

— Mark Lawrence

“My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power was good…

— Orson Scott Card

“What are you doing?'Helen put her hand over his to stop him from shifting. 'I'm going inside to talk to your dad. I don't…

— Josephine Angelini

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night,…

— Anonymous

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Either the gods have no power or they have power. If, then, they have no power, why do you pray to them? But if…

— Marcus Aurelius

Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back…

— Jack Welch

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts…

— Gregory Crewdson

I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a…

— Lauren Myracle

CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and…

— Chris Stein

Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth…

— Laurie Beth Jones

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as…

— Ben Shahn

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to…

— Adrienne Rich

He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for…

— William Kristol