We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are… — mary anne radmacher Copy Share Image
When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As far as comfort and convenience, men have it all over the girls. A man can wear the same suit every day… — Divine Copy Share Image
No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts:… — Dave Reichert Copy Share Image
I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't… — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. If you always do what… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The home is a woman's natural background… From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers… — Dominic West Copy Share Image
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
Try telling the poor starving children in third world countries, the people in war torn countries, the women and young girls who… — Danny Santagato Copy Share Image
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough,… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
There is so much to learn that I find the entire debate that Pakistani actors shouldn't work elsewhere senseless. By working in… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image