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Own Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what…
- A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to…
- If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very…
- When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a…
- Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.
- With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
- In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work,…
- Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "…some…
- I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in…
- Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
- Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
- My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better…
- The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is…
- Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people,…
- Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov