quotes on writing

These are Americans who still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do. These are Americans who still dream big dreams - they just sense their leaders have forgotten how. ~Barack Obama, Emily's List Annual Luncheon, 2006 May 11



How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. ~Pamela Dugdale



Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian



An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb



Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~Francis Wright, 1828



It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ~Colette, My Mother's House, 1922



The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ~Heywood Broun



Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth. ~Author Unknown



A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca



God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. ~E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973



Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy



One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb



We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. ~Norman Cousins



I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension! ~Author Unknown



You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs



History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. ~Joseph Heller, Good as Gold



Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ~Margaret Millar



We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn



There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens