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Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: The Essays: A Selection
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Attributed in The Rebirth of a Nation : With a Bill of Rights for America's Third Century (1978) by Robert S. Minor, p. 10; this is a paraphrase of a statement by his father John Adams in a letter to his mother Abigail Adams (27 April 1777): "Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it".
Misattributed
“Where did you learn to ride anyway? Disasters-R-Us? (Tory)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Acheron
“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”
Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer
Source: The Miles Between
“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”
L. Frank Baum book The Marvelous Land of Oz
Source: The Marvelous Land of Oz
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
Source: Leaving Home (1987), p. 9
Context: Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
“I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.”
Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry
Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
"Power and Love" (1926)
Context: p> Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.</p
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
“… when men like us do change, the change is profound.”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: If You Deceive
“I think we have established in so many ways that I am hot enough for the both of us”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”
Timothy Zahn Heir to the Empire
Source: Heir to the Empire
“Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: The Journals Of Anais Nin
Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer
Quoted by Katherine Martin in Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, p. 268 (1999)
“For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
Jill Bolte Taylor (1959) American neuroscientist
Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy
Source: The Celestine Prophecy
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary
“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Speech to the House of Commons (October 28, 1943), on plans for the rebuilding of the Chamber (destroyed by an enemy bomb May 10, 1941), in Never Give In! : The best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches (2003), Hyperion, p. 358 ISBN 1401300561
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist
As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders
“But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us painthey remain.”
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author
“Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.”
William Goldman (1931–2018) American novelist, screenwriter and playwright
Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist
Source: Sailor Moon, Vol. 1
“One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Angel Experiment
“So now what? What happens when words fail us?”
Nick Hornby book How to Be Good
Source: How to Be Good
Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Variant: We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
Source: Lock and Key
“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.”
Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker
Source: Ten Little Indians
“In there?'
She nodded.
'You want us to go into the tortoise?'
Another nod.
'It's alive.'
Another nod.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“… the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.”
Melody Beattie (1948) American writer
Source: The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency
“Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: Literature and Evil
“If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: Wolves of the Calla
