Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Lamott

I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.

Anne Lamott

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

Anne Lamott

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Anne Lamott

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

Ann Voskamp

I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

Alastair Reynolds

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

Alastair Campbell

Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed.

Alastair Campbell

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Albert Bandura

Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility

Carmen Laforet

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays...

Muriel Rukeyser

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

Muriel Rukeyser

The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

Mindy Kaling

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Mike Rutherford

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

Kurt Loder

Television's not going read stories to you.

Kumail Nanjiani

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

Kathie Lee Gifford

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

P. T. Barnum

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.