H. E. Bates Quotes

The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.

One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

If a guy is put off by you being a feminist, you need to ask yourself how put off you are by someone who doesn't believe in equality for women.

Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty—stupid me for going along with it.

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.

Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself.

We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember.

This is why magic is dangerous. It lures you in. It makes you curious.

You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

I respond to many names.Sometimes I am different people.Sometimes I am the me that howls in the night.Sometimes I am the sickening silence.I wear moonlight in my hair and bare my teeth.

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

Be selective in your battles...

Consider bonsaiThere but for constricting bowlWould be a giant.

There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.

That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...

The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..

[Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower] 'No other contemporary officer approached his accumulated experience...' From Champion of the Quarterdeck: Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower 1742-1814.

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.