Löis Lancaster Quotes
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.
This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.
I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.
You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.
I think people tend to be very myopic and they dont understand how their actions impact others.
Point? Maybe you aren't a Carrie or a Samantha or a Charlotte or a Miranda. Maybe you're just you.
Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.
When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?
I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.
I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.
If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.