Nick Quotes
Successful people (or soon-to-be success people) never quit, never settle and are never satisfied
Do close your mouth. You look like a cow that's being artificially inseminated.
If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...
Wisdom comes easy to me today. The Universal Intelligence and the Cosmic Power, Empower me with wisdom each day of my life. Thanks BE to God. _nickc
If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.
The simplicity of youth is mesmerizing to me. Maybe because I didn't know it long enough."London Drake"They All fall down
Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power.
He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.
I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.
Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.
In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.
You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.
Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.
There’s a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible—just merely unlikely.
This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks.
Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.
It’s not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it’s that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.
No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc
When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.
Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was.
I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.
I was unable to throw myself in the ocean, ” she writes, the handwriting more erratic as the painkillers seep into every cell, shutting out lights in empty rooms.
...hoping that he might peek through a gap in the fance and see that Patch was really a big softy, all bark and no bite, or, as they sometimes say in England, "All mouth and no trousers"!
You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you’re trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don’t, though. I’m me and I’m good at it.
Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.
You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.
Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..
...putting your faith into action is not a passive exercise. You have to actively and willfully take the necessary steps to locate and move along the path God designed for you.
When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?
We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report on, memos to remember, e-mails to deflect or delete. They bury us like snow.
Still, he was angry--that particular anger of humans defied by the persistence of nature.
What will you tell him?""The truth."Fortismer thinks about that."Yes, " he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.
But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .
He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.
You can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?
What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into.
I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.
He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.