Nonfiction Quotes
The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!
When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.
For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.
Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it
Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.
I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.
To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.
If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!
Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!
The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.
You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.
Hauntingly active as they share space with the living, the dead refuse to give up their undead residency.
It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough
Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.
Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story worth listening to. --Alex Kava, NY Times Bestselling Crime Novelist
Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns.
Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.
A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.
I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.
The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)
Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.
God holds us in the untamed moments too.
The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.
Don’t ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on rampage in your life
Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects, acquired, inherited..)
Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.
There is always a danger that those who are less obviously and traditionally important, prominent, or powerful will be left out of the history of human experience.
Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.
When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.
Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.
For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.
The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success
Today we say goodbye to a proud warrior. As we leave, each of us will take our members of [USS} Midway with us...you guys were the 'Magic.' It was a privilege to sail with you.
....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.
—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.