Beckonings Quotes & Sayings

The only things that give us purpose are the stories that tie us together. We — Marieke Nijkamp

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated. — Vera Farmiga

You don't inspire people by telling them they're wrong. You need to show them something extraordinary so they long to be part of it. — Jeffrey Overstreet

With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right. — Debra Dean

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom. — Chip Kidd

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time. — Nick Hornby

One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly. — Michael Mullen

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. — Joyce Maynard

Fitness to me isn't about a crunch or a push up, it's about taking your power back. — Jillian Michaels

I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that
in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the
of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House. — George W. Bush

Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal. — George Arthur Buttrick

Jerzy," said I, turning to the Dean of Students, who was nearby, "You're experienced in these things, and I'm not. Will you tell me whether it is an unalterable rule in this school for a teacher to lose himself in the middle of the night scrambling to find what he cannot see and what is probably not there?"
"Isn't that what we do in the classroom every day?" said Witskoc. "Yes, I'm afraid that's how it is. I'd like to see how you can construct a pedagogical context made up of nothing but security and certainties. — Eric Mace-Tessler

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care. — Ernest Cline

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings — Lincoln Steffens

A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off. — Eddie Van Halen

Listen! I will be honest with you,
I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,
These are the days that must happen to you:
You shall not heap up what is call'd riches,
You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you."
-from "Song of the Open Road — Walt Whitman

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. — Dejan Stojanovic

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that. — Andrew Pyper