Essayist Who Published Quotes & Sayings

He said it in the half-embarrassed, half-defiant tone of someone admitting that he belongs to a religious sect. "You — Ken Follett

The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event. — Wes Craven

Character is power. — Booker T. Washington

I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications. — Meghan Daum

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou? — Charles Spurgeon

I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before we realize it's time to stand and fight. I may still have two or three left. — Joyce Rachelle

I've never thought to notate my songs ... I tend to just have to remember them. — Scout Niblett

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses. — Neil Gaiman

There was once a people in some land - and they may be still there for what I know - who thought it sacrilegious to stay the course of a raging fire. If a house were being burned, burn it must, even though there were facilities for saving it. For who would dare to interfere with the course of the god? Our idea of sorrow is much the same. We think it wicked, or at any rate heartless, to put it out. If a man's wife be dead, he should go about lugubrious, with long face, for at least two years, or perhaps with full length for eighteen months, decreasing gradually during the other six. If he be a man who can quench his sorrow - put out his fire as it were - in less time than that, let him at any rate not show his power! — Anthony Trollope

Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my devotions. They did not come easily or spontaneously, and they very seldom brought with them any strong sensible satisfaction. Nevertheless the work of performing them ended in a profound and fortifying peace: a peace that was scarcely perceptible, but which deepened and which, as my passions subsided, became more and more real, more and more sure, and finally stayed with me permanently. — Thomas Merton

If you believe in your sacred self, you can build a strong tower. — Lailah Gifty Akita

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. — Henri La Fontaine

Don't condemn me to the prison of your bullshit. — Steve Maraboli

When we are born into God's family through our faith in Jesus, God gives us the capacity or capability to live as his children. — Pedro Okoro

America, I think, is about poor people playing music and poor people sharing food and poor people dancing, even when everything else in their life is so desperate, and so dismal that it doesn't seem there should be any room for any music, any extra food, or any extra energy for dancing. And people can say that I'm wrong, that we're a puritanical people, an evangelical people, a selfish people, but I don't believe that. I don't want to believe that. — Nickolas Butler