Patika Austin Quotes & Sayings

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely. — Jodi Picoult

Love is to be feared by power because it leads to rebellion. "Why do slaves love?" asked ex-slave Harriet Jacobs and I think the answer is, because it is in the human fibre to do so, to exercise this natural power to (re)create the world. — Rod Dubey

Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Sometimes where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime. — Jeanette Winterson

It's a tough world to find yourself in, but an even tougher one to be yourself in — Chris Colfer

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it. — Jonathan Kellerman

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it. — Darius Rucker

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. — Robert M. Pirsig

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To find his place and fill it is success for a man. — Phillips Brooks

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed. — Julien Torma

Wear the outfit; don't let the outfit wear you. — Cheyenne Kimball

Only the writing of fiction keeps fiction alive. — Eudora Welty

I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life. — M. J. Hyland

I wake up breathing dirt. I cough and spit out the pebbles in my mouth, but when I inhale again, wet clots of clay fill my lungs. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. — Hank Nuwer