Peter Carey Collected Stories Quotes & Sayings

It is the misapplied intelligence God has given us that makes all the mischief on the earth. That intelligence He designed to carry out the purposes of His will, and endowed it with capabilities to grow, spread abroad, accumulate, and endeavor to enjoy greater happiness, glory, and honor, and continue to expand wider and wider, until eternity is comprehended by it; if not applied to this purpose, but to the groveling things of earth, it will be taken away, and given to one who has made better use of this gift of God. — Brigham Young

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it. — Wayne Coyne

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others. — Sherwood Anderson

The two walked off together, leaving Damen with Aimeric.
'He hates you,' said Aimeric, cheerfully. — C.S. Pacat

A way a lone a last a loved a long the - — James Joyce

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future. — Billy Graham

Soon after I left university, I came up with another definition of a literary critic or would be critic: someoone who uses churlish towards the end of an article or review. — Gerald Murnane

Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, the only person on Gethen who trusted him, was the only Gethenian I distrusted. For he was the only one who had entirely accepted me as a human being: who had liked me personally and given met entire personal loyalty: and who therefore had demanded of me an equal degree of recognition, of acceptance. I had not been willing to give it. I had been afraid to give it. I had not wanted to give my trust, my friendship to a man who was a woman, a woman who was a man. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney. — Jake Shimabukuro

Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

While you are not responsible for the actions of another, you are able to consciously respond to everything in your reality. Your power to respond is your power to create. — Niurka