538 Quotes About Nonfiction

Chưa đi nhưng biết mình đã đến, đó là điều bạn cần làm trước lúc ra đi. Tim có đủ lớn không để ôm trọn thế giới vào lòng? Tâm có đủ tĩnh không để luôn hiện diện cho những người mình gặp trong hiện tại? Đừng vội vàng và lướt đi bạn nhé. Thế giới này chẳng có ý nghĩa gì nếu mình đi như một kẻ mộng du. Hãy nhắm mắt lại đi và tưởng tượng điểm đến của tâm hồn trước giờ xuất phát.

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind.

We insist no one be compelled to take antipsychotic drugs until he becomes so deranged that he is in 'imminent danger' and a judge has to intervene to save his life. If we really believed that forced treatment was an injustice and forced medication was cruel, then why would we allow a judge to impose it as a last resort to save a life?

I know a lot of people were praying for us to find the arsenic.

When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.

I just like to say I'm from London, I don't have any specific area I represent. I'm not representing for a small group of people. I'd like everybody to be able to relate to a nerd, because everybody's a bit nerdy. I'm more interested in that than in where they're from. I'm more interested in what people do.

God feels loved when: I prayI read my Bible I ask Him before I do somethingI say good things about HimI introduce Him to othersI want to know more about HimI have faith in HimI make it all about Him

Perhaps the story of the human race is best understood as a journey through particularly hazardous terrain, in the dark, in a not very well-serviced vehicle, with a succession of drivers of varying competence, in assorted states of inebreiation

If we're not enough without it, we'll never be enough with it.