Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
LOUIS L'AMOUR I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...
LOUIS L'AMOUR The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
LOUIS L'AMOUR The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as g...
LOUIS L'AMOUR When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
LOUIS L'AMOUR For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.
LOUIS L'AMOUR A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows sh...
LOUIS L'AMOUR There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
LOUIS L'AMOUR Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticip...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
LOUIS L'AMOUR Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
LOUIS L'AMOUR To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.
LOUIS L'AMOUR All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR You know, we worry about the Bomb, a thought interceded, and yet just look around: there are million...
ETIENNE DE L'AMOUR Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
LOUIS L. MANN What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
LOUIS L. MANN Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
LOUIS L. MANN Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Some things have to be believed to be seen.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, bu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've nev...
JOHN L'HEUREUX In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created,...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable....
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE People are more than just the way they look.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel th...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.
I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Nam...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set in...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my d...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civili...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let g...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's alw...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars...
MADELINE L'ENGLE When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops o...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm gro...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In my dreams, I never have an age.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

MADELEINE L'ENGLE Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, an...
L'PONI BALDWIN He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his an...
L'PONI BALDWIN I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.

-Nick Plato (from the story Plato...
L'PONI BALDWIN He couldn't take his eye off that dragon
There was something odd about the swaying of his tail<...
L'PONI BALDWIN When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorate...
L'PONI BALDWIN The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Wha...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Believing takes practice.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talking a...
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have
IRAZ 'DEALOVA' Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too dista...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, now...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM You're doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and ...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Brunettes are full of electricity.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is ...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to an...
LOUIS C.K. (LOUIS SZEKELY) The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
BAHá'U'LLáH The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...
BAHá'U'LLáH Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
BAHá'U'LLáH I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ दो न्याय अगर तो आधा दो,

पर, इसमें भी ...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ?
भूखंड-विजेता क...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ�...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr...
LOUIS L'AMOUR What the people are within, the buildings express without.
LOUIS SULLIVAN Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!
LOUIS TOMLINSON A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
LOUIS L'AMOUR You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.&#...
LOUIS KAHN I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that r...
LOUIS TOMLINSON My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' i...
LOUIS LETERRIER I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
LOUIS TOMLINSON As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Eva...
LOUIS THEROUX L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British peop...
LOUIS THEROUX You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and P...
LOUIS PASTEUR Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will ...
LOUIS THEROUX You blows who you is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down i...
LOUIS STOKES If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
LOUIS BRANDEIS Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
LOUIS L'AMOUR The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result o...
LOUIS PASTEUR If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you i...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like ba...
LOUIS THEROUX A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
LOUIS L'AMOUR After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but ...
LOUIS NAVELLIER I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about...
LOUIS ARAGON Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious ...
LOUIS ARAGON Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
LOUIS BRANDEIS Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
LOUIS GINSBERG A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER When I approach a child
He inspires in me two sentiments:
Tenderness for what he is,
And r...
LOUIS PASTEUR When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had com...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
LOUIS XIV Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...
LOUIS C.K. Pamela, I’m in love with you. Yeah, it’s that bad. You’re so beautiful to me. Shut up! Lemme t...
LOUIS C.K. The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...
LOUIS C.K. Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current wi...
LOUIS SACHAR It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...
LOUIS SACHAR Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.
LOUIS THEROUX A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realist, and their tactics ar...
LOUIS L'AMOUR A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you ha...
LOUIS L'AMOUR I am the state.
LOUIS XIV A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
LOUIS NIZER Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or be...
LOUIS MACNEICE Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
LOUIS FISCHER In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water...
LOUIS NIZER Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
LOUIS XIV