Including Quotes - Page 5

• ‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Sincerity, Selling

  "Billy Graham: His Life and Influence". Book by David Aikman (p. 37), October 9, 2007.

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• I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Loss, Childhood, Lost

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.239, Penguin UK

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• Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, Evil, Alex

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Eagle Strike”, p.175, Penguin

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• Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Common Sense

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, White Man, Black

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• Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

  Jim Henson

  Anger, Heart, Sadness

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• Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher.

  Demetri Martin

  Plato, Names, Suits

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Fall, Adversity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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• He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his membership card before you attacked. Good grief, what if you’d run across a Masquerade group?” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Grief, Kids

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

  Frank Lentricchia

  Communication, Black And White, Past

  Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.238, SUNY Press

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• Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Generations, Minorities, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.359, Cambria Press

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• We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the Alpha, which was only slightly more complicated than an audience with the queen. Don't sit until you're invited to. Don't talk unless he asks you a question. Don't eat before he does. Don't make direct eye contact. Jeremy demanded none of this, but that wasn't the point.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Queens, Eye, Airports

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• Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!

  Earl Nightingale

  Giving Up, Men, Persistence

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• It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Garden, Missing, Everyday

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• Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

  Thomas Harris

  Writing, Digging, Done

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• Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

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• I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

  Anne Lamott

  Heart, People, Brain

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• In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God.

  James E. Faust

  Strong, Fire, Lds

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• Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we'll work out the right way of doing this but I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

  Melina Marchetta

  Letting Go, Hurt, Sorry

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• It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aprodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent

  Pittacus Lore

  Real, Parent, Apollo

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• one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Self, Recognition

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• You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.

  Greg Behrendt

  Men, Intimacy, Ifs

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Winning, Victory

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.13, Booklassic

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• When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Moving, Years, Useless

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications

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