“I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.” PeopleHas BeensCountrySometimesSeemsLostWishFeltGrowthMy OwnKnownIntegrityRacismConsciousParisSimplestSurroundings Author:Jessie Redmon Fauset
“God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.” KnowsWayShouldHeartHas BeensHappensSpiritJesusMy OwnHealingParticularAnxietyShould HaveRaisedCastsHealRuinsDemonRuinedFloatingAnother WayCould Have BeenDoomGod KnowsHealedNeuroticShould Have Been Author:Frederick Buechner
“You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.” MenLifeMayHas BeensCertainMy OwnSinHe ManStandingAskingSavedForgivenMy Own Life Author:Pope Francis
“I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've performed has been from my own head.” Has BeensMy OwnProud Author:Don Rickles
“I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.” ThinkingHas BeensIdeasDoneUsedPurposeMy OwnPhilosopherThinkerBerkeleyHume Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.” Has BeensImportantFightingParentMy OwnLessonsBattleGratefulI've LearnedStumblingImportant Lessons Author:Anna Quindlen
“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?” IfsShouldHas BeensDifferentMy OwnPleasureWrittenGroupsReaderShould HaveShould Have Been Author:James Arthur
“I am sure that there are many Christians who will confess that their experience has been very much like my own-that we had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, as they were of the Master. Such humility is not a thing that will come on its own. It must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith and practice.” ShouldHeartLongHas BeensMadeChristianDesireRealizingMy OwnPrayerKnownLordPracticeSpecialObjectsHumilityMastersFeaturesDiscipleMeeknessLowliness Author:Andy Murray
“I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.” IfsWayFeelsBelieveMeanHas BeensHomeRealityMy OwnLossAcceptingCrazyPerceptionCall MeDisagreeSaneWay HomeGreat LossCall Me Crazy Book:Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith Source: Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
“In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.” WritingHas BeensDifferentMy OwnFictionGroupsWovenFiction WritingStrands Author:Alan Lightman
“I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.” WayWantNeedsWritingHas BeensUseCareMy OwnAttitudeProductsNegativeAlternativesMicrosoftNegative Attitude Author:Linus Torvalds