The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Lynn Bracken: [to Ed] Fucking me and fucking Bud aren't the same thing, you know.
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.
Lynn Sear: Look at my face; I was not thinking anything bad about you.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
[Norm said,] 'To all those who argue this war is a mistake, I'd like to point out that we've removed from power one of history's most ruthless and belligerent tyrants. A man who cold-bloodedly murdered thousands of his own people. Who built palaces f...
Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help . . . or else we won't have learned a thing.
Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
