N.B. Williams Quotes

My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.

When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.

When you write, you can write yourself into the world of your dreams or the world of your nightmares. The choice is yours!

Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixure of both.

History, ' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.

Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.

My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners

Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will, temptation challenges them.

Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.

Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.

We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice.

Once you know that you have a voice, ” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

Hell is indefinite.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.

High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all.

When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons he would lose his angels.

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and then I go on to the next thing. That's my attitude.

When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.

It's not an easy gig, being in the NRL sometimes: you always feel for the boys because you have that mutual respect knowing what they go through.

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.