Quotes of Anatole Broyard

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

- Anatole Broyard

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“ I constantly challenge my athletes with workouts that take them to the upper edge of their ability. Like Brett's, my philosophy is that your biggest competitor is yourself. I will never ask the impossible. But I will come close. Those who answer with courage and selfbelief instead of fear and doubt are the ones who realize their dreams. ”

- Siri Lindley

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ It is time to stop a young woman from being manipulated to break her ass and tear herself down to the core in order to build a man up. Once she builds him up, more than half the time he leaves her to figure out the millionpiece puzzle of life. Wow! It never amazes me how men forget who was there for them when they didn’t have a damn thing to their name. It’s a timeout for that! ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Relationships are like Rome difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot. ”

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ One chooses who they decide to love but never determines who will love them back. The woman’s first two considerations are respect and financial security which centers on the core of personality traits; a man reveres persona of physical and sexuality; these two impostors have little relevance of character. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein