Sherman Alexie Quotes

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

Sherman Alexie

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• Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• I like a quiet life.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Life
  • Like
  • Quiet

• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Detail

• I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • House
  • Nice

• That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Job
  • Law

• In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Life

• The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life

• Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Abuse

• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Measure

• You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Control
  • Environment

• If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Care