Beatrice Sparks Quotes

I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.

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• You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Work
  • Book
  • Fear

• Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Feel
  • Dead

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Day
  • Hurt

• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Long
  • War
  • Mistake

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Worth
  • Tax

• It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learn

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Job
  • Try
  • Field

• I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Moment

• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • World
  • Irish

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Death
  • Become
  • Destroyer

• Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • Comedy
  • Conflict
  • Hatred

• It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • True
  • Me

• If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Women
  • Stand

• I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Think
  • Value
  • Going

• I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

  

  Darin Strauss

• The energy transition demands a clear vision of the steps that need to be taken and a stable, meaningful regulatory framework. It appears important to us to awaken public opinion to the fact that this transition will necessarily come at a cost and will, at least in the short term, involve a price increase.

  

  Christophe de Margerie
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Taken

• The town was abuzz with talk of the King's animals. We were fed regularly, and the King and Queen quite often enjoyed feeling my abdomen to see if I weren't pregnant; they were extraordinarily eager to have a whole family of little animals like us.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Family
  • Feeling
  • King

• My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

  

  LZ Granderson
  • Technology
  • Rock
  • Lit

• I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Afraid