Edward Joseph Young Quotes

A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.

Edward Joseph Young

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Media

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Strong

• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Anger
  • Quick
  • Subtle

• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Matter

• The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Stars

• Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Country

• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Knowledge
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Afraid

• My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Fire

• O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the Future reckon with this Man? How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores? How will it be with kingdoms and with kings - With those who shaped him to the thing he is - When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world. After the silence of the centuries?

  

  Edwin Markham
  • World
  • Future
  • Question

• To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

  

  Ann Rutherford

• There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

  

  Douglas Adams
  • High

• What I tell women who want to get on corporate boards is to get connected! Do volunteer work, network in business, join community organization where you can demonstrate your leadership capabilities and other people can see your skills being applied.

  

  Debra L. Reed
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • American
  • Liar
  • Violent

• I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Work
  • Smile

• Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Book
  • Evil
  • Impossible

• A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Smile
  • Sorrow