Nonfiction Quotes

If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.

~ Mark Gallagher

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

~ Isaiah Hankel

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

~ Isaiah Hankel

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

~ Tobias Wolff

It's like rock n' roll for your eyes.

~ Paul Howard

We have a set of rules for our faith, our sexuality, our marriages, our dating relationships, for choosing a church—nothing is off-limits. We tell ourselves to always do this, and never do that, and everything will turn out perfectly. Worse than that, we back up our rules with Bible verses and tell everyone else to follow them too.

~ Allison Fallon

I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage “truth is stranger than fiction.” Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.

~ Dan Grajek

To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.

~ Valerie Owens

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!

~ Barbara Ann Mojica

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

~ Simon Armitage

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

~ Simon Armitage

Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a moment you might imagine you’ve been mysteriously wafted to the French countryside, but no, this is the East End of Long Island, the most exciting new wine region in North America. You’ve reached your destination, but your journey of discovery has barely begun

~ Jane Taylor Starwood

I believe that there is something in all of us that is seeking expression, that wants to be heard, that wants to be accepted and respected and loved. We each express ourselves in different ways - through manipulation or domination, through receiving and giving pain, through crying, through loving, through giving hope and inspiration to others. We are all seeking the same thing - expression of who we are and what we want from this life.

~ Robin D. Hart

You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The most meaningful hopes and dreams don’t come from outside sources—they come from within.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you’re trying to accomplish.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you’ll feel.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

It’s up to you to make your dreams real.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life—now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person’s values are unique, so are each person’s dreams.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginiaknocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.No one asked why he was so solemn today.It was warm. It was relatively quiet.To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.No one was ever here long enough to know us.And we liked it that way.

~ Taylor Rhodes

Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

~ Christina Scalise

Love and adventure are life's condiments.

~ David J. Forsyth

Wives of criminals, Massau later reflected, were indeed an interesting lot. There are those who, real panthers in madness, defend their men with claws out; there are the cold and insensitive ones, who wrestling step by step, discuss each argument and answer your questions with other questions; there are the stubborn ones who can pass the entire night in total silence against the light of the interrogation; there are still others, who, shaken and in distress, discover as you do that they have lived for years beside a monster.

~ David King

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

~ Loung Ung

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

~ Loung Ung

a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that they’re not respectable. It’s worse for the victim because once a woman, or a girl—or a boy—is known as the target of a rape she becomes so despised, so shamed, so worthless that she turns into public property. No one is raped only once.

~ Louise Brown

Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its feet, on the charpoy that is reserved for those who die without money or family to bury them. He looked desiccated and his skin had the sheen and color of the dates we eat to break our fast. There are new bodies on that charpoy every week.

~ Louise Brown

Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.

~ Dr Robin Lincoln Wood

(And also like Satan, I'm a beautiful loser.)

~ Benjamin Hale