It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha...
ANN BEATTIE I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in l...
ANN BEATTIE Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
ANN BEATTIE Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together a...
ANN BEATTIE Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.
ANN BEATTIE It was very much a surprise,
ANN BEATTIE whose work has made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.
ANN BEATTIE It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.
ANN BEATTIE have been forced to close and have no idea when they may reopen.
ANN BEATTIE I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
ANN BEATTIE Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interest...
ANN BEATTIE Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. ...
ANN BEATTIE Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...alw...
ANN BEATTIE It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make t...
ANN BEATTIE When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible sum...
IAN BEATTIE I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a ...
IAN BEATTIE When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only ...
IAN BEATTIE The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write th...
MELODY BEATTIE On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb...
JAMES BEATTIE Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
JAMES BEATTIE How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.
JAMES BEATTIE 'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
JAMES BEATTIE Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.
JAMES BEATTIE How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
JAMES BEATTIE Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!
JAMES BEATTIE The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to impro...
BILL BEATTIE I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction....
MELODY BEATTIE Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial...
MELODY BEATTIE From labor health, from health contentment springs.
MELODY BEATTIE From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.
JAMES BEATTIE Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size And glitt'ring cliff on cliffs, and fiery rampart...
JAMES BEATTIE And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.
JAMES BEATTIE Zealous, not modest.
JAMES BEATTIE Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible ...
JAMES BEATTIE Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid.
JAMES BEATTIE He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
JAMES BEATTIE Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, ...
JAMES BEATTIE At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, ...
JAMES BEATTIE Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life ...
MELODY BEATTIE Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
MELODY BEATTIE Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial...
MELODY BEATTIE I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive...
MELODY BEATTIE According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard t...
MELODY BEATTIE Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that ...
MELODY BEATTIE Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.
MELODY BEATTIE Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
MELODY BEATTIE Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make othe...
MELODY BEATTIE Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.
MELODY BEATTIE What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we&#...
MELODY BEATTIE Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel c...
MELODY BEATTIE Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.
MELODY BEATTIE Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.
MELODY BEATTIE We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
MELODY BEATTIE We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.
MELODY BEATTIE A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is o...
MELODY BEATTIE I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afra...
MELODY BEATTIE In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you...
MELODY BEATTIE Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people'...
MELODY BEATTIE Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It al...
MELODY BEATTIE The nice thing is that the rivalry has grown into a rivalry of respect. It used to be that it was mo...
BILL BEATTIE The nice thing is, we had a chance to get a lot of kids playing time,
BILL BEATTIE We're going to try to get him involved in a variety of ways, ... He's not the type of tailback where...
BILL BEATTIE Every year we've had some guy who could slam it in there, ... We've been lucky.
BILL BEATTIE Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this...
MELODY BEATTIE Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappro...
MELODY BEATTIE It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,...
MELODY BEATTIE Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other p...
MELODY BEATTIE When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to fo...
IAN BEATTIE I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being...
MELODY BEATTIE If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautifu...
IAN BEATTIE And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.
JAMES BEATTIE I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear; Harsh are...
JAMES BEATTIE And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear! Forlorn, i...
JAMES BEATTIE Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
JAMES BEATTIE Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode, And oft on ...
JAMES BEATTIE Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With h...
JAMES BEATTIE No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; Each ...
JAMES BEATTIE Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
MELODY BEATTIE At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, whe...
JAMES BEATTIE Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
JAMES BEATTIE Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of li...
MELODY BEATTIE We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a wh...
MELODY BEATTIE You just see that in spite of all that, he's just not catching up to pitches that I know he would ha...
JIM BEATTIE Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
JAMES BEATTIE You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
MELODY BEATTIE They're a good football team that's physical and hasn't had a lot of breaks.
BILL BEATTIE It would be nice to have one of those guys back, but we can't dwell on it. These guys have done a go...
BILL BEATTIE I thought our starters did a good job, came out and got it done from the start. Our defense didn't g...
BILL BEATTIE There's not a more deserving man than him. The mark he's left on the community is fantastic.
BILL BEATTIE He's definitely out for two-to-three weeks minimum -- and that's the good news. The bad news is surg...
BILL BEATTIE They found out they can't count on what's happened in the past, ... When you have success, you think...
BILL BEATTIE We hope to throw it around more, too, ... Especially since we don't have that seasoned offensive lin...
BILL BEATTIE As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't f...
IAN BEATTIE Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's so...
MELODY BEATTIE And lo! In the dark east, expanded high, the rainbow brightens to the setting sun.
JAMES BEATTIE Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's s...
MELODY BEATTIE Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here an...
JAMES BEATTIE It's a fresh, masculine and modern fragrance.
SCOTT BEATTIE Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, and sing enamoured of the nut-brown maid.
JAMES BEATTIE It's hard to express oneself at times like this,
MALCOLM BEATTIE We haven't had a cyclone like this for decades, if we've ever had one like it before.
PETER BEATTIE We will finish what we started. We will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.
PETER BEATTIE The CMC will have to determine what they will do,
PETER BEATTIE One thing we are determined to do is not put the people of Bundaberg and the patients of Dr Patel th...
PETER BEATTIE It's our job to accept the umpire's decision and to find a way through this mess.
PETER BEATTIE Everyone in the urban areas is actually paying full cost recovery.
PETER BEATTIE No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season...
JAMES BEATTIE We're breathing a sigh of relief.
LEE BEATTIE Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anythin...
JIM BEATTIE We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature.
LYNN BEATTIE We'll fight to the end, but I don't think we'll win them (the seats),
PETER BEATTIE We're a team. You're going to face adversity through the season,
BILL BEATTIE We Are Lovable
Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real...
MELODY BEATTIE Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial...
MELODY BEATTIE At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, whe...
JAMES BEATTIE He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
JAMES BEATTIE In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
JAMES BEATTIE I have no problem with the CMC looking at any politician or any bureaucrat, and they can make that d...
PETER BEATTIE Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'
MELODY BEATTIE And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
JAMES BEATTIE Our goal this year was to get a home playoff game as a young team. We?re playing well, and we still ...
ED BEATTIE We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little...
ED BEATTIE We gave them a pretty good go. We had trouble with (Megan) Jackson. She played a great game and we h...
ED BEATTIE We thought it was must-win. (Keene) has to win two games to go beyond us now. This win could move us...
ED BEATTIE We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth. If somebody who is important (o...
MELODY BEATTIE We Are Lovable
Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real...
MELODY BEATTIE I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do...
MELODY BEATTIE The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting o...
MELODY BEATTIE ...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.
MELODY BEATTIE There's a lot of anxiety ... Someone retires and we're just doing without. We're just doing with les...
LYNN BEATTIE I sometimes think there's not a real serious attempt to make our contractors comply with the same sa...
LYNN BEATTIE There's a lot of anxiety ... Someone retires and we're just doing without. We're just doing with les...
LYNN BEATTIE It's appropriate ... in due course the Serious Fraud Office be held accountable, absolutely account ...
MALCOLM BEATTIE All of us give to charities and regard them highly, so if they are tainted in any way, then it hurts...
MALCOLM BEATTIE The overland water no longer is going over (North Dakota) Highway 18 in any spot. And you can start ...
LEE BEATTIE Yeah, for the most part, we shut down operations at the fire hall Friday. We had no dike walkers las...
LEE BEATTIE I believe that we have reached the tipping point between pragmatic patience and a genuine missed opp...
LANE BEATTIE The contributions of Huntsman Corporation to our state have been tremendous. Having their headquarte...
LANE BEATTIE After two really heavy down days, where we lost over 375 points (on the TSE 300), it's not surprisin...
KATHERINE BEATTIE The market is already in a serious downtrend so any disappointment is going to clobber the market.
KATHERINE BEATTIE There is concern about the strength of the U.S. employment report, in that if the Fed has to move it...
KATHERINE BEATTIE My mother's going to be 85 and she's never seen anything like this.
MARTIN BEATTIE On a good weekend we're apt to have 1,000 snow machines through our yard.
MARTIN BEATTIE Go easy. You may have to push forward, but you don’t have to push so hard. Go in gentleness, go in...
MELODY BEATTIE Denial can be confusing because it resembles sleeping. We’re not really aware we’re doing it unt...
MELODY BEATTIE I know better than to not trust God. But sometimes, I forget that. When we are in the midst of an ex...
MELODY BEATTIE I just got done putting it all back together after the hurricane and now I have to deal with this ag...
SCOTT BEATTIE We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be...
MELODY BEATTIE Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded ...
ANN COULTER Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistake...
ANN LANDERS Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
ANN LANDERS Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive...
ANN LANDERS Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sa...
ANN LANDERS People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
ANN LANDERS The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; i...
ANN LANDERS Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.&#...
ANN LANDERS People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it serv...
ANN LANDERS If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#...
ANN LANDERS I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
ANN LANDERS The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one ...
ANN LANDERS All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
ANN LANDERS I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations t...
ANN NOCENTI You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
ANN LANDERS I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
ANN WILSON Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love...
ANN BRASHARES We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's...
ANN ROMNEY You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ...
ANN POWERS If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americ...
ANN COULTER If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancer...
ANN ROMNEY Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
ANN LANDERS I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, b...
ANN HOOD All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.
ANN JILLIAN If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love eva...
ANN OAKLEY Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks togeth...
ANN COULTER We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares...
ANN LANDERS After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...
ANN RICHARDS Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are ...
ANN LANDERS Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes...
ANN BRASHARES You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart...
ANN BRASHARES Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolut...
ANN LANDERS ... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
ANN VOSKAMP Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend y...
ANN PATCHETT I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days befo...
ANN VOSKAMP I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...
ANN RICHARDS It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most ef...
ANN DRUYAN Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
ANN VOSKAMP Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’r...
ANN AGUIRRE The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom l...
ANN BRASHARES There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to ch...
ANN OAKLEY Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and g...
ANN OAKLEY Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor...
ANN RICHARDS If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it wo...
ANN LANDERS Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
ANN LANDERS Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of ...
ANN OAKLEY