Joyce Myers Quotes

#1. perfection of the life or of the work - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#2. I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life. - Author: Rachel Joyce

#3. No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. - Author: Joyce Brothers

#4. The praise and glorification of God doesn't exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding; it is in spite of – and even because of – deep and troubled circumstance. - Author: Joyce Rachelle

#5. I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia. - Author: Graham Joyce

#6. You always did have a problem with undies. Remember when you wet your pants in the second grade?
- Joyce Barnhardt - Author: Janet Evanovich

#7. Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#8. If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work! - Author: Joyce Maynard

#9. I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary. - Author: Rachel Joyce

#10. Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo. - Author: Lorii Myers

#11. He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast. - Author: James Joyce

#12. For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. - Author: Joyce Cary

#13. When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#14. If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#15. Thank fuck that's over," said Finty, rubbing at her mouth and her sweatshirt. "Let's have a game of Scrabble. - Author: Rachel Joyce

#16. A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.
James, what's wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?'
Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn't it always?
How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued.
Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.'
Seven? But James ... that's good, at least for you.'
Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is ... but I don't know what order they go in! - Author: Stephen King

#17. And then what do I do? Joyce asked, her voice suddenly pinched. - Author: Anita Diamant

#18. Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives. - Author: Lorii Myers

#19. Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#20. Live your life. The reset button has been pushed. - Author: Brynn Myers

#21. Core passions and aspirations should be consistent and in sync. - Author: Lorii Myers

#22. Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same. - Author: PZ Myers

#23. Momma used to say, you got to know when to move. More important than knowing when to stay put. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#24. DECEMBER 4 Use Your Authority Well Whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever desires to be first among you must be your slave - just as the Son of Man came not to be waited on but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many [the price paid to set them free]. MATTHEW 20:26- 28 God desires to restore us to our rightful position of authority in Christ. But first, we must learn to respect authority before we are fit to be in authority. We all have authorities to whom God expects us to submit. Our government, our law officers, and even our merchants have the right to set rules for us to follow. If we are not submitting to God's appointed authority, it will soon be revealed. Keep a submissive attitude in your heart, and enjoy the authority you have been given to spend time in God's presence today. - Author: Joyce Meyer

#25. A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones. Proverbs 14:30 - Author: Joyce Meyer

#26. -I bar the candles, ... I bar the magic-lantern
business. - Author: James Joyce

#27. How do you know when you find the right saddle? You just "feel" it, because your horse is relaxed and willing under you, and your hours in the saddle are less hard work and far more pleasurable. Your saddle feels like a comfortable pair of shoes - Author: Susan E Harris Joyce Harman

#28. So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy. - Author: Joyce Meyer

#29. But the impostor syndrome doesn't allow any success to go unpunished. - Author: Joyce M. Roche

#30. You've a perfect right to call me as impractical as a dormouse, and to feel I'm out of touch with life. But this is the point where we simply can't see eye to eye. We've nothing whatever in common. Don't you see. . . it's not an accident that's drawn me from Blake to Whitehead, it's a certain line of thought which is fundamental to my whole approach. You see, there's something about them both. . . They trusted the universe. You say I don't know what the modern world's like, but that's obviously untrue. Anyone who's spent a week in London knows just what it's like. . . if you mean neurosis and boredom and the rest of it. And I do read a modern novel occasionally, in spite of what you say. I've read Joyce and Sartre and Beckett and the rest, and every atom in me rejects what they say. They strike me as liars and fools. I don't think they're dishonest so much as hopelessly tired and defeated."

Lewis had lit his pipe. He did it as if Reade were speaking to someone else. Now he said, smiling faintly, "I don't think we're discussing modern literature."

Reade had an impulse to call the debater's trick, but he repressed it. Instead he said quietly, "We're discussing modern life, and you brought up the subject. And I'm trying to explain why I don't think that murders and wars prove your point. I'm writing about Whitehead because his fundamental intuition of the universe is the same as my own. I believe like Whitehead that the universe is a single organism that so - Author: Colin Wilson

#31. I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense. - Author: Walter Dean Myers

#32. As much as I want her by my side forever, I think an even more terrifying prospect than losing her is me standing in the way of her full potential. - Author: Jason Myers

#33. But I will not allow you to be put down. You aren't done with this life yet, little badass. You just got a big old beast put inside you, and you have to learn how to work with her." "How?" "With support. You have Samuel and Red Havoc. And first and foremost, you have me for as long as you want. For every breath, every smile, every tear, I'll be here right here beside you. Leaving didn't fix anything for either of us. It hurt She-Devil, it hurt you, it hurt me, it hurt Titan. I tried to let you go so you could have a better life, but it didn't take. So, this is where we dig our toes in against the hurricane that is your monster kitty and walk through the damn storm together. Deal? No quitting. I won't let you. - Author: T.S. Joyce

#34. Everything God ever asks you to do, even if it's difficult, He asks because He has something great in mind for you. - Author: Joyce Meyer

#35. For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence. - Author: Peggy Joyce Ruth

#36. Some people feed you with love," Tara said, "and some people love you with food. - Author: Graham Joyce

#37. You know the difference between right and wrong,' he repeated finally. 'Man, why did you need Initiation - by the Golden Dawn, or by anybody else? You are a genius, a sage, a giant among men. You have solved the problem which philosophers have been debating since antiquity - the mystery about which no two nations or tribes have ever agreed, and no two men or women have ever agreed, and no intelligent person has ever agreed totally with himself from one day to the next. You know the difference between right and wrong. I am overawed. I swoon. I figuratively kiss your feet. - Author: Robert Anton Wilson

#38. The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law. - Author: William Joyce

#39. To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb. - Author: Joyce Herzog

#40. It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living
we who have survived
understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me
will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates