Kara Lin Quotes

I guess the beautiful disaster turned into a beautiful wedding."
"Miracles do happen," I said remembering the conversation she and I had what seemed like a lifetime ago. ~ Jamie McGuire

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. ~ Maya Lin

If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things as good or bad. So I'm like a robot or computer in that sense. So maybe that's why people don't think they know me when they read my writing. ~ Tao Lin

But because I believe God's plans for me are better than what I could plan for myself, rather than run away from the path he has set before me, I want to run toward it. I don't want to try to change God's mind - his thoughts are perfect. I want to think his thoughts. I don't want to change God's timing - his timing is perfect. I want the grace to accept his timing. I don't want to change God's plan - his plan is perfect. I want to embrace his plan and see how he is glorified through it. I want to submit. Nancy Guthrie, Holding on to Hope Receiving what is before me and fighting to walk in the path that is ~ Kara Tippetts

She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her. ~ Grace Lin

I guess I'll get a shower," I said, grabbing a towel and my shower bag.
"I'll alert the media," Kara deadpanned, keeping her head down. ~ Jamie McGuire

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom. ~ Lin Yutang

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. ~ Lin Yutang

The passion fades, the remorse is eternal. ~ Lin Yutang

My father wasn't around.
I swear that I'll be around for you. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it. ~ Lin Yutang

Showing up for another says, "I see you. Your pain is known, and though I cannot make it better, I'm here and that's what matters. ~ Kara Tippetts

In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference. ~ Kara Hayward

Bad dreams are better than no dreams...at least they tell you what you're afraid of knowing. ~ Kara Barbieri

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason. ~ Lin Yutang

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

It is difficult to imagine this kind of a new world because our present world is so different. On the whole, our life is too complex, our scholarship too serious, our philosophy too somber, and our thoughts too involved. This seriousness and this involved complexity of our thought and scholarship make the present world such an unhappy one today. ~ Lin Yutang

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'. ~ Lin Biao

Forgiving him doesn't make what he did okay; it just means refusing to carry it any longer. ~ Kara Isaac

one legend has it that Jews found Poland attractive because the country's name sounded like the Hebrew imperative po lin ("rest here"). ~ Diane Ackerman

He used to think things like, This organic soymilk will make me healthy and that'll make my brain work better and that'll improve my writing. Also things like, The less I eat the less money I spend on publicly owned companies the less pain and suffering will exist in the world. Now he thinks things like, It is impossible to be happy. Why would anyone think that? ~ Tao Lin

I'm awful at hiding it when I'm miserable. Sometimes I think if I were better at it maybe I'd be able to fool myself. Trick the misery right out of me. ~ Kara Lee Corthron

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down. ~ Lin Yutang

I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill ~ Kara Walker

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic. ~ Deborah Kara Unger

Lin beamed, and threw a couple of triumphant middle fingers in the air. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes. ~ Jeremy Lin

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother. ~ Kara Swisher

Oh Philip, when you smile I am undone.
My son.
Look at my son. Pride is not the word I'm looking for.
There is so much more inside me now.
Oh Philip, you outshine the morning sun. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

I wish writing were really like the way Andy staged it here: Me in a mania at a desk while a group of people stand around cheering in awe. More realistically, it's me pooping around on Twitter until I get an idea. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. ~ Maya Lin

what she really wanted to say was, Be near me. Be near me so that I can be near you. ~ Amber Lin

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living. ~ Lin Yutang

A kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel; really
it was just the hole that's in the middle
of all bagels; 'i need to go read my blog
to find out what my politics are ~ Tao Lin

We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes. ~ David Stern

i have this urge to destroy you with my touch,
to run my hands across your body and leave the same fiery feeling
you've left
across mine

it's a very strange thing -
to want to be loved
when you do not know
how to be
it's been ages and yet still I'm longing
but i think i am destined to want
and never receive ~ Kara Petrovic

love is love is love is love is love ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery of consciousness) that I feel affect me most in my life and think about most of the time. Another reason is that it doesn't seem specific or accurate, to me, to write about "being [abstraction]." I think there are some other reasons. ~ Tao Lin

When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

That spot was taken," Kara sat up to look at them. Stylized, short, black hair with bangs. Piercing blue eyes. Proper posture. Lean. It was Oliver.

"I don't think a bag counts as a person," he smiled down at her. ~ Alexis Tiger

Unless she got Mel and Slade back together in the next twenty-four hours, the human race would be enslaved forever and Kara would never see a television set again. No, no, no, no, no. ~ Cassandra Gannon

The past places no absolute limit on the future. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

When u are small, u can choose which way to grow. If you are kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. And if you are like El Patron . . . Just think about it." – Tam Lin ~ Nancy Farmer

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in. ~ Tao Lin