Quote

I have Tourettes syndrome.

Richard Paul Evans

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Novelist
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Syndromes
Syndrome

More quotes by Richard Paul Evans

Image
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Love is never convenient-and rarely painless
Richard Paul Evans
Image
I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?
Richard Paul Evans
Image
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent. Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
Richard Paul Evans
Image
The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.
Richard Paul Evans