200+ Quotes & Sayings By Anthony Liccione

Anthony Liccione is an award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, three children, and dog. His work has appeared in numerous national publications including The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Daily News. He received his BA from Colgate University.

A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow...
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A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart. Anthony Liccione
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
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Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth. Anthony Liccione
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Everyone has their own boat, it's a matter of pulling it out of the sand, and putting it in the water. But further, you can anchor the boat in fear when the storms rage, and go nowhere, let it drift aimlessly on its own or you can let God be the navigator and guide you on a journey in a way that is right for you. Anthony Liccione
It is better to have God over your shoulder, than...
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It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back. Anthony Liccione
We are all innocent, until we die.
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We are all innocent, until we die. Anthony Liccione
The more material we lose, the less we have. The...
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The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win. Anthony Liccione
A house is never small or empty, when filled with...
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A house is never small or empty, when filled with love. Anthony Liccione
Hope is like a word made with cloud, without faith,...
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Hope is like a word made with cloud, without faith, it quickly blows away. Anthony Liccione
Every corner and room of a house will carry memories,...
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Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family. Anthony Liccione
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This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did was good the first time, for the day. Without the need of looking back to learn from the past, and no future to hope for the better. No more tiredness, or having a need to dream, and no nightmares to fear. If there was a second time, this is how I would like to start over. Anthony Liccione
When I was young, I thought I was a bird...
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When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying. Anthony Liccione
We are all dust passing through the air, the difference...
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We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground. Anthony Liccione
Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to...
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Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave. Anthony Liccione
A colorful body with fabrics, tattoos and jewelry is attractive,...
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A colorful body with fabrics, tattoos and jewelry is attractive, but a colorful heart with love, truth and faith is beautiful. Anthony Liccione
To save face, it's better not to ask sex from...
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To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe. Anthony Liccione
The distance of a voice, is only a short time...
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The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch. Anthony Liccione
Key the mind, and set the soul free.
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Key the mind, and set the soul free. Anthony Liccione
Which is colder, the hand or the gun?
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Which is colder, the hand or the gun? Anthony Liccione
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And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ran back to his car packing away. After making two trips in and out, he waited in the car for his family to come out, in fear they darted through the darkness and pelting cold rain. When everything calmed down, and the house was intact and safe, he returned putting everything back in its place, had the kids go to bed, told his wife he loves her and turned off the light. Anthony Liccione
There are four kinds of people to avoid in the...
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There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you. Anthony Liccione
With the world in a chaos of questions, family should...
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With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. Anthony Liccione
Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into...
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Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe. Anthony Liccione
Life is like the dirt we bury our dreams and...
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Life is like the dirt we bury our dreams and fears in. It blemishes the way. As things tend to grow by the rain of our belief or doubts. Anthony Liccione
Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale...
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Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure. Anthony Liccione
The chains that break you, are the chains that make...
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The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break. Anthony Liccione
She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike...
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She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that. Anthony Liccione
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I...
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Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere. Anthony Liccione
The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on...
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The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside. Anthony Liccione
A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was,...
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A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you. Anthony Liccione
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Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies. Anthony Liccione
It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the...
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It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance. Anthony Liccione
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your...
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Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside. Anthony Liccione
Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son,...
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Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son, there is only shadow. Anthony Liccione
Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation!
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Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation! Anthony Liccione
To be the salt, you also need to be the...
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To be the salt, you also need to be the shaker. To shake the world. Shake the truth. Shake the people. Shake the word. Have it sprinkle, melt and preserve humanity. Anthony Liccione
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She's my pride, my winning prize, always a surprise, to look into her eyes, see her free soul, as soap that slips from the grip of control; a stroll through the park on a dark night with stars to spark the sky, heaven with no price tag I realize, love is the same: endless, priceless, full bliss; to have this princess I pinch myself thinking this is a dream, but to my reprise, I can only say I am now, at last, alive. Anthony Liccione
I see you better in music, I hear you better...
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I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence. Anthony Liccione
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In the horrors of war, please bring me peace. Anthony Liccione
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Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle. Anthony Liccione
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Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day. Anthony Liccione
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A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember. Anthony Liccione
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We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces. Anthony Liccione
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Love has no fear, willing to take on anyone. But how much we fear love! Anthony Liccione
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Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love. Anthony Liccione
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For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies. Anthony Liccione
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The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted. Anthony Liccione
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You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling. Anthony Liccione
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I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around. Anthony Liccione
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Fake love, is just as damaging as open hate. Anthony Liccione
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Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery. Anthony Liccione
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I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day. Anthony Liccione
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Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing! Anthony Liccione
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As troubles bring money, money in turn can also bring troubles. Anthony Liccione
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Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master. Anthony Liccione
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When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem. Anthony Liccione
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They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill. Anthony Liccione
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The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind. Anthony Liccione
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When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze. Anthony Liccione
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She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress. Anthony Liccione
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The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart. Anthony Liccione
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They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart. Anthony Liccione
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Love is about as strong, as two people want to make it. Anthony Liccione
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One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye. Anthony Liccione
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The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story. Anthony Liccione
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Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home. Anthony Liccione
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There are a world of answers, outside the loop. Anthony Liccione
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At the bottom of the mountain you have your scoffers and doubters, by midpoint you have your envious and haters, and when you reach to the top you have new friends and family you never met or thought existed. Anthony Liccione
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Money spent, will never out value spent time. Anthony Liccione
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I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald. Anthony Liccione
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The pleasures of living is loving! Anthony Liccione
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All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished. Anthony Liccione
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When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other. Anthony Liccione
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Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet. Anthony Liccione
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Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside? Anthony Liccione
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The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love. Anthony Liccione
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If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, empty of a soul. Anthony Liccione
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God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch. Anthony Liccione
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People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger. Anthony Liccione
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Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire. Anthony Liccione
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It was uncontrollable, overpowered by others, these colors within me, staring out at a black and white world; without spurning about, wanting to rule, too much negligence, they left me no choice, but to surrender. It was time, had to crash the lightning, and bow to the rain, where promises have broken, and pain still reigns. Had to give up myself and bring life to the world, had to. Dye Anthony Liccione
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The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world. Anthony Liccione
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We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life. Anthony Liccione
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Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again! Anthony Liccione
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Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun. Anthony Liccione
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Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy. Anthony Liccione
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Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams. Anthony Liccione
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The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living. Anthony Liccione
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They have their opinions, but we have the answers. Anthony Liccione
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Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare. Anthony Liccione
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If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut. Anthony Liccione
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Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate. Anthony Liccione
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Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single. Anthony Liccione
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A smile will go the mile, while a frown will take you down. Anthony Liccione
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Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table. Anthony Liccione
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Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer. Anthony Liccione
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They were shiny, shiny people that were bright like light bulbs, but there I stood out like a sore thumb, my dimness flickering self, and they saw it and removed themselves from me, forming their circle of light. Until the night died, they never noticed when the sun broke open its skull of rays, where I laid by the stop sign. Anthony Liccione
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These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim. Anthony Liccione
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Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities. Anthony Liccione
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There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can wear and drive, what and how much you can eat and drink, and how to purchase those. They will strip you of your religion, race, gender, national origin, age, color, creed, views and power, and have control of the population. They will set in a new world order, and put you in the back of the line, marked and branded. Everything before will be erased, and the new will be manipulated. And what you believe most, can only be kept secret, for all must fall in line of their govern. Anything outside will be abolished. Even death, will be sought, but restrained. They will execute complete and total control over everything, and be sole owners of your soul. The light, that once guided will go dim, and liberty will be like an unwilled bird, suppressed in the cage of your ribs; wings cut off. . Anthony Liccione
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A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost. Anthony Liccione