Quotes by Authors - Page 1149

Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
Mouloud Benzadi
Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying “Apparently” in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. “Um, I can’t find the can opener.” “Apparently.” “There’s going to be a lunar eclipse tonight.” “Apparently.” “Look, sparks are coming out of the wall socket.” “Apparently.
Donna Tartt
Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
Vera Nazarian
The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
Anthony Burgess
The creator of Bambi was secretly writing pornographic novels on the side. This single fact tells you everything you need to know about turn-of-the-century Vienna, and why it was the perfect place for Sigmund Freud and his far-fetched theories about the human psyche.
Eric Weiner
It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.
Stefan Petrucha
Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.
Kenneth Eade
Hollywood is too busy trying to make old formulas hit the jackpot again to see the future. Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up with what's happening today. This will change only when it becomes financially profitable, and reality will never be profitable until society overcomes its fear and hatred of difference and begins to see that we're all in this together
Vito Russo
I want my name to mean me.
Mark Haddon
Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We must remember that nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.
Bryant McGill
I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
Neil Gaiman
Ronan cupped her neck with his other hand and brushed his lips lightly over hers. "I want you, Maddy. I want you more than I've ever wanted any woman in my life.
Sara Humphreys
Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.
John Waters
By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive.
Craig Hart
When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.
Markus Zusak
A Trade Mark is a company’s persona and identity in the marketplace
Kalyan C. Kankanala
Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.
Abhijit Naskar
Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.
Eraldo Banovac
In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westcliff. As two strong-willed people with very different sensibilities, Lillian and Westcliff often argued and negotiated... and yet this didn't seem to weaken their marriage. Quite the opposite, in fact- their union seemed all the better for it.She considered her friends' marriages... Annabelle and Mr. Hunt as a harmony of similar dispositions... Evie and Lord St. Vincent with their opposite natures, as necessary to each other's existence as day and night. It was impossible to say that any of these pairings was superior to the others.Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was a unique creation.
Lisa Kleypas
Content is King. Promotion is Queen
Bob Mayer
Hey there,” she said, her blue eyes shimmering.Collin swallowed hard, and took her in his arms, cradling her head against his chest. “Hey, yourself,” he murmured into her hair, and kissed her head. He held her there for as long as he could without it becoming awkward, then gripped her shoulders and stepped back.
Tracy March
When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their pain with grace and good manners. These are nice qualities; we may be correct to reproach average citizens for not having them. But to expect everyone in pain to have them is unrealistic. Bearing pain quietly is what moralists call a supererogatory act--an act that is above the call of duty. Expecting everyone to who is suicidal to behave in a way that is morally above average is simply abusive.
David L. Conroy
IF you want to learn, there is enough to learn till the last breath!!
Harrish Sairaman
Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.
Kiera Cass
The future is just a memory that has yet to be born
Dean Cavanagh
By the sound of things, you know nothing about mathematics.''You can put it like that. I'm utterly useless.''Useless is such a harsh word, you are merely... inexperienced. So I thought we could start at the beginning.''I'm not that stupid. I know how to add, subtract and multiply-''I don't mean that kind of beginning...
Charlotte Munro
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
Carl Sagan
The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, andwill still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.
George S. Clason
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
Christine Lavin
Marcia was silent a moment. Then a sort of softer gleam came into her angry eye."Tell me some more about her," she said.Adele clapped her hands."Ah, that's splendid," she said. "You're beginning to feel kinder. What we would do without our Lucia I can't imagine. I don't know what there would be to talk about.""She's ridiculous!" said Marcia relapsing a little."No, you mustn't feel that," said Adele. "You mustn't laugh at her ever. You must just richly enjoy her.""She's a snob!" said Marcia, as if this was a tremendous discovery."So am I: so are you: so are we all," said Adele. "We all run after distinguished people like--like Alf and Marcelle. The difference between you and Lucia is entirely in her favour, for you pretend you're not a snob, and she is perfectly frank and open about it. Besides, what is a duchess like you for except to give pleasure to snobs? That's your work in the world, darling; that's why you were sent here. Don't shirk it, or when you're old you will suffer agonies of remorse. And you're a snob too. You liked having seven--or was it seventy?--Royals at your dance.""Well, tell me some more about Lucia," said Marcia, rather struck by this ingenious presentation of the case."Indeed I will: I long for your conversion to Luciaphilism. Now to-day there are going to be marvellous happenings...
E.F. Benson
The most benevolent souls are the one's who have had to drink some of life's worst poisons, yet protected others in their lives from ever having to taste them.
José N Harris
I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Mary Street
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
Tim Wise
The greatness of our destination will be lost without the memory of our beginning.
Sergio Tinoco
The brain is a harmonic instrument. It vibrates to the same wavelength.
Toba Beta
If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.
Joanna Russ
Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.
Corey Ann Haydu
His introduction throws me. The only time I can envision "Hi, I'm a surgeon" as a fitting introduction is if I were on a gurney in a stark white room and a man wielding a scalpel was standing over me. Plus, it's been a while since we've talked careers with anyone. Jobs are rarely a topic of conversation anymore--they exist in a place and time too far away to seem interesting. "What do you do?" is not a question asked to define someone, because out here we're all working the same jobs: yachties, mechanics, navigators, weather-readers, fishermen, adventure travelers, storytellers.
Torre DeRoche
As is often the case when I travel, my vulnerability -- like not knowing what the hell I'm going to do upon arrival -- makes me more open to outside interactions than I might be when I'm at home and think I know best what needs to be done. On the road, serendipity is given space to enter my life.
Andrew McCarthy
For us Deewan Bhai, whatever it takes
Sanchit Gupta
God's grace is seed of salvation via faith in Jesus Christ.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.
David W. Earle
Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. "Go to it," it said, "and good luck.
Douglas Adams
All other trades are contained in that of war.Is that why war endures?No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.That's your notion.The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.
Cormac McCarthy
There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.
Jocelyn Murray
Failure taught him that he could have made the right choice. I could have tried.
H.L. Balcomb
Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You'd be surprised, Theo." she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, "what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door.
Donna Tartt
There is nothing God loves more that keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams.
Mark Batterson
You could start a fire with the heat between you two.""You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
Michelle Hodkin
Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter.
Amit Ray
Spirituality is the greatest soul food.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.
Salvador Plascencia
He who walks with the wise goes farther than he who runs with fools.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The purpose of education is to open the windows of the mind.
Debasish Mridha