Quotes by Authors - Page 1193

If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-signals would have been heard, and perhaps they would have been rescued by now. Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful world. They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need for charity?
Victor Hugo
I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in the wrong plac
Brandon Sanderson
I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don’t need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things—though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart—and at the ranch, I could see, we’d have pretty much everything we’d need but precious little else.
Jeannette Walls
A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.
Derek Raymond
If thou really believe in one God,irrationality is subset of thou logic.
Toba Beta
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?
J.R.R. Tolkien
Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel.
Francine Pascal
If I give you and apple and ask you, “What is that?”You reply, “An apple.”“How do you know it’s an apple.”“Because it just is.”“How did it get to be an apple?”“It came form an apple.”“Exactly. So when I ask you, ‘What are you?’ You can honestly say, ‘I am a child of God because I came from God.
Toni Sorenson
Love is the only future God offers.
Victor Hugo
The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which means 'doubt' - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives. Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order. In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead.
Elizabeth Gilbert
A great purpose with great commitment can definitely create a great life with great value
Debasish Mridha
Moomah," Travis mumbled and Joker looked to the kid to see his eyes on the magazine, his fingers twiddling his lip."Yeah, son, that's your momma."Travis looked to him. "Moomah.""Yeah, boy."Travis took his fingers from his lip and curled them around Joker's. "Joejoekah.""Yeah," Joker whispered. "I'm your Joker."The boy wobbled a second then dropped forward and landed a sloppy, open-mouthed kiss on his hand and Joker's mouth.He wobbled back."Love you too, kid," Joker whispered.Travis giggled.
Kristen Ashley
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
Whenever someone introduces themselves as a Master or a Guru, I immediately wonder…If those are the lies they tell themselves, what lies will they tell me?
Steve Maraboli
Why do you care what happens to her? I thought we humans were vapors to you, here today and gone tomorrow.”“Caspida is . . . different. She reminds me of someone, someone I’d give my life for if I could.”“The queen?” he asks. “The one who died?”“Roshana. My dear Ro.” My voice is soft as a ripple on the water. “She once ruled the Amulens, and Caspida is her descendant. She has Roshana’s strength of spirit, and I cannot look at her without thinking of my old friend. If she were to come to harm on my account . . . I could not bear that through the centuries.” I already carry a mountain of shame, a constant reminder of that day on Mount Tissia.Aladdin lifts a hand and brushes the hair back from my face. “You truly are remarkable, Zahra of the Lamp.
Jessica Khoury
For an infinite journey, we need an endless road, an immortal vehicle and an eternal body!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.
Emily M. Danforth
If your presence doesn't work, neither will your word.
Yogi Bhajan
He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.
Thomas Harris
We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.
Billy Graham
I've had great success being a total idiot.
Jerry Lewis
Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.
Louis E. Thayer
Tell people how it is, be real and be honest.If you see something wrong make sure you speak up.Being this way will naturally eliminate the snakes and fakes.
John Maiorana (Giovanni)
Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.
Benjamin R. Smith
Don't apologize.""I wasn't-""Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.
Kelley Armstrong
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.
Jostein Gaarder
But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass.
Leo Tolstoy
Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.
Penn Jillette
Happiness is the silent purpose of all existence.
Debasish Mridha
Read. Learn. Write. Travel.
Lailah Gifty Akita
There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.
Kōbō Abe
I've bled for you. I've killed for you. I've held you in my arms and done my best to make love to you. I'd give my life to protect you. Now I sit beside you, askin' you to trust me.
Pamela Clare
If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeatthat’s the real you.
Bill Jensen
Right understanding is that which finds happiness in the state of unhappiness.
Dada Bhagwan
We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
Patrick Rothfuss
Love and I, we’re on opposite sides of the galaxy. I’m pretty sure that bitch is hiding in a black hole to avoid me.
Briana Pacheco
Today is felt to be the most complicated day in our lives and rarely in trying to deal with the issues of today, are we aware of the impact of the past on those issues.
Martha Char Love
Don’t kill yourself just because you think and feel you are empty. God needs empty vessels to fill!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.
Glen Cook
When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When Jan was called up to service a fourth time...my mother waited outside...the two of them were convinced that this time Jan would have to go, that they would surely send him off to cure his ailing chest in the air of France, famed for its iron and lead content.
Günter Grass
Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.
Peter Watts
The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible. -Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Singing Over The Bones, P10.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I moved from the holy land (Israel) to the land of opportunities (USA)
Batya Maman Sabag
... nostalgia was once thought to be a mental illness or a physical affliction; for me, it was both.
Laura McHugh
Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet.
Santosh Kalwar
The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.
JOHN C MAXWELL
I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.
Sara Quin
Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.
Kyung-Sook Shin
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser
Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.
Roy T. Bennett
Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.
Nora Roberts
God cares about our dietary choices. This should come as no surprise; you only have to read the first two chapters of Genesis to see God's concern for food. Humanity's first sin was disobedience manifested in a choice about eating. Adam and Eve were allowed to eat anything they wanted, except the one fruit they chose. And the New Testament makes clear that God cares about the most basic quotidian aspect of our lives. (Our God, after all, is the God who provides for the sparrows and numbers the hairs on our heads.) This God who is interested in how we speak, how we handle our money, how we carry our bodies - He is also interested in how we live with food.
Lauren F. Winner
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
Lionel Shriver
I was a swan, but ripped apart and taped haphazardly back together again.
Erin Bomboy
If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind.
Girdhar Joshi
Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!
Israelmore Ayivor
Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness of both producers and consumers that characterizes our economy today. Of course, the global economy couldn't very well function without this wall of ignorance and the indifference it breeds. This is why the American food industry and its international counterparts fight to keep their products from telling even the simplest stories–"dolphin safe," "humanely slaughtered," etc.–about how they were produced. The more knowledge people have about the way their food is produced, the more likely it is that their values–and not just "value"–will inform their purchasing decisions.
Michael Pollan
To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.
Bob Proctor