Quotes by Authors - Page 1202

You MUST know You to do YOU!
Anne Thomas
That's the thing about trust. It's like broken glass. You can put it back together, but the cracks are always visible--like scars that never fully heal.
Hope Collier
A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism.
Susan C.Young
Joy, it is, which I’ve never known before, only pleasure or excitement. Joy is a different thing, because its focus exists outside the self – delight in something external, not satisfaction of some inner craving.
Mary Karr
It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...
Virginia Woolf
It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.
Ellen J. Barrier
When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.
Sunday Adelaja
She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed his hand gently, and his fingers returned the pressure, but only just, as he was almost asleep by then. She remembered, but not very well, what it was to fall asleep holding the hand of another; how precious such an experience, how fortunate those to whom it was vouchsafed by the gods of Friendship, or of Love. She thought she had forgotten that, but now she remembered.
Alexander McCall Smith
You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage—or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant—without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.
H. Kirk Rainer
[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.
Obert Skye
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.
Anonymous
In difficult moments it’s sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can’t, move on to the second best thing.
Ian McEwan
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
Ben Carson
Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, "We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys.
Laurell K. Hamilton
It's not enough to 'like' and retweet. Best we express our love to all that we meet.
Walter E. Jacobson
No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.
Shannon L. Alder
Whether it be in the sun, the rain, or the snow,You should always have fun, wherever you go.Think of all the amusing things you can do,To bring much laughter and happiness too.
Susanne Alexander-Heaton
A righteous wife is a respectful wife.
Habeeb Akande
I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?
Elizabeth Wein
Are you the same woman I brought here, Sasha? You're like a kid at Christmastime."--Monroe"You would be, too, if someone fulfilled your most secret fantasies."--Sasha
Bethany Averie
I refuse to be linguistically constrained by dictionary writers.
Amy E. Reichert
I thanked the lucky stars for my great metabolism, because Karsen had showed me pictures of her mom once and it was scary the transformation she underwent after popping three kids out. She went from a small, dainty beauty to a giant pineapple blob of a body.
Holly Hood
As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.
Margaret Atwood
there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
Paulo Coelho
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.
Isaac Asimov
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
Winston S. Churchill
You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel
Mark Twain
What we become is a grace of believe in God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!
Charlotte Brontë
When those who are responsible for the leadership of State begin to move in villainous ways; when they begin to destroy the fabric of what it is that our nation is held together with; when they violate the Constitution of our nation and begin to do things that are false to our dreams and our hopes--it is incumbent upon every citizen by right, but also by responsibility, to challenge that administration, to raise their voice in vigorous dissent and to challenge the way in which the state is doing business. And those who fail to do that, should be charged with patriotic treason!
Teddy Roosevelt
Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.
Donna Leon
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
Louis de Bernières
In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.
Ernst Jünger
What you praise you increase.
Catherine Ponder
It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.
Roy Bennett
Dance it off.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Sophie Kinsella
... the enemy will do anything to rob my joy of homeschooling and parenting. He wanted me to live in bondage and feel guilty and like I was never doing enough to have me miss the real joy of just being home with my children.
Tamara L. Chilver
The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)
Sarah Turnbull
We are trying to find something to feel the void. It is only God who can fill the void.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Distract yourself, that's what Margaret always told him. When you start getting anxious, give your mind something else to think about. He had become an expert at distracting himself. He had distracted himself so much, he found himself drowning in distractions, and all the little details in the world seemed to join up together in his head and make a whole new problem to worry about.
Joanna Cannon
You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book
Emily Gowor
I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fried them in butter, salted them generously and ate every bite of them - asking my body the whole while if it would please accept the satisfaction of a pound of fried potatoes in lieu of the fulfillment of lovemaking.My body replied, only after eating every bite of food: "No deal, babe.
Elizabeth Gilbert
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment—thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?
Richard Dawkins
One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.
Michael Cunningham
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
Simon Van Booy
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.
Margaret Way
Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
That's you," Wrath said. You shall be called the Black Dagger warrior Dhestroyer, descended of Wrath son of Wrath.""But you'll always be Butch to us," Rhage cut in. "As well as hard-ass. Smart-ass. Royal pain in the ass. You know, whatever the situation calls for. I think as long as there's an ASS in there, it'll be accurate.""How about bASStard?" Z suggested."Nice. I feel that.
J.R. Ward
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.
Ann Brashares
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin
An intelligent person has knowledge, but a wise person has experience with humility.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.
Hugh Nibley
We often settle for what's available and what's available isn't always great. You are destined to achieve greatness!
Farshad Asl
Past data should only be used as a learning and not as a base for setting future goals
Harrish Sairaman
Take the easy road and at the end, you will feel you have achieved nothing. Try the difficult shit and you’ll enjoy your successes.
Michael R. Fletcher
Dex crouched down next to her, lips level with her ear. "You know, you were a lot more fun three years ago."It was like he wanted her to kill him.She turned, unfazed that their faces were separated by mere centimeters. So close she could see the pores in his caramel skin, the deep brown of his eyes, and the raised scar that rested near his temple.She'd given him that scar.What she also noticed was how her heart no longer fluttered like it used to when he looked at her. She used to love his eyes, their unspoken words. The feel of his skin against hers during their passionate nights, but now those thoughts made her cringe. She guarded herself against those details scrounged from distant memories. They were no longer part of a blissful reality but a hurtful past."A lot has changed in three years, Dextro," Andi said calmly. "Now if you don't move, I'll give you a new scar, and this time," she said, pointing to his right temple, "it will be across your neck."He put his arms up in defense before rising, distancing himself from her.
Sasha Alsberg
By embracing our brokenness, we don’t come to Christ's feet occasionally, but we stay at His feet continuously.
Tiffany Webster
When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.
Ryan Lilly