Quotes by Authors - Page 1212

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.
Tom Cheetham
Expectations are made to be exceeded!
Lorii Myers
There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.
David Levithan
I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.
Kody Keplinger
Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals" or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
Maggie Scarf
I am aware of my madness and what I need is someone else to see the beauty in my madness.
Dimitri Zaik
One of the ways I know I shouldn't be online is when I'm looking to get something that I already have in abundance as a child of God.
Sammy Rhodes
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...A huge “army” of immature guys with blinders over their eyes, looking for UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, are going nowhere. Such men are all ending up to be eternal dating losers, because they are simply wasting huge amounts of effort, trying hard and hoping to find something that does not exist on the planet.To achieve the goal of personal happiness, we have to be honest with ourselves first of all. We need to be brave enough and smart enough to look into the mirror at our true selves, without our comfortable masks of lies or hypocrisy.LET’S FACE IT:There are always reasons why we feel love for another person; we don't love someone for no reason at all. We love them for the qualities they possess, which we admire; for those amazing, bright emotions they evoke from within ourselves; for the love and care that we so acceptingly receive from them; and for what good feelings we experience being around them, etc.Be HONEST with yourself!
Sahara Sanders
Following your intuition will always lead you to the best experience for your growth right now.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
When I held my new puppy in my arms, I broke down in tears. Because I had fallen in love. Not somewhat in love. Not partly in love. Not in a limited amount. I fell fully in love with a creature I had known for all of nine hours.
Steven Rowley
When there is not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have.
Richelle E. Goodrich
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
Graham Swift
Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.
Ljupka Cvetanova
There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.
George Orwell
Oh, mightiest wind,wilt thou cease thy breathing inand hold thy exhales?
Richelle E. Goodrich
Because it wasn't merely that the trees were speaking to them. It was that the trees themselves were sentient beings, capable of watching their movements. Was it only the trees in this strange wood, or did every tree observe their movements? Had they always been trying to speak to them? There was no way of knowing, either, if the trees were good of bad, if they lived or hatred humans, if they had principles or compassion. They were like aliens, Gansey thought. Aliens that we have treated very badly for a very long time.
Maggie Stiefvater
Walk in love and you will appreciate people for who they are.
Mensah Oteh
How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism of "the modern" wholly lacks inspiration or any qualification because it lacks the appreciation that is love: the flame essential to profound understanding. Only as criticism is the fruit of such experience will it ever be able truly to appraise anything. Else the spirit of true criteria is lacking. That spirit is love and love alone can understand. So art criticism is usually sour and superficial today because it would seem to know all about everything but understand nothing. Usually the public prints afford no more than a kind of irresponsible journalese wholly dependent upon some form of comparison, commercialization or pseudo-personal opinion made public. Critics may have minds of their own, but what chance have they to use them when experience in creating the art they write about is rarely theirs? So whatever they may happen to learn, and you learn from them, is very likely to put over on both of you as it was put over on them. Truth is seldom in the critic; and either good or bad, what comes from him is seldom his. Current criticism is something to take always on suspicion, if taken at all.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.
Helmut Thielicke
Ordinary is an insult to excellence.
Jury Nel
Who could be like him? Who could ever be like you? Each of us has his path. They run close together sometimes—for life, if we are fortunate—but they never cross.
Harper Fox
Come along. Let’s get out of here and go toast to youth and vampires and rebellion.
Cat Winters
Focusing on thoughts or images that make you feel good will enable you to be at a higher level energetically and, consequently, will draw to you a higher level of vibrational experience. In other words, positive thoughts will attract positive experiences. The reverse is also true. If you’ve fallen into the habit of negative obsessing and/or fear-based thinking, you need to know that you can shift to a healthier, happier mindset.
Susan Barbara Apollon
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.
J.K. Rowling
I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.
Christine Seifert
Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.
Tessa Emily Hall
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
Criss Jami
Over the years, Skye sampled every drug she could find, and like many addicts, had a working knowledge of pharmacology. She snorted coke and swallowed pills. She took downers—orange and red Seconal, red and ivory Dalmane, Miltown, Librium, Luminal, Nembutal, and Quaaludes. Blue devils, red birds, purple hearts. Enough of them sank her in a kind of coma, where she watched her own limbs suspended in front of her in syrup. For a party, there was Benzedrine, rushing in her veins and making her talk for an hour in one long sentence. Day to day, she carried yellow tablets loose in her pockets, Dilaudid and Percodan, and chewed them in the back of classrooms. But her favorite was the greatest pain reliever of them all, named for the German word for hero.
Frederick Weisel
You remember it your way and I'll remember it mine.
Jon Chopan
Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.
Steven Magee
I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.
Aporva Kala
Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
Thérèse de Lisieux
The universe created us for and with love, joy, charm and beauty; but we are always running behind what is dirty.
Debasish Mridha
Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Meeting a girl, falling in love, marrying her, moving to Connecticut, buying a fucking house, starting a life with her and thinking you really knew anything about her--the last part was a complete fiction, which made all the rest a joke.
Richard Ford
I know, I know. You're a badass. The best of the best. But everyone has a weakness. Even you.
Lindsey Allyson
Thank you.” I’ve said thank you thousands of times in my life. Most of the time I mean it to some degree. There are times when I’ve said it and felt the gratitude behind the words wholeheartedly, but I don’t think I ever understood what those two words truly meant until this very moment. Now I think I need a new phrase because thank you is insufficient in this situation.
Kim Holden
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
T.H. White
We give glory to God of Heaven.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It is not your duty to run from the devil but resist him and he will flew from you.
Patience Johnson
Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.
Leo Tolstoy
Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.
Margaret Atwood
When we succeed in truly thanking God we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God now and for-evermore. And every time we do so we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.
O. Hallesby
You are person with a goal
Sunday Adelaja
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
Gail Caldwell
I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer.
Neil Gaiman
Bowie talks in great, voluble torrents, darting from one topic to the next, parenthesizing and then parenthesizing the parentheses, as if he has too many ideas for one conversation.
Sean Egan
Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.
Craig Groeschel
What could I have done but sin?From my mother's womb I was a sinner. He couldn't have judge me on that bases because I couldn't help it. I knew right from wrong but my body chose wrong. Till He chose to come down to calvary for me. So He can give me power to overcome.
Mary Tornyenyor
society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.
John le Carré
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
Vera Nazarian
Keep taking new paths to expand your horizon.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It makes us dream more positively. It makes us more optimistic about ourselves and the world even in our darkest days. It makes us achieve our goal endowed with strength even through immense miseries. It allows us to attain the subjective reality of our fellow humans. Imbued with the understanding of the mind we can walk in the shoes of other people.
Abhijit Naskar
Each of the sapiens brains generates its own perception of God in uniquely different ways. Ergo, it imposes different qualities of meaning and value on God. You see God the way your brain wants you to see it. There is no right and wrong, or fact and fiction on this matter. It is all personal.
Abhijit Naskar
You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.
C. JoyBell C.
Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!
Leif Enger
Our inventions have long been ahead of us in terms of efficiency and sanity, productivity and predictability. Oh, how we’ve wished we could be manmade, too. What has been keeping us back, keeping us messy? The animal impediment, within and without. Eliminating these impediments, we will surely be catching up with our machines, resembling them more and more impeccably.
Amy Leach
Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre