Quotes by Authors - Page 1259

All churches are an echo of this—the Cathedral of Nature.
Seth Adam Smith
This look said I was uncomfortably near some line. Nikos had a lot of lines, all hidden. If you shot a marble in on one side of his personality, instead of coming out the other it would bounce on secret internal walls and shoot out in some unpredictable way. I suspected some of those ways were deadly.
Mary Hughes
When you shut out the universe around you. You inadvertently become the very universe that you were trying to shut out.
Anthony T.Hincks
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.
C.S. Lewis
Jesus is compelling in the way the discovery of the stars or the experience of a one-of-a-kind romance is compelling. His presence draws you in to the deep.
Michael Spencer
You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to set the record straight. Finally he makes offensive assumptions and throws them in your face. A stranger in a bar could do the same…
Sarah Schulman
Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!
Rick Riordan
I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil."What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?"It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?"My mom loves it."But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires."What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.
Elizabeth Scott
Life is too short to dance with ugly men
Christina Dodd
People a lot of times say that they live one life, say that we all live one... no you are in mistake so farI can say that 10 games I have played in which I have died and reborn, then 197 books I have read, 6 more are waiting to be finished, 197 books = 197 lifes, so far!407 films = 407 lifes so far 197 + 407 equal 604... Every dramatical moment in which you have survive like car crash or others such type are equal +1 life... so far it looks like I have lived a lot of. Every Year in the tree branch with the branch...
Deyth Banger
Working a Patent is not as easy as it sounds
Kalyan C. Kankanala
There is a juiciness to creativity, a succulence that comes up from within, a sensuality which both produces and is soothed by the act and product of creativity. Creativity is pleasing to us on a deep level. Be it the feel of clay in our hands, the colors that make us feel alive as we knit or sew, the meaning that we find in the words that we write, the energizing feel of movement as we dance and the music moves through our bodies. Taking part in creativity helps us to be more fully alive on every level, it asks that we engage with life in a visceral, and interactive way.
Lucy H. Pearce
I don't know if it was the cold sincerity in my voice or the shock of being straddled by a wild, mud covered woman, but he didn't try to argue. "Give me your ring. Now.
Heather James
A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.
Jill Lepore
I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.
Marcel Proust
Have you ever known a person who was highly intelligent, yet their lack of character destroyed your impression of them? Even though they may have been accomplished, articulate, and knowledgeable, their words became impotent and irrelevant.
Susan C.Young
Love boldly.Love boundlessly.Love benevolently.Love blessedly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.
Nancy Friday
When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.
Molly Friedenfeld
These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.
Tom Perrotta
Never go into battle for your ego, Learn to battle for something much greater.
Mensah Oteh
Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.
Tracy Winegar
Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls
Terry Pratchett
Cities on the ocean have a choice whether to turn their faces or their backs to the water, lining the shore either with pretty hotels and rich homes or dim warehouses, narrow streets, and greasy piers. All prairie towns turn away from the prairie, however. The huddled houses form a storm-battened island in the midst of endless space.
Joseph Bottum
I’ve learned that you cannot be bitter and happy. You cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time, you have to choose one of them. If you’ve had a lot of people that have hurt you, then you won’t help yourself by being bitter, resentful and pitiful about it. Forgiveness is freedom, and forgiveness is power.
Jeanette Coron
Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!
Ian Falconer
We can transform our lives by renewal of our mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Anything could be endured, she had discovered, if she could only package the time into discrete little packets. She imagined taking the minutes, each one like a pellet, and wrapping them up - one minute, five minutes, fifteen, thirty. Once she had managed to survive a full hour, she could put the packets of time into a box, tie it with string, and push it down a conveyor belt. Just one more minute, one more hour, one more day.
Lynne Kutsukake
Harvest is a joyful time of gathering the produce of the land
Sunday Adelaja
I have found that we need to maintain relationships with all spheres of society: the local community, politicians from all parties, business leaders, artists, and farmers....We don't favor one kind of person over another, or one political party over another...My goal is for them to use the method and concept of Chan practice to benefit their work and their organizations....That is our duty.
Sheng-yen
You were only meant to be a stepping stone on my journey across the sea.
Sara Secora
It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.
Tim O'Brien
It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds
Alice Nicholls
It had become their creation, and they all would know it.
Evan Meekins
Donate to and help the Universe and you help yourself. Teach the Universe and you enlighten yourself.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano
Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.
Richard J. Foster
If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere.
Roy T. Bennett
Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!'"Oh my God," Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.
Cassandra Clare
You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan
David Mitchell
...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist of our self-sufficiency, and persuaded of our universal impeccability, do not understand this.
Maxim Gorky
Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on snow-white sheets; it was the benediction of a pristine pedigree, refined through ages of selective breeding and the occasional mercy culling.It was life, and death, and all that spanned between.It was his birthright.
Nenia Campbell
We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
Steve Maraboli
Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!
Daniel Keyes
You must fight to make sure that your life does not just disappear into thin air. It is a battle of not allowing those your seconds, those your minutes to just disappear into thin air.
Sunday Adelaja
The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.
Paul Sloane
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
Gloria Vanderbilt
An empowered heart is one filled with self love.
Amy Leigh Mercree
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
Alan Bennett
There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.
Dianne Harman
The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us
Jude Morgan
A true education opens the mind and lets us see the world with wonder and joy. It teaches us to accept change with love, and it teaches us to be harmonious with humanity and nature. If any education teaches us to close our minds, to accept dogma, and to violently inhibit questioning then that is not an education. That is a prison for the mind.
Debasish Mridha
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.
Christopher Hitchens
Walking through a deserted city in the hours before dawn is sobering way beyond the undoing of the effects of alcohol. Every thing is familiar, and everything is strange. It's as if you are the only survivor of some mysterious calamity which has emptied the place of its population, and yet you know that behind the shuttered and curtained windows people lie sleeping in their tens of thousands, and all their joys and disasters lie sleeping too. It makes you think of your own life, usually suspended at that hour, and how you are passing through it as if in a dream. Reality seems very unreal.
James Robertson
Life is to be lived by being in charge of time.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to be among the few who rule the world you therefore must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by.
Sunday Adelaja
The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.
Tablo
When you grasp the yogic principles and philosophies, you can apply them to any activity you are doing. Then every thing you do is spiritually enhancing your life. And this leads to the ultimate experience where everything you do is YOGA. It is all Union, unifying you with the Supreme Source.
Dashama Konah Gordon
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
Anne Brontë