Quotes by Authors - Page 1260

Self-creative mind is divine force.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Lexi glanced around the studio. She heard him in the bathroom. The door was slightly ajar, but she couldn't see him.t"A pity," she whispered.
Donna Grant
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
Carl Sagan
You little subs make me nervous. Being around you is too much like walking into a room filled with tiny kittens and trying not to step on one.
Cherise Sinclair
We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inadequate methods of detecting the beginnings of injury. The lack of sufficiently delicate methods to detect injury before symptoms appear is one of the great unsolved problems in medicine.
Rachel Carson
There are just some things that are outside of comprehension, even if we can quantify them. At some point, science becomes magic.
Jay Hosking
Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.
Stephen King
Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience; a room in hell with only your name on the door
Martha Manning
Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.
Ron Brackin
Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself!
Avijeet Das
You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.
Craig Davidson
It's time to laugh at your nightmares and have nightmares of your laughter.
Melita Tessy
A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?
Stephen King
Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?
Anna Funder
Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.
Sun Tzu
Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.
Bernard Jan
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?
Edgar Allan Poe
Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.”A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach.“Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?
Kiersten White
Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English.
Thomm Quackenbush
The most powerful affirmation you will ever find is this: “I am as God created me.
Dragos Bratasanu
If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.
Lindsey Rietzsch
I would believe again if I could. In goodness. In magnificence. In simple benevolence. Yet even in these far and icy valleys, mankind is no different, just more poorly armed. Strip away psychrometer and sextant, carbines and glass plates, skin shifts and quills and painted faces, and we are the same. Quivering maws. Gluttonous. Covetous. Fearful. We say we worship. A word. A man-god. A fiery mountain. But we worship only ourselves. And we are jealous gods.
Eowyn Ivey
i believe happiness do not transform man .rather happiness gives growth after achieving happiness passing through transformation
litymunshi
Make sure that when you touch the other person, all your five senses are working, because sex has a life of its own. The moment you begin, you’re no longer in control; it takes control of you. And whatever you bring to it, your fears, your desires, your sensibility will remain. That’s why people become impotent. When you have sex, take with you to bed only love and your senses, all five of them. Only then will you experience communion with God.
Paulo Coelho
A society concerned with shalom will care for the most marginalized among them. God has a special concern for the poor and needy, because how we treat them reveals our hearts, regardless of the rhetoric we employ to make ourselves sound just.
Randy S. Woodley
Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires.
Debasish Mridha
Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten.
H. Rider Haggard
A better man wouldn’t play this ‘sweethearts’ game with her when he knew very well it couldn’t lead to more.But he wasn’t a better man. He was Colin Sandhurst, reckless, incorrigible rogue—and damn it, he couldn’t resist. He wanted to amuse her, spoil her, feed her sweets and delicacies. Steal a kiss or two, when she wasn’t expecting it. He wanted to be a besotted young buck squiring his girl around the fair.In other words, he wanted to live honestly. Just for the day.
Tessa Dare
If you follow your heart, you know true happiness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
Virginia Woolf
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.
Katharine Graham
when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS
Rashedur Ryan Rahman
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
Leo Tolstoy
So this was what it was like not to be me.
Miranda July
I am on a mission, I will depend on a greater power to accomplish the task.
Lailah Gifty Akita
First, I have culled evidence that physical death is not the end of the road for any of us. I know this message is critical because I've seen people consumed by fear of death or suffering unbearable grief after losing a loved one. Some can draw into a shell, ceasing all efforts to reach their potential, or even give up on life.
Mark Ireland
Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.
Brandon Sanderson
Jake thanked God he had a son to put to bed when he knew somewhere there was a family, right now, waiting for someone who would never come home.
Lisa Scottoline
There are enough blessings for everyone. You need to reach out for yours.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the center of the wilderness, someone will soon come along to look over your shoulder and tell you how to play your cards. This was the principle of Method C. We unrolled our sleeping bags and stretched out under the wing, completely uncaring.
Richard Bach
We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That’s the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.
Lloyd Jones
There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.
Joyce Carol Oates
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me like wine through water and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Brontë
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
John Green
You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
As long as the sun’s shining, shit can’t be that bad.
J. Lynn
Amendment to live by-J.O.Y.Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last.
Michelle Duggar
You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
Homer Hickam
When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?"For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?"But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.
Julia Quinn
Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.
JOHN C MAXWELL
People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.
Michael Bassey Johnson
A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life grows.
Amit Ray
She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.
Cassandra Danz
Since our yesterdays are gone and our tomorrows are never promised, TODAY I want to thank all my amazing friends and family for being in my life.
Steven Aitchison
My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham...
Christopher Moore