Quotes by Authors - Page 1280

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.
Stephen Colbert
Before God put that dream into you, he did not ask for the approval of anybody... It means anyone who tells you "it's impossible" is not from God!
Israelmore Ayivor
Manuscripts - at least for Muslims who understand the subject - are to be read as books whose contents are to be known and understood, for that is why they were written, and not to be regarded as enigmatic specimens for critical textual and philological exercises. To them what is in the manuscripts is more important than what is on them, and so they say: Al-'ilmu fi'l-sudur la fi'l-sutur.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.
Lauren Oliver
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.
George Orwell
People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.
Matthew Pearl
Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.
Rob Bell
What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?
Mitchell Heisman
Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
Jennifer DeLucy
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
Jess C. Scott
i swear to God, that was the question. Sometimes, I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel or more likely a demon assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. well, today it got an A plus
Michael Thomas Ford
Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
Criss Jami
God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer.
Gerard de Marigny
Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy
Cassandra Clare
Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith
If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
George Matthew Adams
You're too scared of what it means to feel anything that matters. You're scared to love, and you hide behind this mission to destroy the code.
Heidi Tankersley
You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
Yoko Ono
However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies.
Meg Cabot
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God; it is a sincere seeking for a good thing; and it is a concentration on the thing sought, with faith that it is obtainable.
Peace Pilgrim
Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in
Patrick Lencioni
The fact is that solving problem is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones that linger. Furthermore, it takes a lot of time to track down, organize, and analyze the data to answer one small question well.
Steven D. Levitt
Faith is a firm assurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.
Flannery O'Connor
But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.
Stephen Fry
Fulfillment is the essence of our existence
Sunday Adelaja
I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?
Lailah Gifty Akita
Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
So as long as you have not attained to desirelessness, as long as you have not renounced desires completely, you will go on taking births and wandering in different bodies. And howsoever different the forms of the body may be, their basic condition is always the same. The ills of the body are the same, regardless whether it’s a bird’s body or man’s. There is no difference in their miseries, because the fundamental misery is only one: the soul becoming confined in the body, the entering of the soul into the prison of body. A prison after all is a prison; it makes no difference whether its walls are circular or angular no matter what you think.
Osho
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
Mark Twain
The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
Daniel Quinn
It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom.
Bryant McGill
If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Happy are you who have a merry heart for you are in continual feast for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!
Melvyn M. Lusterio
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitzer
Our hearts and prayers will always be with you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
Jack Weatherford
Whenever you feel exhausted, take time to relax, refresh and recharge.
Lailah Gifty Akita
And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language.
Emily Croy Barker
Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There’ll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It’s a reversion to constant, visceral fear.
Ian McEwan
The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.
Pearl Zhu
Brand integrity is the ability to present one’s brand both in words and deeds to be true, respectable and acceptable without compromising on standards (brand’s promise).
Bernard Kelvin Clive
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
Jane Austen
The people of today would rather stand next to a man with no substance but covered in gold, rather than the man with substance and wisdom of gold. What if God was dressed as a carpenter with dirty nails and beaten boots? Would you recognize your Maker? Would you give him your time? Your vote? A cup of tea or water? Only those with truth in them will recognize truth. And you must learn to recognize all that is untrue to get the truth.
Suzy Kassem
It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.
Samantha Young
After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.
Chuck Palahniuk
I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.
Piroska Rodriguez
if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true
Meindert DeJong
You left yesterday hoping to see tomorrow and you shall surely see today so far us you have life. Mind and man what is in today and make today the solid foundation for tomorrow. Focus on what tomorrow brings and let yesterday be yesterday. If there are lessons to learn from yesterday, don’t neglect them and don’t be crippled by the negativity of yesterday; only use them as the best panacea and antidote to the ‘had I knows’ of tomorrow you are yet to meet!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth
Sunday Adelaja
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
Nalo Hopkinson
What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.
Lauren Groff
Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.
Sharon Salzberg
Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was...She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to me now that I have decided to sacrifice myself.
Eoin Colfer
Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
Cormac McCarthy