Quotes by Authors - Page 1297

Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home
Perry Anderson
I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can seem by comparison. Where I came from, we have shriveled down the notion of what constitutes 'a family unit' to such a tiny scale that it would probably be unrecognizable as a family to anybody in one of these big, loose, enveloping Hmong clans. You almost need an electron microscope to study the modern Western family these days.
Elizabeth Gilbert
the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.
Geraldine Brooks
When that light within begins to dim, fan the flame just enough to spark something!
Sanjo Jendayi
The dead still come to me every now and then. But the lulls between are getting smaller. They are finding me somehow. I tell them why they can’t move on. I listen to their lives and talk to them if they need it. I still draw their portraits in my sketchbook, with their stories. I put Mary Summer in there too. Someone should remember.
B.L. Brunnemer
Educators not only teach, but they also inspire students to learn, ignite the light of imaginations, shine the sense of perception, and define the path of life for future generations.
Debasish Mridha
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures
Madelon Phillips
Behind each person is an utter mystery, supreme value. The more we recognize this the better we ALL get.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.
Jim George
I love you"s are exhanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.
Tanya Masse
Not all questions can be answered.
Edward Abbey
The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.
Teresa Flavin
Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
Ama bardağımın dibinde biram ılıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katışıksız acım, ayıbalığı gibi, hem bir yığın et hem gepgeniş bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama kötülük dolu gözlerle sürüklenip hantallaşıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?
Jean-Paul Sartre
If there's one thing every good novelist understands, it's that our inner world is unreliable and yet there's no getting beyond it. Every sense is subject to deception, including the moral sense. What seems at first like the hard surface of spiritual reality is really fathomless when you dive down into it. There is no bottom. We neve know anything for sure. (p. xvi)
Andrew Klavan
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Julia Ward Howe
Many people close themselves off from the world when they are under pressure. That is understandable. I have gone through periods when I didn’t want to meet people because I didn’t feel good about my situation in life and that made my life even more stressful. Remind yourself often about how much of an impact compassion and friendship can have on your life. You need to get out there, be compassionate and share your time and your life with your friends and other people that need your support. It’s worth it on every level.
Gudjon Bergmann
Begin to read and mediate on the word of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The morning light shimmered through the trees and gave the lake an otherworldly hue. Everything in summer Michigan seemed to have a soft shimmer to it, as though God had hung gauze over the sky and softly scattered glitter on all His creations.
Viola Shipman
Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.
Kwame Alexander
Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society.
Jonathan Haidt
Writing is a solitary occupation.
Bernard Cornwell
Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.
Debasish Mridha
It is not your job to convince men to like you.
Maggie Georgiana Young
We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The half of her that is underwater would like to beunder a desk, the head of her that is underwaterwould like to be fully immersed.
Patricia Lockwood
The higher power, mighty God!
Lailah Gifty Akita
A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.
Tim Cahill
Never leave home without your memories.
Glenn Haybittle
leaders don't watch but make things happen-initiate change
Ikechukwu Joseph
Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.
Pooja Ruprell
A moment of peace and silence, breathing in and out the frigid air, watching daylight seep into the forest, hearing the first chatter of distant crows, the wind sighing over the snow and through the fir and pine branches and the twittering of chickadees as they flitted in little tribes from tree to tree.
Mike Bond
Be great, read great books.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.
Brandon Sanderson
...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.
Dean Koontz
There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imagination, intelligence, and natural common sense, and which goes on all the time like the heartbeat. There is also the thinking process by which we break into that inner life and capture answers and evidence to support the answers out of it. That process of raid, or persuasion, or ambush, or dogged hunting, or surrender, is the kind of thinking we have to learn and if we do not somehow learn it, then our minds lie in us like the fish in the pond of a man who cannot fish.
Ted Hughes
Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
Mira Grant
Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it .
David Estes
God raised Christ up to the highest position possible. Jesus is now our great high King, and we should not allow anyone to take His place in our lives, usurping His Throne room in our hearts, and minds!
brother Billy
The symptomatology of PTSD.In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims. Again and again they relieve the life-threatening experiences they suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events were still occurring. PTSD is a complex psychobiological condition.
Babette Rothschild
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
Arnold Palmer
You stand in front of an electric fence and whip your dick out to take a piss on it, it's pretty clear you're about to make a mistake. Other than that, you pretty much have no way of knowing.
Justin Halpern
Christians need to have a mindset of victory, because God has destined us for victory
Sunday Adelaja
Greatness can only be attained through time conversion.
Sunday Adelaja
No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.
Elizabeth Johnston
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional. And this undercity strife created only the faintest ripple in the fabric of the society at large.The gates of the rich occasionally rattled, remained class. The poor took down one another, and the world’s great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace.
Katherine Boo
I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.
Marilynne Robinson
What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
After accepting the bitter truth of society, I set myself out to lead a life for myself entirely. I realized that the poisonous tentacles of society does not spare anyone, especially people like us. Once I realized that, I became strong from within.
Santosh Avvannavar
He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls....
J.K. Rowling
She awoke knowing what she had been dreaming about. She was a deer in the headlights to his grinning face. In those first moments before she was fully awakened she hadn’t had time to hide her true feelings. He’d read them loud and clear. This was the moment that would start the seductive tango. There was one giant problem. Kayn could not dance her way out of a paper bag.
Kim Cormack
Sometimes we need to examine who we are,what we stand for and the people we allow in our lives.
Christine Willson
Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise?
Stephenie Meyer
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
John Steinbeck
Funny thing about the darkness... It can be defeated by the dimmest shimmer of light!So on your darkest days let even a little bit of light in
Summerlyn Guthrie
Most of us don’t notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights—way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause—and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else.
Anne Lamott
I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself,” Bones added. “Aside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of ‘how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck’ to make me want to stake myself.
Jeaniene Frost