Quotes by Authors - Page 1743

Turn your past wound of misery and sadness into a wonder of life.
Debasish Mridha
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more
Nicholas Boothman
Lemme take your picture! You fucking bok gwai low got a face carved out of rotten potato cured in dogshit, runover with a towtruck driven by Hellen Keller in a puke fit on pills...
Frank Chin
We never stopped being each other.
Alicen Grey
It is more important to be than to do, for if I am what God wants me to be, then I will do what He wants me to do. If I try to promote a program, however well-meaning, without personal holiness, it will be tainted by the defects of my life. It may lack the direction of full knowledge of the Word, or the discernment of maturity, or the direction that comes through unclouded fellowship with the Lord. Primarily we do not need to develop programs, but people.
Charles C. Ryrie
Ah, well...hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.
Susan Kay
I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.
Anthony Bourdain
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
Sam Harris
The breeze is cold and refreshing, I draw the night into my lungs and try to calm myself down.
Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
The Responsibility Of The Local Church Is To Help People Discover What They Are Created For
Sunday Adelaja
Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ...
J.K. Rowling
There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
Alison Goodman
Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
For my mother’s entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a certain way.
Meghan Daum
And even then, it might not have been too awful, but his head snapped back and he hit a rock, breaking like a blunt molar from the ground.
Sanjida Kay
Happily chatting and counting pocket change, patting each other on the back and whistling foolish songs, we go out on the thousand-legged street and miraculously turn into passersby.
Sasha Sokolov
for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Milan Kundera
Your poetry--it doesn't deserve to be locked away, hidden from the rest of the world. And neither do you.
Tessa Emily Hall
I want it said loudly and clearly that we can define racism in many ways, but it is, in my opinion, intellectually disingenuous to define it in a way that trivializes the role that racial hatred plays. Certainly, not all racism is hate-driven, but to ignore the connection between racial hate and racism is to reduce the concept of racism to a useless theoretical abstraction.
David Pilgrim
Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
Debasish Mridha
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
Albert Camus
Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu’s angels. They were like heroes and kings. They belonged in stories. They belonged out there. Taborlin the Great called up fire and lightning to destroy demons. Tehlu broke them in his hands and sent them howling into the nameless void. Your childhood friend didn’t stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. It was ridiculous.
Patrick Rothfuss
What do the Vitraag Lords say? “I am Chandulal” is a Gneya (that which is to be known) yet one believes himself to be the knower. When the knower comes into the ‘Knowing state (gnata padh) and that which is to be known, comes into the ‘state of being known (gneya padh)’, ‘we’ will call him ‘Jitendriya-Jin’.
Dada Bhagwan
Ah, selfish. There’s that word again.” Sherry smirked. “It’s been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife is all about selflessness, see?” She imitated a perky, syrupy-sweet voice. “Giving up every molecule of your soul. If you want anything for yourself, you’re accused of being selfish. Marriage and especially motherhood mean being condemned to play second fiddle your entire life.
Andrea Lochen
True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above shall never know how to use what he has been giving efficiently and effectively
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me.""Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?"It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it."I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let themboth down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more.
Rick Riordan
Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.
Jen Lancaster
He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.
George Orwell
This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
Courtney Milan
His youth was a wingless Dodo.
Lawrence Osborne
India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.
Abhijit Naskar
The bond of love between wonderful souls is divine.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
Katherine Mansfield
They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being.
Steven Pinker
Tell me what's emotion… and what's like… both words what do they mean?
Deyth Banger
In the wrong environment your weakness is evident, but in the right environment, you function from a place of strength.
Mensah Oteh
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
Elyn R. Saks
The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry A. Overstreet
Keep your opinion to yourself unless it’s asked for.
Alaric Hutchinson
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
Jerry L. Lewis
we're going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue.
Melissa Cutler
Running a business is a serious thing.
Auliq-Ice
When doubted, double your efforts
Kevin Abdulrahman
Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar.
Amit Kalantri
Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.
Christina Engela
Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
Thomas Fuller
The most assured way to participate in a future is to anticipate it
George Ifeanyi
I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.
Kermit Roosevelt III
Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.
Martina Navratilova
Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.
Idries Shah
We will not be able to find peace if our minds are burning with the fires of resentment. Let us forgive and forget to create peace.
Debasish Mridha
The courage to dream, the courage to act.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.
Michael Finkel
So why do we call her crazy for piling her trailer full of more cats than she could take care of but applaud when somebody accumulates more money than they can spend? They're both hoarders.
David Wong
Let go of the idea of winningor losing. In the game of life,the most important thingis just showing upand doing your best.
Domonique Bertolucci
Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.
A.J. Darkholme
We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.
Steve Hagen