Quotes by Authors - Page 1755

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.
Anna Funder
I don't think I'm entirely on board with the 'do what you truly want to do' school of thought. Not without a little more nuance. There has to be an anchor in the wide-open space. Otherwise, 'doing what you truly want' isn't an authentic attempt at exploration -- it's just another hyper-individualistic credo masquerading as something grand. I mean we're all gung ho about pursuing personal freedom, but why do we want it? If we never constructively apply it to something beyond ourselves, and if it doesn't deepen our sense of connection and humanity, then what's the point?
Clara Bensen
If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.
Chila Woychik
Any great love comes from intense suffering
Ndiritu Wahome
No matter how long we wait, God’s promise shall be fulfilled.
Lailah Gifty Akita
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
Richard Feynman
‘Foo Kyu’ is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence.""Just think about his poor son, ‘Foo Kyu Two.’
John Zakour
It is true that nobody is above the law,but power can make somebody invisible.
Toba Beta
Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 000 days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need - not as a call to battle though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out "rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself. And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F Kennedy
Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.
J.K. Rowling
Uncertainty is one of government recipes.
Toba Beta
I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you’re too busy living.
F.K. Preston
you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus.I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.
David Baldacci
The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of our DNA. They are a psychological reality. We may justify our actions away, but deep down, we know when we've done something wrong.
Tullian Tchividjian
Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them over the bridge, watching the smash, orange, as they hit below, We were standing underneath when you told it. People do that with themselves when they are finished, light scooped out. He landed here, you said, marking it with your foot.You wouldn't do it that way, empty, you wouldn't wait, you would jump with the light still in you.
Margaret Atwood
Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you.
Bryn Hammond
Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.
Mitchell Symons
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult
Who's calling?""Don't insult me like that," the voice says.I stop. Was I just insulting?
Peter Hedges
Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.
Agatha Christie
To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.
H.L. Stephens
A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way. That was Mama. Fire and ice.
D. Anne Love
She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I've developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing her in any way or of being lost.
Thomm Quackenbush
He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.
Esther Dalseno
I don’t know," she said. "I’m not sure you would like me in real life. I’m a lot different there, you know. I don’t even look the same."t" I don’t care if you look like a troll with warts," Sir Leo declared, taking her hand in his. "I love you.
Mari Mancusi
That would be showing him a part of her soul, a part of her mind, that she's never risked showing anyone. The raw and squirming part that indifferent high-school counselor were always prying at, the part therapists tried to trick her into showing them for free, the part her parents hated her for. The light and the darkness behind her eyes. The soft places.
Caitlín R. Kiernan
There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature
Benny Bellamacina
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis
The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
Monsignor J. Fulton Sheen
[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere. (xiii)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
Dalai Lama XIV
Mindset Matters: Cut away the nonsense and cultivate an environment conducive to your personal well-being. Forgive yourself and others. Have the courage to move on. The battle is long... and in the end, it's only with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom; the two of us sweaty and panting, me screaming, him grunting, our primal sexual natures overprinting the tea room’s pretence at gentility, and refinement.
Fiona Thrust
He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living things, funnily enough.
Adam P. Knave
May God strengthen you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you!
Nicholas Sparks
Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?
Maria Rodale
Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.
Linda Hawley
Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.
Raymond E. Feist
Ultimately, every human being must face this question: What do you think of Christ? Whose Son is He? We must answer this question with belief and action. We must not only believe something about Jesus, but we must do something about Him. We must accept Him or reject Him.
Billy Graham
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.
Zeena Schreck
God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.
Paul P. Enns
A hermit never lives alone when he has God as a house guest.
Anthony T.Hincks
Never think of hurting anyone else, if you do, you are already hurting yourself.
Debasish Mridha
What counts that we’re not counting?
Frank Sonnenberg
Man can transform his life, when he renewed his thinking.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.
Orrin Woodward
In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.
Asa Don Brown
What is magic?There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.
Terry Pratchett
Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom.
Jonathan Carroll
When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.
Amit Kalantri
….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?
Anne Rice
Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Are you okay, man?""Yeah, I'm good."It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.
David Bellavia
If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief
Sunday Adelaja
If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge…
Banani Ray
When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.
Victoria Aveyard