Quotes by Authors - Page 1869

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?
George Orwell
In life, school, or work, you must resourcefully act with purpose, curiosity, and wisdom toward positive outcomes, if not a vision.
Jason L. Ma
Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.
Siri Hustvedt
I know I'm good but I'm also a poser. That's artistic balance! In the second half of the century, "authenticity" would be what you made of it, a hall of mirrors. Put on the work shirt, young man. No big deal. As you get older, it won't concern you. It's just the lay of the land. In your youth, however, you are easy prey for the many tricks of the mind. At this moment, I know my mid is not at its most centered. I can tell because I'm afraid, and that's not my style; I don't need to be, but I am.
Bruce Springsteen
Perfect love is perfectly patient.
Neal A Maxwell
A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood
Fabcos Famas
Laughing and crying are closely related. Smiling and grimacing both involve a person showing their teeth as does laughing and growling. Crying and laughing always represents the expression of actual emotion.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.
Craig Stone
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Roberto Bolaño
For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return from the abyss is not unlike the ascent of the poet, trudging upward and upward out of hell's black depths and at last emerging into what he saw as "the shining world." There, whoever has been restored to health has almost always been restored to the capacity for serenity and joy, and this may be indemnity enough for having endured the despair beyond de
William Styron
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.
Carl Sagan
Your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay.
Mark Z. Danielewski
You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.
Brad Meltzer
An old Russian folk song is like water held back by a dam. It looks as if it were still and were no longer flowing, but in its depths it is ceaselessly rushing through the sluice gates and the stillness of its surface is deceptive. By every possible means, by repetitions and similes, the song slows down the gradual unfolding of its theme. Then at some point it suddenly reveals itself and astounds us. That is how the song’s sorrowing spirit comes to expression. The song is an insane attempt to stop time by means of its words.
Boris Pasternak
I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.
Markus Zusak
Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.
Tim Tharp
In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.
Jodi Picoult
People think - Rebel, Adamant, Egoistic, Impractical, ProudMy answer - Unconventional, Fighter, Uncompromising, Dreamer, God's Masterpiece Perception Matters
Henna Sohail
Be a master of yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
Tina Fey
Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just outside Sunnyvale. "It was great," he recalled. "I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the whole field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat.
Walter Isaacson
The past lives through us. We are its legacy.
Marty Rubin
Life is what you make it, taking chances based upon your intuition will give you the potential to live life to the full, bringing all your desires to life.
Steven Redhead
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
Margherita Hack
With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love.
Michael Ende
If we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place.
Dan Phillips
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
Sherman Alexie
Be careful how you think, everything starts from your choice, think tripple before you do something...Triple is sign for luck....
Deyth Banger
I withdrew a small card from the pouch. The front of it was filled with lines of elegant, hand-lettered script. "What does it say?" Dad asked, leaning forward. "The Four Remembers of Life," I read. "Number one: Remember, you are unique. Number two: Remember, there is purpose to your life. Number three: Remember you are free to choose what you are and what you become. And number four: Remember, you are not alone.
Gerald N. Lund
Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.
Lailah Gifty Akita
They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
My action is my prayer.
Amit Kalantri
There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner or later got noisy and violent and there was no handling them. Accordingly, the universities imposed a quota system on Irishman, and decreed that those admitted must be scattered around among non-compatriots: exclusively Irish halls of residence were banned.
Emily Hahn
People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.
Dennis Prager
Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ...Silence doesn't make it... better...YOU SAID THAT WE ARE FRIENDS... AND i WAIT HOURS FOR REPLY!?
Deyth Banger
The person you fall in love with only holds a mirror for you to see the pieces of yourself that you have lost, given away, or were taken away from you in the process of life.
Dragos Bratasanu
One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.
Jeffrey Archer
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
Anastasia Bolinder
If the intent is right, why waste time thinking about the consequences.
Sapan Saxena
Write like you have many readers.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.
Gayle Forman
Love is the essence of life,Love is the universal language of all creation,Love is the eternal desire,Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share,So feel the longing for love and being beloved.
Debasish Mridha
You look beautiful sitting there spitting at me like a she-cat. All I have to do is look at you, and I lust. I'm going to take you back to the hotel and take off that delectable dress and make love to you until you don't have the energy to be mad at me anymore." Ian Connelly, Marquis of Derne
Karen Robards
Violence never can wipe out violence, only a caring heart with love can do that.
Debasish Mridha
I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.
Joseph F. Girzone
What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our hopeful and positive mental attitude to survive the situation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.
Tim Fargo
And if I asked for the moon on a string?" - Sorsha
Sarah J Maas
If we read the Word of God, we shall know the will of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Regardless of all what you have done or the treasures you have acquired on earth, what counts before God is what you have invested in the Kingdom of God
Sunday Adelaja
There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.
E. Lockhart
It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people.
Albert Borris
Books are a portable kind of time travel. We go back as well as forward when we read them. When we come back into the now, after being immersed in worlds previously unknown to us, we find ourselves, transformed. Touched by their magic, nothing we ever perceived beforehand remains quite the same.
Suzy Davies
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
Jennifer Crusie
Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
Robin S. Sharma
I love you more than piranhas love chicken wings.
Dana Marton
I’m sure I’d remember if we’d met. It doesn’t happen every day to witness perfection on Earth.
Monica La Porta