Quotes by Authors - Page 1882

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
G.K. Chesterton
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
Erica Jong
Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.
Anonymous
We all have limitations. They are worth befriending. They teach us a lot. They can show us what we most need to pay attention to and honor. They become our cutting edge for learning and growing and gentling ourselves into the present moment as it is.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.
Bell Hooks
The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.
Erich Fromm
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
Harper Lee
Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could.
Catherynne M. Valente
The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.
Elizabeth Peters
Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person’s level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Hate the sin, not the sinner, isn't that what good people say? Or are you asking yourself at what point does the sin overtake the sinner?
Katie McGarry
Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold
The reason God exists is because ignorance is bliss, and God is true bliss.
Lionel Suggs
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
Lauren Oliver
Let your heart dance with joy and express that joy with your magical smile.
Debasish Mridha
You exist to know thy Creator.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Beauty of your love-filled smile created a mark on the stone wall of my heart, I can erase it never.
Debasish Mridha
I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you.
Danielle LaPorte
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
Andreas Vesalius
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Brandon Sanderson
It’d take a lot more than a quick fuck to lose me, Lockland.”He smiled and nipped my lower lip. “Plus,” I murmured, pulling back, “your cock is pretty nice. I think my ass would miss it.
Shaye Evans
The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.
Steven Pinker
Republican or Democrat, this nation's affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the two parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they grasp and even endorse some of the nastiest facts of life in America. Republicans honestly tell the world: "Listen in on my phone calls, piss-test me until I'm blind, kill and eat all of my neighbors right in front of my eyes, but show me the money! Let me escape with every cent I can kick out of the suckers, the taxpayers, and anybody else I can get a headlock on, legally or otherwise." Democrats, in contrast, seem content to catalog the GOP's outrages against the Republic, showing proper indignation while laughing at episodes of The Daily Show. But they stand behind the American brand: imperialism. They "support our troops," though you will be hard put to find any of them who have served alongside them or who would send one of their own kids off to lose an eye or an arm in Iraq. They play the imperial game, maintain their credit ratings, and plan to keep the beach house and the retirement investments if it means sacrificing every damned Lynndie England in West Virginia.
Joe Bageant
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.
Eckhart Tolle
Thank you for a wonderful night. Your carriage awaits downstairs. -Oliver
Joann I. Martin Sowles
It takes a truly great man to see that he’s been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.
Amy Lane
Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.
Dean Koontz
If the light within you is greater than the darkness around you, you are a star.
Matshona Dhliwayo
So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.
Alice Borchardt
Fish cannot swim out of water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
Veronica Roth
Through Neurotheology, I and my fellow scientists of twenty-first century have already taken the first step from the side of Science, to diminish the gap between Science and Religion. Now it is time for Religion to do the same.
Abhijit Naskar
Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.
Hannah Hurnard
Someone can tell you all your life that you’re inferior, but it doesn’t matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it’s then that the colonial malaise sets in like smallpox.
M.B. Dallocchio
God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!
Sunday Adelaja
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one.
Thomas Hardy
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
Robert A. Heinlein
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark Powell
You're not a Horse!" the woman
Stan Lee
You hunt and catch your own food. Am I correct?""We are fierce predators of the night," DeChevue said proudly.Edwin tried again, "You hunt and gather your own food?"DeChevue still didn't get it. "Yes, M'sieur. We hunt, proudly.""You know, there is a special name for people who have to catch and kill everything they eat.""And that name has been the terror of the night from the dawn of man. Which name would you like? I can supply many. Nosferatu? Das Vampire?""Peasant," Edwin said. "A person who has to provide all his own food is a peasant. How is it that you have lived all this time and are still ignorant of the division of labor?"DeChevue's mouth opened and closed several times. Each time he seemed on the verge of saying something, yet each time words failed him.
Patrick E. McLean
He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man on earth.
Patricia Lockwood
Enemy are your friends"... YOOU ARE FUCKING DRUNK... THIS CONCLUSION IS FUCKING WRONG.
Deyth Banger
Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person.
Robert A. Heinlein
So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
Graham Greene
We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
Clement Stone
She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few hundred," she said."How do you have the time?" he asked, gobsmacked.She narrowed her eyes and considered the array of potential answers in front of her. Because I don't spend hours flipping through cable complaining there's nothing on? Because my entire Sunday is not eaten up with pre-game, in-game, and post-game talking heads? Because I do not spend every night drinking overpriced beer and engaging in dick-swinging contests with the other financirati? Because when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the wait/staring into space/admiring myself in reflective surfaces? I am reading!"I don't know," she said, shrugging.
Eleanor Brown
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
In the darkness time, the soul evolves to give light to the spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Healthy people sleep eight hours,Wealthy people sleep four hours.
Amit Kalantri
I love the wheels, I mean steering wheel.
Amit Kalantri
Be the light and source of inspiration that others see
Sunday Adelaja
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
Terry Pratchett
Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.
Jonathan D. Spence
Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.
Danny Wallace
Why am I trying to be somebody? I am somebody.
Eric Christopher Jackson
Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
Anyone who hates anyone, only hates themselves.
Bryant McGill