Quotes by Authors - Page 1906

Curiosity is a daring faith.
Lailah Gifty Akita
One positive thought is the victory you need today!
Bryant McGill
[On David Hume]Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.
Jonathan Miller
Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.
Elizabeth Camden
The ones who are always on your side, or so they think, are the ones who keep you down. Everything they do keeps you down. They'll forgive you for anything. Rob, rape, pillage, and kill, and they'll defend you to yourself. They understand all outrages, and all your failings and faults, too. Perfect! You can go on that way forever. What do they care? Excuse me: they do care. They want it that way. How would they make a living, these servants of the poor, if there were no poor? What enabled me to rise above all the people who don't know enough to come in out of the rain is that one day I looked face to face at a man who hated half of everything I was and had the courage to tell me so. I remember his very words. He said, 'What you're doing is hideous--a perfect way to die young. Unless you want to live sweetly only in the hereafter, you ought to learn how to do the right thing.'" The doctor stopped what he was doing, dropped his hand to his sides, and looked directly at Peter Lake. "I hate the poor. Look what they do to themselves. How could you not hate them, unless you thought that they should be like this.
Mark Helprin
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy and the make the most of where you are.
Germany Kent
In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world.
Neil M. Gunn
As young adults, we were wearing the shoes of the new future. Our generation would soon be the ones to determine the political climate of our country, the constitution of a family, and the morality of man. What an awesome burden we carried.
Lynda I Fisher
I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
Suzanne Collins
Though I should have known better, I had to ask. "What is furniture disease?"She looked at me like I had the IQ of a grape. "It's when your chest falls into your drawers. Get ready for it, honey, because with that rack of yours, you'll be using them as knee pads before you know it.
Annelise Ryan
As he was bringing his hands up her sides, his fingers just barely brushed the outer curve of her breasts, and she gasped into his mouth.Shane immediately sat her upright, and moved to the other end of the couch. His face was flushed; his eyes were bright and no longer looked even a little bit tired. “No,’” he said, and held out his hand like a traffic cop when she tried to scoot closer. “Red flag. If you make that sound again, we are in trouble. Or I am, anyway.
Rachel Caine
I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?
Chayada Welljaipet
Begin to pursue your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.
David Mitchell
Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she wants to talk. But you can’t draw out the strangeness, Edgar. It’s not a poison.
Allyse Near
Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.
Timothy J. Keller
The novel cannot submit to authority.
Julian Gough
One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."--Mike Mankoff
Mike Mankoff
The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health's sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting.
Martha Hall Foose
I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter.
Rainbow Rowell
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
John Gunther
stars shine brighter in the blackness of darkness.Cheer up no matter your pains
Ikechukwu Joseph
it’s like the British in Ireland in 1916’ , says Oisir O’Dowd. ‘The repeated the ageless macho mantra, “Force is the only thing these natives understand,” so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed.
David Mitchell
Well, someone slap my butt and give me a hero cookie. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Every major outward change must first begin in the mind.
Sunday Adelaja
Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the universe has been and will become? Talk about perspective. I figure I can't feel so entirely stupid about saying what I said because, first of all, it's true. And second of all, there will be no remnant of me or my stupidity. No fossil or geographical shift that can document, really, even the most important historical human beings, let alone my paltry admissions.
Meg Mullins
I don't know about you, but this whole life thing has been the cause of all my problems.
Bond Bixler
Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind’s deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten.
Milan Kundera
My ears interpreted a mix of nearby voices as calm, friendly, ordinary chatter. With that as background noise, I enjoyed the silent attention of my mate. The way his hand brushed softly over every inch of my bare skin tempted my eyelids to close and my mind to wander, but I kept focused, not wanting to miss a moment of admiring this beautiful man and his seductive, wild look. I felt a flood of emotion set in, born from absolute, interminable love for him. I wished for the voices to cease, for time to halt, for the moment we were living to replay over and over and over again perpetually. The world could have its gain and glory, its vengeance and victories. All I wanted was the enduring love and attention of this man who most assuredly was my soulmate.
Richelle E. Goodrich
It’s amazing what you can do when you get creative.
A.D. Posey
Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it
Narendra Modi
Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.
Billy Graham
Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.
Daniel Abraham
It's never too early to give your best friend some moral support
Zoe Sugg
With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
Mitch Albom
Anna and I did not make love. I don't remember why. Maybe we didn't need to. She might have been afraid, although I doubt she was afraid of much. She'd been a midwife before she opened a studio; she'd held life in her hands, like a wire from a galvanic cell. Maybe death was too strong in me for an act so inspirited with life. Although I sometimes think that death is what gives lovemaking its desperate and terrible joy.
Norman Lock
Never stop dreaming, but please stop sleeping!
Alin Sav
I love cats, they're great; intelligent, affectionate, lovable, and this one was particularly nice, so picking it up and giving it a few slaps and a bit of a rough time was galling, even though it was unfortunately necessary. See, if you're hiding in someone's spare bedroom waiting for them to turn in for the night, the last thing you need is a cat meowing at the door trying to get in to see you because you've been stroking it all day. A bit of a shake and a growl in the cat's face and that's all that's usually needed for it to give the spare room and the horrible bastard inside a wide berth for the rest of the night.
Danny King
This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.
C.J. Roberts
People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.
C. JoyBell C.
The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.
Anonymous
They may call your victories, "lucky"...They may mock your failures...They may laugh at your heartache...But still, they will never be happy. This is the cyclical emptiness of the hater mindset.
Steve Maraboli
If you dance daily, you will find strength within thy soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
There is always a need to understand that others don't think the way that you do.
Steven Redhead
Bless the world. Let it be a wonderful world with love, peace, joy and happiness.
Amit Ray
These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.
Hannah Harrington
Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours.
Samael Aun Weor
The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, in any decently-run universe, this guy would've been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say "this guy", because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man.No woman could or would ever fuck things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he's at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn't give a shit. Doesn't give a shit, which I admire in a person, and which would explain a lot of these bad results.
George Carlin
A living fool is worth less than a dead hero.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
Bryce Courtenay
Everything is different and nothing is same in the universe.
Zaman Ali
You see?" Thane waved at the photo. "Everything about her is nonsensical. A dragon who lies with a wolf? I suppose pigs fly and the moon is blue, too.
Erin Kellison
You must dream or have a vision about your calling. This vision will help you take action
Sunday Adelaja
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
Dorothy Parker
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
Steve Maraboli
Legends had been written about less.
Deborah Blake
What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
Dom Hubert Van Zeller
Can a bad tree bears good fruits?
Lailah Gifty Akita