Quotes by Authors - Page 1915

I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like it and it can stay, it's quiet and it keeps quiet at least. Luckily I don't have to feel it, just see it.
Elfriede Jelinek
There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
Nobody can experience everything, so you need to borrowthe experience of others.
Amber Hurdle
All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.
Kent Allan Rees
…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes – well, maybe seven. Do you sense the presence of God when you pray? Occasionally, not often. Many of those I talked to experienced prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. They regarded it as important, even paramount, and felt guilty about their failure, blaming themselves. Does this sound familiar? (pp. 14/Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?)
Philip Yancey
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Maya Angelou
Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it.They chose each other.Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now.But as we know, in this city anything is possible
Cecily von Ziegesar
And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
Charles Bukowski
Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with all standards and patterns that are required by the surroundings and society
Sunday Adelaja
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.
Markus Zusak
U just gotta a ticket for the new town"FUCK YOU".
Deyth Banger
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison
I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.
Pawan Mishra
I have a new nickname for Dottie. She's now the Crazy Whisperer.
Hunter Shea
Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.
Steven Magee
Should is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.
Frank Beddor
He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.
Dawn Jayne
The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
David McCullough
As much as you might hate me, you can’t change the fact that I know you, Lily. And no matter how many times you say you’re fine and everything is good, you should remember that I know when you’re lying.
Rachel Spanswick
I was the hero, Roberto De Niro, William Shakespearo! Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches.
Charlie Higson
When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.
Gary Hopkins
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Virginia Woolf
Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.
Spurgeon
Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.Ella knew precisely how he felt.
Christine Warren
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.
David Levithan
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mary Harris Jones
Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.
Jay Kristoff
Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.
Robin Hobb
The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.
Roman Payne
Take It and Like It
Jonathan Coe
Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.
E.R. Braithwaite
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.
Jerome K. Jerome
Her arms slid around my back and I heard the softest moan in my ear as she snuggled into my chest. Her mouth pressed to my neck, not kissing, just…there. On me.Dammity-damn-damn-damn.
Ophelia London
The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of men. Their faces are covered with semen from dozens of masturbating men, their anuses are penetrated repeatedly by lines of partners, and they are raped. The women portrayed in the films exist to fulfill the desire of men in the most degrading and painful way possible. Nearly all porn dialogue includes lines from women such as I am a cunt, I am a bitch. I am a whore. I am a slut.
Chris Hedges
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.
Sam Harris
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.
Guy Kawasaki
The bible when taken metaphorically, provides us the truth about god; but when taken literally, the bible provides as the truth about man.
Joey Lawsin
Forgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it.
Ashley Ormon
Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head.Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.
Rick Riordan
You are letting this feeling get cold, I cant blame you, you must know you are free to go... Don't you ever look back... If you wonder why it is because I wont be there.
Andres Oliver
And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.
Colum McCann
Generally speaking, I try not to generalize.
Addison C. Arthur
No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.
A.E. Samaan
The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.
Margaret Atwood
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and then being told that you have to ignore the emerging health and safety issues (This is illegal!) and not inform the workers that the system is known to be dangerous (This is illegal!). You have two options: To go to jail for illegal activities sometime in the future, or to lose your job now and have all your USA workplace rights removed for recognizing the illegal activities that your Directors want you to engage in. Welcome to the corporate America management team!
Steven Magee
Poverty is a mental virus, even if one could get a million, the mindset will always kick in.
Evans Biya
The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.
Donna Lynn Hope
Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.
David Sedaris
Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.
David G. Benner
For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.
Felix O. Hartmann
I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
P.G. Wodehouse
Every time life calls to us, it is the voice of God and the voice of our very hearts. When we listen, we thrive. When we don't, we do what we must to survive.
Tehya Sky
Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful, and that is why you must write with Christ at the center of your reason for writing. That does not mean that every book must be a retelling of Luke’s gospel, however, every worthy book written by a Christian will direct readers away from self, and sin, and put them on a quest for God and his gospel. Create longing for these things.
Douglas Bond
Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.
Sunday Adelaja
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
Laurence J. Peter
Was it an instinct towards their future life together that she was already sensing, which made her pull back? For what she was seeing suddenly, in her mind’s eye, was an image of the two of them dancing on the edge of the world, not realising that they were about to fall off
Sana Krasikov