Quotes by Authors - Page 1918

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
Susan Sontag
When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.
Christopher Dines
QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things
Richie Norton
I do the splits perfectly in PE. I lose half a pound in two days. I get the spinach and pig-meat frittata from the lo-carb section for lunch. And no-one else knows. I mentally construct a MyFace status, polishing the memories carefully until they shine. The need to record my life is as fundamental as my need to breathe. Without MyFace, I'm floating. I have nothing to anchor me down, to prove I exist.
Louise O'Neill
We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.
Roopleen
Although you can download all the productivity apps in the world (and I have), no app will make you care about what you have to do like the Rule of 3. The rule is dead s
Chris Bailey
Human sympathy has its limits.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perhaps memory is like a bucket; if you want to cram into it more fruit than it will hold, the fruit is crushed.
Primo Levi
Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.
Anna Quindlen
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
Stephen Colbert
Energy is the currency of the universe. When you 'pay' attention to something, you buy that experience.
Emily Maroutian
For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.
Christopher Priest
Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could have begun without a historical Jesus of Nazareth. I am married with one daughter and three grandchildren.
Frank R. Zindler
Think, think, think.
A.A. Milne
He had never clearly fathomed the true weight of a word of good, truth, and purity cast in the stream of human speech and the deep bend it cut in it. Nor had he thought that a word spoken boldly and loudly, with no hint of false shame, but rather with courage, that this word would not drown in the ugly cries of fashionable satyrs but would plunge like a pearl into the abyss of public life and always find itself a shell.Many stumble over a good word, blushing in embarrassment, and utter a careless word boldly and loudly, never suspecting that it, too, unfortunately, will not go for naught but will leave a long trail of often times ineradicable evil.p. 296
Ivan Goncharov
Space: the gaping hole between land and other land.
SE Zbasnik
The fact that you can do something doesn't mean you are called to do it.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.
Auliq-Ice
Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.
Donna Goddard
But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.
Mike Bond
For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.
Criss Jami
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens
Doors are funny things. Some lead to somewhere exciting and wonderful, while others lead to the mundane and ordinary. Some, because they are gaudy and ornate, usher us into the land of greed and money. But many look unassuming and plain, yet hidden behind their simplicity one can find love; warmth; a cozy fire; a home cooked meal and a beautiful family.It's these doors I search for in life and it's these doors that I shall find.
Anthony T.Hincks
You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.
Cheryl Strayed
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
Henry David Thoreau
Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.
Nicole Christie
I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.
Ranata Suzuki
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)
John Green
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were obliterated, their content lost, they turned into trash, chaff dust, sand; prowling through his brain, tearing at his head. they were his insomnia, his illness. And what he yearned for at that moment, vaguely, but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, over-poering, window-rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words. Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word!
Milan Kundera
When you want really big money you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton.
Anonymous
Lo! A call for a bloody trial-Retribution should it hail!Whose? you ask,For he that deems it a worthy task!
Carol Robi
To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.
Sten Nadolny
You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.
Herbert M. Shelton
No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!
Billy Graham
The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made.
John Schaar
I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.
Beth Lewis
I know not the way He leads me, but well do I know my Guide.
Henrietta C. Mears
I was recalling that other world in which it had thrilled me, in a way, the surprise of thinking that I could be a person who would betray Daniel. Now I wondered if Daniel could surprise himself, could surprise me, by being such a person too. Would he let himself do such a thing? I didn’t think so. And then I wondered: Is it by will, then, that we are who we are? Do we decide, do we make ourselves, after a certain point in life?I tried to call up the moment when I had decided I could be such a person. It seemed to me I hadn’t quite got there, not really. That I was still just playing with the idea of it when the ground shifted under me. But perhaps to play with such an idea was already to be a certain kind of person.
Sue Miller
It is too sad . I must speak to him- The do you really ?- Sure . How can you expect things to get better , if we do not speak?- Earlier , you talked to Mr. Omochi . Do you feel that things have thus been arranged?- What is certain is that if we do not talk , there is no chance to solve the problem.- What seems more certain is that if we talk, there is serious risk of aggravating the situation.
Amélie Nothomb
Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret.
Steve Maraboli
You get divine blessings when you love and cherish both those who love and hate you
Sunday Adelaja
Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.
Auliq-Ice
The day after we returned from Iorn Fist I woke up and I want either one of them anymore. Somewhere in between a girl I thought was long dead and a woman that was too blood thirsty for me to particularly like. But I thought about all that had happened the day before and decided that I liked being alive. So I wanted to than you for not letting me die.
Michael A. Stackpole
No use kidding herself. This situation with Jarrod was a slippery slope. She’d had plenty of men since Sam, attractive, well endowed, charming in many ways. Jarrod was different, and she needed to figure out why before she found herself in the middle of stupid. She had a business to think of, people who depended on her for their livelihood, even more people present and future who needed the services she offered. It wasn’t just a job, damn it, it was a mission. No one should be as out of touch with themselves as thoroughly as she had been. For as long.
Lizzie Ashworth
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.
Megan McKenna
Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
Melissa de la Cruz
Dream, desire, and then dare to discover.
Debasish Mridha
I'm a pretty patient guy when it's something worth waiting for.
Lisa Kessler
Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones.
Scott B. Pruden
Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.
Colin S. Smith
You may exist inthis world--but I exist tooand I will not yield
Matthew Quick
So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)
Nalo Hopkinson
Pity those who don't feel anything at all.
Sarah J Maas
Death is one lover who cannot be spurned.
Nenia Campbell
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens