Quotes by Authors - Page 1954

Natural, organic and unrefined foods speak a language your genes understand. And when your food communicates nicely with your genes, they’ll express themselves properly and healthily so you can begin feeling that you’re actually living and not just surviving.
Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir
Set backs and failures are the major motivations in life.Some are so painful that don't kill maybe that's why they make me strong, immune and a reason to fight with myself.
Himmilicious
Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom of "our stupendous ignorance.
Timothy Egan
hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...
Van Morrison
Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.
Bryant McGill
Love is a relation that starts before you are born and survives even after you die...
Deepanshu Saini
Every day has exactly 1,440 minutes; can’t you find even ten of them to be with your heavenly Father? Doesn’t God deserve the best minutes of your day?
Billy Graham
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann Shaffer
What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up.
Ryū Murakami
How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you’ll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That’s the way our strange world works.
Richie Norton
Trying is a mentality; it drains and depletes. When you catch yourself trying next time, simply drop the trying and get to it.
Sue Ziang
Family is not disparate relationships between individuals and machines, in separate rooms of a house. Childhood is not a race to accumulate all of the consumer goods and stresses of adulthood in record time. Simplification signals a change and makes room for transformation. It is a stripping away that invites clarity.
Kim John Payne
Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.
Sara Sheridan
I’m thinking it would be very easy to love you. And easier to call you my friend.
Sarah J Maas
In the online math class, there was almost no meaningful student/teacher or student/student interaction. To equate this type of online learning with a real-world classroom experience is a major stretch.
Ian Lamont
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now. I know how I feel about you. Maybe it's impulsive of me to think I could be so sure, but I'm certain I would be happy with you.
Kiera Cass
[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.
Steve Hagen
Psychology researchers now claim that it is important for babies to learn how to stop crying by themselves. Fortunately, many parents still prefer to comfort their babies. If they didn't, we might find ourselves living in a society of very solitary people, who had learned to control thier distress rather than to find strength through sharing it.
Naomi Stadlen
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.
Constance Hale
A strong confident person can rule the room with knowledge, personal style, attitude and great posture.
Cindy Ann Peterson
He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his own baby...He was a great fat chuckling baby, and he shat and peed in his filthy trousers and kept driving.
Peter Straub
I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible - at least until a psychiatrist who is good, or lucky, or both, sprays them with his version of Luminol and shines the right light on them - but they are nevertheless very real. The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands . . . and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.
Stephen King
Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic bloated king. Think of the sweated masses who toiled to build them and died doing it. It makes me sick to think of the suffering and torture they represent."Mrs. Allerton said cheerfully: "You’d rather have no Pyramids, no Parthenon, no beautiful tombs or temples—just the solid satisfaction of knowing that people got three meals a day and died in their beds."The young man directed his scowl in her direction. "I think human beings matter more than stones.
Agatha Christie
Much of the difficulty in attempting to restructure American and other societies arises form this resistance by groups with vested interests in the status quo. Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and its resisted.
Carl Sagan
In the Awakenings movie I found it very interesting that the most profound awakenings in the catatonic patients occurred in 1969, the year that the Aurora Borealis was seen from N.Y. to Louisiana. It seems the patients were getting environmental radiation stimulation in addition to their L-Dopa drug that year. L-Dopa plus radiation therapy may eventually be proven to be a very potent brain stimulant.
Steven Magee
FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
To be conscientious. You must first be conscious.
Akiroq Brost
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
Brian Tracy
If you 'don't do politics', trust me - politics will do you.
Christina Engela
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.
George Orwell
We have to be alone, to know that we are everything!
Trilby D. Johnson
That day I behaved like a good artist, one whose job is to build rather than break.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
Ann Patchett
After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks.
Claire Dyer
Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.
Ron Brackin
I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!
Ian McEwan
All is as we are.
A.D. Posey
Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence form replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?
Geneen Roth
There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?""The other ten percent,” she said.
Cassandra Clare
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
C.S. Lewis
I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.
Donald Miller
I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.
Jane Austen
Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!
Ana Claudia Antunes
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...
Jeffrey Eugenides
Life should be measured with product
Sunday Adelaja
... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.
Christene Houston
Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.
Michael Bassey Johnson
With the world securely in order, Dain was able to devote the leisurely bath time to editing his mental dictionary. He removed his wife from the general category labeled "Females" and gave her a section of her own. He made a note that she didn't find him revolting, and proposed several explanations: (a) bad eyesight and faulty hearing, (b)a defect in a portion of her otherwise sound intellect, (c) an inherited Trent eccentricity, or (d) an act of God. Since the Almighty had not done him a single act of kindness in at least twenty-five years, Dain thought it was about bloody time, but he thanked his Heavenly Father all the same, and promised to be as good as he was capable of being.
Loretta Chase
Disseminating knowledge is the human duty, sharing it about so that all can benefit.
Tracy Rees
You have only one chance to raise your child.
Jackie Kennedy
Money cannot buy but can save life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Love opens the most impossible gates in the world. Feel, therefore, my would-be patriots. Do you feel? Do you feel that millions of your sisters and brothers are starving today and have been in such condition for ages? Do you feel my dear soldiers? Do you feel that the light of truth has become much scarier to the society than the darkness of ignorance? Does this not make you restless? Does this not make you sleepless? Has it not gone into your blood yet, coursing through your veins, becoming resonant with your heart-beat? Are you not yet seized with the one idea of lifting the misery from the society? Have you not been yet immersed in this idea, so much so that, you have forgotten your name, your fame, your property and even your very physical existence as a flesh and blood being? Have you done that yet? That is the very first step of the real education my friend. Your world needs heroes. Be Heroes!
Abhijit Naskar
Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.
Ken Liu
ผมเคยเปิดสารานุกรมดูแล้ว คำว่า atheist มาจากคำภาษากรีกว่า athos แต่คำนี้ ไม่ได้หมายถึงคนที่ไม่เชื่อในพระเจ้า มันหมายถึงคนโดดเดี่ยว คนที่พระเจ้าละทิ้งต่างหาก เรื่องนี้พิสูจน์ว่าคนเรานั้นแท้จริงแล้วไม่สามารถเป็น atheist ได้ เพราะต่อให้อยากเป็น พระเจ้าก็จะไม่มีวันทอดทิ้งพวกเราที่นี่ ฉะนั้นการจะเป็น atheist ได้ คุณจะต้องเป็นคนตะวันตกเสียก่อน
Orhan Pamuk
The more I know, the more I realize that I don't know much at all...
Hans Christian Hollenbeck
Higher-level capture devices, because they are complicated and involve novel applications of new technologies, tend to fail in unexpected ways. Thus, only after some years was it realized that Hot Spot may not work well if the weather is very hot and that it may fail to detect a slight contact if the edge of the bat is greasy.
Harry Collins
Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't
Karen Salmansohn
The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
Bruno Bettelheim
The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!
Mehmet Murat ildan