Quotes by Authors - Page 1959

Make plans for your new goals. And press towards achieving the goals with all your strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.
Awdhesh Singh
Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level.James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss.Lucy: My head-hair volume is fine.James: You say that like I should be concerned about leg-hair volume.
Kristen Tracy
What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
Ryan Holiday
I release ribbons of gratitude to flow back upon the path I have walked as it stretches out behind me, so they brush past everyone whose path crossed my own. May they feel the brief kiss of remembrance within their hearts, there and then gone again, passing like a spring breeze, so that they suddenly know the things they have done for others, in so many ways big and small, seen and unseen alike, somewhere are known and treasured.
Cristen Rodgers
Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.
Charlotte Eriksson
It is the church that must proclaim the law out of Zion
Sunday Adelaja
With this one kiss it was possible Riley Shaughnessy had ruined her for any other man. She’d dated plenty in her life, but no one had ever kissed her like this. And she had a feeling no one else ever would.
Samantha Chase
Shit" Bug said, his face sour. "It's that thing again. We've been dealing with it since Pierce. You think you have a lead and then poof" - he made a puffing motion with his fingers - "it melts into nothing and all you have is frustration and the far noise your face makes when you hit you desk with it."Fart.... what?
Ilona Andrews
All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships...The highest form of influence is to be a model, not a critic; a light, not a judge.
Stephen R. Covey
Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.
Andrena Sawyer
This wasn't the last of it. Now that Finia was carrying his baby, they would be together forever, whether she liked it or not.
Yawatta Hosby
I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.
Veronica Roth
There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
Jonathan Maberry
My definition of a true religion is one that does good in the world.It tries to find ways to help people be themselves. It does not try to shape people to be what we think they should be, then break spiritual or man-made laws to accomplish that. The sign of a good religion is that it helps the people grow to become more godlike, to be capable of more love and mercy---for themselves as well as for others.
Harold Klemp
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story. Hurston understood that. But then she and I write out of despised cultures that on some level we feel we're defending.
Dorothy Allison
Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.
Dan Pearce
To know ‘who I am and who I am not’ is called Absolute knowledge (Gnan).
Dada Bhagwan
It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?
Philip K Dick
Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski
...with a click, my novel would be born; it would come out into the light suddenly transformed from the hypothetical text composed in my imagination into finished, tangible thing with a real and independent existence. The moment of clicking on the print button always gave rise to strange and powerful ambivalence--a combination of self-satisfaction, gloom and anxiety. Self-satisfaction for having finished writing the book. Gloom because taking my leave of the characters has the same effect on me as when a group of friends have to depart. And anxiety, perhaps because I am on the verge of delivering up into other people's hands something that I treasure.
Alaa Al Aswany
God works in mysterious ways. Sometimes he uses anonymous people.
Khaled Talib
Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.“No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.
Lisa Kleypas
Looking for who I am is who I am.
Tom Spanbauer
My vibration is always in the sublime sunshine of life!
Debbie A. Anderson
I did it the hard way ( a poem)_________________________Many of the big dreams I dreamt,I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt.Life taught me to believe thatGreat ideas can start from a wretched hut.Many of the strongest steps I took,I took, when I was given the fiercest look.My passion pokes me to understandThat people’s mockeries, I can withstand.Many of the fastest speeds I gained,I gained when I was bitterly stained.I first thought the only way was to quitAs I tried again, I no longer have guilt.Many of the bravest decisions I made,I made, when my life was about to fade.I was frustrated and ripe to sink.But then I strive to release the ink.Many of the longest journeys I started,I started, having no resource; money partedI relied on God my creator all dawn longAnd at dusk He gave me a new song.Many of the hardest questions I tackled,I tackled, when I was heckled.They were very troublesome to settleBut I make it happen little by littleYet, it was not I, but the Lord JesusThe saviour who gives me success.In Him, through Him and by HimI have the liberty to do everything with vim.I don’t want to enjoy this liberty alone.You too must step out of your comfort zone.It’s not easy, but you can do it anyway.Jesus is the life, the truth and the way.___________________________Israelmore Ayivor
Israelmore Ayivor
Our mind is like a MIRROR it reflects to the outside World what we think.
Auliq-Ice
And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
Alexander McCall Smith
what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1
Lewis Carroll
Radiate your lights of love to enlighten the whole world, like the sun.
Debasish Mridha
A fire only spreads away from it's source, it never returns.
Keith Buckley
The feeling of freedom is as precious as a fortune waiting to be told.
Beth Kempton
When you resolve to live a healthier life, you will feel better, look better, and make a better impression on everyone you meet. Only you have the power, ability, and personal choice to instill healthy habits and hygiene into your life.
Susan C.Young
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
Sylvia Plath
There are no boundaries among the geese. How can you have boundaries if you fly?
T.H. White
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.
Larken Rose
If in poetry court she was calledto testify on matters whereI was condemned to imprisonment: parking my egoat a broken meter, line violations, forced rhyme,dealing stanzaics to children, shootingoff my mouth, getting cute, for even thislatest attempt at verse, she would tell the whole truth,she would admit from the pitof her unsung brilliance,from all of the paintings and poemsshe herself has been makingand storing in the vast empire of her singing soul, your Honor, my daughter is guiltyof plagiarizing my cells.
Kristen Henderson
Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You have far more courage than you think you do.
Alison Goodman
You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.
Steven Cuoco
When you surrender, you live in eager anticipation of the surprise. The dual weights of yearning and despair are cast off.
Annette Vaillancourt
Fancifully, I had thought I would feel the exact moment if anything ever happened to Scarlett, even if she wasn't nearby. Some kind of immense magnetic disturbance as our two hemispheres divided and went their separate ways.
Keith Houghton
There is a reason for every blessing that God gives a man.
Sunday Adelaja
You are my perfect sentiment.
Truth Devour
Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually considered innate, to learned behavior that helps maintain and support male domination, they act as those these difference are not value laden or political but are rather inherent and mystical. In these books male inability and/or refusal to honestly express feelings is often talked about as a positive masculine virtue women should learn to accept rather than a learned habit of behavior that creates emotional isolation and alienation.... Self-help books that are anti-gender equality often present women's overinvestment in nurturance as a 'natural,' inherent quality rather than a learned approach to caregiving. Much fancy footwork takes place to make it seem that New Age mystical evocations of yin and yang, masculine and feminine androgyny, and so on, are not just the same old sexist stereotypes wrapped in more alluring and seductive packaging.
Bell Hooks
Sleep. It’s like sex. You know it’s good, but you don’t know just how good until you’re not getting any.
R.J. Keller
The look she gives me is priceless - shock mixed with pure pleasure. I make a note to put that look on her face as often as possible.
Deanna Chase
It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!
Roman Payne
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
Andy Warhol
In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.
Meghna Pant
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
Terry Pratchett
Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.
Abhijit Naskar
We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for caring what happens to other people, least of all criminals. Even the officials in Venezuela's remote areas are better for they're also concerned with public peace. It gives them many headaches, but they seem to believe that bringing about a man's salvation is worth the effort. I find that magnificent.
Henri Charrière
There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.
Susan Dennard
The godly shall desired God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Turn your weakness into your richness.
Erol Ozan
She smiled as she imagined that the sun’s last rays were flames from a distant dragon.
Kim Cormack
I know that some people disparage you for your lack of knowledge, and I know you may not understand me, Peter, but I wish you could, because you might be the only person who would. I feel that I can tell you anything Peter.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain