Quotes by Authors - Page 2004

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.
Samuel Beckett
I want characters to do bad things and get away with their misdeeds. I want characters to think ugly thoughts and make ugly decisions. I want characters to make mistakes and put themselves first without apologizing for it.
Roxane Gay
What comes about by design or chance determine how life plays out.
Steven Redhead
The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love.
Gemma Farrow
the whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the ultimate mission of God. The Bible renders to us the story of God's mission through God's people in their engagement with God's world for the sake of the whole of God's creation. The Bible is the drama of this God of purpose engaged in the mission of achieving that purpose universally, embracing past, present and future, Israel and the nations, "life, the universe and everything," and with its centre, focus, climax, and completion in Jesus Christ. Mission is not just one of a list of things that the Bible happens to talk about, only a bit more urgently than some. Mission is, in that much-abused phrase, "what it's all about.
Christopher J.H. Wright
I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home.
Seth Adam Smith
The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)
Maria Grazia Swan
Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Possibilities are a mysterious beauty. They tease us to explore while our inner child cheers because an adventure is waiting.
Jeanne McElvaney
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.
Idries Shah
The food in the hostel mess is worst of a kind. The grief in my words reach easily to those who have "been there and done that" Chapatti in the meal is either so uncooked or overly cooked and you can only expect dal in the ocean of water when you are ready to swim.
Parul Wadhwa
Sometimes, Anselm – and especially with the most important parts of our lives – we cannot share who we are. We can give the facts, as information, to a stranger; but with a friend we want to give that little bit more, something that changes the facts into flesh and spirit . . . and at certain times we can’t do it. Because ultimately we can’t give away our depths: they lie beyond our grasp. It is when we most want to do so that we realize how immense we are . . . more vast and mysterious than the night sky; and alone.
William Brodrick
Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry S. Haskins
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
Machado de Assis
She couldn't tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.
Markus Zusak
As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.
George Carlin
In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.
Steve Maraboli
Imagine the time, a dozen generations from now, when wave mechanics powers every machine and everyone takes it for granted. Do you really want them thinking that it feel from the sky, fully formed, when the truth is that they or their good fortune to the most powerful engine of change in history: people arguing about science.
Greg Egan
We don't avoid the word... just the action.
Becca Ann
Flying demanded more courage and faith than I actually possessed, and it wanted my best, my whole self. I would have to work very hard to be any good at it at all, and be more than a little mad to be great, to give my life over to it. But that's just what I meant to do.
Paula McLain
It was an earthshattering kiss, one that stole breaths, stopped hearts, and scared the shit out of me because it surfaced feelings I’d never felt before, ones that rendered me helpless.
Jessica Sorensen
People must be taught that money is not the most important benefit of work.
Sunday Adelaja
Jordan, there isn't a straight woman or gay man alive who wouldn't drop everything to have dinner with you. I've been in this business for all of my life, and I know the difference between people who pretend to like you to get ahead, and people who are actually interested in getting to know you. Patrick wants to get to know you. Preferably naked, but that’s up to you.” “I can’t wait until you’re old enough to be senile and start saying these things in public.” “I’m very lucky to have such a loving son.
Matthew Haldeman-Time
If the Good Lord meant men to use percussion caps, he wouldn't have strung flint all over the ground.
Taylor Anderson
Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.
Namsoon Kang
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
Criss Jami
You’re a child of God. You don’t need to ever struggle with feelings of inferiority or defeat. You might make mistakes and find yourself off the straight and narrow path from time to time. No fears. No despair. Just turn around in the road and head back toward home. I promise you that Christ will be your willing guide.
Toni Sorenson
Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.
F. Paul Wilson
Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Boredom – the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing – is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings’ ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence.
Kilroy J. Oldster
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?
C.S. Lewis
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
Criss Jami
These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we’re not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don’t have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have.
Warren Ellis
The only reason i love the courage of these individuals is that they take their family members as astray chicks, and the reason i don't want to belong to this category is because those chicks are far more important to me than trivial wealth and fame.
Michael Bassey Johnson
They may throw sticks, stones, or bricks, but nothing they do will hurt you. You are protected by God. He is forever got you covered and the enemy is defeated. Their hatred towards you is a reflection of the evilness on their inside which is slowly destroying them. A person like that must deal with the matters of their heart.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Learn to struggle in all four seasons, for opportunity has no date or an exact time to find, you will only get what you need by trying everthing you know, without fear or shame.
Auliq-Ice
I have lost my smile,but don't worry.The dandelion has it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
Mitch Albom
Believe is the beginning of blissful.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The reply to this was that Three took out a small revolver, and this surprised me; for everyone knows that anger is most intense towards those you know: it is lovers and neighbors who kill each other. There's no sense, after all, in behaving that way toward a perfect stranger; where's the satisfaction? No love, no need; no need, no frustration; no frustration, no hate, right? It must have been fear.
Joanna Russ
If a person is not inspiring you positively. There is no reason for you to be around them. You don't need their negativity in your life. There's already too much in the world. Surround yourself with people who are going to uplift you and encourage you to move forward with your dreams and goals.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.
Bell Hooks
You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.
William Faulkner
You wanna go build some shelves with me?
Alexandra Bracken
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.
Oscar Wilde
Kindness should be a priority for every human being.
Debasish Mridha
Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --""He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.
Cassandra Clare
The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
Kelly McGonigal
I don't see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end.
Julie Kagawa
God’s Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.
Eric Mann
Consider now the primal scene of education in the modern elementary school. Let us assume that a teacher wishes to inform a class of some 20 pupils about the structure of atoms, and that she plans to base the day's instruction on an analogy with the solar system. She knows that the instruction will be effective only to the extent that all the students in the class already know about the solar system. A good teacher would probably try to find out. 'Now, class, how many of you know about the solar system?' Fifteen hands go up. Five stay down. What is a teacher to do in this typical circumstance in the contemporary American school?"If he or she pauses to explain the solar system, a class period is lost, and 15 of the 20 students are bored and deprived of knowledge for that day. If the teacher plunges ahead with atomic structure, the hapless five—they are most likely to be poor or minority students—are bored, humiliated and deprived, because they cannot comprehend the teacher's explanation.
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things they know that real power comes from surrender.
Renae A.Sauter
It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.
Matthew Desmond
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard Keynes
You need to decide for yourself whether you want to be a rare jewel or a common flower
Norhafsah Hamid
If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.
Lois Greiman
Vrekeners actually exist?L, The King
Kresley Cole
My prayer will shake heaven to come down and kiss the earth... and I will pose somewhere to watch it drop some goodies that I will later gather for my greatness. Sela!
Israelmore Ayivor
It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.
James A. Michener