Quotes by Authors - Page 2028

We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me...
Elizabeth Gilbert
Intelligence in a spouse is a timeless quality.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.
Sol Luckman
Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.
R.F. Georgy
Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom. Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated — it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.
Emily Weiss
Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe,"How do you like Gaboriau?""I like him very much indeed!"Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.
Julian Street
You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.
Victoria Schwab
I never wanted to run a company.To me a business is a good vehicle for getting stuff done. Mark Zuckerberg in The Facebook Effect written by David Kirkpatrick
David Kirkpatrick
Come on, get up, get up, you can't just sit! But he was still crying and that had to be finished.
Ray Bradbury
To her surprise, Lucky tilted his head and looked her in the eye, appearing oddly…crestfallen, she thought. “Don’t be nervous,” he said. “I hate making you nervous.
Toni Blake
To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible.
Richie Norton
We all have our own rhythms to walk to.
Lauren Lola
The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.
Geraldine Brooks
I wanted to peel myself off of me.
Wendy Walker
I'm not even going to tell you what I think about what just happened in there. But I know it sucked and I have no idea why you aren't crying right now, but I know your heart hurts, and maybe even your pride. So fuck school. We’re going for ice cream.
Colleen Hoover
The fact that you can do something doesn't me you are called to do it
Bernard Kelvin Clive
If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.
Samuel Butler
Sometimes a smile is all that is needed to change a person’s day and it cost me nothing to give.
If I Wake
Gain strength through adversity…!
James A. Murphy
Love is like breathing. You can't live without it.
Imania Margria
Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like a loud load of wash on imbalance--the buzzer singing to high heave, the danger light flashing.
Sandra Cisneros
It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
Cassandra Clare
Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
Anonymous
I'm trying to keep you safe." Safe as a porcelain bowl wrapped in cotton linen and boxed up. It would be a lie to say she didn't want to feel safe, or that Nolan's worry didn't leave her feeling warm and even a bit precious. But it also left her feeling trapped, like an ornamental bird kept in a cage, its wings clipped.
Page Morgan
Telling our personal story constitutes an act of consciousness that defines the ethical lining of a person’s constitution. Recounting personal stories promotes personal growth, spurs the performance of selfless deeds, and in doing so enhances the ability of the equitable eye of humanity to scroll rearward and forward. Every person must become familiar with our communal history of struggle, loss, redemption, and meaningfully contemplate the meaning behind our personal existence in order to draft a proper and prosperous future for succeeding generations. Accordingly, every person is responsible for sharing their story using the language of thought that best expresses their sanguine reminiscences. Without a record of pastimes, we will never know what were, what we now are, or what we might become by steadfastly and honorably struggling with mortal chores.
Kilroy J. Oldster
But ghosts aren't white and bright. Ghosts are shadows of someone or something gone wrong.
Paul Tremblay
Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.
David Foster Wallace
Love is the power of being.
Lailah Gifty Akita
On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Are you a devil?""I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.
G.K. Chesterton
Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.
Max McKeown
Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of “a friend,” “a person I know,” “a place I was at.” When the book of life is opening, our readings are secret, and we are unwilling to give chapter and verse. Mr. Pembroke, who was half way through the volume, and had skipped or forgotten the earlier pages, could not understand Rickie's hesitation, nor why with such awkwardness he should pronounce the harmless dissyllable “Ansell.
E.M. Forster
The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.
Israelmore Ayivor
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
Madeleine L'Engle
But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing and who can do them no harm; they do so for no other reason except that they are rich, knowing full well that they are so mean and tightfisted that they will certainly never give them one red cent during their whole lives.
Thomas More
The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.
Santosh Kalwar
Elves don't shimmer
David Rangel
He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This wouldn't be real - something else would. You'd have been another you, instead of the one you are now. You can't be tied down to a predestined fate when you change according to your situation, and your fate must change too. Everything depends on circumstances - on which "you" you happen to be at a given time...
Anna Kavan
I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lifts of feeling, rising up and going out forever. Old Man Profet, who was a different man on Sunday, used to draw out the notes at the ends of verses so he could listen to himself, and in fact it sounded pretty.
Wendell Berry
Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.
Joseph Ohler
…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.
Jane Austen
Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The sultan had enormous eyebrows, fibrous like angora wool. In moments of strife, his eyebrows twitched violently. Like now!His Excellency’s royal blood boiled. Once again another mesmerized American news anchor gushed about Dubai’s vision, hailing the imagination of the al-Maktoum family.“Where is this vision coming from?” probed Katie Couric.“Ignorant Yankee!” Sultan Mo-Mo’s British twang bore traces of Basil Fawlty.The sultan wanted to retch. Dubai’s showboating gave him indigestion, but he continued helping himself to more chips and fiery salsa, downing cold Guinness, smoking excellent hash, humming the theme song of The Wonder Years.
Deepak Unnikrishnan
I radiated with all the stars in the night sky and the courage of a thousand men ran through my veins.
Megan Rivers
Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Honestly, as much as I love my brother, I’m not sure how I feel about him hanging out in your bedroom.” He reached out with a muscular arm and used his fingers to brush a few strands of hair off my cheek, tucking them behind my ear. I shivered, and he smiled. “I feel like I need to mark my territory.” “Shut up.” “Oh, I love it when you get all bossy-pants. It’s sexy.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Sending everything they touch to the grave is what they do, but they don't see it as a grave mistake, yet.
Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself...
George Carlin
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
Warren G. Bennis
Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do believe, as demonstrated by their actions. A religion of brotherhood and mildness which daily murders those who disagree with its doctrines can only be thought hypocrite, or worse.
Gore Vidal
No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?
Richelle Mead
It's when you take somebody's innocence that you also take their life.
Anthony T.Hincks
Dead yet?" Gus answered.I smirked. "Not yet, but the night's still young.""Here's hoping.
Jessica Shirvington
Our Narcissistic Mother told us a Big Lie. She told it subliminally if not in actual words. And The Big Lie was this: If we tried hard enough we could win her approval and her love. If we were good enough, or wise enough, or beautiful enough, or that-magical-unspecified-ingredient enough. In other words, if we achieved perfection, she would love us.
Danu Morrigan
I wonder if he practices making awkward and nerdy look sort of cool. Like he fills his house with furniture that is the wrong scale for his tall body and buys plaid shirts in bulk and tells his barber to leave crazy, too-long pieces of hair mixed in with the regularly cut hair so everything always looks messy.Then he runs his hands through his hair and puts on his plaid shirts and uses mirrors to watch himself sit in uncomfortable furniture until comfortable furniture looks like it's the one with the problem.
Mary Ann Rivers
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
Carl Sagan
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde