Quotes by Authors - Page 2035

The Lord’s gracious hand is upon us.We will begin the good work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.
Jessica Sorensen
Happiness is largely about being socially connected, yet we cannot be connected if we keep on being so hard and unforgiving towards ourselves and on the scars we wear inside.
Jellis Vaes
people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed.
Charles Bukowski
Lark: "You shouldn't yell at
Tamora Pierce
As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.
Robert Whittington
Is he always like that?' Sandra asked.'Well, he lives his life courting different girls week and after week and being incredibly successful, so you're pretty much giving him a run for his money,' he said with a wink at Janis.'Not my cup of tea,' Janis answered.'And I can't admire you even more,' Jared grinned.
Deepika Kumaaraguru
By a route obscure and lonelyHaunted by ill angels only,Where an eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule --From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE, out of TIME.
Edgar Allan Poe
Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires
Richard Wright
Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.
André Gide
At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
W.G. Sebald
If you believe in Christ Jesus, you shall not perish but have everlasting life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.
P.B. Kerr
white middle-upper class guys in highly educated families have a unique burden placed on us to be the hero of every story that we tell. I don’t think it’s merely that we’re self-centered and arrogant, but that we feel like we’re supposed to be in charge, and if we’re not the hero of the story, we’ve somehow failed in our life duty.group
Morgan Guyton
The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes;It is always the same, wherever one goes.And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people saythat they do not like fighting, will often displayEvery symptom of wanting to join in the fray.And theyBark bark bark bark bark barkUntil you can hear them all over the park.
T.S Eliot
I should at least have learned more about how it had come to be that Rema had abandoned her mother, before I asked her to marry - and hopefully not abandon - me. But I saw Rema all prismatically, all fractured and reconstituted as if seen in the valley of an unshined silver spoon and actually I'm glad love does that, I shouldn't complain about love or love's perspective - distorted or no, to feel superior to it would be wrong, as if there were some better way of seeing.
Rivka Galchen
Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.
Ryan Holiday
You look like a lesbian artist fairy.
LaCour Nina
It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.
Jack Kerouac
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
Louisa May Alcott
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
Jorge Luis Borges
Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!
Dimity Powell
Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things and suddenly lose this love and approval. But I when I picture God I picture him standing with his arms out saying, "Beth stop punishing yourself." And he says it like my dad used to say, with such great authority and assurance in his voice that I can't help but smile, and know it's gonna be ok.
Bethany Brookbank
Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance upon calls many.
Anastasia Bolinder
Hate is like zero because true love is not divisible by hate.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
His music was an outlet of that romantic energy and sensitivity.
Kailin Gow
You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn’t worry?
Kathy Bryson
One cannot make bargains for blissesOr catch them like fishes in netsAnd sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets.
Alice Carey
And that's the point! Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force strength power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.
Jill Lepore
I'm a sailor, Lettie, I go where the wind takes me. And it led me to you, didn't it? I was born ten thousand miles away, but the wind brought me to Barter, and now we're friends. We're on this boat for a reason.
Sam Gayton
There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .
T.S Eliot
Evere since I was first to read, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It wasn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the poem or the story itself. The cadence, whatever it is that asks you to believe, the feeling that resides in the printed word, reaches me through the reader-voice. I have supposed, but never found out, that this is the case with all readers - to read as listeners - and with all writers, to write as listeners. It may be part of the desire to write. The sound of what falls on the page begins the process of testing it for truth, for me. Whether I am right to trust so far I don't know. By now I don;t know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other.
Eudora Welty
The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox.
John Green
They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.
Charles Murray
Dip your fingers n the spring stream or lift your face to the summer rains. Listen for me in the winter wind I'll come back for you.
Evangeline Denmark
Amazing sex stays with you. It soaks into your skin. It floats through your dreams and has you silently smoldering with delicious remembrances for hours after. It has you craving it days later. And it has you aching for it if you don’t get it for awhile.
Roberto Hogue
If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.
John Fowles
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
Peter F Drucker
... and you start telling a story about accidentally stealing shoes from an outlet and we've been on the steps for almost twenty minutes and you're so nervous and excited that you keep talking about shoes as if you have to keep talking about shoes or you might jump me right here, on the steps. I chose this spot because my whole fucking life I've walked by these steps and seen couples that make me feel alone, rejected. And now there are loners passing by you and me, jealous, and you're still talking and fuck, it's hard to listen when I can smell your body wash.
Caroline Kepnes
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Gwendolyn Brooks
The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
John Morley
What we can do now to bring about his kingdom of justice is to cooperate in the establishment of justice in that portion of his kingdom over which we have some immediate control: ourselves. Let us begin the pursuit of justice and peace by cleaning up our own lives and establishing peace within our own hearts.
M. Basil Pennington
Trusting yourself means you believe in a higher divine power.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.
Ogwo David Emenike
I have died at the ripe age of twenty.Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint me.I have died at the mature age of ninety.Smile, for my life was more than satisfying.I have died suddenly—out of the blue.Smile, for I didn't have to fall ill before you.I have died from a long illness.Smile, for I had the chance to say goodbye.I did not want to leave this Earth.But smile, for I am still here among you.Why are you crying?Can you not see I am smiling?
Kamand Kojouri
Music is the fastest motivator in the world.
Amit Kalantri
The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.
Thomas Cleary
College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be.""It's not one-hundredth as much fun.
Molly Ringle
People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Moral deliberation has to be somewhere in the brain, after all. It’s not going to be in the foot or the stomach, and it’s certainly not going to reside in some mysterious immaterial realm. So who cares about precisely where?
Paul Bloom
Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.
Beth Hoffman
For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.
Stephen King
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
Laurence J. Peter
I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.
Becca Fitzpatrick
Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
J.G. Ballard
For a long time, there was grief. It pulled me down into suffocating darkness, and kept me anchored there. I went through the motions. I turned up at school. I ate food and watched TV and took algebra tests. But I didn't feel anything. It was easier that way.
Lili Wilkinson
Generosity is the flower of our love for the humanity.
Debasish Mridha
You are a song I could listen to over and over again although I'm convinced it had played in my head a many times before
Nicola An
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Once your intentions are real and wise, helpful and positive, keep going forward. Never ever give up!
Israelmore Ayivor