Quotes by Authors - Page 2066

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.
Marc Acito
She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.
Thomm Quackenbush
Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may—until that time comes, I have the right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I'm sure you won't do him more harm than you'll do the truth good. Or until I'm hauled before somebody that can make me talk.
Raymond Chandler
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.
Heidi Priebe
And in a way, this was how he had come to see his death, as a series of small ones taking place over the course of his life and leading finally to the main event, which would be so anti-climatic, so undramatic (a sudden violent seizure in his long abused heart, a quick massive flooding of the brain) it would go unnoticed. It was the small deaths occurring over an entire lifetime that took the greater toll.
Paule Marshall
How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused them?
Simone de Beauvoir
If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.
Joyce Meyer
When the tables are turned,whoever was full becomes hungry.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Let’s talk about rape for a moment. Rape is not what George Lucas did to your childhood. Rape is not what happens when a sports team beats another sports team by a wide margin. Rape is not what happens when your electric bill is higher this month than it was last month. Rape is when a person violates another person in the most despicable, degrading way imaginable and among the myriad of terrible things humans can do to one another, rape is among the worst. I think the casual misappropriation of the concept of rape extending all the way to its widespread comical usage is disgusting even by Internet standards. Off my chest.
Jeffrey Rowland
when you forgive people, events and circumstances, you are in the process of change, which leads you towards dominant universal emotion called love.
Hina Hashmi
No, no - I think about thinking
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The tears and the pain all but blinding her, she forced open her eyes one more time, to a curtain of dark hair; to a waterfall of black ink spilling across the last page of her life. No. I’m not nothing. I was loved.
Renee Ahdieh
If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true
Mindy Kaling
You deserve more than just being our safety net
Robin Benway
Give as much you can possibly give, even if, or when, you do not receive. For the more you give, the more the heart gets 'bigger' and 'stronger'. So, never for one moment you hold back from giving, until the heart has nothing left to give again.
Ufuoma Apoki
Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?” I asked him.“What?” said Dash.“True love.
Rachel Cohn
Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has benefited from true conservatism, but authoritarianism offers potentially serious trouble for any democracy.
John W. Dean
Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you might choose to do is going to contribute to one persona or another. People will only call attention to it if it is markedly different from the course you were apparently on before.
N.D. Wilson
After he left the planet with his brothers, he'd imagined he'd live out his life alone.tThat was until he met Annabelle.tHis memory lingered back to the day he stepped into her bakery. His brothers were still unpacking when he decided to take a walk into town. The first time he saw her, she was placing muffins into a customer's bag. Even with her messy hair bun and stained pink apron, she was pure perfection. His entire body warmed when he got a backside peek at her pink tank top and itty bitty jean shorts. Before he knew what was happening, he'd gone inside and sat down in the same booth he sat in now. And when she came to the table to take his order, she'd bit down on her bottom lip. He'd known then those lips would complicate his life, but he had no idea just how much.
Stacey O'Neale
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.
Sunday Adelaja
My darling, what a cat they have! Something perfectly stupendous. Siamese, in colour dark beige, or taupe, with chocolate paws and the tail the same. Moreover, his tail is comparatively short, so his croup has something of a little dog, or rather, a kangaroo, and that’s its colour, too. And that special silkiness of short fur, and some very tender white tints on its folds, and wonderful clear-blue eyes, turning transparently green towards evening, and a pensive tenderness of its walk, a sort of heavenly circumspection of movement. An amazing, sacred animal, and so quiet – it’s unclear what he is looking at with those eyes filled to the brim with sapphire water.
Vladimir Nabokov
The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.
Pittacus Lore
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Andrew Carnegie
But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the laundrette. Or to sit in a darkened flat on Halloween night, because you can't bear to expose your bleak evening to a crowd of jeering trick-or-treaters. Or to have the librarian smile pityingly and say, ‘Goodness, you're a quick reader!’ when you bring back seven books, read from cover to cover, a week after taking them out. They don't know what it is to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor's hand on your shoulder sends a jolt of longing straight to your groin.
Zoë Heller
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.
Billy Graham
I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home!" Le avventure di Pinocchio
Nancy B. Brewer
He said he'd never opened up to anyone... But that confiding in me, was like learning to breathe all over again. I don't know about you, but how do you turn away from that?
Alfa H
Political problems ruin meals. Let it be known as Eric’s Law of Lunch henceforth.
Garon Whited
His thoughts are unfathomable & her emotions are all over the place. Oh! The tragedy of Love.
Ankita Singhal
Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
Aimee Liu
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz
A shared table is the supreme expression of hospitality in every culture on earth. When your worn-out kitchen table hosts good people and good conversation, when it provides a safe place to break bread and share wine, your house becomes a sanctuary, holy as a cathedral. I've left a friend's table as sanctified and renewed as any church service. If you have a porch, then you have an altar to gather around.
Jen Hatmaker
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.
Joni Eareckson Tada
He gave me the one thing he's never given to anyone before..He gave me his heart, and his trust.And in return, I gave him the same right back....
Samantha Towle
But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you’re fighting for
Paulo Coelho
Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
Roy T. Bennett
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
Leif Enger
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.
Dan Simmons
She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.
Drew Magary
I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I'd seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn't hard for me to call to mind.
China Miéville
Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this."Nice socks."Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.
Neal Shusterman
A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.
S.A. Tawks
When all the fights stop, so does the passion.
Crystal Woods
I don't get it - how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.
Julie Murphy
I bring the girl to a museum, try to show her a little culture, and she turns a Chihuly into a giant phallus.
Nicki Elson
Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.
Terry Pratchett
Renewal of the mind is good for the soul because it allows you to be focused and gain understanding of your life choices. It allows you to renew your spirit and become uplifted filled with hope. Take a moment to transform those negative thoughts into something more positive. And, you will discover anything is possible when you believe.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships.
Leo Buscaglia
People say keep your emotions outside, how the hell is that possible!!!!
Harrish Sairaman
Tonight they granted at least one wish,” I whispered, and I lowered my head so our lips drifted over one another. “I love you Adam, no matter how lost you are…or I am…I will only ever love you.
Cassandra Giovanni
When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.
Roger Housden
Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.
Richie Norton
I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.
Chris Howard
It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.
Andrzej Sapkowski
If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger of living irrespective of world family.
Holly Sprink
My one true love remains my self... I dump myself occasionally to keep it interesting
Cassandra Clare
InsomniaI wonderIf those talks matterFew done in the clarity of dayOr the manyDone at 3 a.m. in the morning
Irum Zahra
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Charles Dickens