Quotes by Authors - Page 2078

You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When someone wants to give you a “piece of their mind,” ask them to give you “peace from their heart” instead.
Molly Friedenfeld
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.
Maxwell Maltz
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
Audrey Niffenegger
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.
C.S. Lewis
To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!
Deyth Banger
Suffer you will, one way or another
Nilesh Rathod
Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning.
Jennifer Comeaux
Our lives go by in our own minds. The war is inside our heads and only we can return the peace. It is essential to remember that in one sense we are always right. If we say, we can, we can. If we say we cannot, that’s how it is, we cannot.
Mabel Katz
It seems to me that the whole of human life can be summed up in the one statement that man only exists for the purpose of proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not an organ.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Reading to small children is a specialty.
Clifton Fadiman
Because of the times we live in, all of us, young and old, do not spend enough time and effort thinking about the meaning of life. We do not look inside ourselves enough to understand our strengths and weaknesses, and we do not look around enough - a the world, in history - to ask the deepest and broadest questions. The solution surely is that, even now, we could all use a little bit more of a liberal education.
Fareed Zakaria
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
Elizabeth Gilbert
When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgment—which is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.
Aspen Matis
If I see darkness in my nation, I bring light to her.
Sunday Adelaja
He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.
David Halberstam
Needless documentation hampers performance.
Rajen Jani
Susie: Okay, Calvin. But you know what? You can't say, youcan'texpectanythingfrommeI'mbroken! And turn around the next minute and say, ohwoeismeeverybodytreatsmelikeI'mbroken! Which one is it? I can treat you the way I really feel, or I can treat you careful.Me: Real. Just be real.
Martine Leavitt
How shall I tell you of the world you faceStrident with sound of weapons and of hate,Make you aware now of the narrowing spaceBetween the hope of mortal and his fate?
Frances Rodman
The book and I secret ourselvesBehind the paneled door.We merge our thoughts in retrospectOf ancient mystic lore.We spend a pleasant quiet hour,Nor know it passed us by...The easy chair, the shaded lamp,A well-loved book and I.
Edna Moore Schultz
They tell you the devil is in the details…what they don’t tell you is that he’s laughing maniacally.
Brian L. Tucker
In today's world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don't want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain bring you relief. The solutions do not lie in the world of emotions, but rather in the world of thoughts.
Vironika Tugaleva
Go out with me tomorow night," Perry went on. "Let me prove to you that I'm the guy you want.""I...I guess I coul go out tomorrow night," Miranda sounded shocked and a little swept off her feet.Then, from the corner of her eyes. Kylie saw something move at the office window. When she looked back, she spotted Burnett and Holiday standing there high-fiving each other. No doubt Burnett was listening to the coversation and sharing the details with Holiday.Perry nodded, stepped closer, and then pressed a quick kiss on Miranda's cheek. It had to be the most romantic thing Kylie had ever seen. ..."What?" Miranda asked. "You're happy my date [with Todd] wasn't exciting?" "No," Kylie said. "Let's just say we're more excited about tomorrow night's date."A bright smile lit up Miranda's face. "Me too. Can you believ Perry did that? I mean, he was so...""Romantic," Kylie said."Hot," Della added."Sweet," Miranda whispered. "I couldn't stop thinkibng about him all night."And that was the best news Kylie had gotten all day.
C.C. Hunter
Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.
Mary Webb
Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.
Ljupka Cvetanova
Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
Thomas More
I wanted to become courageous so I started to accept everything with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
Charlotte Brontë
What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded.
Amy Tan
The thought process can never be complete without articulation.
Stephen King
To redeem the influential sphere of the government is to act based on the teaching received
Sunday Adelaja
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
Ruth Benedict
With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.
Melika Dannese Lux
I wonder what became of you, your JohnnyRotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.
Kristen Henderson
Misery loves companyTragically
Kim Holden
The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.
Carma Spence
CONFESSION NO. 1 Most women find the bloating, cramping, and bitchiness of PMS bothersome at worst. I turn into a monster a week before my period…literally.
Ronda Thompson
In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.
Idries Shah
I haven't done anything you're supposed to do. Like get so drunk you puke and don't remember the rest of the night.""Overrated, I swear."She looked at me, that deadly look on her face, and I held up my hands. "Fine. You wanna get drunk and puke, I'm not gonna stop you.""But I want to do, like more than just drinking." Her brow furrowed and I could practically see the wheels in her brain spinning. "I should make a list and outline a plan."I was going to point out that list-making wasn't the best way to let loose, but I decided to let it go.
Cindi Madsen
Leave complains behind; Stop worrying and murmuring about the difficulty of something that you have not even attempted doing! How do you know that it's difficult if you have not even attempted doing it? Go, give a try!
Israelmore Ayivor
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly upbraiding her husband, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself.
Kate Chopin
All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.
Colum McCann
Time flies fast, but it's good you are the pilot. Just control your time well away from hijackers. Save time profitably; Spend time productively!
Israelmore Ayivor
If something you desire is not happening, you are not emotionally or mentally ready for it yet. Make your mental adjustment in the now, and the reality will follow.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into Miss Universe – there will be a lot of deep cuts, and there’s a high chance it won’t work.
David G. Allen
Man had to hang on to his pride.
Robert Ferrigno
They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.
Italo Calvino
Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full.
Amy Leigh Mercree
How long did it take to become a gracious person? One who could accept help and give thanks without being resentful of it?
Tracy Guzeman
I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.
Cassandra Clare
Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.
L.M. Montgomery
Who didn’t exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories?
Garth Risk Hallberg
One reads for oneself and for strangers.
Harold Bloom
Nobody's sane above the law.
Toba Beta
To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.
Minna Antrim
Avoid becoming entrapped by the mundane, pursue the best potential outcome for any situation.
Steven Redhead
The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.
Avijeet Das