Quotes by Authors - Page 2128

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
J.K. Rowling
Do people call you Ollie?” Lola asked.Oliver looked at her, completely dumbfounded by the possibility of this nickname. She may as well have asked him if people call him Garth, or Andrew, or Timothy.“No,” he said flatly, and the only thing charming about him was the way his accent seemed to run through every vowel with one syllable. Lola’s eyebrow twitched in her single tell—mildly annoyed—and she lifted her flashing LED drink cup to her lips.Lola wears mostly black, including her glossy dark hair, and has a tiny diamond pierced into her lip, but, even still, she’s never been able to pull off the full physical manifestation of the angry Riot Grrrl. With her perfect porcelain skin and the longest eyelashes in the world, she’s simply too delicate. But once she decides you’re an asshole, it no longer matters to her what you think. She gives good glare.“The flower suits you,” she said, tilting her head to study him. “And you have pretty hands, kind of soft. Maybe we should call you Olive.”He grunted out a dry laugh.“And a really beautiful mouth,” I added. “Gentle. Like a woman’s.”“Aw fuck off.” He was laughing outright by then.
Christina Lauren
Fear transforms your body like an inept sculptor does a perfect block of stone...It's just that you're chipped away at from within, and no one sees how many splinters and layers have been taken off you. You become ever thinner and more brittle inside, until eve the slightest emotion bowls you over. One hug, and you think you're going to shatter and be lost.
Nina George
Get in the driving seat of your thoughts. You control them and they absolutely control your life.
Sam Owen
Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.
Heenashree Khandelwal
Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret. Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams!
Steve Maraboli
There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.
Mike Dooley
The thing about oracles is that they talk back.
Darin Bradley
Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.
Sharon Weil
But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse....
Christopher Moore
Don’t ever let rejections or failures put you down and keep you from trying. Believe in yourself, have an unwavering desire to excel, put in your best your efforts, persevere and you will blaze your trail.
Roopleen
Rhetoric can be easily recognized for it is delightfully sweet sounding but it is utterly void of sacrifice, which means it is utterly void of substance. Christmas is irrefutable evidence that God never engages in rhetoric.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Women strive to be the change they want to see in the mirror.
Ljupka Cvetanova
It is hard to understand what love is!
Auliq-Ice
Homosexuality is like a boarding school in which there are no vacations.
Andrew Holleran
On such a night,’ I thought, ‘were ill and good,Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into oneAnd pressed against my heart.
Irene Hunt
Write what speaks to your soul.
A.D. Posey
Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.
Charles R. Swindoll
The answer is not relevant to the knowledge of an inquiring mind.
Even Engesland
Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet.
Marilynne Robinson
Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.
Kazuo Ishiguro
I like how books let you into another world, but how it's secret. Like, when you read, the world you see is different from the one someone else sees when they read the same words. It's just yours.
Clare Fisher
After so many years struggling to keep up with you, I finally realized we’re not even running the same race.
Scott Stabile
And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won’t be the same you that makes life worth living this time next year. Identities aren’t meant to be permanent. They’re like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, living well means finding a new model that better suits us for a new moment.
Kate Bornstein
Asshole," Ephraim muttered as he turned back around.Chris chuckeled. "Is that really any way to talk to your favorite child?""You're not my favorite," Ephraim argued, but they both knew that was bullshit. "I don't have any favorites.""Puhlease," Chris said. "You fucking adore me...
R.L. Mathewson
„Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind.
Frank Wanderer
Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially doors through garages, architects keep designing houses with ceremonial front doors that are nowhere near any car or driveway.
Akiko Busch
Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself.
Ken Poirot
Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people about things that matter. If you have an idea in your head talk it to people as a normal conversation, to get their natural opinions. And don’t forget to jot down discreetly any new ideas you get from people. God may use other people to convey messages to you, that may add more information to the ideas you already have.
Enock Maregesi
In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome
Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez
Make your name and know your value
Sunday Adelaja
We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.
T.S Eliot
When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.
Steve Maraboli
Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person' came, via french, from the Latin word 'persona', which referred to the mask worn by tan actor to protray a particular character. In this theatrical sense, personality has to do with the role or character that the person plays in life's drama. The person's individuality, in this sense, is a matter of the roles or characters that he or she assumes.
Nick Haslam
He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.
Julie Anne Long
Iron. Ice.A Love Doomed From the Start
Julie Kagawa
Loyalty is everything, but everything isn't loyal.
Terrance McAllister
That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.
Ali Sheikh
What is most admirable about firefighters, is there reliability. When they are called, they come
Dennis Smith
Like we all sync our watches every year, at the start and at the end of daylight saving time, we also need to sync our relationships once in a while.
Uday Mukerji
She had always been comforted by confectionery
Sue Townsend
Keep your hopes high.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.
Jane Austen
When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people’s invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I’m even fooling myself.
Jalina Mhyana
And as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evil doing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Ginés, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, made up his mind to steal Sancho Panza's ass.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
If you are good life is good.
Roald Dahl
Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.
Abhijit Naskar
Hoh, Boy!" Freddy snorted, slapping his palm to his forehead. "I hope you never donate your brain to science. It would set civilization back fifty years.
Bertrand R. Brinley
He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.
Micheal Punke
[My wife] is a great student of the Bible. Her life is ruled by the Bible more than any person I’ve ever known. That’s her rule book, her compass.
Billy Graham
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
G.K. Chesterton
Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.
Criss Jami
Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives.
Colson Whitehead
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.
Terry Pratchett
What we call human is nothing but a dance of trillions of well organized, interconnected, interesting, and magical molecules.
Debasish Mridha
Because I know you live on the hope of seeing a better tomorrow, unlike the skeptics who have nothing to live for today. I would rather die with hope, than to live without any hope at all.
Nely Cab
I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it's a written piece and nowThe symphony's soundingShouting out to these feet whose leaps feel foul but quite loudBut howI'm allowed to live my dreamsMy Chimeran team brings the Siberian breedRiding reality free 'til these tires they freezeIn mires in dire need of wires, fire and heat butI love a dark, hard cold heart in the wintery breeze
Criss Jami