Quotes by Authors - Page 2138

Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.
Mardi Ballou
The fact that a seed is viable is not a proof that it’s going to bear good fruits. Some good seeds are destroyed by bad soils. So is leadership; everyone was born to lead, but not all become leaders!
Israelmore Ayivor
You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can.
Roy T. Bennett
Money itself is absolutely powerless to keep you at the height of success
Sunday Adelaja
It's my job to worry about you. I'm in love with you, Stacy. I have been ever since I can remember. It's always been you.
Barbra Annino
Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.
Carl Sagan
Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an efficient, thrumming, technically accomplished laboratory is like a robot orchestra that produces perfectly pitched tunes but no music.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.
Jodi Picoult
Never forget to leave your footprint of love on the surface of this loving universe.
Debasish Mridha
Fear, anxiety, stress and panic, all these are basic evolutionary expression of the human brain. They are part of the normal human condition.
Abhijit Naskar
Sorry, Bex," Jason said "You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of real estate between the eyes - that would merit the bestowing of a criminal mastermind nickname such as Lockjaw or Walleye. Whereas Crazytop here...well, just look at her." "Atleast I can blow-dry my hair straight," I pointed out. "Which is more than what I can say for your nose, Hawkface.
Meg Cabot
Publishers and advertisers can't differentiate between the types of impressions an ad does on a site. A perusing reader is no better than an accidental reader. An article that provides worthwhile advice is no more valuable than one instantly forgotten. So long as the page loads and the ads are seen, both sides are fulfilling their purpose. A click is a click.
Ryan Holiday
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' -- by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.
John Barth
No Love will remain unfulfilled.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.
Courtney Miller Santo
But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.
Ha Jin
A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others.
Gillian Duce
Lean on God, and he leans on you fulfilling his love on Earth.
Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas
The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.
Siri Hustvedt
After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I’d experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she’d handed me the previous week. Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.
Paul Kalanithi
...you have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow.
Amy Tan
Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Matthew J. Kirby
Everything had become chaotic, and I wasn't sure how much more I wanted to take
Tijan
If there are difficulties on your way, be thankful for them because they will test and refine you as fire does to gold and if you will overcome, you will come out a winner, wizard and overcomer.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up.
Shannon L. Alder
A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.
Israelmore Ayivor
Thereafter were the stars persuaded to depict compasses and quadrants, stripped of their names, given numbers, all but regimented into a grid, before they had had enough and reverted to their old subjects: dogs, dragons, herdsmen, bears. Take heed, worldly fashion—someone may trust you up to a point, but if you push him too far you will lose all the power you ever had over him and he will blaze up and turn into a bear.
Amy Leach
You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
Some people take loyalty way too far. I have boundaries when it comes to loyalty. Yes, I’m loyal, but not to a fault. I cannot and will not compromise myself for other people’s senseless behavior. I have common sense, a great deal of wisdom, and I value my life. Loyalty shouldn’t cost you your integrity, freedom, or your life. Think!
Stephanie Lahart
God is my Wonderful Counselor.
Lailah Gifty Akita
My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.
Ellen Sue Stern
It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself
Carrie Jones
One race,Many cultures,One place.
Geoffrey M. Gluckman
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.
Rivka Galchen
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
Diane Setterfield
I never met a gal who represented a mystery to me in quite the fetchin' way you did. It'd be dull and dreary just to find out how a crook got in and out of a locked room to steal a gold-and-jewelled cup. But it's very rummy, and fascinates the old man a bit, to wonder why a crook didn't steal a gold-and-jewelled cup he should have stolen.
Carter Dickson
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
Arthur C. Clarke
One of the great images to come down to us through Zen Buddhism is the encounter between an enlightened master and an advanced apprentice during the course of a shared meal. The apprentice, becoming fed up with the stress and waiting and the master’s apparent disregard for him, demands an explanation without complication of exactly how to become enlightened. The master asks, “Have you finished your rice?” “Yes,” says the apprentice. “Then go wash your bowl.
Darrell Calkins
Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher MUST be certified, but the child need NOT learn.
Gene Royer
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and solutions
Sunday Adelaja
Believe in yourself. Do NOT listen to the haters or to those who said "it can't be done". I had people who laughed at my dreams, who laughed at my accent or at the fact that I did not come from a wealthy family or a prestigious school; people who told me I would never succeed at anything. I have managed to prove those people wrong again and again. Believe in yourself and follow your heart, the rest will come into place in time.
Eder Holguin
Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
Dean Koontz
What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we’re going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
A true leader is the one who leaves memorable footprints of nobility. A leader who is decisive enough and have all the guts to take bold and frank decisions regardless of the oppositions and the temporal adverse effect of such decision on the masses, knowing that in the end, the fruits of such decision will be sweeter enough to put joy on the faces of the masses and they shall remember such noble footprints and ponder in humility.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Words made you mighty. Words, stories, books: they could take you anywhere, and they could go out anywhere in the world. Jenny -- Jane -- picked up her pen, and began to write.
Lisa Pliscou
The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?
Carew Papritz
From this moment forth, my sword shall be with you and your fate shall be with me.
Kinoko Nasu
For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to indulge in being simply and purely young, to share that sense of the world’s affliction, that outgoing sorrow at the spectacle of Our Human Condition which anyone this age regards as reward or gratuity for having survived adolescence.For them the music was sweet and painful, the strolling chains of tourists like a Dance of Death. They stood on the curb, gazing at one another, jostled against by hawkers and sightseers, lost as much perhaps in that bond of youth as in the depths of the eyes each contemplated.
Thomas Pynchon
we always knewthat good times camewith termination contractseven if we weren't quite readyto sign it.
Sanober Khan
I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.
Rick Riordan
I hate being in my shoes...I am a deadman there!
Deyth Banger
We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.
Wendy Corsi Staub
The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.
Jostein Gaarder
If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world.
Debasish Mridha
The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.
Samantha Young
You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around -- beds, pillows, arms, laps.
Patti Davis
What you think about me says more about you than it does about me.
Clinton Kelly
Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.
Mohsin Hamid
I call for all religions, cultures, countries, crews, parties and peacemakers to unite for the sake of building a peaceful, united global village for future generations. It starts TODAY. If we stay divided, we will only remain crippled - and we will fall. It is time for everyone to see there is more for us to GAIN through unity and love than hatred and division. Get wise and unite. This is the only way. We need to start fresh with a truly united perspective.
Suzy Kassem