Quotes by Authors - Page 2191

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always avoided.
Orrin Woodward
Dance away your density and celebrate your splendor.
Amy Leigh Mercree
You've got an answer for everything... It's one of the side effects of being right all the time.
Rachel Spangler
Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
Jay Samit
Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for three years, devoted to making love, reading, eating excellent meals, spending a few days in a nice hotel by the sea, visiting out friends (not very many, all without children), going to concerts and movies, sleeping, cultivating our garden.
Benoît Duteurtre
You're born with the power of love, why you are looking for power of destruction?
Debasish Mridha
I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself--in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.
Elizabeth Kim
You ought to give thanks to the Lord.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.
Cheryl Rainfield
You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.
Barry Lyga
My parents also had a tough time recognizing me at first. because my eyes were black and swollen shut and I had two tubes coming out of my head.
Amy Rankin
...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.
H.P. Wood
Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.
Christian Bovee
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Maggie Kuhn
Dream with all of your mind.Work with all of your heart.Persevere with all of your strength.Succeed with all of your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It allows you to be yourself, good and bad. And it's a two-way street: you give and take equally.
Connor Franta
I think that the most beautiful of people are like exquisite serpents— glorious sheen, glorious patterns and elaborate grace— but you do wrong to cast envy upon them, lest you want to also taste of the venom they carry in their mouthes! Beauty is so often born from adversity of circumstance, like the lotus born of the mud, reaching up through the water and into the light! I often wake up from dreams of being underwater, I suppose I am a lotus flower that has made her way! But you do wrong to envy the lotus blossom, for you know not of her journey! Not all of us are serpents and lotus flowers, not all of us are beautiful like that; too many people just sit there, ignorantly casting envy on what they do not even comprehend!
C. JoyBell C.
Be firm. Be bold.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.
Donna Goddard
Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.
Peter Adolphsen
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
George Eliot
The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted and tortured in a thousand ways, till it swept nuzzling and sucking into the holes at the base of the cliff. The whole reef was a shambles of foam, but it was bright in the sun, bright as a shattered mirror, exuberant and leaping with light.
Colin Thiele
I was just a girl again, but this girl didn’t owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I’d been born with my power; the rest I’d earned.
Leigh Bardugo
Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.
L.M. Montgomery
Desire to dwell in a clean environment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The private things of lifewhat you do when eyes are averted, curtains are drawn shut, the expected are delayed, wife and kids vacate for leisurely merriments, when doors are latched, your eyes are held captive, ‘priority’ beckons, and ‘the’ perverse emerges…..Tantamount to accountability is transparency which tends toward freedom!…. what you do in private is who you really are!
roy valenzuela
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
John Green
Forgiveness happens every time we surrender our attachment to pain.
Amy Leigh Mercree
I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know that there's nothing but light when I see you.
Shinji Moon
The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
jQuery is by far the most widely used library for JavaScript. It is used on more than 50% of websites. Many frameworks, such as Backbone and Twitter’s Bootstrap, are built on top of jQuery. Being able to extend and write plugins for jQuery can not only save lots of time, but also makes code much cleaner and easier to maintain.
Robert Duchnik
Become a vessel for the divine.
Amy Ippoliti
In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.
Brandon Stanton
Love could be instant and unconditional but trust develops through time. You may not trust wholeheartedly while loving someone unconditionally.
Assegid Habtewold
To soar with eagles all you need to do is believe that you can fly.
Anthony T.Hincks
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
Taking the time to reflect on how you arrived at where you are today can have a massive impact on what your life will be like tomorrow.
Akiroq Brost
Still... I would have hugged my mother if we were the kind of family who hugged. If touching her weren't impossible. If her subnightie waft was not so utterly, fatally repulsive. That's how much I loved her.
Jerry Stahl
You are unique. You have different talents and abilities. You don’t have to always follow in the footsteps of others. And most important, you should always remind yourself that you don't have to do what everyone else is doing and have a responsibility to develop the talents you have been given.
Roy T. Bennett
Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.
A.E. Kirk
If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.
Richard Kadrey
Without a clear-cut vision and a proper reading of the roadmap we may not reach the buoyant shores of the horizon. If we only keep looking into the middle distance, we might easily walk straight into the wall. ("Change of Vision")
Erik Pevernagie
There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.
Yann Martel
War is not an art, boy. Send a hundred men over a hill and know that they won’t make it. Hold a drummer boy, cut open from groin to neck, guts spilling out as he cries for his mother, telling him it’s going to be all right. Make him believe you. Be his commanding officer, his god. Let him let his guard down and be kind enough to snap his neck. War is butchery. And I am the better butcher.
Alex Avrio
Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.
Fennel Hudson
It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.
Mary Roach
Woman is in love with the devil.
Nikolai Gogol
She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and chocolate stains coloring the phrases. You could never be certain what you would find in a book that has spent time with someone else. As she has rifled through the pages looking for defects, she had discovered an entrance ticket to Giverny, a receipt for thirteen bottles of champagne, a to-do list that included, along with groceries and dry cleaning, the simple reminder, 'buy a gun.' Bits of life tucked like stowaways in between the chapters. Sometimes she couldn't decide which story she was most drawn to.
Erica Bauermeister
...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...
John Geddes
It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.
Terry Pratchett
Most people living in the world are confused about life.
Sunday Adelaja
I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets.
Dominic Riccitello
In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
if I decide to help you, I want only two things in return. Freedom for my people" - it was what he planned to bargin for all along, and one bargain was good as any other - "and possessiom of the girl.""I'm afraid she's not on the table," Blue eyes said."Of course she isn't on the table," he said confused. "She's right in front of you.
Gene Showalter
Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it
Steven Magee
Realize your purpose and carry it out boldly
Sunday Adelaja
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjest resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impuse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.
Jane Austen
The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a "gift for friendship". McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect and curmudgeonly demeanor, had a soft heart for other people and a genuine interest in their particulars.
David McCullough
To Make Something Good, You Must first Make it Bad
Look Im A Cat
Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity.
Abhijit Naskar