Quotes by Authors - Page 2218

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choice to make a difference in your life at any time you wish.
Auliq-Ice
Right now universes are being created thrown together and destroyed the world over. Seven billion souls, each preoccupied with their own unique reality, each with a head full of memories, plans, learned knowledge and accumulated trivia; birthdays, telephone numbers, bus routes, passwords. Each one with somewhere to go, something they need to get done. They all have birth certificates and shoe sizes. Every single one has a story.
Graeme Cameron
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
Hanif Kureishi
If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation, a question of atheism, a question of the tower of Babel, which is constructed without God's help, not to reach to the heavens, but to bring the heavens down to earth.
Albert Camus
I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.
Donald Miller
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
Stephen R. Covey
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins
I could still taste her kiss on my lips as I walked along a deserted Chalk Farm Road at sunrise.
Charlie Maclean
Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?
Esther Earl
I'd rather be authentic than true.
kevin mcpherson eckhoff
Miss Runcible wore trousers and Miles touched up his eye-lashes in the dining-room of the hotel where they stopped for luncheon. So they were asked to leave.
Evelyn Waugh
This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.
Michelle Tea
Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.
N K Jemisin
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
Jane Austen
The Lord’s holy fire lit my path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.
Brené Brown
I've spent my life wondering when I would earn the right to be a man again. Despite the undeserved good fortune of finding my true love, I always held a kernel of bitterness in my heart that things were not different... I will never be the man that I was. That man is dead—slain—for better or for worse, by my life as the Beast. In your words, the world does not need who I was.
Jack Heckel
As soon as you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.
Charles F. Glassman
Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back.
Fennel Hudson
To cultivate bravery and courage, get involved in a cause you are passionate about.Serving a vision bigger than yourself changes your focus from self-doubt to whatever action is necessary for the vision to succeed. “When in doubt, take it out.
Susan C.Young
Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.
Mark Batterson
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors you had better seek another flag.
Anonymous
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
Dorothy L. Sayers
We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause a change in the air so that a fly ends up where it might never have gone otherwise. And if we think of the same example but with ourselves in the role of the insect, and the larger universe in the role we've just played, it's perfectly clear that we're affected every day by forces over which we have no more control than the poor beetle has over our gigantic foot as it descends upon it. What are we to do? We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
Arthur Golden
For Death's life to be extinguished... now that was something to truly dread.
Donna Grant
De-calcify the pineal gland with the detergent of imagination
Dean Cavanagh
Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.
Jack Campbell
Relationships are steppingstones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn more about who we are and what we want in this lifetime. They bring us into greater alignment…as long as we continue to move forward and do not get attached to hurt, anger, or being a victim.
Alaric Hutchinson
Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.
Mandy Hale
Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.
Marcel Proust
Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit.""Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You can have it. I'm giving it to you. After I'm gone, write it down. Explain everything. Make it mean something. Use a lot of those fancy metaphors of yours. Put the whole thing in proper chronological order, not like this mishmash I'm making you. Start with the night I was born. March second, 1915. There was a lunar eclipse that night, you know what that is?""When the earth's shadow falls across the Moon.""Very significant. I'm sure it's a perfect metaphor for something. Start with that.""Kind of trite." I said.He threw the Kleenex at my head. It bounced off my cheek and fell on the floor. I bent to pick it up. Somewhere in its fibers, it held what may have been the last tear my grandfather ever shed. Out of respect for his insistence on the meaninglessness of life--his, everyone's--I threw it into the wastebasket by the door.
Michael Chabon
Every time, Love pushed down the door where her loneliness lived. The Music came and sealed the chamber of her heart. She was filled with clear sweetness that was there from the start.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father’s throne.
Rick Riordan
An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Prolong not the pastInvite not the futureDo not alter your innate wakefulnessFear not appearancesThere in nothing more than this
Ram Dass
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis
You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'd like to make a twosome with two handsome trees. Make that a threesome as I'd also include a bush in the package, to keep it low profile.
Will Advise
The religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).
Dada Bhagwan
We need to protect and care for our children because when society fails to protect its children, there will be no one else to learn from.
Gift Gugu Mona
Yes you can let a guy bite you but not on the first date! he has to pay for dinner ! But you can bite him on the first date at no cost that is quite normal
Amy Mah
Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.
Shannon L. Alder
The full measure of a culture embraces both the actions of a people and the quality of their aspirations, the nature of the metaphors that propel their lives. And no description of a people can be complete without reference to the character of their homeland, the ecological and geographical matrix in which they have determined to live out their destiny. Just as a landscape defines character, culture springs from a spirit of place.
Wade Davis
Ask yourself this question both for current and possible future commitments: If I say yes to this, what am I saying no to?
Amber Hurdle
It doesn't really matter who you used to be, what matters is who you've become.
Robert Tew
Be true to yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.
Marty Rubin
What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.
Stefan Molyneux
I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.
Toba Beta
The next presumption is always valid: one's knowledge corresponds toone's intellectual capacity.
Eraldo Banovac
Impatience is a particularly dangerous habit of the heart because everything worthwhile takes time. Good marriages take time. Spiritual maturity takes time. Financial stability takes time. Effective ministry takes time. Wisdom takes time. People who are not willing to take time cannot have any of the above.
Jim Berg
Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
Tae Yun Kim
Be alert! Some people have problems. Don't let them be your problem and don't ever allow their problems to infect you through their words and actions! Stay happy!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.
Madeleine L'Engle
O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening.
Hermann Hesse
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.
Susan Sontag
When the shit hits the fan, you really have to ask yourself why you weren't sitting on the toilet.
Anthony T.Hincks