Quotes by Authors - Page 2224

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.
Israelmore Ayivor
Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.
Habeeb Akande
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.I walk into a roomJust as cool as you please,And to a man,The fellows stand orFall down on their knees.Then they swarm around me,A hive of honey bees.I say,It's the fire in my eyes,And the flash of my teeth,The swing in my waist,And the joy in my feet.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.Men themselves have wonderedWhat they see in me.They try so muchBut they can't touchMy inner mystery.When I try to show themThey say they still can't see.I say,It's in the arch of my back,The sun of my smile,The ride of my breasts,The grace of my style.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.Now you understandJust why my head's not bowed.I don't shout or jump aboutOr have to talk real loud.When you see me passingIt ought to make you proud.I say,It's in the click of my heels,The bend of my hair,the palm of my hand,The need of my care,'Cause I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.
Maya Angelou
Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything in the dream was really you? Well this is how many mystics describe the nature of our reality, as a dream in which we think we are individual personalities existing in the physical universe. But eventually, like in all dreams, we will wake up. Except in this dream we do not wake up to realize we are still in the world, we awake from the world to realize that we are God.
Joseph P. Kauffman
It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.
J.J. Brown
People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.
Brian Tracy
For the next two weeks, the world and all other issues would be omitted. We were two people alone in a hospital room. We allowed no visitors. We had two weeks of near-silence with each other and my increasing helplessness. I tended to tangle the IV and misplace the oxygen tube. As I started to say earlier, I could feel no sensible interest in the future. The moments became extraordinarily dimensionless - not without value but flat and a great deal emptier. When you learn you're fatally ill, time becomes very confusing, perhaps uninteresting, pedestrian. But my not caring if I lived or died hurt Ellen. And I was grateful that I could indulge my cowardice toward death in terms of living for her.
Harold Brodkey
Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.
Sasha Graham
In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon.
Marty Rubin
Hawksmoor had often noticed how, in the moments when he first carne upon a corpse, all the objects around it wavered for an instant and became unreal- the trees which rose above a body hidden in woodland, the movement of the river which had washed a body onto its banks, the cars or hedges in a suburban street where a murderer had left a victim, all of these things seemed at such times to be suddenly drained of meaning like an hallucination.
Peter Ackroyd
You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.
Jim Butcher
Music may be his passion -- but this, right here, was his dream.
Rachel Harris
The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.
Deepak Chopra
Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
Chip Ingram
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.
Barry López
Parents must teach their children the fear of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
i swallowed the syllables of your nameand i was full.
Ava
He starts kissing my back and I shiver.” —Sofia Herrera (Exposed, Unbearable Passion, #3)
Scarlett Avery
Yo, cop. We're heading for Screamer's. You wanna come?" Butch looked up at the doorway. Vishous was in the hall with Rhage and Phury behind him. The vampires had expectant looks on their faces, like they honestly wanted to hang with him. Butch found himself grinning like the new kid who didn't have to sit alone at lunch after all.
J.R. Ward
People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen.
Kaitlin Bevis
Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.
David J Schwartz
Now don’t go thinking nice things about me. You’ll only be disappointed.
Ally Blake
An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poorso the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.
Allan Wolf
The beauty of inspiration is its unpredictable timing.
T.F. Hodge
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.
Idries Shah
It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can't stand, to try so hard and to end in nothing. You know what I mean, don't you? ... I really loved to write.
Cornell Woolrich
Don’t be adamant; don’t make up your mind about all the things that don’t even have anything at all to do with you. Don’t be too quick to define right and wrong. Life has a way of putting the adamant person into the very situations they’ve made up their minds about, in order to change those very decisions. So, unless you want the things that you judge in others to happen to you, you’d better live and let live.
C. JoyBell C.
Subtle voices’ are those positive or negative words that are subtly spoken into our lives. These ‘subtle voices’, although subtle, are too powerful because they tend to shape our thoughts and inform our actions. That is why it is essential that we be selective of what we allow into our thoughts.
D.S Mashego
Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.
Steve Hagen
You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came.
Charles Bukowski
Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.
Doreen Virtue
I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
Jonathan Harnisch
If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
William Paul Young
Nestled in the valley of darkness, in the deepest depths of depression, are the priceless gems of; creativity, intuition and sensitivity. The trick is learning how to navigate the dark, so these precious gems can be unearthed and their beauty beheld.
Jaeda DeWalt
In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.
Emery Lord
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
Oscar Wilde
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee
If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
Pat Murphy
Your dream is the prayer the Universe makes to you, because in its fulfilment it grows together with you.
Dragos Bratasanu
One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.
Harold Holzer
Fear is all in the mind
Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Rudyard Kipling
He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he’d contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]
Guy Gavriel Kay
Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
This time his voice comes from the left and I hear his footfall moving around my body as I obey. Suddenly I am all limbs, stretching out to please him. I am absurdly vulnerable and beyond aroused. I want him now.
Felicity Brandon
A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.
Anaïs Nin
Not everyone can just up an’ go whenever they please!
Jason Medina
But Malone was thinking now and as he watched the men lighting cigarettes for each other in the dark, having sex beneath the trees, he turned to his friend and said in a wondering voice: “Isn’t it strange that when we fall in love, this great dream we have, this extraordinary disease, the only thing in which either one of us is interested, it’s inevitably with some perfectly ordinary drip who for some reason we cannot define is the magic bearer, the magician, the one who brings all this to us. Why?
Andrew Holleran
...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.
Taite Adams
We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.
Craig Groeschel
It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That’s fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one
Kristiane Backer
Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.
Amit Kalantri
An individual is no match for history.
Roberto Bolaño
Lily was listening; Mrs. Ramsay was listening; they were all listening. But already bored, Lily felt that something was lacking; Mr. Bankes felt that something was lacking. Pulling her shawl round her Mrs. Ramsay felt that something was lacking. All of them bending themselves to listen thought, "Pray heaven that the inside of my mind may not be exposed," for each thought, "The others are feeling this. They are outraged and indignant with the government about the fishermen. Whereas, I feel nothing at all.
Virginia Woolf
I want to say this to every stepmother: take it a little easier, try not to be so insistent, try not to have your desires dominate—and not just with the stepchildren, but with your husband, your family, your friends. The moment you step back from whatever it is that exasperates you, you get an unrestricted view of the situation—and you can take a breath before you move forward.
Margit Eva Bernard
Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution.
Sara Pennypacker
The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For whom should the government be? For educated people or few others. Government should be for the poor. If rich want to educate their children, they can send anywhere. If rich fall ill, hundreds of doctors are at service. So the foremost responsibility of the government should be to listen to the poor and work for them. If we do not work for the poor, the people will never pardon us.
Narendra Modi
Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.
J. Oswald Sanders