Quotes by Authors - Page 2277

People are living books. The real library of life is community.
Bryant McGill
Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.
Jack Campbell
Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.
Charlotte Brontë
If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly,I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.
Dorothy Hartley
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
Ann Brashares
Soldiers strike the foe in the face!
Florus
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
Yann Martel
They call each other `E.’ Elvis pickswildflowers near the river and bringsthem to Emily. She explains half-rhymes to him.In heaven Emily wears her hair long, sportsLevis and western blouses with rhinestones.Elvis is lean again, wears baggy trousersand T-shirts, a letterman’s jacket from Tupelo High.They take long walks and often hold hands.She prefers they remain just friends. Forever.Emily’s poems now contain naugahyde, Cadillacs,Electricity, jets, TV, Little Richard and RichardNixon. The rock-a-billy rhythm makes her smile.Elvis likes himself with style. This afternoonhe will play guitar and sing “I Taste A LiquorNever Brewed” to the tune of “Love Me Tender.”Emily will clap and harmonize. Alonein their cabins later, they’ll listen to the riverand nap. They will not think of Amherstor Las Vegas. They know why God made themroommates. It’s because Americawas their hometown. It’s becauseGod is a thing withoutfeathers. It’s becauseGod wears blue suede shoes.
Hans Ostrom
No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God’s eyes.” Beatrix continued, “nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground.
Elizabeth Gilbert
When she found a place of her ownand packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear,"He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she’s there all day.
Ian McEwan
If Allah wants to send me a message,he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.
Michael Muhammad Knight
I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.
Roald Dahl
Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your DreamsDistance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life.Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
Roy T. Bennett
You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.
Kathy Magliato
In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.
Bryant McGill
Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people
S.M. Stirling
One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
Billy Graham
We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, "Does this show respect for GodPeopleSelf?
Pam Farrel
You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.
Tony Morgan
Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.
Cassandra Clare
Our values were under attacks, in ParisTell them:We stand UNITEDWe'll defend our valuesWe'll NOT be DIVIDED
Widad Akreyi
Every mistake is a new learning adventure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.
Peggy Vincent
Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline
Buzz Aldrin
Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.
Amy Koppelman
Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams
R.J. Palacio
My father always used to tell one of his dreams, because it somehow seemed of a piece with what was to follow. He believed that it was a consequence of the thing's presence in the next room. My father dreamed of blood.It was the vividness of the dreams that was impressive, their minute detail and horrible reality. The blood came through the keyhole of a locked door which communicated with the next room. I suppose the two rooms had originally been designed en suite. It ran down the door panel with a viscous ripple, like the artificial one created in the conduit of Trumpingdon Street. But it was heavy, and smelled. The slow welling of it sopped the carpet and reached the bed. It was warm and sticky. My father woke up with the impression that it was all over his hands. He was rubbing his first two fingers together, trying to rid them of the greasy adhesion where the fingers joined." ("The Troll")
T.H. White
The Lord makes you a light. Live as a child of the light.
Lailah Gifty Akita
She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger
Paulo Coelho
When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.
Cassandra Clare
How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.
Debasish Mridha
There can't be a maybe someday between us. There will never be a maybe someday.
Colleen Hoover
It was as simply as that. And as complex.
Svetlana Meritt
I asked you a question. What are you doing here?"Resting his elbows on the side of the tub, he smiled lazily. She hated it when he smiled lazily. "Waiting for the bubbles to evaporate," he said.
Sandra Hill
She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and scream at the sight of it. But she knew that great grief came from great love, and that their grief was an honor to her. And she did love them so very much.
Anne Ursu
I wasn't there yet, I wasn't finding joy and gladness in my barrenness, but I believed I would. I believed He would make my barren soul as beautiful as His perfect garden.
Natalie Brenner
Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.
Alan McGlashan
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Erich Fromm
The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I've never completely overcome.
Kathi Daley
I wish I knew who I am," I whispered to the stars in Baya's eyes.Slowly, Baya shook his head. "Oh, Dust Girl, that's the hardest wish of all. Not even Baya can give you that one. That one you earn.
Sarah Zettel
So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn’t entirely sure I could trust this guy. I mean, this was it? Really? My life ends and some creep in a grungy leather jacket takes me away? No, I couldn’t accept that. -Jen
Nessie Strange
It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.
Sharon Sant
It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I appreciate the apology, but understand that you've done something very bad, you used me for a long and broken me and my trust very badly that I cannot so easily forgive. Maybe this will sort itself out in the future, but at the moment, I'd prefer it if you give me some reason to forgive you.
G.K. Dutta
You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor,' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.
Gemini Adams
I believe, completely, that life is about connection; that nothing else truly matters.
Sally Brampton
If you don’t know where you are going, ask those who have been there.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.
Steve Hagen
you're Shane, right?'He inched away from her and managed a quick nod as he twisted the rag he held in his fingers. 'Heidi sad you were willing to teach me how to ride.' Her expression shifted from entertained to confused, as if she was wondering why no one had mentioned he was a can or two shy of a six-pack. 'A horse,' he clarified, then wanted to kick himself. What else but a horse? Did he think she was here to learn to ride his mother's elephant? One corner of Annabelle's perfect, full mouth twitched. 'A horse would be good. You seem to have several.'He wanted to remind himself that he was usually fine around women. Smooth even. He was intelligent, funny and could, on occasion, be charming. Just not now, with his blood pumping and his brain doing nothing more than shouting "it's her, it's her" over and over again. Chemistry, he thought grimly. It could turn the smartest man into a drooling idiot. Here he was, proving the theory true.
Susan Mallery
You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.
Donna Kauffman
Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair." "Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair--say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"--and see how seriously people take you.
J. Budziszewski
We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis
Philip Zaleski
I did something the other day that not many have been taught. I prayed for those who hurt me, to eventually find there way- not because they deserve it but because i deserve the growth.
Nikki Rowe
Because in this way all I did was to accumulate past after past behind me, multiplying the pasts, and if one life was too dense and ramified and embroiled for me to bear it always with me, imagine so many lives, each with its own past and the pasts of the other lives that continue to become entangled one with the others.
Italo Calvino
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli
Why is the Chosen One always a he?
J.D. Cunegan
When he didn't answer, she didn't know if it was because he couldn't or if he was back to not talking to her. Back to pushing her out of his life.Men! Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand, when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?
C.C. Hunter
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal Mercier
When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman