Quotes by Authors - Page 2391

We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light.
Raphael Zernoff
one morning in my early twenties when feeling quite suicidalI got into my locked car and someone had done a reversalthe Hawaiian necklace that hung on the rearview mirrorhad been turned around backwards in an event so queerin that moment I knew I was not alone in my strugglesand that all would be okay if I simply forgot my troubleslet it be known that you’ve got watchful guardian angelsI’ll tell you of yet another way that they make me so gratefultheir presence and assistance is often noticed as such:a shot of high frequency energy is felt as they touchreceiving a ringing in an ear while my mind goes meditativespiritually put back on track with a reminder of my objectivebecause of the prayers I practice this is how I’m aidedyour experiences may vary out of not caring to be persuadedhow often do you call out for help from on high?it’s their pleasure to assist if you’d just ask them to come byI can tell you straight away, they know your thoughtsand exactly how you’re feeling when you’re distraughtseeing you scanning this sentence as they’re in your presencedo you feel their love or have you taken a rigid stance?
Jarett Sabirsh
I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge, when times is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment, whether or not some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously, it’s not 100% infallible but by and large it definitely points you in the right direction and it's asking this question; are the men doing it? Are the men worrying about this as well? Is this taking up the men’s time? Are the men told not to do this, as it's letting the side down? Are the men having to write bloody books about this exasperating retarded, time-wasting, bullshit? Is this making Jeremy Clarkson feel insecure?Almost always the answer is no. The boys are not being told they have to be a certain way, they are just getting on with stuff.
Caitlin Moran
A woman sees war differently.
Tatjana Soli
who cares about all the problems and barriers, nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.
Tim Tharp
Stories are a different kind of true.
Emma Donoghue
Your attitudes are literally seeds for the growing of your future self.
Bryant McGill
Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
Kemi Sogunle
Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis.
Victor Hugo
If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Apparently, if you become one of Satan’s Minions, as a reward, he makes you immune to cancer, heart and liver disease.
Kristen Ashley
This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?""I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?""Yes," she said."That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.
Orson Scott Card
Marvel at how she,the patient gardener, the bringer of sleep,she who draws the bath and lights the candles,she who made you someone who could makehimself into someone, she made you wantto live more than anything else, and nowshe makes you want to leave the worldbecause you have seen it.
Neil Hilborn
If a person wants to be a true Christian, then he will endeavor to know Jesus and press towards being like Him in all things in order to reveal Him to the world.
Sunday Adelaja
Keep rechewing. Like a cow. Use all your creative stomachs.
Elizabeth M. Lawrence
animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature's fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world's most emotionally human land mammal.
Daphne Sheldrick
Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
Robert M. Drake
We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.
Santosh Kalwar
Zilpah had little use for men, whom she described as hairy, crude, and half human. Women needed men to make babies and to move heavy objects, but otherwise she didn't understand their purpose, much less appreciate their charms.
Anita Diamant
She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, that into a region so lovely no bale or woe could enter, but would be charmed away and disappear before the sight of the glorious guardian mountains. Now she knew the truth, that earth has no barrier which avails against agony.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.
Tom Robbins
Letting go is one of the most difficult experiences to deal with whether it's right or wrong. So make the most of every moment you've been gifted with. To whoever you initiate contact with and wherever, try to leave a positive impression. To whoever you have the power to make smile, exploit that power as often and best as you can, because when every other material thing fades, it's those memories that keep us alive
Ufuoma Apoki
If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the author is part of the job of a publisher.
Terena Scott
If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?
George Carlin
In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.
George F. Will
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.
Thomas Jefferson
After four marriages, and four deaths, she had everything in life a woman might desire: titled position, swollen coffers, the freedom to travel, and a world that accepted her because it was afraid of her.
Gail Carriger
How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.
Rachel Ward
Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.
Santosh Kalwar
The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.
Glen Duncan
Allow the resurrected Christ to allocate your time as His own . . . and have complete right-of-way throughout your being.
Billy Graham
Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive.
Kaz Lefave
The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
Robert Jordan
No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you.
Brittany Burgunder
You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.
Julie Ann Dawson
In spiritual terms, where ever your mind goes, that’s where your soul follows.
Catherine Carrigan
To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.
Randy Alcorn
The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.
Orrin Woodward
Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.
John Stahl-Wert
I love Sara, but something was taken from me at the church, something that she can’t relate to. Every time I walk outside I think maybe someone is going to grab me. I take a sip of a glass of water I got out of my own tap and swish it around in my mouth first, like maybe it’s a threat. And I’m starting to understand why Alex walks around on the balls of her feet, why her back muscles are always tensed, like a cat ready to spring.She knows. She gets it. So that’s why I’m going to tell Sara that I’m okay and leave it at that.
Mindy McGinnis
We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.
Mary DeTurris Poust
Your only limitations are the ties you allow to bind you.
Saundra Dalton-Smith
We are all constantly being refined by fire and smoothed over by grace.
Hallie Lord
If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.
Rachel Held Evans
The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.
Gayle Forman
The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.
Germaine Greer
Remember who you are by Gods divine plan and strive to fit into his divine pattern.
Ikechukwu Joseph
If you are longing for something more than the hit-and-run relationship cycle, something beautiful and meaningful in your life, then I'm going to lay it on the line. You must let go of the captain's position in your life and trust Him. You must give up the little you're hanging on to now to gain something infinitely greater. You must let go of the helm and let Him lead.
Eric Ludy
Ninety-five percent of the difficulties you will experience as a Christian can be traced to a lack of Bible study and reading.
Billy Graham
Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.
Dada Bhagwan
Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.
Michael S. Gazzaniga
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.
Irwin Shaw
Jeff watched her come, the whole time. He never noticed her mincing, hesitant steps on treacherous heels. He was simply swept up in the ancient ceremony. And discovering, as untold millions of young men had discovered before him, that there is nothing in the world as beautiful as his bride approaching.
Eric Flint
They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.
Michael Scott
You are the completeness of my incompleteness.
Avijeet Das
Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.
Stephanie Perkins
In the end,” Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, “it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That’s what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It’s lonely. It’s impossible. It’s all-consuming.” It is what it is.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.
Oscar Wilde