Quotes by Authors - Page 2425

Life is always good, if those who are living a round you are happy with what's going on.
Auliq-Ice
Do not ignore your best friend because some other friend hurt you.
Debasish Mridha
You like it in jail?""It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?
Raymond Chandler
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
Katherine Mansfield
Her family... Love and involvement brought joy, but as well could become a hideously heavy millstone slung about one's neck. And the worst was that she felt useless because there was not a mortal thing she could do to help resolve their problems.
Rosamunde Pilcher
Iz," Alec said tiredly. "It's not like it's one big bad thing. It's a lot of little invisible things. When Magnus and I were traveling, and I'd call from the road, Dad never asked how he was. When I get up to talk in Clave meetings, no one listens, and I don't know if that's because I'm young or if it's because of something else. I saw Mom talking to a friend about her grandchildren and the second I walked into the room they shut up. Irina Cartwright told me it was a pity no one would ever inherit my blue eyes now." He shrugged and looked toward Magnus, who took a hand off the wheel for a moment to place it on Alec's. "It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's a million little paper cuts every day.
Cassandra Clare
Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.
Carl Henegan
Every day is a dance deed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.
Mackenzi Lee
A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.
Roman Payne
Mindset will change your reality and destination. Are you ready? If yes, start THINKING victory. Trust me - you will win.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
What you conquer in your soul you conquer in your world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.
Fennel Hudson
What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as close to a stuffed animal as you're ever going to get from a Spartan like Logan Quinn.
Jennifer Estep
I was born to serve.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When we're together, I'm a leaf floating on a pond. Weightlessly in love.
Atalina Wright
Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
Charles Dickens
The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.
H.W. Brands
When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...
Tennessee Williams
Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.
Carmela Dutra
The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you’ll have of that situation in the long run.
Abhijit Naskar
Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than to what she was saying. This use of the singular form, stripped of the tone of affection, ceased, after a moment, to afford Julien any pleasure, he was astonished at the absence of happiness; finally, in order to feel it, he had recourse to his reason. He saw himself highly esteemed by this girl who was so proud, and never bestowed unrestricted praise; by this line of reasoning he arrived at a gratification of his self-esteem.
Stendhal
A tuna can only boast in a pond, but a whale can boast even in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.
Robin Sloan
If I had wanted children of my own, I would have gotten married. If I had wanted to get married, I would have fallen in love. If I had wanted to fall in love, I would have met the right girl. If I had wanted to meet the right girl, I would have drank a whole lot less.
Carroll Bryant
Through silent alleys where dark shadows fleeted past them like forest beasts on the prowl; through bustling market-places where bloaters predominated, into crammed gin-palaces where the gas flashed over faces whereon was stamped the indelible impression of a protest against creation; brushing tatters which were in gruesome harmony with the haggard or bloated features.("The Phantom Model
Hume Nisbet
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle
Cornel West
This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet.
Salman Rushdie
I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
Jonathan Safran Foer
Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn't to be judged. Repeat the above each day.
Brittany Burgunder
Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
Brent Weeks
The future is a great land.
Anonymous
He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.
James Dashner
Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.
Smiley Blanton
Jung was the first to propose the model of psychic energy, suggesting that for introverts, energy flows inward, while for extroverts, energy flows outward. Introverts tend to embrace this definition. It fels right for us because we know exactly what it feels like to have our energy depleted when we have sent too much flowing outward.
Sophia Dembling
I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Love Is How You How You Dress
Maurys Gaucho
Was he shiny and bright and something sucked it out of him? Cecilia thought. But stars are a load of fire, maybe his were flamed out, but could they burn out again? After Cecilia drew him and his empty eyes, she wanted to write those words down, it felt like song lyrics. And she did. Making it in bold letters.
Basma Salem
We cannot compare our position to the people in this world
Sunday Adelaja
Speak life. Let your voice be heard around the globe. Speak into existence prosperity, peace, love, happiness. Allow yours words to transcend throughout space and time.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
... waiting for the spell to end, as all spells must.
Angie Sage
(by the way . . . I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it . . . ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in.)
Charles Bukowski
The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.
Victoria Schwab
If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.
Terry Pratchett
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND REMIND EVERYONEOF THE SUFFERING...OF THE ENSLAVED...YAZIDI WOMEN
Widad Akreyi
Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.
Idries Shah
I like pancakes.
Brandon Mull
Success can make anyone look good, it is the failures that reveal the true face of a man.
Apoorve Dubey
Grief is a hone to a hard mind.
J.R.R. Tolkien
It is a state of peace to be able to accept things as they are. This is to be at home in our own lives. We see that this universe is much too big to hold on to, but it is the perfect size for letting go. Our hearts and minds become that big, and we can actually let go. This is the gift of equanimity.
Sharon Salzberg
The first and the last steps on the ladder of life are the most insightful.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Authors do not need to offer us the answers to such weighty questions such as how to live and prepare us to accept death. The aim of a writer’s is to frame worldly questions that allow all readers too independently and jointly explore life-altering questions in a way that satisfies the fabric of thought corresponding to our respective times.
Kilroy J. Oldster
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him.
Katherine Boo
Gundar, seeing Halt upright for the first time in two days, stumped up the deck to join them.'Back on your feet then?' he boomed cheerfully, with typical Skandian tact. 'By Gorlag's toenails, with all the heaving abd puking you've been doing, I thought you'd turn yourself inside out and puke yourself over the rail!'...'You do paint a pretty picture, Gundar,' Will said...'Thank you for your concern,' Halt said icily...'So, did you find Albert?' Gundar went on, unabashed. Even Halt was puzzled by this sudden apparent change of subject.'Albert?' he asked. Too late, he saw Gundar's grin widening and knew he'd stepped into a trap.'You seemed to be looking for him. You'd lean over the rail and call, 'Al-b-e-e-e-e-e-r-t!' I thought he might be some Araluen sea god.''No, I didn't find him. Maybe I could look for him in your helmet.'He reached out a hand. But Gundar had heard what happened when Skandians lent their helmets to the grim-faced Ranger while onboard ship...'No, I'm pretty sure he's not there,' he said hurriedly.
John Flanagan
A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm.
Kathy Bryson
It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
Louisa May Alcott