Quotes by Authors - Page 2469

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
My heart only beats as an echo of yours.
Lisa Kleypas
What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.
Ann Aguirre
Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Idries Shah
How I ever could have thought he was boring or easy was beyond me’ (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 471).
Danielle Weiler
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Tom Robbins
Everyone has instances or times in life when they feel alone on their journey.
Ken Poirot
Everything does fall. It must be gravity.
Dan Brown
Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Be not be discourage by the rejections. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Be not be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly to a greater extent rejected, spat upon and seen as unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is to be accepted
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.
D. Biswas
Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?Lestat: Of courseDavid: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a...a most impressive piece of young male flesh.Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to..David: You've been with a woman, haven't you?Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you?David: A woman you loved.Lestat: I have always loved both men and women.David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love.
Anne Rice
At a trade show, someone said, "You'll get in trouble for that." I replied,"Are they going to call the trade show police?
Tim Fargo
The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope, and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people waiting to whom the packages were directed. I fancied, indeed, that he sometimes chuckled audibly over this reflection, but the carrier said he was only troubled with a cough." -Chapter 3
Charles Dickens
I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.
E.M. Forster
What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.
Vivian Amis
Nothing is so powerful as love and simple kindness.
Debasish Mridha
I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative
Jay Woodman
Prayer is a jouney, a path that is created only by walking it. It creates and reveals oneself in the process.
Edward Farrell
Love is a song, written in your heart.The moon is a poem in a starry night.
Debasish Mridha
Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.
Candace Bushnell
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Education unlocks the greatest potential of the human mind.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
William Gibson
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
Christina Baldwin
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it.
Erica Jong
Today is a tomorrow that we thought about yesterday. Don't worry about tomorrow. Take care of today because if you take care of today tomorrow will take care of itself.
RVM
Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry.'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...''But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!''Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.
J.K. Rowling
... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change.
Michael Ende
Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.
Liza M. Wiemer
Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.
Herbert M. Shelton
The food you eat can be either the safe & most powerful medicine or the slowest poison.
Sukhraj Dhillon
Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.
Wendelin Van Draanen
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.
Tim O'Brien
You're impossible," she told him. "Of course I am," he answered. "It's part of my charm.
David Eddings
A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.
Jean-Paul Sartre
To have a deeper understanding of life one must pause from looking outward and travel inward into the depths of consciousness.
Jiulio Consiglio
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
Dorothy L. Sayers
We tried not to be in the same room at the same time when Starr was home, we set the air on fire between us.
Janet Fitch
The time is always right to create the life you want.
Jacquie Gauthier
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!
Sarah Ferguson
Be joyful and beautiful like a flower and share your treasures with the universe.
Debasish Mridha
Break my heart or break my fall.
Amber Newberry
Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.
Jessica Fortunato
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
Winston S. Churchill
Taking responsibility of your life and knowing the fact that YOU attract people and events in your life is scary, isn’t it?
Maddy Malhotra
Proving himself to himself was no small matter.
H.W. Brands
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
Madeleine L'Engle
OSHA's lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.
Steven Magee
Even if you are not aware of it, there are moments when you are receiving hints, a nudge, or support from the other side.
Linda Westphal
I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you…
Rainbow Rowell
You're more mean-spirited than I remember you being.""It's this organic body. Hologram fur wasn't itchy.
Howard Tayler
I want you to stay here ...with me."t"All night?"t"All night."tDrew cupped her face with his hands giving her a gentle kiss. "In my arms.
Mary J. Williams
Give it a try.. for you are born to fly high; don’t sit on the shores, don’t wait and sigh.
Vikrmn
True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation.
Ken Poirot
They say a basis in fact underlies most legends. They say it all the time, all those Wise Elders in all those old horror films, the high priests, the scientists, the gypsy fortune tellers. On this single issue they agree unanimously.
Robert Dunbar
Pay attention to your life and you will see bits of 'magic' that happens precisely when you need it to happen.
Linda Westphal
...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
Markus Zusak
Don't let your journey fade. It's God's way of reminding us that we need him in our lives and it's not wrong
Shellie Palmer