Quotes by Authors - Page 2475

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.
Leslie Jamison
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
Jonathan Safran Foer
(...)And what did I want? (...)A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. (...) There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy's arms around me and WATCH THE WIND MOVE THE CLOUDS. (...)
Leigh Bardugo
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future
FM-2030
Speculation, movements having abandoned rational thought, echo chambers, projection, hypocrisy by little to no self-awareness, bewildering minds brainwashed and manipulative hearts manipulated - one is sure to find these à la people cock-sure in their biased and fanatical, immovable despising of persons. We would all do well to humbly re-think from time to time: 'Whom do I really hate? For what purpose?
Criss Jami
People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.
Debra Crown LPC-S LCDC
Celine snorted. “Never have I ever had a thing for blondes,” she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger —meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
Seth Brown
There were three, very large males standing above her, staring. She started from left to right. Big green-eyed male, big green-eyed male and, hey, lookie there, another big green-eyed male. Dear gods. Did I fall so hard that now I am seeing three of them?
Madison Thorne Grey
Freedom - rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?
Ian C. Esslemont
My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in parenting books is similarly arbitrary. At least I admit it.)
Alfie Kohn
If you have a choice, choose kindness.
Mary Meade Eastman
No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.
Marisa de los Santos
I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.
Stephen Sondheim
It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.
Rachel Hawthorne
An invisible, yet active current of mental energy, underscores any book as well as any other form of artistic creation. A creative burst of psychological energy ignites any creative project. The emotional energy that underlies the artistic work propels it forward endowing it with articulation, texture, rhythm, and movement. When the expressive energy of the artist flags, the work comes to a stopping point and it takes on its final composition.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Do not allow the fear of hurting stop you from loving.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Through my history's despiteand ruin, I have cometo its remainder, and herehave made the beginningof a farm intended to becomemy art of being here.By it I would instructmy wants: they should belongto each other and to this place.Until my song comes hereto learn its words, my artis but the hope of song.(Part 2 from History is Clearing, p 174)
Wendell Berry
Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.
Marty Rubin
When I was young I couldn't string two words together in his presence. I would merely nod and shake my head. Though on a fortunate day, I could force out monosyllabic answers. Tonight, everything suddenly changed.
Aniesha Brahma
A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.
Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble
In a time where everyone is searching for success, it's easy for other so called entrepreneurs to live off them because they haven't learned patience when it comes to money.
James Jean-Pierre
When life hits you down, you have a choice make it- You either stay down and feel sorry for yourself or get up and believe in your self.
Tilicia Haridat
I am Not a Pirate, I merely watch movies and delete them. Never store them on my computer.
Kalyan C. Kankanala
I’m a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet respect for science was no match for the American innovation machine once unleashed. The problem comes when the government is inhibiting innovation with overregulation and short-sighted policy. Trade wars and restrictive immigration regulations will limit America’s ability to attract the best and brightest minds, minds needed for this and every forthcoming Sputnik moment.
Garry Kasparov
Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood
J.K. Rowling
It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.
Allie Brosh
You have to do what your heart dictates," Vivian says. "Do you believe that?""Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?
Anita Shreve
Terrified, yes. But I run toward the fire now. Not away.
Todd Crawshaw
A meme a day keeps the planes away.
Meme McDonald
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.
Dinaw Mengestu
We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].
Dada Bhagwan
My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.
Billy Graham
There will be peace in the world when we will learn to understand that there are no you and me, there is only we in this world.
Debasish Mridha
I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window. He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
Washington Irving
Sometimes, it is easier for people to believe lies then deal with the uncomfortableness of their own fear of action. These type of people feel uncomfortable unless everyone is the same or God presents them with what is easy and obvious. It is a life long coping mechanism for the greatest fear of all--regret.
Shannon L. Alder
Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo
As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder.
Paul E. Miller
Beauty is an advantage, smile is guarantee.
Amit Kalantri
If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
Sarah Dessen
Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.
Steven Erikson
What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.
Mandy Hale
Closing the deal is not just selling, it is MOVING people from where they are to where they should be; helping them make the right choices and take action toward their financial freedom, peace of mind, and legacy.
Farshad Asl
Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.
John Green
The mandate of the church is to promote kingdom expansion throughout the earth
Sunday Adelaja
Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how.
Shannon L. Alder
Hatred and disdain do harm to the donor not the intended recipient…The Strength in Knowing ----- by I. Alan Appt
I.Alan Appt
I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.
Gail Carson Levine
A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.
Kent Alan Robinson
Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.
Lily Graham
Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage
Benny Bellamacina
My existence is enough gift of grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love.
David Kinnaman
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
John Muir
I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
Stephen Colbert