Quotes by Authors - Page 2530

Programming is a social activity.
Robert C. Martin
Today I bumped into you again. You seemed like that flower long forgotten in the old diary.
Avijeet Das
Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.
Sharon E. Rainey
Far more creativity, today, goes into marketing of products than into the products themselves
William Gibson
Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come. It won't be the end of all things to come.
Napz Cherub Pellazo
A king is a king, but a bard is the heart and soul of the people; he is their life in song, and the lamp which guides their steps along the paths of destiny. A bard is the essential spirit of the clan; he is the linking ring, the golden cord which unites the manifold ages of the clan, binding all that is past with all that is yet to come.
Stephen R. Lawhead
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?
Steven Erikson
You carry stories under your bright sad eyes, bag loads and I wish to god I could help you unload.
Melody Lee
Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.
Vironika Tugaleva
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.
Norton Juster
It is just the old way--that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar--if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, who professed to have come from God, was a better man, a different man--one of your first duties must be to open your ears to His words and see whether they seem to you to be true. Then, if they do, to obey them with your whole strength and might. This is the way of life, which will lead a man out of its miseries into life indeed.
George MacDonald
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
C.S. Lewis
Learning about sex was a little bit like learning grammar. Every teacher you had assumed some other teacher taught you the year before, or the year before that, as if none of them wanted to talk about it, as if grammar was a bunch of dirty words. A massive silence surrounded dangling participles and infinite clauses, and you learned to fear making mistakes you didn't know how to avoid.
Ann E. Imbrie
We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].
Darnell Lamont Walker
When speakers make eye contact with an audience, they will be perceived as being more prepared, more competent, confident, and trustworthy. Eye contact helps to relax the speaker and reminds them that their audience is made up of separate individuals who perceive things differently. Audience response is clearly seen in the expressions of their eyes.
Susan C.Young
Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.
Alison Bechdel
Don’t allow past experiences to be forgotten.Hold them close.
John-Talmage Mathis
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
J.K. Rowling
There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.
Alexander McCall Smith
Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
Auliq-Ice
Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?
Roman Payne
Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.
Elizabeth George
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.
Hal Borland
The more we talk about our troubles and our fears, the more life we breathe into them". HS/el
Evinda Lepins
True love isn’t just expressed in passionately whispered words oran intimate kiss or an embrace; before two people are married, love isexpressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
Joshua Harris
If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter of words; I am beginning to understand. There is something I longed for more than all the rest - without realizing it properly. It wasn’t love, heaven forbid, nor glory, nor wealth. It was…anyway, I had imagined that at certain moments my life could take on a rare and precious quality. There was no need for extraordinary circumstances: all I asked for was a little order. There is nothing very splendid about my life at present: but now and then, for example when they played music in the cafés, I would l look back and say to myself: in the old days, in London, Meknés, Tokyo, I have known wonderful moments, I have had adventures. It is that which has been taken away from me now. I have just learnt, all of a sudden, for no apparent reason, that I have been lying to myself for ten years. Adventures are in books. And naturally, everything they tell you about in books can happen in real life, but not in the same way. It was to this way of happening that I attached so much importance.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I set goals…I take chances…I dare to achieve…I win…I lose…I don’t quit…It’s my life and I’m not afraid to LIVE it!I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.
Steve Maraboli
Different people are different!
John Christian Edwards
The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.
Stefan Molyneux
Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding.
Agatha Christie
I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!
Loretta Chase
Penn is the brains behind this event. On behalf of my brothers, and all of the kids in the program, I’d like to say thank you.” Neil winked. “It seems that the four of us just can’t function without a strong, focused woman telling us what to do.
Gina Gordon
A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.
Colleen Houck
It's not always about fixing what is broken. Sometimes it's about starting over and creating something new.
Iva Ursano
Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers.And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.
James Salter
I am far more fearful of the USA government than I am of North Korea.
Steven Magee
Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough
John Mark Green
There are things you should never give up on like your convictions and ambitions but most importantly…you should never give up on you. Keep making those sacrifices, keep running that race, keep advancing beyond your struggles to your eventual goal. You will deeply value your triumphs, if they’re not handed to you. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is worth having or attaining without labor and toil. So when you’re in your darkest hour and the road seems endless, no matter what, never ever give up on you…because only you will see you through. ~Jason Versey
Jason Versey
A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.
James Rozoff
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Old is the tree and the fruit good,Very old and thick the wood.Woodman, is your courage stout?Beware! the root is wrapped aboutYour mother's heart, your father's bones;And like the mandrake comes with groans.
Robert Louis Stevenson
As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.
Sherry Turkle
You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
Elif Shafak
The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave.
Demi Lovato
Lots of people hate gay people.You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate gay people.
Ali Liebegott
Don’t lose yourself in the process of caring for others. Don’t overdo it as if you don’t need any care to give to yourself. It’s true, you are special too!
Israelmore Ayivor
Each would treasure going to hell if it would keep the other safe!
Sidney St. James
Be grateful for life. Show gratitude to others, whether it’s verbally or energetically, it has the same effect.
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths.
Pearl Zhu
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured.
T. L. Gayler
I have an attraction to strangeand unusual things.I find them interesting,spellbinding,utterly fascinating.
Melody Lee
The company makes the feast.
Anonymous
You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Shirley Chisholm
And what about your brother, Agus? Will he be entertaining us with his pipes?”t“Ahgg,” Shanks rasped, wrinkling his nose. “I didn’t tell you? He ain’t with us no more.” A heavy fist slammed on the arm of the Viidun’s chair as he growled, “The idiot went off and got himself killed!” t“What?” Derian and Eena replied in unison, both horrified by the news.t“You heard me,” Shanks bellowed. “The crazy fool should’ve known when to duck. He died in a bloody challenge with some brainless Deramptium! A downright disgraceful way to die! I’m ashamed to say he was my brother!”t“That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?” Eena muttered, mostly speaking to Derian.t“What was that?” the Viidun dem
Richelle E. Goodrich
I'm going on an adventure
J.R.R. Tolkien
I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had known her as a girl and I was starting to understand how spooked she'd felt. I wasn't sure I could take any more abandonments. One succumbs so easily to mind spasms, worry spasms. [p. 95]
Diane Ackerman