Quotes by Authors - Page 2602

The closest thing I have to a spiritual experience anymore is a Mocha Frappe from McDonald's.
Laura A. Lord
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”(August 9, 1955)
Flannery O'Connor
I believe that a godly home is a foretaste of heaven. Our homes, imperfect as they are, must be a haven from the chaos outside. They should be a reflection of our eternal home, where troubled souls find peace, weary hearts find rest, hungry bodies find refreshment, lonely pilgrims find communion, and wounded spirits find compassion.
Jani Ortlund
A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.
Tsutomu Nihei
Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does.
Debasish Mridha
In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed.
Oche Otorkpa
But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.
Maria V. Snyder
Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why were the Aztecs and Incas patriarchal? It is far more likely that even though the precise definition of man and woman varies between cultures, there is some universal biological reason why almost all cultures valued manhood over womanhood. We do not know what this reason is; there are plenty of theories, none of the convincing.
Yuval Noah Harari
I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?
Elizabeth Berg
I think we’re already dead, dude. Not everyone, just Deckers. The whole Death-Cast thing seems too fantasy to be true. Knowing when our last day is going down so we can live it right? Straight-up fantasy. The first afterlife kicks off when Death-Cast tells us to live out our day knowing it’s our last; that way we’ll take full advantage of it, thinking we’re still alive. Then we enter the next and final afterlife without any regrets
Adam Silvera
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
Craig Groeschel
To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.
Brian L. Weiss
I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating them, and prevent them from losing their pages over the years like a man loses his hair. But inventing the stories in them, filling new, empty pages with right words-- I can't do that. That's a very different trade. A famous writer once wrote, 'An author can be seen as three things: a storyteller, a teacher, or magician-- but a magician, the enchanter, is in the ascendant.
Cornelia Funke
Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses.
Virginia Woolf
I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.
Jodi Picoult
Why would men want to do without women? We adore women.”“Because they serve you,” she grumbled.“No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women.
Susan Mallery
Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?
Ernest Cline
Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude
Michael R. Fletcher
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
Bernard Malamud
They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.
Isaac Asimov
It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Where there is love, there is abundance.
Debasish Mridha
Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are an epopt always.' The reference is not only to knowledge but to their chrism, whose mark, being invisible, is ineradicable. You know our chrism."I nodded again."Less even than theirs can it be washed away. Should you leave now, men will only say, 'He was nurtured by the torturers.' But when you have been anointed they will say, 'He is a torturer.' You may follow the plow or the drum, but still you will hear, 'He is a torturer.' Do you understand that?
Gene Wolfe
Have to Find...life...is...a—...gamble...after ...all.
Ellen Hopkins
In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.
Karen Lord
Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision
Pearl Zhu
But, I get this feeling that if I stay close to you, I'll find what I'm looking for
Jamie Magee
You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.
Kevin Leman
For a stairs to be safe, every step on that stairs has to be safe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.
Richard Florida
Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Well, remember, active Grims can't have children. Fertility is adversley affected by the proximity to the ether, to Elixir, and all sorts of other components-- plus, the Grimsphere is no place to raise a family, even if woman conceive here."Lex snuck a glance at Driggs, but Uncle Mort caught her."That doesn't mean you get a free pass to ride the baloney pony when ever you want to. Got it?
Gina Damico
And then, to the sound of death, the sound of the jets cutting the sky in two black pieces beyond the horizon, he would lie in the loft, hidden and safe, watching those strange new stars over the rim of the earth, fleeing from the soft color of dawn.
Ray Bradbury
Purpose is more important than the process that leads there.
Debasish Mridha
Showing up underdressed is as smart as standing in the marketplace and shouting you've become an agent for the crown.""I'd hang myself first. I hate being a female.""Well until you sprout a beard and cock there you are.
Lynn Viehl
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!
Natsuki Takaya
His lips were practically grazing my nose. His gray eyes were so intense I could feel them reach my soul—if that were possible, anyways. With a smile so devious on his face and in his eyes Xavier whispered, "I can tell that every part of you wants to give in to what I am. The feeling that you feel right now is consuming. I’ve been there before, Ava. You can’t deny everything much longer."tClosing my eyes, and swallowing back every temptation I felt, I backed away from his warmth. I opened my eyes to see his eyes searching my face in pure awe.tt"Watch me," I challenged.
Barbara C. Doyle
Filter all negative voices. But retain the positive.
Lailah Gifty Akita
...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...
John Geddes
 Since I don't know what execrable means, I though I should look it up so I'll be better equipped to deal with whatever I'm about to see." Ignoring the ladies' tottering Millie continued perusing the pages until she found the word she was looking for. Lifting her head after she read the definition, she glanced around. "Begging your pardon Mrs. Cutling, but I don't see anything out here of a wretched or"- she returned her attention to the dictionary- "abominable nature. Although" -she flipped the pages to the A's -" I don't know what that means either.
Jen Turano
I don’t need the facts. I’m a Pisces.
Phil Volatile
God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.
C.S. Lewis
Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief.
Israelmore Ayivor
Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
Glen Cook
You must have something in order to give it up.
M. Scott Peck
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
Neil Gaiman
Time's up! Tomorrow just arrived.
LM Fields
I can hardly remember my bleak life before you.
Lauren Kate
Sometimes,” she whispered, her lips brushing his cheek, “you need to be lost in order to be found.
Danika Stone
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
Criss Jami
I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.
Paul Farmer
The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.
Anna Agoncillo
Whenever you should question your self-worth, always remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.
Suzy Kassem
In order to cease our striving, we must transfer our trust away from our own abilities, our own accomplishments, our own strength, and place it on His provision.
Charles R. Swindoll
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan Poe
That’s what great art does—that’s why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.
Kate Lord Brown
As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.
Abhijit Naskar
I'm strong beyond appearances reveal,But I'm human, and have weak moments still.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane
Rachel Caine