Quotes by Authors - Page 2619

The sooner it's over, the sooner we can go back to bed. Everything good happens in bed.
Erin Kellison
Poetry, is a life long war wagedagainst ineffable beauty.
Atticus Poetry
I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.
Cassandra Clare
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
Kisses are a means to plant on another's lips a smile glossed with happiness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
You don't need to move mountains when love will fly you over.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men!
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.
Ned Rorem
The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.
Steven Magee
The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.
Tullian Tchividjian
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.
Jonathan Haidt
Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.
Suzy Kassem
People who live life in fear of taking risks die without living it.
Fola
We are all broken, but none of us are beyond fixing".
Bella Forrest
Maybee there is no guile here," Deor suggested. "Perhaps it is just a group of dragons who have come together to raid the hold.""The diffirence? if they pretend to cooperate ... they must cooperate to pretend. It would be worse than a guile.
James Enge
I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye
Maggie Stiefvater
No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.
Andrzej Sapkowski
Shafts of delicious sunlight struck down onto the forest floor and overhead you could see a blue sky between the tree tops.
C.S. Lewis
Faith is confident trust in God and the salvation He provides in His Son Jesus Christ.
Jim George
He openned the door that he assumed was the garage only to find himself in the pantry.crap."Um . . . grabbing some Pop-Tarts for the road," Nick said, covering his mistake. Still, they both stared at him as if he'd escaped Arkham Asylum. Offering them a fake smile, he grabbed the pastries, crossed himself, and hoped he got the next door correct.Nope. Bathroom.With a pain-filled groan at his rampant stupidity, Nick pretended to use it before he tried again. At least there were only two more doors to go.Fifty-fifty chance.Thankfully, third time was the charm.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The most important truth we tell is the truth we tell ourselves.
Tehya Sky
I’m not sure a real man would smoke something that sounds like a mixed drink ice cream cone.
Elle Lothlorien
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It’s about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks
Natasha Tsakos
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.
C.S. Lewis
I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.
Matthew Norman
In both roles, as journalist and as organizer, I'd learn that it's possible to fall in love with a revolution—then doubt it, fight with it, lose faith in it, and return with a sense of humor and a harder, lasting love. I would have to learn the same thing about church when I was much older, and it would be no easier.
Sara Miles
​On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.
Abhijit Naskar
He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take a look at him. Shane?""I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.
Rachel Caine
My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.
Mindy Kaling
Rise above storms.Sail against tides.Succeed against the odds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?
Jess C. Scott
For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories. During the season, it was always the most recent game. They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a bond between them.
Paul Auster
We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.
Rasmenia Massoud
Guns' aka Luke Gunner had a record as long as my cock. Believe me, it was impressive." ~Lloyd Ledbetter
Eva LeNoir
Forgiveness is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, it not only refuses to eliminate the original wound, but actually draws us closer to its source. To approach forgiveness is to close in on the nature of the hurt itself, the only remedy being, as we approach its raw centre, to reimagine our relation to it.
David Whyte
As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars.
Gregory Maguire
What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?
Laini Taylor
Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. Because being real is impressive!
Jonathan Harnisch
Sex is sacred if performed as a culmination of love, if done just to satisfy the lust, it indeed dents the character.
Girdhar Joshi
I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.
Elizabeth Berrien
What you call mistakes and failures are valuable experiences.
Lailah Gifty Akita
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.
Debasish Mridha
I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
Marisha Pessl
When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.
Daniel Klein
Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
Shana Alexander
It is proven that the glass in your environment may be able to affect your health.
Steven Magee
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
China Miéville
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale
You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.
Julian Barnes
That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.
Thérèse de Lisieux
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
Madeleine L'Engle
Be to believe, feel to love, and create to inspire.
Debasish Mridha
We never love a person after judging them because that's not love then, But today's life lesson is to judge a person before falling in love with that person, It's hard to trust anyone in this cruel world where all are determined to hurt you by any mean.
Debolina Bhawal