Quotes by Authors - Page 2684

Whether your glass is half full or half empty, hope can fill it up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Look at it this way: We're two people who happen to have a lot in common, a connection most people would kill for, we trust each other, and we have the kind of sex that people base pornos on. The fact that we're both men really doesn't make a difference, does it?
L.A. Witt
Booze makes you stupid and like it. It makes you fall around and not care. And eventually, stupid is the only way you know how to be. Cocaine makes you feel important, that life matters, that you matter. That the music is better than it really is. That every conversation is profound and that all pretenses have been stripped away. Ecstasy makes you dance all night and love your friends so much, in a way that you've never been able to tell them about before. Acid makes you see pretty colours and makes things breathe. But Sadness, there is nothing like Sadness.
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The patches are the stories. Hold onto that. And the muddy zigzag of ducktape against the cracked doorglass. There's four kids who sleep here, a nuff for the fingers on each otherses hands. There's room in each of them for one important thing. They're a band. It's not they're in a band. They're a band. Four spikes of ducktape, up and down, like mountain peaks or a sawblade. Every band's got a sign, something to sew on your jacket, gouge on the wall at a show. Four spikes up and down say MEATHEADS, and you picked a fucked window to knock at, tourist. They're the best band in the world.
Noah Wareness
Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.
Ana Hart
I never thought a little time and space would turn into miles and worlds apart
Anonymous
A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.
Erri De Luca
I am joyfully one with all existence.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.
Gary Rohrmayer
At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.
Isabel Allende
It's only crazy if we fail.
Henry Mosquera
I’m not comfortable in this stadium,” I explained, trying to look calm.“I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we’re still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you’ll still save the world. Okay?
James Patterson
We might give God our tithing, our material possessions, even our time and talents, but those are not really ours to begin with. They are gifts on loan. What is ours is the only genuine sacrifice we can lay on the altar—total submission.
Toni Sorenson
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.
George Orwell
When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.
Mandy Hale
He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Living your life on your own terms is utterly glorious. It makes perfect sense to you, but you have to be willing to let go of everything else. It has to be okay if nobody else likes that, but then when other people see that you are brave, you don’t mind. They’re fascinated by that because we all love brave people. We all love it when people are heroic.
Melinda Gebbie
Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.
Abhijit Naskar
Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.
Erin Kissane
The weekends are too short for sleep!
Bryant A. Loney
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
William Trevor
The cause of depression and stress are negative thoughts,Be positive, never infect your mind with negative thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
With love and faith everything is possible.
Debasish Mridha
Eventually I would learn that the enchanting tree was one of the resort's signatures, one of those subtle delightful touches that resonate on poetic, artistic, and even spiritual frequencies.
Leslie Le Mon
The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as military personnel and hordes of civilians are maimed or killed. It’s not their children out there, blinded by manufactured patriotism or lured into the service with the promise of economic stability, all with the sanctimonious blessings of misguided public consent by way of corporate, state-sponsored media. It won’t be their children who are terrorized by Wahabbist insurgents tearing through city blocks and rural areas as only an ever-devouring plague could. It won’t be any of their loved ones watching thousands of years of civilization unraveling like an old sweater as each thread of wool is lit on fire or stolen to sell on the black market for greedy consumers with a fetish for hijacked Mesopotamian artifacts.
M.B. Dallocchio
She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.
Laura Furman
Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.
Anthony Liccione
My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.
Erica Goros
There are possibilities that exist beyond our present "knowing," and to see those possibilities, we must abandon that which makes us feel safe.
Bryant McGill
The life of people who do not know their destiny becomes an infinite chain of activities that in fact do not actually mean anything for their success
Sunday Adelaja
Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.
Shannon L. Alder
I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.
Christine Feehan
Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.
Israelmore Ayivor
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
Garth Nix
Today, I will look around & enjoy all the beautiful things that are around me rather than yearn for things that are beyond my control & become miserable.-RVM
RVM
That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.
Soroosh Shahrivar
Every victory won was first won spiritually!
Lailah Gifty Akita
As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.
Ilsa J Bick
And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.
Jane Austen
I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.
Raegan Butcher
Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.
G.K. Chesterton
At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss.
Susanna Kearsley
Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.
Donna Lynn Hope
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
J.M. Barrie
The majority of boys think the highest form of creativity is weeing a pattern into snow.
Beth Garrod
Fate is the cruelest of masters, takingLife when it pleases or at random, handingRigged decks to whom it pleases, cheatingAll alike and none the wiser, takingEverything away from those with nothing.
Justin Wetch
Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.
Israelmore Ayivor
All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
Alan Moore
In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.
Tahir Shah
I am a man, and men do not drink pink drinks. Now, be gone, woman, and fetch me something brown." Jace said. "Brown?" said Isabelle."Yes. Brown. It's a manly color. See? Alec is wearing it." Jace said."Well, it was black but it faded." Alec said."Well, I can always fix it up with something sparkly," Magnus said, holding a sparkley headband. "Resist the urge, Alec, resist the urge." Simon said.
Cassandra Clare
No valentines from the cats again.
Lynne Truss
Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)
Brian Koppelman
The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)
William Goldman
I tell you, Professor, growing up is a full contact sport. Somewhere in our brains, foolishness and naïveté join forces with a false sense of invincibility. Together, they score own-goals against their host’s interests. All this happens while that referee known as ‘reason’ is collapsed in a drunken stupor, unable to stop the madness. When he finally wakes up, all he can do is grant the useless penalty known as ‘hindsight’. But the outcome remains unchanged. The game is lost …
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
The thing about the human race is, It turns up against everything or everyone that it loses its faith and belief on. And the saddest thing to witness is, Most of it have lost its faith towards humanity.
Akshay Vasu
Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.
J.S.B. Morse
In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.
H.E. Davey
And I still don’t know what I would do next. I still don’t know how to become an adult. But I know for sure that my parents would be proud of me, proud of their three daughters, no matter what path we choose. And it doesn’t matter if we get lost or choose the wrong path, because what matters is choosing to get back up once again.
Marcella Purnama
We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster