Quotes by Authors - Page 2692

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.
Alessandra Torre
You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
John Green
I mean, it's okay if you're the one with the low sex drive. We'll just have to adjust and learn to accommodate that.
Erin McCarthy
We have to learn the art of stopping - stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness, the strong emotions that rule us. When an emotion rushes through us like a storm, we have no peace. We turn on the TV and then we turn it off. We pick up a book and then we put it down. How can we stop this state of agitation? How How can we stop our fear, despair, anger, and craving? We can stop by practicing mindful breathing, mindful walking, mindful smiling, and deep looking in order to understand. When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.
Bill George
We are Anonymous! We are the difference between the light and the dark, We are Justice. We believe in freedom, equality, human rights. and we stand as one! We don't have to prove that we can hack. we dont have to hack. we're not a group or an organisation. were a movement, a movement of people, people who believe in the right thing. We are everyone, your best friend, your brother, your sister, your mother, a random person you see on the streets, if not, we represent them, everyone who's not corrupt. We are anonymous. expect us!
Anon1467
Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.
Julian Barnes
Simply by changing our thoughts, we can sow the seeds of happiness in the garden of our minds.
Debasish Mridha
Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.
Kelli Jae Baeli
Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
John Green
Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.
Abhijit Naskar
The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.
Janet Mock
Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.
Debasish Mridha
Every heart must have its privatebestseller book.
Sanober Khan
The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes.)
Charles de Leusse
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
Brandon Mull
The word is my weapon. FIRE!
Ljupka Cvetanova
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
Helen Keller
Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.
Alan Cohen
Notice how extraordinary your life truly is. It’s filled with love. Open your heart to it.
Amy Leigh Mercree
A sudden shock rattles your soul. The ground shifts. In minutes it is over, but it takes a long time to find your center of balance again
Susan Spencer-Wendel
A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
And the way it felt?" I whisper, as if that might soften the blow of embarrassment I'm about to deal. "Is that how you were feeling - how you feel - about me?" A breeze comes off the ocean, and my skin feels strangely empty and open as he gives an almost imperceptible nod.
Elizabeth Norris
How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?
Sylvia Plath
The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
Alain de Botton
The holy sword, the Holy Scripture.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You have to stretch your soul to find your potential strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Never compare your love life from what you read or watched in a movie. Those are carefully thought about, yours on the good will of fate
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Human nature is all alike.
Mark Twain
For it is a fact that men must ejaculate in order to reproduce (although science may soon remove this necessity.) Women, on the other hand, do not need to achieve orgasm to reproduce. Men, therefore, have the clear advantage here, in that most of them find it very easy work to achieve sexual satisfaction.
Nancy Madore
Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–characters even–caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you
Diane Setterfield
...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
Nelson Algren
I found most of my friends quite content to be used as tax-material, even though the sums of money taken from them were employed against their own beliefs and interests. They had lived so long under the system of using others, and then in their turn being used by them, that they were like hypnotized subjects, and looked on this subjecting and using of each other as a part of the necessary and even Providential order of things. The great machine had taken possession of their souls.
Auberon Herbert
I would call celebrity worship a new form of religious culture, fans may not even know the fallen celebrit[ies], yet they draw quite a bit of meaning from them." - Gary Laderman, a professor of religion at Emory University
J.D. Reed
What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation."Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.
Gail Carriger
Every evil starts with 15 volts.
Philip G. Zimbardo
... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
Dan Simmons
Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.
N K Jemisin
When we don’t fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.
Debasish Mridha
Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks - serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere.Oil shocks have two causes. The first is natural, because existing oil fields may not yield enough to satisfy demand. Scarcity results in higher prices for oil products, reducing our standard of living. Natural scarcity was not a problem in the world's major producing areas until recently.The second cause of oil shocks is political. Political shocks happen when governments of oil-producing countries reduce or halt supply to gain the upper hand in dealings with other governments. This is the case in the Middle East, where oil has often mixed with politics, religion, and blood. The reasons for this have shaped the history of recent times.
Albert Marrin
If you want little, give little; if you want much, give much; if you want all, give all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.
Charles Frazier
Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering new ways of combining resources to create change – in whatever area of life.
Archibald Marwizi
The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?
Anthony Liccione
Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.
Brandon Sanderson
Dreams are dreams until you make them a reality. And that won’t happen until you give up your sleep, Wake Up.
Mayur Ramgir
A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Carl Sagan
If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
Suzanne Collins
We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
Walter Dean Myers
To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.
Gina Greenlee
It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her… You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother.
Stephenie Meyer
Hi!'The chirpy little voice greeted me with such energised enthusiasm it made me jump nearly a foot out of my seat. I turned around, expecting to see the usual cocky little Bezzer-in-training Tyler, who every once in a while enjoys pissing off as many people on the bus as possible, but to my surprise it was the scruffy little quiet Year 7 who sits at the front of the bus with his big orange hair bouncing around.'Hello,' I replied dubiously. (You can't assume that a kid isn't intending to give you grief just because he has ginger hair, not these days. What is the world coming to?)
Tom Clempson
The woman had a body wet dreams were made of, and he couldn't remember being this goddamn hard in his life.
Eden Ashe
The deep Feminine, the mystery of consciousness, She who is life, is longing for our transformation as much as we are. She holds back, allowing us free reign to choose, nudging us occasionally with synchronicities, illness, births and deaths… But when we make space for Her, she rushes into all the gaps, engulfing us with her desire for life and expression. This is what She longs for, this is what we are for: experiencing the Feminine through ourselves. We simply need to slow down, and find where to put our conscious attention. And it is this, this willingness to look again, this willingness to put consciousness onto our places of unconscious, to express what we have always avoided, which starts the process of unblocking, so that She may flow through.
Lucy H. Pearce
Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message.
Debasish Mridha
Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.
Michael W. Ford
Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such as it is, and kill most of your people; but that you will also poison the fish in your rivers, the squirrels in your trees, the flocks of birds, the soil, the water? There are times when you seem, to us, like apes loose in a museum, carrying knives, slashing the canvases, breaking the statuary with hammers.
Walter Tevis
She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He tasted this river his own eyes had rained."It tastes of salt!" he exclaimed. "It tastes like the sea!""Mine too!" she laughed through her own tears, and he touched and tasted hers as well. "It's as if humans kept a sign of the mother sea in ourselves, a secret token of grief or gladness.
Robin Morgan
Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.
David Baldacci