Quotes by Authors - Page 2719

The first two tracks were pop songs from the 1970s, sung in Danish in a style that was best described as Abba without joy.
Claire North
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
R. Scott Bakker
I don't fit in because I don't want to disappear.
Anthony T.Hincks
Do not plan to die, do not plan for the death of your name or your influence - rather, plan for the resting of a life well lived. Make an eternal mark.
Archibald Marwizi
I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is
Ally Condie
God is my security.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.
Bryant McGill
Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something.
Lauren Barnholdt
Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom...I wouldn't wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits.
Aporva Kala
A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
One positive thought is something you can accomplish.
Bryant McGill
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum
A woman's strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence...
Virginia Alison
We'll see what you find out," Stew said. "You'll find out what it feels like to be thrown from a speeding train to the rocky bottom of a drained sea. Except you won't really find out, because you'll be dead. Get it? What I mean is, it'll kill you when I throw you from this train so you'll be in no state to find out what it feels like. Get it? Due to your death by falling from a train.
Lemony Snicket
His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.
Tahereh Mafi
But you should see the sky tonight.Screw your astrology apps. Screw your games. Look up sometime. There is a whole wing of positive psychology--my therapist told me--that says the greatest way to affect your outlook on life is to consider what you already have more than what you don't have. And so I might not have a cell phone on me, or a sister at home, or a Dad at all, or a future, but holy shit I have the sky.
Tim Federle
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Sarah Palin
I am a man ruled by music- I live, die, fight and survive for it.
Corey Taylor
Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?
Matshona Dhliwayo
When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.
Ralph Fletcher
Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.
Ellen J. Barrier
Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.
Na'ama Yehuda
No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made you, into the womb of the Great Mother. You have again become a seed that will form into other lives in other lands.
Thomm Quackenbush
What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.
Billy Graham
The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal.
Charles R. Swindoll
It’s time someone said it, average living (read middle-class) is not good enough
Mark Maish
Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.
Tom DeMarco
Love feels no burden regards not labors strives toward more than it attains argues not of impossibility since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
Thomas à Kempis
We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.
Bucky Sinister
You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.
Heather Schuck
The moment you try working on what appears difficult to you, you will start noticing it’s loopholes that you can breakthrough.
Israelmore Ayivor
Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.
Jim Kjelgaard
No money can buy back the moment that is gone
Debasish Mridha
You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things.
H.L. Burke
Like nature, we must grow with tranquility, beauty, harmony, and love.
Debasish Mridha
Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.
Mary Jo Putney
When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.
Lisa Kleypas
Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and wife after the Christmas receipts are added up.
Matthew D. Heines
I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.
Robert Jackson Bennett
Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures.
Bob Sutton
There are people who treat you right and there are people who do not treat you right. Don't get affected by the latter! Hold on to the former - the chosen ones in your life and move on.
Avijeet Das
To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.
Johnny Rich
He eyed me curiously, his eyes fluttering over my breasts, and I swallowed, knowing he was thinking things he shouldn't. His tongue snuck between his lips and lightly darted to moisten them. I heard what sounded like a moan before he moved his left hand from under the table. He tried to rest his palm on my resting hand but I inched away. I looked at his hand, and noticed the shading of where his wedding ring used to go... My mind caught up - used to? Where was it?
Mercy Cortez
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
Richard Bach
The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.
Bryant McGill
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
Criss Jami
The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.
Francine Rivers
I learned that protecting someone by keeping him away from me doesn't shelter either of us. I learned that feeling other people's feelings for them doesn't bring us closer, it only separates me from myself and my needs. I always thought being codependent meant being too emotionally glued to someone; I didn't realize the way I was doing it was setting me adrift.
Lisa Scottoline
The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him.
Billy Graham
Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society in which inequality is based more on merit and effort than on kinship and rents. This belief and this hope play a very crucial role in modern society, for a simple reason: in a democracy, the professed equality of rights of all citizens contrasts sharply with the very real inequality of living conditions, and in order to overcome this contradiction it is vital to make sure that social inequalities derive from rational and universal principles rather than arbitrary contingencies. Inequalities must therefore be just and useful to all, at least in the realm of discourse and as far as possible in reality as well.
Thomas Piketty
I've been to many beauty salons. No one gave me a certificate.
Ljupka Cvetanova
Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and blue and hungry. One would think it to be infinite. But we, of course, know better.
Tanya Moir
A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.
Stephen Lozada
Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.
Dean Koontz
Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your staying power, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Sir Thomas Browne
When your soul whispers listen, when your heart speaks listen. Whenever you know it's real love, don't let it pass you by.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana