Quotes by Authors - Page 2832

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
Lloyd Alexander
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Frank Herbert
Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?""Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself.""David, what possible good is that thing gonn
David Wong
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Lucy: Why do you want me to stay?Asher: Because I like you.Lucy: Why do you want me to go?Asher: Because I like you.
Parker S. Huntington
Funny thing, how much weaker boys are than girls.
Ari B. Goelman
Your walk with God does not depend on people,places,things or events.
Henry Brandt
Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.
Sunday Adelaja
Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore paradoxes and discover previously unrealized personal truths. Writing is as arduous as any trek into the wilderness. Every sentence takes a writer deeper into the jungle of the mind, a world of frightening inconsistencies created by our waking life’s desire that the world of chaos conform to our convenience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)
K.K. Allen
Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine. YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day. NO EXCUSES.
Miya Yamanouchi
I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
Natalie Goldberg
Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
Neil Gaiman
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Arthur Bloch
Divine is supernatural.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.
Lars Iyer
You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.
Michelle Tea
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.
Paul Krugman
The wonder of life is heart of gratitude.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it
Courtney Giardina
I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.
Jamaica Kincaid
Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.
Rick Riordan
I do not fight with enemies, I try to help them and love them for their ignorance.
Debasish Mridha
I swear to God, I think my panties just melted off my body. How can Crush just talking sex make me hot?
Jillian Dodd
Circumstances are the seeds of literature.
Salvador de Madariaga
I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. Hopefully most of those moments are wonderful, but of course they won't all be. The trick is to recognize an important one when it happens. Even if you share the moment with someone else, it is still yours. Your string is different from anyone else's. It is something no one can ever take away from you. It will protect you and guide you, because it IS you. What you hold here, in your hand, in this box, this is my s
Wendy Mass
Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.
Deborah Needleman
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.
David Platt
Man, didn't anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn't matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn't be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you're sitting on a funky Magna Carta.
Paul Beatty
Don't compete with other girls, complete goals.
Janna Cachola
I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much worse books than I had conceived. If I have erred in any thing, in the former part of the Age of Reason, it has been by speaking better of some parts than they deserved.
Thomas Paine
I believe that flowers are like people. Flowers come in different colours, shapes and sizes. Some extremely rare and some very common. They are all beautiful in their own unique way.
Alex Haditaghi
She made struggle look beautiful; so much, even darkness feared her light
Nikki Rowe
Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.
Matt Dunn
To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.
Bell Hooks
If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.
Zig Ziglar
Welcome to Telepathics Anonymous. Don’t bother introducing yourself.
Bauvard
A true conversation is a co-creation.
Sarah Rozenthuler
The flower, as he saw it, ruled over evil; it absorbed in itself all innocently shed blood (that is why it is so red) all tears and all the gall of humanity. It was an awful and mysterious being, the antitheses of God, an Ahriman presenting a most unassuming and innocent appearance. It was necessary to break it off and kill it. But this was not all; it was also necessary not to permit it at its death to discharge its evil upon the world.
Vsevolod Garshin
Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along.
Marty Rubin
I care not what your education is elaborate or nothing what your mental calibre is great or small that man who concentrates all his energies of body mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.
T. DeWitt Talmage
Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.
Peter A. Levine
All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
Leo Tolstoy
Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Because we are of God each one of us has the potential to be a victor
Sunday Adelaja
Kingdom laws do not change
Sunday Adelaja
Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.
Donna Lynn Hope
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Christopher Morley
Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.
Carol Shields
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
Michael J. Fox
Our angels often come to us in the times when we are unconscious because those are the times we are free of the continual thoughts of our mind. It is here that we remember who we really are. We remember who we are in our soul. We are greater than the physical life we have been living on earth.
Kate McGahan
Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.
Douglas Meador
Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?
Django Wexler
When you think you are ready you are not ready.When you are not ready you are ready......You think you knowBut you don't know..
Deyth Banger
You Can Not Be Honest With Others, If You Are Not First Honest With Yourself.
Chris Mentillo
...it seems to me that sometimes-or perhaps I might venture most of the time-occurrences have no cause at all. New stars appear and old ones vanish. Short hats become popular again. Things are as they are and do as they please for absolutely no reason at all.
Galen Beckett
Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, "tweet". I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting.
Annie Dillard
For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.
Markus Zusak