Quotes by Authors - Page 2858

He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.
Margaret Atwood
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.
Gugu Mona
The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.
Stefan Molyneux
This is not a Black problem. It is not a white problem. It is not a police problem. It is a WE problem. We the people, for the people. It is going to take all of us being transparent in order to transform.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
The choices I didn’t make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did.
Pat Conroy
No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her.She remembered years ago, when she had been just a little kid, and the word had been enough to make her happy. Nothing stirred in her now. Her childhood felt like it had been in another life. As she sat alone in her room with tears drying to her face, she resolved that no matter what the calendar said, it wasn't Christmas.If it was, she'd feel happy, not depressed.
Kayla Krantz
She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.
Tadeusz Konwicki
I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.
S.A. Tawks
After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.
Meg Rosoff
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
Chris Prentiss
Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?
Ben Marcus
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.
Becca Fitzpatrick
I realise now that the pain Kevin felt - that night, and for nearly eighteen months beforehand, since his suicide attempt - was no less real, no less urgent, than a heart attach, a stroke, a seizure. Than the sensation of running too hard or running too fast, keeling over, grasping for air. Wishing for something to fill your lungs - to rush in and then revive you - except nothing ever does, and maybe nothing ever can.It is unpleasant, of course, to sympathise with suicide. It is unpleasant to believe in a reality in which death is the only option. And it is problematic, certainly, to compare suicide to running, to cardiac arrest, to terminal cancer. But this is precisely the problem: There is no fair parallel that can be drawn between those who felt the dark pull of suicide and those who never have.
Amy E. Butcher
You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill . . .""I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born.""Yes, who was emperor back then?
David Nicholls
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself.
Elizabeth Gaskell
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Winston S. Churchill
Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don’t see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally he would also say 'Panagia mou', which could be an expression of piety but also a gentle expletive, depending on how it was said. With the parrot it was hard to tell. It did not sound pious.
Victoria Hislop
Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.
Michelle Zink
What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.
Franny Billingsley
The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.
Max Hawthorne
The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.
Nicole Bonomi
I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. These chemicals do not alter or reform the ills of our civilisation. They adapt the human being to them.
Peter Hitchens
A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")
Erik Pevernagie
. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.
Charlotte Brontë
See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.
Ka Chinery
I believe, that creating is a joyful activity as well as a meaningful suffer, and thus, it is an integral part of the human nature.
Gabor Gürtler
Remember...Keystrokes are hammer taps. Get words on paper. Don’t worry about connections, character or plot. Work for an hour. Promise yourself an hour. Do nothing else but move your fingers. Make coarse shapes. Follow any emotion that pops up but never impose emotion, never fake it, and don’t make up your mind or your heart ahead of time. Understand you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s why you’re here. Rough it out. Anything goes. You can decide later what any piece of text looks like, what it might mean. Don’t stop. Don’t question. Don’t quit. Don’t stop to read what you wrote. Move your fingers. You mind will have no other option but to keep up. Remember that writer’s block is merely the cold marble waiting for the chisel to heat up.
Bob Thurber
Do one thing every day to show that you love the universe.
Debasish Mridha
When you look at Van Gogh, Jesus, Buddha, Mother Teresa from a "fiscal" perspective, they were homeless. When you look at them from a humanityperspective, they were priceless.
Natalie Pace
People who love do the impossible all the time.
Germaine Shames
It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside...
E.L. James
Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep the trains you have never failed to catch.
Max O'Relling
Your purpose distinguishes you from others; not your talent, IQ, race, job, hobbies, or gender, as these are held in common with many others.
Mensah Oteh
Never underestimate the woman that holds God's pen.
Shannon L. Alder
Remember tomorrow has it own plans.so if you plan for tomorrow dont think tomorrow will favor you.
Sylvester M. Aguzey
I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.
Coco J. Ginger
In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.
Rebecca MacKinnon
-“Forced love hurts God.”
-“How can you hurt something that doesn’t exist?”-“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”- “I was once so open to the world it hurts”- “Act natural is the worst thing you can say to an actor. They simply forget how to be.”-“Until the first thing they learn are the last thing they forget.” -“It wasn’t just talking back to him, it was the confidence to be calm doing it.”-“The fact that the nation has gone to war does not make those who opposed it at the beginning, and those who oppose it now, traitors.”-“This beauty is a force, and it will never lose.”-“how a cause cements two people, masks their differences as secondary to the purpose at hand”-
Anna Funder
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
Paul Theroux
Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.
Carlos Wallace
When we prepare not our hearts for the things of God, evil things take over.
Sunday Adelaja
The modeling world – and the world at large – is a pretty cruel place. It’s up to you to decide whether or not that turns you into a cruel person as well. Are you going to be mean and selfish because some of the people around you are, or are you going to overcome that and walk away a decent human being? The world gives you every reason in the book to become callous. It’s your job not to become that way as well.
Abby Rosmarin
So in order to accommodate the Pioneers who would begin arriving in a few weeks, the Arkitects sent up Scouts. The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russians.
Neal Stephenson
Gospel of the Kingdom has not been fully expanded upon to this generation of believers.
Sunday Adelaja
Come, fly with me!" cried the goddess, as she sped ahead of them, her extremities flaming with a comet tail of sparks in the supernatural wind. Her bubbling voice again echoed, her laughter bounced in the crystalline void, and she flew onward, unto eternity...."Stop!" cried Elasirr. "Come back with us to the true world, O Tilirreh!"At which the orange one laughed, throwing her head back, saying, "Oh, but don’t you know this is the one true world? It is but yours that is a pale specter, that is the dying place of dwindling truth?""Then come back with us, lady," whispered Ranhé, "and restore the truth as it once was.
Vera Nazarian
The ball and chain of creativity has no key
Benny Bellamacina
The one who sees thought as a thought is the witness to mind and no longer subject to suffering.
Vivian Amis
The guard hit Kestrel across the face. “I said, what did you give him?”You had a warrior’s heart, even then.Kestrel spat blood. “Nothing,” she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought of Arin. She told her final lie. “I gave him nothing.
Marie Rutkoski
Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.
Raheel Farooq
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
Peggy Joyce
. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .
Charlotte Brontë
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.
Andy Stanley
Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.
Fred S. Worthy
I hear sweets help these kind of things, too…” -Jared“What kind of things is that?” -April“I don’t know.” He shrugs before adding, “Woman troubles, heartbreak, Twilight ending? Whatever bugs your mind.”-Jared
Sheena Hutchinson
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
Victor Hugo
Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.
Karan Mahajan
I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.
E.M. Forster