Quotes by Authors - Page 2936

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Dean Koontz
There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.
Rachel Kushner
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours". Sophie's teeth chattered but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything.
Diana Wynne Jones
the path of politics should be cleared with the sword of the constitution
king Annan
Better be happy than wise.
Anonymous
Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.
Joshua Harris
Truth does not surround itself with lies.
John Christopher
When things are not really nice in a relationship, desires take a back seat.
Girdhar Joshi
do not be so quick to say "okay" it is alright to disagree with the action yet love the person.
P.M. MATHIS
We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson
Gretchen de la O
Break away from every yoke of bondage in Jesus Name.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It seemed as though, being the only two people in this small, closed-in space, we couldn't help but have a relationship, and if we couldn't help but have a relationship, I felt that it was important to be upset now so that he would not shift the blame to me in the future.
Alexandra Kleeman
For irrelevancy to be cancelled in the church, let kingdom priority and pursuit be restored
Sunday Adelaja
The boldness of being is to believe in God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
Jennifer Donnelly
You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline.
Sunday Adelaja
All around us, birds woke up the sky.
Lauren Wolk
She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.
David Levithan
You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant.
Suzy Kassem
(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed.
Jared Diamond
In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.
Jan Wong
It's never too late to get down on your knees and pray.
Delano Johnson
A great story can change the world.
Stewart Stafford
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
MAKE SUCCESS HAPPENSuccess is like a camera. Only focus on what is most important. Ignore trivial details. Concentrate on your main goal image for success. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, don't give up. Take more shots at it. Always be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen.
Mark LaMoure
Not all who are lost are lost forever.
Jorge Enrique Ponce
I believe the Universe desires for us to choose to love as much as possible while we are here.
Renae A.Sauter
If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed as its foundations, let it say so openly, both to the people of Bosnia and to the people of the world. Let it proclaim a new code of behavior in which force will be the first and the last argument.
Alija Izetbegović
How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from hiscreation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.
Indu Muralidharan
Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
Beth Revis
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Stephen Leacock
Life is a reality.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Let the desire to be understood become someone else's elusive dream. Accept we are all evolving & can be relatable mainly for reasons associated to self.
Truth Devour
It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.
Paul A. Lombardo
We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upon her. Hers was the sort that would not fade or grow jaded with time and years, but flourish, grow more radiant with life and its experience. Hers was a beauty that no other possessed. A beauty he longed to keep, to hide away, to bask in, himself alone. She had become his. He didn’t know when, whether it had been the moment her fingertips had touched him when he was hurt, or if it had grown, like a seed, slowing spreading until Jane had become the root anchoring the shattered pieces of his heart, pulling them tight together until it resembled the organ it should.
Charlotte Featherstone
How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going
Rachel Van Dyken
He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.
Lauren Oliver
Because I could feel you, I was drowning with you.
noehen
Developing your voice takes... time and practice.
Darynda Jones
It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!
Charles Nodier
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
C.S. Lewis
So a complex, by distorting our perception of ourselves in our mind, builds obstacles that prevent achievement of our goals
Sunday Adelaja
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie
A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?
Bell Hooks
And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.
Edward Abbey
The personal screenplay- where you dive into the terrifying depths of your soul, unearth the most intimate details about yourself, and put it on paper for the world to see. Proceed with caution, for madness lies ahead.
A.D. Posey
Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.
John Keay
Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it’s OK to do nothing.
Izey Victoria Odiase
Would you prefer to drag through life for 100 years or live with excitement for 50?
RVM
So, what can I do?” I asked.“Annoy?”I gave him a hurt look.Justus pulled the tip of his hoodie over his eye and lowered his voice. “It remains to be seen; sometimes it takes years to uncover abilities.”“Maybe I can’t do anything.”His blue eyes flashed up to mine. “Learner, we are all gifted.
Dannika Dark
I'm sorry about the screaming. I thought you were him.
Christina Dodd
For life to smile at you, you must equip yourself with the power of change.
Sunday Adelaja
I never speak from a place of perfection, for I have mastered no Spiritual matter, or worldly either, I speak only because I am seeking with all my Soul to consistently improve and progress, to be a bit more worthy this second than I was the last, And only desire to share my travels and ponderings, for as I share, even more is learned. Please take none of my words as judgement, for I am and never have been in a position to judge. Still a reminder... I have mastered none, I am still learning...It's good to have goals.
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,tThe lady of situations.Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,tAnd here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,tWhich is blank, is something he carries on his back,tWhich I am forbidden to see. I do not findtThe Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
Robert McCammon
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
To be psychologically healthy, we have to believe that what we do has some effect on what happens to us. Even if the perception of control is delusional, it usually leads to more productive action than believing that what we do makes no difference.
Albert J. Bernstein
Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.
J.E.B. Spredemann