Quotes by Authors - Page 3114

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.
Max McKeown
Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.
Stasi Eldredge
Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.
Zia Haider Rahman
Find the light. Reach for it. Live for it. Pull yourself up by it. Gratitude always makes for straighter, taller trees.
Al R. Young
Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.
Shannon L. Alder
Advances in biological knowledge have highlighted the potential chronicity of effects of childhood maltreatment, demonstrating particular life challenges in managing emotions, forming and maintaining healthy relationships, healthy coping, and holding a positive outlook of oneself.
Christine Wekerle
I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.
Tim Winton
I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment
Jane Austen
Self -developments helps you to set and achieve goals
Sunday Adelaja
How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?
Ruth Klüger
The serious people have gone, I build my team again and again I just the un-sirious people if this is sirious let's see a bus which can be handled in the air by the weakest person on the Earth.
Deyth Banger
When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it’s worth fighting to spread.
Caroline George
I'd grown impervious to all three of his facial expressions.
Cookie O'Gorman
You do not esteem good deeds?" She shifted the basket handle to both hands, just as a cool breeze blew a bonnet string across her face. "My dear Miss Keene, what would the world be without them?" He brushed the string from her cheek. "Are we not admonished to be doers and not merely hearers of His word? Yet not on a mountain of good deeds can we climb our way to heaven.
Julie Klassen
You have no idea what you really are," the Elder Wyrm went on, "or why you are special to the dragons of Talon.
Julie Kagawa
The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler
Maybe the key to moving on was distancing herself from Wes. Not all the way. Just a little bit.Enough to let someone else in.
Cindi Madsen
Once upon a time, he might’ve chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future.
Katherine McIntyre
There was another thing bigger than the tiredness – and this was the strong crew purpose.
Carson McCullers
Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends
mads
She's better than Netflix.
Charlotte Huang
...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.
Simon Raven
The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.
E.R. Braithwaite
You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said.
John Green
There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.
James Bamford
Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the distinction between "uncreated" and "created" happiness. We have here something which, while not at all obvious, is nevertheless fraught with consequences for our whole feeling about life. Namely, this: what does indeed make us happy is the infinite and uncreated richness of God; but participation in this, happiness itself, is entirely a "creatural" reality governed from within by our humanity; it is not something that descends overwhelmingly upon us from outside. That is, it is not only something that happens to us; we ourselves are intensely active participants in our own happiness. Beatitude - Thomas is saying - cannot possibly be conceived as a merely objective condition of sheer existence. It is not a mere quality, not pure passivity, not simply a feeling. It is something that takes place in the alert core of the mind... Happiness is an act and an activity of the soul.
Josef Pieper
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
Charles de Lint
The realms of love and light, anything is possible
Lailah Gifty Akita
Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.
Tao Lin
You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is "how would they get to know that you are proud if you had not talked about your dreams?" How then should people get to know what you do if you take delight in hiding yourself?
Israelmore Ayivor
I loved him, more than anything else in the world and that when he was away it was hard to breath and that I couldn't go through a single second without thinking about him.
Heather James
That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.
Leo Tolstoy
Since you cannot always carry and display your diploma. Kindly act like you have one. Professionalism. Include that to your dictionary.
Joshua De Vera Bautista
I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.
Nick Harkaway
Thought is more dangerous than you think.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
I love the pleasure of reading poetry.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Joblessness is a time for reflection
Sunday Adelaja
How do you feel?"Her pupils were dilated, her cheeks flushed. "Like I want you to kiss me again."And _that_ was the invitation he'd been waiting for.
Pamela Clare
A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.
Suzy Kassem
As for now I will pay attention to works like "Lie to me", "Person of Interest", "Numb3rs" and "Blindspot". (2016!)
Deyth Banger
All sorrows in life stem from the lack of cake. If you had your own cake, you wouldn't bother trying to take away the other person's cake! And, if the cake you had were beautiful enough, you wouldn't bother trying to melt the icing on that other person's cake! And if you always had a very beautiful cake that was always beautiful enough, then you would have a smile on your face all the time and wouldn't even care if other people were enjoying their own cakes! Because you'd be enjoying yours, too! Therefore, I hereby decree that all sorrows can be fixed by many beautiful cakes! Bake a cake!
C. JoyBell C.
Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s own self) when it is said of a man in despair, "He is consuming himself." For precisely this it is he despairs of, and to his torment it is precisely this he cannot do, since by despair fire has entered into something that cannot burn, or cannot burn up, that is, into the self.
Søren Kierkegaard
Great books make a great life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
Increase answers to growth
Sunday Adelaja
A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers.
G.K. Chesterton
But it wasn’t mine anymore. It was his. I was his. Something in that flirted with the submissive I knew that lurked inside. How long had I waited and searched for the right man? One who could dominate me with more than just words? A sadist that liked the extreme side of life? That’s what I needed, and one with a darkness to match my own.
Alaska Angelini
It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.
Jenny Han
Do not find faults, only forgive.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Always take failure as an opinion never as an option.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
I don't defend pain, But I do respect its ability to make us stronger and wiser after it stings.
Micheline Jean Louis
A goal without action is like a late night dream.
Debasish Mridha
I saw this leaf. This leaf was the one I picked out of hundreds. there was many to pick from. There was so many different ones. But I picked this one. This leaf reminds me of you. I picked it out of hundreds just like you. I was lucky to find it just like you. Its unique and beautiful just like you. You're my leaf and I really like you. --just like you
Lizzy Blue
Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; 'Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.' Now THAT I’ll give the green light to. The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable as precious stones.
Karl Wiggins
Om is the presence which steals away. It steals away the ordinary mundane existence of strife, struggle and duality; it steals away anxiety, aggression, fear, grief and sorrow; it steals away the debris of anger, hatred, confusion and ignorance, to fill us with the nectar of joy, immortality and life eternal.
Banani Ray
Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict.
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?
Dean Koontz
You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.
Sarah Cross
How do you wipe away pain? You don’t. You put in tenderness, compassion and joy. You cling to hope and then you offer everything to God. And you wait, with faith you see all things anew – light shines out from darkness, happiness grows through every pain, and all things become indeed so very beautiful in His time.
Jocelyn Soriano