Quotes by Authors - Page 3136

To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.
Lorii Myers
Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.”“And you're still not sorry,” I reply."I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks.“No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.
Suzanne Collins
I can’t live without books, music and wonder.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.
Emma Woolf
Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.
Mark Twain
The Moon is slipping from our grasp at a rate of about 1.5 inches a year. In another two billion years it will have receded so far that it won’t keep us steady and we will have to come up with some other solution, but in the meantime you should think of it as much more than just a pleasant feature in the night sky.
Bill Bryson
I was dancing on the edge of something new, though maybe not completely new, if I had to be honest with myself, and I wasn't sure what I would do if I fell, if falling was an option, if falling was something I was actually meant to do all along.
Cary Attwell
Get Ready, Get Ready!
Bishop T.D.Jakes
You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page, I can tell. You got words in your soul. ...The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.
Jay Kristoff
Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.
Criss Jami
The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.
George Packer
If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.
Bryant McGill
They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
Margaret Atwood
Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.
Dan Groat
I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.
Pete Wentz
We all experience sadness. The real test is being strong enough to continue on regardless.
Levon Peter Poe
Christ, woman, were you ever going to say anything?”He grabbed her by the wrist and tugged her down the hall tothe single bathroom. “Get out of that shirt.
Aliyah Burke
History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain."To Die for One's Country is Glorious," p. 131
Danilo Kiš
The biggest roadblock to changing the world is believing that your voice doesn't matter.
Adam Kirk Smith
It was true. After our divorce, I'd ended up in a slight relationship with my last research assistant, Aurelia Feinstein, age 34-though let me state for the record it was not as hot as it sounded. Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure little red entry on Hungarian poetry. It was dead silent, no one gave me any dierection, and nothing was where it was supposed to be.
Marisha Pessl
Sharing feelings, conveying appreciation and whispering desires are all crucial components of a satisfying encounter with your beloved.
Brownell Landrum
We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes.
Donna Goddard
You don´t need a stage to prove that you´re a bad speaker.
Alin Sav
I told you I have both male and female organs.""You didn't say they were all fully functional!" Belle stared at the rapidly disappearing bulge."Damn girl, how'd you get so lucky? Shit!
Belinda McBride
I can assure you that the life outside the front door is bright and full of life
Sunday Adelaja
And Mrs. Orton had the seizure right after you applied the lipstick?" tReggie's voice was dead serious.tDrea nodded.tThat little tidbit set off Cam's warning sirens. Not good.tReggie closed his notebook and deposited it in his inner jacket pocket. "Can you think of anything else?"tDrea opened her mouth, then closed it and shook her head.tChrist. So she had a possible motive, opportunity, means to kill Natasha Orton, and she was obviously holding something back. She may not be the only suspect, but even Cam had to admit she was a mighty good one.
Avery Flynn
We often go astray, seeking our own way, until the the sacred moment of suffering, then we find grace to cry out for Saviour.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!
Victoria Hanley
May the Lord rescue you from any calamity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards.
Sam Owen
Honesty is a heart that betrays itself for a dream, a moment, a kiss.
Shannon L. Alder
We should not be too quick to dismiss our own [ocular] arrangement. As so often in biology, the situation is more complex.....we have the advantage that our own light-sensitive cells are embedded directly in their support cells (the retinal pigment epithelium) with an excellent blood supply immediately underneath. Such an arrangement supports the continuous turnover of photosensitive pigments. The human retina consumes even more oxygen than the brain, per gram, making it the most energetic organ in the body.
Nick Lane
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
Sarah Ellis
Every single experience enriches the soul, like sun and water to the soil, depends how you make most of it.
raja shakeel mushtaque
It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a reckless and irrevocable act of mercy.
Louise Carey
What common people call beauty is essentially nature. The moment nature abandons you, your beauty is lost forever.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.
John Green
Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
A.D. Posey
Every good gift and every perfect present comes from God. He is out Father who will always love His children.
Pazaria Smith
Who told you it was too late? And more importantly, why did you choose to believe them?
Richelle E. Goodrich
Love and wisdom are guides towards awakening.
Belsebuub
Death is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences to everything you do on earth. Every act of our lives strikes some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Rick Warren
We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard
Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.
Sol Luckman
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stock of nine.There I saw one I knew, and stopped him crying: 'Stetson!You, who were with me in the ships at Mylae!That corpse you planted last year in your garden,Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!You! hypocrite lecteur!-mon semblable,-mon frere!
T.S Eliot
He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in his own novel, or in one of those new arcade games William loved, compelled to repeat some totemic motion until he got it right. Only once did he feel, as he had on New Year's Eve, that someone was standing among the trees, watching. Well, let him watch, damn it. Something was being enacted here, as if it had been this deeper mission calling Mercer home all along. And now that he'd completed it, maybe he would be allowed to advance through to the next level, to a world where no one got shot.
Garth Risk Hallberg
Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.
Sara Sheridan
Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again. She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind.
Sarah J Maas
He could have watched her all night. He could watch her for an eternity and still never be able to capture the essence of what it is that makes ‘love’.
Dianna Hardy
The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]
Edward T. Welch
I do want you. More than my next breath.
Katie Reus
I could stand in the middle of Front Street shrieking like a banshee and nobody would notice me. You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. So stand behind me and think quiet thoughts.
C.M. Hayden
Power is a delicate thing. The most powerful storms on earth intensify rapidly, but dissipate just as fast if not faster.
Anonymous
When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.
Kirsten Siggins
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.Of course, the Mist helped. People probably couldn't see Mrs. O'Leary, or maybe they thought she was a large,loud,very friendly truck.
Rick Riordan
God loves all of us.
Lailah Gifty Akita
In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.
Amit Kalantri
We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
Walter E. Cole