Quotes by Authors - Page 3158

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.Can I trust him?What do I have to lose?
Robin McKinley
To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.
Johnny Rich
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Norman Mailer
He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and all the other spices. He gave us eyes to perceive color and then filled the world with a rainbow of shades. He gave us sensitive ears and then filled the world with rhythms and music. Your capacity for enjoyment is evidence of God's love for you. He could have made the world tasteless, colorless, and silent. The Bible says that God "richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment." He didn't have to do it, but he did, because He loves us.
Rick Warren
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children.
Himmilicious
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
Lana Del Rey
Wisdom justifies a person in the face of any opposition
Sunday Adelaja
You know, the answer to your problem is just an attitude change away.
Cameo Renae
Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.
Herbert M. Shelton
Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.
Julian Barnes
Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it’s something you do.
Steve Maraboli
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Patrick Rothfuss
How do you do it?""Do what?""All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered."Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he reached across the seat and brushed his thumb over her cheek; until then, she hadn't been aware she was crying. "Trix," he sighed, "it mattered.
Jodi Picoult
The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.
Charles Emmerson
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
Anthony Bourdain
We wait expectantly for what we hope for.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.
Bryant McGill
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
Corrie ten Boom
Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'.
Jeffrey Carver
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
That will teach me to meddle with magic meant for kings! Norrell is right. Some magic is not meant for ordinary magicians. Presumably John Uskglass knew what to do with this horrible knowledge. I do not.
Susanna Clarke
The more she laughs, the more he ups the ante with his clowning. By the time he finishes he will have run through all the secret mysteries of laughter that human beings have ever understood, mobilizing everything at his disposal. There is no way for him to know how guilty it makes his mother feel, seeing such a young child go to such lengths just to wring a bit of apparent happiness from her, or that her laughter will all eventually run out.
Han Kang
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorable interval between the spoken and the written language, the language heard and the language read.
Henry David Thoreau
So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about.
Douglas Adams
People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.
Douglas Wilson
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.
Nicholas Sparks
Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?
Sarah Perry
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
Pat Conroy
To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
There will be no enemy if we overpower them with love.
Debasish Mridha
Well, you change as you get older, especially at this time in your life. You become more yourself, hopefully. And sometimes that changes the dynamic, even with people you love. So it's not that you were wrong. You were right for that time. But you grow up and you grow out of relationships. Even the ones you thought, at one point, might be forever.
Emery Lord
All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten feet away, the smell of dust falling onto the hot bulb in the lamp. That's the miracle of writing, the place you try to find--when the room, your body, and even time itself cooperate in a vanishing act.
Anthony Doerr
Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.
James C. Dobson
You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.
Michael Crichton
No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.
Bryant McGill
Visibility doesn't automatically translate into value, don't just be everywhere, be where you are most needed.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
Cassandra Clare
I live well with very little things but not without my dignity
Rui M.
I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.
Jeaniene Frost
n order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.
Auliq-Ice
After a full belly all is poetry.
Frank McCourt
Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
G.K. Chesterton
How many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often – he searched for a simile, found one in his work – torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?
Ray Bradbury
The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.
Kamand Kojouri
[He] carefully put a funky-looking pair of reading glasses on her. "There we go. How are they?"She blinked experimentally, peering around the room. "Good, I think. Thank you.""Wear them the next time we f***. That would be thanking me.""Aww. You say the sweetest things.""Don't I?
Kylie Scott
Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It’s often employed by liars.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before.
Debasish Mridha
For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
Stewart Stafford
If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.
Criss Jami
But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.
Joseph Fink
That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.
Jim Butcher
If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and that is the greatest pleasure ever.
Marina Budhos
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
Chuck Klosterman
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion.
Will Schwalbe
The Words 2012, one world is ruin and one new world is build. One twisted pictures, one couple which loved each other... just their relationship dies... And another person just steal somebody's life and then he finds the truth...
Deyth Banger
If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?
Felix Wantang
Don't ask whether it's going to be easy. Ask whether it's going to be worth it.
Michael Josephson
You are not in Disneyland,” he said. “The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here.
Walter Dean Myers
No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
Catherynne M. Valente