Quotes by Authors - Page 3162

And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.
Manu Joseph
A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.
Christopher Bram
Strangers were a fairytale full of possibilities not yet corrupted by reality while caregivers were the reality – and everything that couldn't be counted upon.
Donna Lynn Hope
If you cannot find peace where you stand you shall not find it where you land.
T.F. Hodge
It’s hard to find anything to say about life without immersing yourself in the world, but it’s also just about impossible to figure out what it might be, or how best to say it, without getting the hell out of it again.
Tim Kreider
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Richard Bach
If you really serious ’bout helpin’ somebody, crawl down in the ditch with ’em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with ’em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out
Denver Moore
If you love someone...feel it, speak it, show it, be it.If you don't feel inspired to show your love in this multidimensional manner...be kind enough to let them go...so they can find someone who will.
Steve Maraboli
CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.
Jay Samit
Sometimes, all you can take are memoriesBut if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment,it lives forever, immortally fixed.
Keegan Allen
To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.
Frank McCourt
The love I knew was from books..
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it
Alfred Lansing
Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
Harper Lee
There is something about saying, ‘We always do this,’ which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.
Edith Schaeffer
The principle locations of exploitation have moved, through the mechanism of 'globalisation', to where most of us can't see them and don't really care about them if we do.
David Smail
When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?
Vironika Tugaleva
Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.
Laura Anderson Kurk
Everybody oughta have a dog," he said thoughtfully, his hand still scratching Beau. "Dogs teach you love and kindness. They remind you what's important." He nodded and took a sip of his coffee. "A life ain't much of a life without a dog in it, s'what I always said.
Dan Gemeinhart
I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not.
Kiersten White
He circled around me, whispering in my ear. “I’m O positive. I’m everyone’s type.
Dannika Dark
Chronicling the passage of whales has led me to an understanding that we, as a species, now sand at a crossroads. We can face the possibility of our own extinction and work to avert it, or we can flow the more traditional path of earths organisms and fall blindly over the edge. If there's one trait that characterised human beings, it's the will to survive. This, I believe, will motivate us to work with the natural world rather than opposite it, which is all we need to do to give the children of earth - of all species - the opportunity to thrive.
Alexandra Morton
one of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood
Anonymous
Sometimes we want God to use us to do big things when we would not even want to do the basics.
Patience Johnson
The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.
Meher Baba
When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.
David W. Earle
Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.
Raheel Farooq
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.
Sam Harris
Life is a gift, so appreciate it. Love is abundant, so share it.Enthusiasm is infectious, so spread it.Kindness is divine, so embody it.Peace is the only way, so embrace it.The earth is your home, so take care of it. Life is for happiness, so enjoy it.
Debasish Mridha
What could you achieve if you took the energy you spend on things you cannot change and invested it in things you can.
Tina Hallis
Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.
Ana Monnar
. You must know the area of your calling. If you do not know, then pray about it
Sunday Adelaja
When scorching passion only leaves ashes of unfulfilled dreams, hope may entice the sprinkling magic of our imagination into livening up the footlights on a new stage of life. ("Taken for a ride")
Erik Pevernagie
When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
Vironika Tugaleva
That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could hear as far into it as the faintest clink of a cowbell. In the mountains, what might be out of sight had never really gone away. Like the mountain, that distant bell would always be there. It would keep reminding.
Eudora Welty
I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home.
Stephen King
A good relationship is a two-way street, gatita. Submitting and serving is equaled by a master’s need to take control, to protect, to make someone happy.
Cherise Sinclair
Tom adjusted his sword and checked his knives and his pistol. If there had been anyone to see his face, they would have seen a man at peace with himself and the world. And if they were wise they would know that such a man was the most dangerous of all opponent - one who fights to preserve love rather than perpetuate hate.
Jonathan Maberry
But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Julianna Baggott
Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
Eric Hoffer
Cerise! Come and kiss me, you red haired harpy,” Izrayl bellowed. She smiled and moved to kiss his stubbly cheek. He held her tight and squeezed. “How goes it Old Dog,” Cerise said fondly to her temporary captor.“Still alive,” he grinned salaciously at her. “And still young enough to learn some new tricks if you are the one doing the teaching.”“Try it and I will neuter you,” Cerise threatened and tugged on his braid. “You dogs, all you think of is hunting, fighting and fucking.”“What else is there?” Izrayl growled in the back of his throat and raised an eyebrow at her suggestively.
Amy Kuivalainen
Some people think they are punishing me when they hit their head against a wall. If that's not insane, I wonder what is. Yeah, I'm going to punish you for being my boyfriend, by insulting you and destroying our relationship. I'm going to punish you for taking me on vacations, by disappearing, even if you are the one with the house keys. I'm going to punish you for giving me books to read, by not reading them. I'm going to punish you for complaining about my behavior, by becoming a much worse person. And well, why not, I'm going to commit suicide to prove you my life has no value and you are wrong in thinking it does? It's so sad when people are literally as stupid and dumb as they are insane.
Robin Sacredfire
Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally feed her baby with her body! In my eyes, this is a certain form of beauty, of divinity! To know that my body can not only form and bring another human being into the world, but that I can actually feed babies with my own milk from my own breasts— that puts me in a state of awe each time I think about it. It is an honour to be a woman.
C. JoyBell C.
Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories save you.
Jincy Willett
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer art is everything else.
Donald Ervin Knuth
People are like stars in the night sky, all are not equal, but still, everyone shines.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.
John Green
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Lauren DeStefano
Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively,' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.
Jasmine Warga
Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.
Benjamin Errett
Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent.
Abhijit Naskar
The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system.
J.G. Ballard
Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess…responsiveness.
Cherise Sinclair
Peace is the inner silence that calms all outer noises.
Debasish Mridha
Your body is a sacred-temple of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You can't lead if no one will follow.
Margaret Atwood
Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.
Steven Magee
When you get lost in the flow of life, find yourself in the fortress of God!
Mary Kate
Familiarity with the brand requires some experience of it (via advertising, word of mouth, internet publicity), Confidence comes with the perception of competence in the brand itself (which is why new brands really need to work hard for people to experience them first) and Trustworthiness refers to the sense of whether the brand is going to live up to its promise of reliability for the price paid.
David Amerland