Quotes by Authors - Page 3179

Sharks don’t eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can’t swim.
Michael J. Sullivan
Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic there was in the world. How much magic that wasn't just buried in a tomb. He was feeling it now.
Maggie Stiefvater
Her mascara ran in streaksdown her facelipstick smeared across heralabaster cheeks like a porcelaindoll that had been flung aroundbefore the paint had dried....barely blinkingeyes like content little sunspoking through dark mascaracloudsshe is brokenyet whole at the same timeand she belongs
HL37
Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.
Paul Sloane
A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.
John Green
The heart may not always be practical, but it is always right.
Debasish Mridha
A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.
Jasper Fforde
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation
Sunday Adelaja
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
Raheel Farooq
Not so long ago we were all a tightly knit group of friends. Too bad someone had ripped apart the stitches that held us together, unraveling the cozy blanket of our friendship and leaving just enough strands to hang ourselves with.
E.J. Stevens
Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.
Mary Kay Ash
Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.
Joelle Charbonneau
He held his crotch, his knees bent and his kilt showing he wore nothing beneath it.She shuffled from one foot to the other as she stared at his Scottish bagpipe. Bet he could hit a lot of high notes with that thing. "You...you startled me when you grabbed me like that.""Well, ye needna be afraid now. I couldna molest ya, even if I wanted to, which I dinna.I'm betting foreplay with ye would be like grabbing hold of an electrical wire while sitting in a tub of water." He groaned and cussed some more. "Hell, I bet yer vagina is lined with shark's teeth.
Vonnie Davis
This world stands on the foundation of the relationship between the support and the support-taker. If the support is removed, the support-taker will be released.
Dada Bhagwan
Life is a personal race. Run the race of life with all endurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.
Gary Keller
They're both a bit cavalier about the whole thing at first; more than anything, they seem to think that it's going to be a lot of fun. Which it is, of course, but mostly in the way a plane crash is fun to reminisce about after you survive it.
Josh Gates
Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the Lord's Supper, and printed Bibles to read.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
The Bolshevik leaders perched atop the Mausoleum were no easier to tell apart than chess pawns. But Florence too was certain that she could recognise the twinkling eyes of Joseph Stalin, which looked down at her each workday from the oil painting above Timofeyev’s desk
Sana Krasikov
Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,let’s stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.
Parul Wadhwa
Love is elixir that keeps you alive. Love is poison that kills you. Unreciprocated love keeps you alive, but kills every day.
Udai Yadla
I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
R.C. Sproul
Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.
Gary Chapman
You're the one I like. Maybe love.
Jenna Evans Welch
We must give people the chance to change.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.
Susan Griffin
Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Praying to God involves both us and God. God wants us to participate in what he is doing, and for sure one of the main ways we participate in what he is doing is by prayer. We can also participate in what he is doing by feeding the hungry and helping the poor and caring for the sick and giving of our resources to those who have little. God wants us to partner with him. So there is a paradox at work, and a mystery. On the one hand, the Bible says that apart from God we can do nothing. And yet, on the other hand, God invites us to do some things with him. This is at the heart of the mystery of prayer. God wants us to use our faith and to pray. But we can focus so much on the importance of our faith and our prayers that we forget about God and think it is our faith and our prayers that perform the miracle, rather than the God to whom we pray and in whom we have faith as we pray.
Eric Metaxas
I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I entered a new life and found her again, in a woman who was entirely her own person. When this life is done, I'll turn away from it without regret as well, because I know she waits for me, in another, different life.
John Scalzi
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.
Jimmy Carter
When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and fine we are... this.
Joe Abercrombie
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary
Mark Haddon
Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.
Ethel Russell-Ajisomo
I should mention, by the way, that LVR stands for Luminal Velocity Regulator. I suppose it could also stand for Large Venezeulan Rats, but in this case it does not.
Cuthbert Soup
What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country." -- Willie "Drafted
Rich Allan
The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ's character and gives us a view of the 'son-ship' He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
Middle school is kind of like Middle-earth. It’s a magical journey filled with elves, dwarves, hobbits, queens, kings, and a few corrupt wizards. Word to the wise: pick your traveling companions well. Ones with the courage and moral fiber to persevere. Ones who wield their lip gloss like magic wands when confronted with danger. This way, when you pass through the congested hallways rife with pernicious diversion, you achieve your desired destination—or at least your next class.-CeCee, Lucy and CeCee's How to Survive (and Thrive) in Middle School
Kimberly Dana
If we, as mothers, are not careful we can begin to find our identity in our children and their behavior
Sue Detweiler
Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]
Lionel Shriver
Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.
George Eliot
Love is so powerful that it can enter through a closed door and steal all of the contents of a precious heart within a moment.
Debasish Mridha
I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the most invisible.
Stefan D
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
George Eliot
Nothing can replace a daily time spent alone with God in prayer. We can also be in an attitude of prayer throughout the day—sitting in a car or at our desks, working in the kitchen, even talking with someone on the phone.
Billy Graham
Thank goodness it wasn't real sex.
Lana Cox
Using someone else’s ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.
Charles F. Glassman
Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what others might see and think.
Jayson James
Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.
Mark Lawrence
(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.
Donald Miller
Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.
Elizabeth Hunter
The strength within you, divine soul, can survive any situation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow the signs, this can help us understand who we really are.
Sebastian Pole
To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe
Sunday Adelaja
But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury, to show that you can prove anything by it. It all depends on who makes use of it. Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. I am speaking of the abuse of psychology, gentlemen.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It's like this old patchwork quilt my momma used to have...Each piece on that quilt meant something. And some of those pieces were the damn ugliest things you've ever seen...But some of the pieces were so beautiful they almost hurt my eyes to look at when I was a kid...That's the best you can hope for, Danny. That your life turns out like that patchwork quilt. That you can add some bright, sparkling pieces to the dirty, stained ones you have so far. That in the end, the bright patches might take up more space on your quilt than the dark ones.
Brooke McKinley
It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Troubles teaches us what we must know.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I am a negative person by nature, and I typically shy away from anything that requires me to be having visible fun.
Samantha Irby
We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping.
Sunday Adelaja