Quotes by Authors - Page 3208

Sin may appear good. But by God's commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When i believe in everything, I could not seethe actors semicircled around a studio microphoneflipping the pages of scripts in unison.I only heard the voices, resonant, electric, adult,accusing each other of murder.
Billy Collins
He only wanted to use me for something. Everyone wanted to use you for some purpose.
Ralph Ellison
O Lord, thy will be done in my life as it is written in Heaven in Jesus Name. Amen.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you can’t be happy and content by yourself then you shouldn’t be in a relationship.
Evan Sutter
Great. He was a hottie, a good kisser, and a literature buff. God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended a book that I didn’t know, that wasn’t taught in school. If I were single, there would be no better pick-up line. Suddenly, I found myself thinking back to Atonement—you know, the scene in the book where the two main characters have sex in the library? Even though Chloe said doing it against bookshelves would be really uncomfortable (and she’d probably know), it was still a fantasy of mine. Like, what’s more romantic than a quiet place full of books? But I shouldn’t have been thinking about my library fantasies. Especially while I was staring at Cash. In the middle of a library.
Kody Keplinger
And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?
David Hewson
It may take us years and years to find our true calling in our life. But one fine day, we eventually do find it!Till then make merry, laugh, fight, dance and enjoy the craziness...
Avijeet Das
If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry
Learn to love God with all your heart
Sunday Adelaja
Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing
Ursula K Le Guin
This book might also be seen as “a Christian primer.” A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them. This book’s purpose is to help us to read, hear, and inwardly digest Christian language without preconceived understandings getting in the way.
Marcus J. Borg
Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.
Shinmon Aoki
You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!
James Dashner
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
Julia Child
The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully
Rasheed Ogunlaru
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
Jill Tarter
If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won’t work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh).
Dada Bhagwan
The act of living is a revolutionary right.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.
Neil Gaiman
Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to confront bigotry and racism whenever, wherever, and in whatever form it raises its ugly head. It is incumbent upon all people to confront even the slightest hint of racist thought or action with zero tolerance.
Hans J. Massaquoi
Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It was like being a jack-in-the-box and I was unsure which personality was going to jump out next: Billy, who thought of himself as a cowboy or a terrorist; Kato the cutter; anorexic Shirley, whose only self-indulgence was binge drinking and the occasional salad sandwich. I didn’t dislike Shirley. I was afraid of her. Shirley knew things I didn’t.
Alice Jamieson
Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.
Idries Shah
I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his hair, it is very blond, very light, and people say, he is the good one. And my hair it is very dark, darker than yours even, and people say I am the rogue, you know? I am the bad one. And now time passes, and my hair is gray. His hair too, I think, is gray. And you look at us, you would not know who was light, who was dark.
Neil Gaiman
Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
Jeanne DuPrau
Sometimes your garden surprises you. You don't remember planting strawberries or mint, but there it is, rising up in the middle of the carrot patch. Maybe the seeds blew in from the neighbor's garden. Or maybe they were buried in the dirt and you unearthed them when you tilled the soil. Or maybe you're reaping what you've sown. However it happened, you now have unexpected bounty. Accept it with gratitude.
Lisa Brown Roberts
Oh mommy! You are my world, my love. I am your little boy, and I stole your heart.
Debasish Mridha
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.
Jon Stewart
Loyalty is smart with patience.
Auliq-Ice
It's not a nice thing to send a penis to a woman. It's disrespectful.
Janet Evanovich
And suddenly there came a second, when somehow for the first time I saw (as if a door had opened from a dark room into the sunny street), and in the next second I already knew for sure that God exists and that God is the Jesus Christ of Orthodoxy, and not some other God. I call this moment the greatest miracle because this precise knowledge came to me not through reason (I know this for sure) but by some other way, and I am unable to explain this moment rationally ....
Seraphim Rose
My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator," he shouted at the cops. "They were vile, but they didn't deserve to be taken out with the trash!
James Patterson
Just remember this, Missy, escargot ain't nothin' but snails with their noses stuck in the air.
Lois Greiman
Read everything you can push into your skull. Read your mother’s diary. Read Assata. Read everything Gloria Steinem and bell hooks write. Read all of the poems your friends leave in your locker. Read books about your body written by people who have bodies like yours. Read everything that supports your growth as a vibrant, rebel girl human. Read because you’re tired of secrets.
Gabby Rivera
People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.
Gary Chapman
People always ask, Why does God allow suffering? Why does He allow a child to be beaten? A woman to cry? A holocaust to happen? A good dog to die painfully? Simple truth is, He wants to see for Himself what we’ll do. He’s stood up the candle, put the devil at the wick, and now He wants to see if we blow it out or let it burn down. God is suffering’s biggest spectator.
Tiffany McDaniel
Success is a journey of transformations.
Vishwas Chavan
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
Betsy Byars
I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.
Maggie Stiefvater
Start before you're ready.
Steven Pressfield
It was easy to conjure him up this morning, when everything was quiet and still. A little, ginger-bearded man; she had been taller than him by half a head. She had never felt the slightest physical attraction towards him. 'What was love, after all?' thought Parminder, as a gentle breeze ruffled the tall hedge of leyland cypresses that enclosed the Jawandas’ bigback lawn. Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?'I did love laughing', thought Parminder. 'I really miss laughing.'And it was the memory of laughter that, at last, made the tears flow from her eyes. They trickled down her nose and into her coffee, where they made little bulletholes, swiftly erased. She was crying because she never seemed to laugh anymore (...).
J.K. Rowling
I’m saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I’m asking if you’ll stick this out beside me. I’m willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if that’s the case. I just don’t want to lose you.
Lacey Weatherford
At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.
Laura Esquivel
It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back.
Stephen King
Money can cloud your vision. Sometimes, God takes away the money and uses times of adversity to refine us like gold.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent...; for the rarest and most delectable pleasures are those which are hinted at, but never told.
Chrétien de Troyes
From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.
Barbara Coloroso
All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too.
Gabrielle Zevin
When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity.
James Collins
What we do to others, we do to ourselves.
Bryant McGill
The tone of his remarks filled me with a burning desire to kick Mr. Horridge; but that being impracticable, I should certainly, if left to myself, have told him to go to the devil and forthwith walked out of the house.
R. Austin Freeman
Love is not about finding the right person, but about being the right person.
Bryant McGill
By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.
S.A. Tawks
Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough . . . maybe something good finally happens.
Rick Remender
In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person & shape their will in order to...try and make the person one of them...thus gaining powerIf abusers hold all the power, becoming one of them can, for some, be the only means of survival. However, this doesn't always work, instead survivors often find ways of regaining their own power and fighting back.
Laurie Matthew
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.
Pearl Zhu
Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.
T.F. Hodge