Quotes by Authors - Page 324

You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.
Daniel Handler
God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them.
Katie Ganshert
The flowers in Tibet were always taller, more fragrant and vivid. Her descriptions, imprecise but unchanging from year to year lead me to an inevitable acceptance that her past was unequaled by our present lives. She would tell me of knee-deep fields of purple, red and white- plants never named or pointed out to during our years in India and Nepal- that over time served to create an idea of her fatherland, phayul, as a riotous garden. I pictured her wilderness paradise by comparing them not to the marigolds, daises or bluebells I crushed with my fingers, but to the shape of household artefacts around me: lollipop, broom, bottle. Disparate objects that surrendered to and influenced the idea, space and hope of a more abundant and happy place.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.
Halldór Laxness
If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are more powerful than your government, and your government are worried the day you discover it!!!
Anon1467
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.
Kamand Kojouri
If you truly have character and respecting others is your core value, you respect everybody regardless of who they are, what they believe and how they behave...
Assegid Habtewold
All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything.Everyone was so full of crap.
Blake Nelson
Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile."Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!
Ilona Andrews
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
E.A. Bucchianeri
Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things
Ilyas Kassam
144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We want our place to stand.
Chris Crutcher
We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.
G.S. Jennsen
Be determined to fulfill your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.
Billy Graham
If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry.
Michael Nolan
I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.
Mike Carey
Love is the greatest gift, we can give to each other.
Lailah Gifty Akita
To have something does not mean to understand it.
Sunday Adelaja
You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.
Karen Marie Moning
Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature.
Bernadette Pajer
Screenwriting is made of brevity.
A.D. Posey
Even a good family can become a trap for one’s destiny when the family becomes your aim
Sunday Adelaja
In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand.
Chris Matakas
Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.
Neal Shusterman
Where am I going?- this is the question of your birth purpose on the earth
Sunday Adelaja
I am counting totally and completely on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not on Billy Graham. I am not going to heaven because I’ve read the Bible, nor because I’ve preached to a lot of people. I’m going to heaven because of what Christ did.
Billy Graham
I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.
Alan Bradley
If every punch, kick done by somebody female or male (it doesn't matter) or a curses said by one of this two sexes and every other thing which makes you feel that you aren't protected or you are heart. Was replacted with a book, that you don't receive a punch or kick, but a book you will be an a librarian!
Deyth Banger
Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."
Pearl S. Buck
Who is preaching the living word today?
Lailah Gifty Akita
I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert.
Ryan Lilly
Don't expect people to understand your purpose when God didn't give them your vision.
Turcois Ominek
The wishbone will never replace the backbone
Will Henry
There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.
Lemony Snicket
O God give us our daily bread.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.
Holly Black
Don't let others define your dreams.
Tres Buffalo
Having the thought of you being with someone else is like a knife twisting in my dark soul
E.L. James
I remembered seeing a media channel where they showed picture after picture of food items I had never seen before in my life. When I asked my father what it was, he said they called it the “Two Minutes’ Hate.
Project Itoh
Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore.
Khadija Rupa
gratitudenoun \ˈgra-tə-ˌtüd, -ˌtyüd\ 1. The word thrown in your face by people who covet what you want and believe that your lack of contentment is a sin. Often, these people believe success is what you have already and obtaining anything else is optional, but not required.
Shannon L. Alder
Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.
Chuck Palahniuk
Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.
Gore Vidal
Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.
Steve Maraboli
I like to play dirty. I can also be very, very exacting.” Rate St. Sebastian.
Samanthe Beck
Each day, compel yourself to do something you would rather not do.
Justin Bienvenue
What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this.""Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.
Rick Riordan
And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and that we therefore communicate best when we exploit examples, analogies, and metaphors galore, when we avoid abstract generalities, when we use very down-to-earth, concrete, and simple language, and when we talk directly about our own experience.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
My soul is filled with exceedingly joy.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories.
London Casey (Karolyn James)
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
Abraham Verghese
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
John Green
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
Alice Hoffman
It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.
Jo Walton
Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants of some sort, or prayers, followed by more shouts of “Diable!” They were hurling these words at Moreau like stones.
Cole Alpaugh
Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of thing. After all those labors I had to complete for my evil cousin Eurystheus, well...I don't want to be that guy, you know?
Rick Riordan
Language has everything to do with oppression and liberation. When the word "victory" means conquer vs. harmony and the word "equality" means homogenization vs. unity in/through diversity, then the liberation of a people from a "minority" class to "communal stakeholders" becomes much more difficult. Oppression has deep linguistic roots. We see it in conversations which interchange the idea of struggle with suffering in order to normalize abuse. We are the creators of our language, and our definitions shape the perceptions we have of the world. The first step to ending oppression is finding a better method of communication which is not solely dependent on a language rooted in the ideology of oppressive structures.
Cristina Marrero