Quotes by Authors - Page 3347

Risk all to find the right path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested.No?”Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.
Nicholas Sparks
I know you're meant for me. I know you're the other half of my soul. We are meant to be together. - Avery Adams
Kindle Alexander
The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.
Neil Gaiman
America's over. Get out while you still can.
J.M. Porup
I have seen people starting the fire with water, turning every breeze into a storm, create chaos out of peace. Few people are meant to destroy everything and themselves no matter what, and if you hold on to them long they will take you into their abyss and tear you into pieces.
Akshay Vasu
Life is a pigsty.
Morrissey
When you win nothing hurts.
Joe Namath
All our works must pass through fire. Some of them will be burnt out and those that are left will be our good and useful works for the Kingdom of God
Sunday Adelaja
Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Brian Dyson
Yes, we live, or we're given the chance to, at least, but sometimes living is hard and complicated because of fear.
Adam Silvera
Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.
Thomas Wolfe
In the middle of the storm, the ‘a’ of the atheist drops!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition. Seeking enlightenment or the Promised Land or the way home, a man would go or be forced to go into the wilderness, measure himself against the Creation, recognize finally his true place within it, and thus be saved both from pride and from despair. Seeing himself as a tiny member of a world he cannot comprehend or master or in any final sense possess, he cannot possibly think of himself as a god. And by the same token, since he shares in, depends upon, and is graced by all of which he is a part, neither can he become a fiend; he cannot descend into the final despair of destructiveness. Returning from the wilderness, he becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forebears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.(pg.95, "The Body and the Earth")
Wendell Berry
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]
Winston S. Churchill
Wake up. Watch the beauty of the dawn and the rising sun. Appreciate the beauty and your ability to appreciate it. Without your appreciation, there is no beauty. The sun created you to see her own beauty through your eyes. Find and appreciate all of the beauty around you. Life is for appreciation, love, and happiness. We express our love through appreciation and through love our souls feel the secret touch of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
A few will say no, but many will say yes…remember that every No will get you closer to the many yeses as long as you have a system that works for you.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
In the busyness of living, he is the kind of man that makes a woman pause and write romantic poetry.
Terry a O'Neal
The secret to extraordinary faith is fully engaging our MINDS, as well as our hearts, because DYNAMIC FAITH REQUIRES A HEALTHY BALANCE OF BOTH.
Patty Houser
The level of our submission to God will determine our success and prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?
Ian McEwan
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
Eric Weiner
Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience:(1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups;(2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies;(3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest.This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.
John Ralston Saul
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
Albert Camus
Dreema and you disagree. She cottons to Richmond, but you can't be weaned off Pelham. So I offer you a fair middle ground: relocate to northern Virginia. She transfers to the state morgue on Braddock Road, and you get to stay near your old beat.
Ed Lynskey
No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.
James Surowiecki
Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Powerless=lifeless.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.
Tahereh Mafi
When you're feeling lonelyand no one is aroundRemember to look inside yourselfand a best friend will be found
Stephen Cosgrove
Don’t just save yourself alone, also bring salvation the people around you
Sunday Adelaja
Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, "Do you think those pills work?"Not like that, I said."No," he agreed. "Not like that.
Mitch Albom
To be strong and true had been the most important task he had set himself since early childhood.Once, as a boy, he had tried to outstare the sun. But before he could tell whether he had really looked at it or not, changes had occurred: the blazing red ball that had been there at first began to whirl, then suddenly dimmed, till it became a cold, bluish-black, flattened disk of iron. He felt he had seen the very essence of the sun.... For a while, wherever he looked he saw the sun's pale afterimage: in the undergrowth; in the shade beneath the trees; even, when he gazed up, in every part of the sky. The truth was something too dazzling to be looked at directly. And yet, once it had come into one's field of vision, one saw patches of light in all kinds of places: the afterimages of virtue.
Yukio Mishima
That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest.It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people we can start the change from the softer things such as the way we breathe, and the way we feel about or toward other people and other living beings. These soft parts shape Our behaviors and our choices, both on a personal and a global scale. In this respect, they are fundamental, more so than any material changes.
Ilchi Lee
Because you are alive and reading thisAnything is Possible
Steven Aitchison
Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?
Sara Baume
Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.
Amit Ray
When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my lifebut dancing and sexI'd go to night clubs and danceThen I'd meet someone and have sexit was Fine and easynothing to doBUT Think with my bodylike a birdI Thought I was FreeTrAcey Emin
Tracey Emin
Every day holds infinite opportunities. Explore!
Lailah Gifty Akita
A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Something tells me that Alex has some demons and I can tell you from experience that those suckers don't go down easy.
Mary J. Williams
It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.
Christopher Hitchens
I wish that I had been born a man, then I wouldn't be the boy that I am.
Anthony T.Hincks
I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
Orson Scott Card
New day, new grace and new hope.
Lailah Gifty Akita
There's a kind of purity to a relationship unencumbered by convention, a sense of simplicity and freedom.
J.P. Delaney
Well, Mrs. Charlie Wylde, I love you more than a fish loves the water.
Jenika Snow
A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.
A.A. Patawaran
The beauty of nature-humanity:Animal is animal.Book is book.Forest is forest.Happiness is happiness.Human is human.Joy is joy.Mountain is mountain.Music is music.Ocean is ocean.Life is life.Light is light.Love is love.Plant is plant.Peace is peace.Stream is stream.Sun is sun.Spirit is spirit.Snow is snow.Rain is rainRainbow is rainbow.River is river.Wind is wind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Once we were young, now we are adult.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury, but it was-I am certain-echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago. I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!
Daniel Keyes
Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sensitive, quivering, emotional messes.
Emily Auerbach
He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.
Frederick Drimmer
Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.
Charles F. Glassman
What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.
R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.
Neil Gaiman
A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.
Matshona Dhliwayo
John F. Kennedy "is, in reality, a deeply serious man, reflective in his mental habits, historically minded, and given to seeing men and nations and events in the sobering context that history provides.As a human being, he is often humorous, easily bored by total routine but open to all fresh experiences, careless of the superficialities of life, warmly loyal to his friends, and oddly detached about himself. His most curious trait, in fact, is his way of discussing his most vital affairs with the dry humor and cool analytical remoteness that most people reserve for the affairs of others. – Joseph Alsop
David Pietrusza
These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.
Brenda Sutton Rose
...fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone, we're left with the concept, but not the true memory--why else...would anyone give birth more than once?
Téa Obreht