Quotes by Authors - Page 3440

The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medvedev made moves to take the levels down to 1,000—then to 500?If so, come show us the math. If not, it may be time to stop making arms control so politically complicated—time to stop letting arms control get in the way of disarmament.
Fred Kaplan
So I can’t explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us.
Colleen Oakley
The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.
Sam Owen
I observed that when a footballer is about to make a threatening strike to score a goal, there comes a big shout from spectators at the field. He could either get detracted to miss the opportunity or motivated to make it happen. Such is life!
Israelmore Ayivor
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
G.K. Chesterton
...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...
John Geddes
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
Joyce Meyer
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
Colson Whitehead
After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just.
Alexandre Dumas
Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity."No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.
J.K. Rowling
Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor
She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.
David Gemmell
Mr. Monogamy doesn’t find my shenanigans funny? Oh thank god, if you did I’d have to chuck it all and join a monastery.
Kim Cormack
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
Fall in love with someonewho tastes like adventurebut looks likethe calm, beautiful morningafter a terrible storm
Nikita Gill
The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.
Emily Post
Tits and ass and class - that's how you land a man with money, Tamara Anne. You've got two and can fake the last one.
Avery Flynn
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
Larry McMurtry
Mind my words, Cheshire, I will have you banished from this kingdom if you tempt me.""An empty threat from an empty girl."She rounded on him, teeth flashing. "I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow on to you.""There was a time" – Cheshire yawned – "when you overflowed with whimsy and icing sugar. I liked that Catherine better.
Marissa Meyer
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
Francis Chan
Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.
Abhijit Naskar
One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through the felt sense), it, by its very nature, changes. Out of the shattered fragments of her deeply injured psyche, Jody discovered and nurtured a nascent, emergent self. From the ashes of the frantically activated, hypervigilant, frozen, traumatized girl of twenty-five years ago, Jody began to reorient to a new, less threatening world. Gradually she shaped into a more fluid, resilient, woman, coming to terms with the felt capacity to fiercely defend herself when necessary, and to surrender in quiet ecstasy.
Peter A. Levine
I went into the new year loving myself in different ways, in a different possibility. It was then that I understood things I hadn’t. It was then that I understood people I hadn’t. We work in ways where sometimes we don’t align because our intersections lead us elsewhere. We find ourselves in rapids which lead to lightning, in beds that leave us homesick. We lust after the impetuous, in hopelessness, and sometimes in the reactive. We like things and people who are bad for us and that’s fine. It’s fine because it’s life. It happens. They exist. We exist. We all exist together in this world where nothing seems to make sense. Where everything is nothing but imaginary because it’s what we imagine it to be. Reality exists and it’s there, but life is what you make it. Your actions ask for it. How you exist is how you exist.We take every new year and give it a theme because we’re scared of how it could be. You change in the moment, not by years. You be to become and becoming is something which frightens people. Lead by example instead of letting the example lead you. Take this new year and find yourself in people who question it because questioning is how you gain from it.
Dominic Riccitello
Islam is simple, but being a Muslim in a modern world is not. Everyday is a battle that each of us have to face. It is easy to get swept away and lose one's identity. The constant struggle is to find out who we are and how to remain steadfast.
Norhafsah Hamid
We are constantly immersed in a network of signs and symbols whose meaning eludes us, but which, if only we could read them, would reveal every detail of our past and even predict our future. Like anticipatory echoes, they tingle in our consciousness, building in crescendo until the event they herald becomes fully manifest. Afterwards, they linger for a time before being drowned out by a new tide of signs rushing in upon us. Such signatures are everywhere...
Linda Lappin
Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work.
Toba Beta
First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.
Amit Kalantri
Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady?
Harper Lee
So you know you're a ghost?"tI looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation?
Christina Dodd
Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.
Bill Jensen
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
Richard Peck
If the social stress is physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, the way to treat the depression is to stop the abuse. Unfortunately, advocates of the biochemical treatment of depression have gone along with the view of academic theory and popular culture that the problem is entirely within the skull of the victim. Enthusiasm for biochemical treatment and research is partly due to the fact that it helps perpetuate the myth that suicide and depression should be treated by changing the victim, not by changing ourselves. As long as we have a narrow view of the causes of biochemical imbalance, such as limiting it to innate genetic defects, we can practice denial on the social complicity in the causation of suicide. The narrow view does nothing to help reduce pain and increase resources for the millions of people whose problems do not respond to medications. It also deprives us of an opportunity for progress in a much broader area for social reform. The dynamics behind the oppression of the suicidal is similar to the dynamics of other forms of injustice; progress in one area can support progress in other areas.
David L. Conroy
Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.
C.S. Lewis
The walls that we build for self-protection become the walls of self-imprisonment later!!!!
Harrish Sairaman
I knew you were no longer mine when you no longer see me as something dazzling that made you lose your mind. You don't see me as the artwork you once fell in love with.
A.G.T
Peabody pursed her lips. "You're really mean today." "Yes. Yes, I am." Eve took a deep gulp of hideous air, and smiled. "I feel good about that.
J D ROBB
Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.
Lionel Suggs
After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.
Matt Taibbi
It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!
Martha Sweeney
Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
All religions are mere echoes of this one great religion of Humanism.
Abhijit Naskar
As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.
L. Frank Baum
Maybe it was simply human nature to only love a thing after losing it. Maybe they should all lose more things so they can appreciate what they had.
Tiffany Reisz
Take a leap of faith on your dreams, not for me and not for the society, just for yourself.
Vinay Garg
To be happy, you have to love and forgive.
Debasish Mridha
Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you know you can while others dare to prove otherwise! Mind your business and make the strike.
Israelmore Ayivor
You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless(...)
Tara Lain
Think like a man of action but act like a woman of thought.
Amit Abraham
Our divorce was an optical illusion, surely, because I am often still there, in my old home with my family. I can so easily fool myself, even without a scope, a lens, a patch of sky to measure my trauma, my blues, my perspective or my period of mourning. Suspension of disbelief can be a very real kind of haunting.
Jalina Mhyana
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.
Brené Brown
People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.
Cecelia Ahern
Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.
Kiese Laymon
God has been so good to me. All glory to the Adonai!
Lailah Gifty Akita
Je ne laissa entrer que le plaisair, oui, j’ai cette capacité-là, moi, de filtrer ce qui m’arrive, de choisir, j’ai choisi de ne pas être triste.
Justine Lévy
I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD.
Genereux Philip
Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.
Ellen J. Barrier
Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.
Anonymous
With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
Jhumpa Lahiri