Quotes by Authors - Page 3443

Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.
Margaret Atwood
Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Amidst all the criticisms and prejudgement in life, we should strive to do good in return; however small, instead of just turning your back against the world.
Warren Cassell Jr.
the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers
Markus Zusak
Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.
Debasish Mridha
You're going to have to open your eyes.
Josh Malerman
In this cyberwar, industry is on their own and must combat nation states, cyber mercenaries, cyber caliphate and other actors via layered security laced with intelligent machines.
James Scott
A hundred lifetimes wouldn't suffice to see all the beauty in one acre of land.
Marty Rubin
What can ever equal the memory of being young together?
Michael Stein
The future will be bright, if you play it right!
Debasish Mridha
We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
Alan Bennett
Women at the top are the ones chosen to be there by men and not eliminated by women, a dual filter that excludes most witches: those with brilliance and originality and those capable of disturbing the status quo.
Heather Marsh
Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.
Michael Lee West
Where there is a strong desire and profound hope, there is a way.
Debasish Mridha
The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.
Gregory David Roberts
In order to write about life first you must live it.
Ernest Hemingway
The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.
Moazzam Shaikh
See? Nothing to it.""I see all right," Carly said, her tone full of awe. She gaped at him."What?""Um...""Jesus, Carly, what is it?" He spun around to make sure there wasn't something behind him that would justify her reaction and the look of impressed astonishment on her face."You... Maybe the current was a little faster than you thought."He followed the direction of her gaze and discovered he had lost his boxers. He snickered. She giggled. They both burst into laughter, and Justin flushed a little.
Lissa Bryan
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying. Don't.
T.N. Suarez
I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.
Norman Mailer
Then someone cried out, “Suicide bomber!” The crowd panicked. In the ensuing stampede, terrified pilgrims ran in both directions, many colliding in the middle of the bridge. A side railing collapsed under their weight, and scores leaped into the water whether they could swim or not. Hundreds were trampled to death. More than a thousand died. Hundreds of pairs of sandals were scattered around the bridge, left behind when pilgrims made their desperate dives into the river. I was given all of seventy-five seconds to tell the story on the Nightly News.
Richard Engel
Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.
Donald Miller
Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.
Victoria Aveyard
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Sara Sheridan
Just remember, you never know what's possible until you risk finding out.
Jasinda Wilder
Failure opens the door to the most powerful lessons and discoveries – but it does so only if you have the courage to accept reality and look failure in the eye.
Dragos Bratasanu
Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
Mary Field Belenky
Let us pray for wisdom not for superstitions.
Debasish Mridha
Everyone is drinking. She can feel them out there drinking, turning into beasts.
Anna Keesey
But who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
The battered and pathetic thing that represented any claim to conscience I might have had turned away from me in disgust. Oddly, I couldn't blame it. I was disgusted myself. Disgusted at my weakness and my lack of resolution, at my refusal to see justice through in the name of the woman who had borne me.
Peter David
When I opened the curtains in the morning I saw the intersection of two six-lane highways. It was a comfortable, well equipped, practical sort of place, as Holidays Inns tend to be. You can be happy at a place like this so long as you stay away from the coffee. And the restaurant, if you want to be sure. Perhaps not happy, but not unhappy. Or if unhappy, at least not threatened. A good motel creates a kind of stasis for the soul in transit. One should leave no worse than one arrived: that is the minimum requirement.
Don Watson
Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.
Matthew De Abaitua
When God created you, He already had a plan for your life. Before he brought you into this world, He had already put together a blue print for your life. Your responsibility is to figure out what that blue-print is and run with it.
D.S Mashego
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.
Nick Hornby
At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world—to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.
Richelle E. Goodrich
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
George Carlin
If you are going to quit after a couple of steps, you aren’t going to be the best you can ever be.
Israelmore Ayivor
A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves
Jen Hatmaker
That was when reality kicked back in and reminded Xander that the woman he'd just spent the past fifteen minutes mentally undressing was going to be in his squad, and that he was going to be her supervisor.He was in so much trouble.There was no way he could be her boss. It wouldn't be fair to her or his team, and it sure as hell wasn't something he could handle. He'd end up spending all his time gazing at her like a lovesick puppy instead of training her on weapons and tactics.
Paige Tyler
This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.
David Burkus
I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
Karen Armstrong
We are, all of us, always only one breath or softening of our thought away from an invasion of divine wonder and fresh miracles. Soul waits for any small opening of our hearts to steal into everyday life.
Jacob Nordby
Memories, made to last forever<3
Paula Morris
I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.
David Levithan
It's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It's about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidated. It determines whether you are the one to take an active role in sex and society.
Abigail Tarttelin
Just because some dreams never see light that doesn’t make us nonbelievers, they are wings to our sky and fiction makes us dream. I know the truth is fatal, especially for the stubborn’s but trust me the illusion is worse.
Parul Wadhwa
Percy!’ Annabeth scolded. ‘You just opened another Monster Doughnut shop somewhere!
Rick Riordan
Words writers choose are like a glimmering reflection into our souls.
Lee Bice-Matheson
Self Effort (Purushartha) is that which will bear fruits, without fail.
Dada Bhagwan
Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal.
Amit Ray
To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself. It is an act devoid of the playfulness of art, without the attractive humility of one who know absolutely that others exist and therefore feels drawn to please them, because to give them an instant of pleasure is to acknowledge their existence.
Patricia Hampl
We're more of a bag-and-tag operation.
Lara Adrian
Until you discover what you can do with your time, you won’t know how to go about crucial things
Sunday Adelaja
Somebody is perfect.Somebody is true.Somebody is cuddly.That somebody is you.
Anthony T.Hincks