Quotes by Authors - Page 3488

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leadersare made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis
A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.
Idries Shah
If You Get Accidentally Locked, In the loo - Would you ‪#‎KnockYourSelfOut‬?
Nikhil Sharda
Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.
Clarice Lispector
I succeed in almost everything I do. My secret is persistence.
Debasish Mridha
. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
John Grogan
It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Richard Dawkins
To be free is to seek faith.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Human beings are not separate from nature. We are nature. The beauty of the sunset is your own beauty. The power of the ocean is your power. We are inseparable from the beauty of the mountains, rivers, and forests that surround us. The more that you can allow your natural self to come out – to honour your natural beauty, your natural creativity, your natural thirst for leadership and compassion – the happier and healthier you’ll be.
Vironika Tugaleva
The blessings of God are inexhaustible.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
Marianne Williamson
The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased state.
Steven Magee
A person does not have to be religious to reach the top of the Ladder of Success; but every one that step onto the Ladder of Success, must have hope.
Ellen J. Barrier
Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!
Anthony Liccione
Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.
Sherman Alexie
When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.
Charlotte Eriksson
If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.
Jim Butcher
Well, let me try again,' he said. 'If it be true, and no doubt it is, that the proper study of mankind is man, it is also true that man is best studied in the books that he has written about himself; and all books, whatever their subject matter, are in essence autobiographical... Wherefore, it is clear - or is it? - that writers of books are what I have called them, the most fascinating people in the world.
Peter Ruber
The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.
Stetson Kennedy
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.
Dean Koontz
Those who know you see your tears even in the rain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Work indeed has many more benefits than money.
Sunday Adelaja
Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper."Ships?" queried Inej."Bombs?" suggested Wylan. "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.
Leigh Bardugo
I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.
Charlaine Harris
Rise in mighty strength and live your dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.
Claudia Gray
But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.
Gayle Forman
It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
Sebastian Faulks
To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.
Swami Dhyan Giten
Should they inquire of the Dead on account of the Living?
Anonymous
HUMANITY IS AN EXPERIMENT:Your present life now is nothing less than a cheap and pathetic imitation of what life supposed to be like, unless you free yourself from the slavery we have all accepted for reality you will never get to paradise.
Ray Mancini
In Hollywood, no one knows anything.
William Goldman
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's Game_ a very unpleasant place to live.
Orson Scott Card
There are no perfect people - except of course my wife's first husband.
Anonymous
Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life. That principle allowed you to deal with the suffering you saw. That was your suffering. Other people would have to deal with the suffering that they, in their turn, came across.
Alexander McCall Smith
that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.
Robert Hughes
All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
John F Kennedy
The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.
A.J. Darkholme
It is as if the Caru'ee were able to perceive an echo of the past, and unconsciously, as they built upon a palimpsest of books written long ago and long forgotten, chanced to stumble upon an essence of meaning that could not be lost, no matter how much time had passed.
Ken Liu
Marketing should never be just a blunt instrument.
Terry O'Reilly
Ecologist Paul Ehrlich stressed that people who hold opposing opinions need to engage in open discussion with well-reasoned dissent. Positions should be questioned and criticized, not the people who hold them. Personal attacks preclude open discussion because, once someone is put on the defensive, fruitful exchanges are impossible, at least for the moment.
Marc Bekoff
It is not enough to know that you are called, it is also necessary to know how you will accomplish your calling
Sunday Adelaja
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
Sir William Blackstone
Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.
Alexander Gordon Smith
To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Did you see that bison on the wall there? He’s so big. And so cute.”Angelo grinned. “I thought you might say that. That’s why I got a smaller version.” He took the plush animal from inside his jacket, where he’d been hiding it, and placed it on the table. “This is Ted.”Minka’s eyes glistened with tears as she stared at it. Crap, what had he done wrong? He’d thought she’d love it.But then she grabbed the toy in one hand, threw her arms around Angelo, and squeezed him so hard his ribs creaked.“Thank you,” she said against his chest. “He’s perfect.
Paige Tyler
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash
The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.
John Holt
Dear Judy Blume, why didn’t you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation.
Karen Amanda Hooper
Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul.
J.D. Stroube
I am a strong and powerful woman.I am proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a woman.I am not defined by other people’s opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a woman. I determine that, not anyone else.I am not passed up for a position, title, or promotion because I am a woman.I fully deserve all the good things that comes my way.Irrespective of what anyone might think, being a woman places no boundaries or limits on my abilities.I can do anything I set my mind to.I celebrate my womanhood and I am beautiful both inside and out.
Idowu Koyenikan
Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.
Orhan Pamuk
The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L
Laurie Nadel
We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.
Bryant McGill
We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.
Tiffany Madison
On a day like this, we women would be completely and utterly happy just to have a man hold our cold hands and massage our aching backs. We'd be so blissfully happy we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves. Men are never happy unless they're trying to do the impossible. It's why they roam about the world trying to conquer it.
Kim Dong Hwa
The best defense is to change and adapt without losing values and morals.
Debasish Mridha
Every time he saw her he realised the reason why they always said humans are made of stardust.
Akshay Vasu
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
Oscar Wilde