Quotes by Authors - Page 3507

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.
Paul Russell
When you make up your mind that you want to be Great, you have to learn about the Great people of the past, the Great people who changed the world, and the Great people of each respective category of absolutely everything you can think of. You have to saturate your mind in greatness. You literally have to get a degree in it. Greatness is a journey into those who have come before you. ‪
Tiffany Winfree
But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.
Richard Matheson
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Malala Yousafzai
It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.
Jessica Khoury
It’s a great privilege to not know where you’ll end up, just where you’re headed. It’s the only way to get there.
Brianna Wiest
True love is what makes life worth living.
D.F. Jones
I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.
Simon Van Booy
Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.
Alister E. McGrath
Without love, life has no meaning.
Debasish Mridha
But most of all, I'll remember how she loved me. I turn away, knowing that I might never get to see Julie Murphy again. But I will know her for the rest of my life.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.
Rabih Alameddine
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
I'm not a hero but I can end the war
Sally Green
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.
Amit Kalantri
SpyThough at the moment I am a prisoner, my spirit remains free. While everyone is fighting a never-ending battle to see who will survive amid so much bloodshed, I don't need to fight anymore, only wait for people I've never met to decide who I am.
Paulo Coelho
I think we can do it.""But you don't know for sure," he said."No.""Geez, Anita.""Don't get rattled on me. We can do this.""But you aren't sure.""I'm not sure we'll survive the plane ride home, but I'm still getting on the plane.""Was that supposed to be comforting?" he asked."Yeah.""It wasn't," he said."Sorry, but this is as good as it gets. You want certainty, be an accountant.""I'm not good at math.""Me either.
Laurell K. Hamilton
My sister lived in the moment. She said she would love the summer only when it came and warmed her. But I lived and still live in the future. Where it’s warm when it’s cold. Where dreams are not yet reality. Where the sad people are happy. The only problem with living in the future is that everyone has died, including yourself. So your plans are fiction and your predictions are fantasy. Living in the future is pure fantasy. I think that’s why I love it so dearly.
F.K. Preston
You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.
Peter Bowen
Non-duality has been the root of all religious movements on this planet.
Abhijit Naskar
I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over.
Nyrae Dawn
Between us what it was? i couldn't fathom, till she was gone.
Aporva Kala
Poor habits can invalidate your credibility and undermine your success in all areas.
Susan C.Young
It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.
Lorii Myers
Dead. Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.
Melanie Cusick-Jones
Life has no romance without risk.
Sarah Doherty
It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.
Elizabeth Wein
You are quite the surprise," he whispered softly, clasping her shoulders and eyeing her mouthwatering lips. "You have no idea what you're doing to me.
Patricia A. Wolf
You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.
Anonymous
He turned to Matt and gave a huge smile, one hand on her withers. James reached out and pulled Matt to him, and they stood there in a little circle. It felt disconcertingly like… a family reunion. Matt turned away from James‟s bright smile and looked at Miz in something akin to horror. Was she their… child? Miz nipped him. Hard. While snorting horse mucus all over him. Damn thing couldn‟t even blow her own damn nose. Would she ever grow up?
Anne Tenino
...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")
E.F. Benson
Don't let writers block push you around. Figure out what the problem is,whether it's with the ms or it's in your personal life, and face it head on. Don't stop writing. Just try really hard to work through it.
Darynda Jones
Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
Barbara Kingsolver
Jesus Christ, the Saviour is my Shepherd.
Lailah Gifty Akita
There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.
Chelsea Handler
I fought the mighty urge to watch her put it on. My libido had just burst out of the closet and was tripping over furniture yelling, "Who? What? Where?" (Please excuse him. He doesn't get out much)
B. Justin Shier
He places the skull in the palm of my hand. There are four canines; the top two are so long and curved I can feel them pricking my skin. There’s a green tinge round the eye socket and in a fine line across the cranium. I’m not sure what animal it’s from. ‘Stoat,’ Harris says, as if I’ve spoken out loud. ‘They hunt grouse and partridge. I found it behind my house. I buried the body in the furze until it was just bone.’ His hand is still beneath mine, supporting it. I think of him seeing the small dead creature and digging a tiny grave for it. Planning ahead for all those months just so he’d see the skeleton. Or maybe he severed the animal’s head and that was the only part he buried. ‘It’s been waiting for you all this time. Like I have.
Sanjida Kay
When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.
Rob Sheffield
Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
Sunday Adelaja
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.And it always feels good.
Lora Brody
The next time you feel that you will never get past the things you’re experiencing now, look back on the trials you’ve experienced in the past and think about how far you’ve come since they happened. Trials won’t last forever, and change will always benefit you. Remember that without change, there would be no butterflies. Without change, the dead of winter would never turn into the beauty of spring. Without change, the dark of night would never turn into the triumph of dawn.
Jayda Skidmore
Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
O God open our eyes to see the wonders of your holy word.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don't look like they all told me I had to do, but I'm healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.
Charlotte Eriksson
If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created."- Prince Ikan
Ray Anyasi
I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, ick! A horse!
Elinor Goulding Smith
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
George Iles
Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.
Abhijit Naskar
Daring greater life is a divine act.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed.
Margaret Atwood
It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.
Charles Bayard Mitchell
He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller
But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
Ignazio Silone
Thad: “But this is a boy, and you need to think of your reputation if you’re spending time alone with him—”Ari: ”Learning how to put a man's eye out or take him down at the knees. Very romantic stuff, Thad. Very romantic. Oh, and we also hid a body together, so we're practically engaged.
C.J. Redwine
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the change, be the difference, or be the inspiration. Shine your light as an example. The world needs more of that.
Germany Kent
Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.
Roy T. Bennett
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
The end will come with the return of Jesus Christ . . .That is why a Christian can be an optimist. That is why a Christian can smile in the midst of all that is happening . . .We know what the end will be: the triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Billy Graham
There is no room for God’s Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord’s creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism.
Billy Graham