Quotes by Authors - Page 3520

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.
Bernie S. Siegel
Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy.
Rachel Caine
It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack.
T.H. White
If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.
A.E. van Vogt
In times of trouble, turn to God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You need to find your gift, something you can achieve better than others
Sunday Adelaja
The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as a gesture of symbolic oppression. It's like saying to the woman, 'Who you are as a person isn't as important as who I am.
Rhoda Janzen
I am still trying and trying to exorcise youbut you cling to me like mud or bloodstains,like a battlefield fought in my imaginationevery day that I raise my pen against the swordyou used to slice my heart into small, bitter pieces.
Miriam Joy
In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a Neanderthal; a bureaucrat who pays for your pills? A hero.
Greg Gutfeld
If I do my best and produce the best products, that is my purpose, then I shall definitely be compensated. The by product will come when the product is good.
Sunday Adelaja
It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!
Jo Linsdell
To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.
Charles Eisenstein
Wherever you go, there you are.
Thomas à Kempis
Death gets a bad rap. People think that euthanasia is putting their pets “down” when it really is lifting us up. In the first moment, when we come back to earth, we remember the comfort of the Heaven we came from and this is why we cry when we are born. When we are born in Heaven we come in laughing not crying! In birth we have the passage and then the pain. In death we have the pain and then the passage.
Kate McGahan
Stupid questions will never exist and won't ever exist.
Deyth Banger
You cannot fellowship with God when you disqualify another person from fellowshipping with you
Sunday Adelaja
I know I should be reassuring him that everything's all right, that he needn't worry, but I can't. Instead I'm talking to someone I don't know who isn't even there. Thank you, I'm saying. Thank you for Lucy, thank you for Claire and for Daniel, thank you for this cold and this blood and this pain. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Michael Dibdin
When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.
Malcolm McNeill
She didn’t warn you about me?”t“Should she have?”tErica finished her drink, relishing the burn in her belly and the flush of heat in her cheeks as she nodded “Definitely.”tHis gaze smoldered. “It’s a good thing danger is my calling, then.
Lisa Kessler
Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death.
Sunday Adelaja
Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
People with inferiority intentions do not go after their dreams not because they can't go; but because their passion is not strong enough to turn the wheels of success...and there they go, becoming losers, defeated by their obstacles!
Israelmore Ayivor
If you rule the air, you are great; the waters, you are extraordinary; the lands, you are remarkable; but if you rule over yourself, you are remarkable.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
... we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've swallowed it big time.
Graham McNamee
DARWIN’S “SACRED CAUSE”?Much ink has been dedicated to determining Charles Darwin’s role in “scientific racism.” The only way to empirically and scientifically determine his role is to organize the events as a timeline, and thus placing them into context of historical events. Political analysis without historical context is all sail and no rudder. In America we are constantly made aware that both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day, in the same year, February 12, 1809. Adrian Desmond and James Moore famous 2009 book, “Darwin’s Sacred Cause,” leverages this factoid in an effort to place Charles Darwin at par with Abraham Lincoln in the abolition of slavery. This fraudulently steals away credit from Abraham Lincoln, who took a bullet to the head for the cause, and transfers it by inference to an aristocrat whom remained in his plush abode throughout the conflict and never lifted a finger for the cause.
A.E. Samaan
Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.
Sarah Blake
She's the gristle stuck between Time's teeth, and I love her for it.
Shaun David Hutchinson
Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
Yasmin Mogahed
He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.
Dana Marton
I need you.""I'm here."And we sit in silence.
Katie McGarry
If what you want does not exist, why not create it?
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.
Beth Hoffman
She has had any number of foals. I yield to her judgement.
Katherine Arden
The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.The duty of government is to help them do it.This is the pasta of politics.The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.--Bombolini
Robert Crichton
You can change a life with a simple touch of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.From time to time, sit close to the one you love, hold his or her hand, and ask, 'Darling, do I understand you enough? Or am I making you suffer? Please tell me so that I can learn to love you properly. I don't want to make you suffer, and if I do so because of my ignorance, please tell me so that I can love you better, so that you can be happy." If you say this in a voice that communicates your real openness to understand, the other person may cry.That is a good sign, because it means the door of understanding is opening and everything will be possible again. Maybe a father does not have time or is not brave enough to ask his son such a question. Then the love between them will not be as full as it could be. We need courage to ask these questions, but if we don't ask, the more we love, the more we may destroy the people we are trying to love. True love needs understanding. With understanding, the one we love will certainly flower.
Thich Nhat Hanh
You have to pursue your dreams with all your heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.
Susan Choi
Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.
Ally Carter
I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.
Shannon L. Alder
Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.
Kate Atkinson
My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
Robert E. Howard
It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
Chuck Palahniuk
When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?
Deyth Banger
Kehidupan lebih nyata daripada pendapat siapapun tentang kenyataan.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.
Laura Ruby
I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.
Jessica Sorensen
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really.
Nick Hornby
[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr.
Gratitude is a joyful act.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Showing respect for others when they don’t agree with you, and during the times when you don’t agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully.
Ellen J. Barrier
It is a source of encouragement that many homosexuals report being transformed through the power of the Gospel.
Billy Graham
When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.
Robert M. Pirsig
Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.
Brandon Sanderson
Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.
Debasish Mridha
It is true that often she doesn't want advice; she wants a listening ear. At the same time, however, the wise wife will realize her husband's desire to help and advise is strong. She should refrain from getting angry and humor him a bit, as one wife did by saying, "Thanks for the input. I know I am not the brightest bulb on the tree when it comes to certain things. I am glad we have each other.
Emerson Eggerichs