Quotes by Authors - Page 3618

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'""But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.
Barbara Kingsolver
It's hard when you're missing your family," Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.
Lemony Snicket
If a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, I guarantee you, she is the one.
Anonymous
The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
Chang-rae Lee
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
Matthew Scully
Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.
Chirag Tulsiani
No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.
Peter Høeg
You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.
Steve Maraboli
a paradox; the best opportunities we want are the best opportunities we miss; the best opportunities we wanted, are the best opportunities we missed and the best opportunities we seek for stay far away from us. In the end, we only settle for any opportunity. Life!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.
Michael Hyatt
Our actions has ensured that we made headlines for all the wrong reasons
Oche Otorkpa
During my 20’s and 30’s at some point I started to think, “I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people: don’t even bother thinking that you’re going to give up whatever your art or your creative thing is. It’s always there for you.
Alice Bag
To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
Esi Edugyan
Believe in God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.
Amit Kalantri
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.
Anne Rice
Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.
Santosh Kalwar
What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?
Jeanette Winterson
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
Randy Pausch
Every great dream, meet an opposing views.The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The USA government encourages gun ownership at the same time as they have allowed environmental radiation levels to become ridiculously high powered and this continues to increase annually. It will be interesting to see where this government experiment eventually takes the USA!
Steven Magee
Healing is about wholeness and harmony. I define healing as anything that contributes to you feeling greater balance, harmony, wholeness, and well-being. In other words, you experience healing when you feel good; and healing is what you need any time you feel that you are out of balance—be it tired, stressed, fearful, or worried—or when you sense a disconnection between your mind, body, and spirit.
Susan Barbara Apollon
Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.
A.J. Dalton
I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don’t think jokes even belong in proper books. I won’t bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature.
Nick Hornby
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
solutions have a voice - the art is knowing how to listen
Gino Norris
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
Saki
Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.
J.M. Redmann
The will to learn is the most important ingredient for education
Debasish Mridha M.D.
With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.
Yvonne Woon
Like many liberal men in the age of feminism, he believed women should have equal access to jobs and be given equal pay, but when it came to matters of home and heart he still believed caregiving was the female role. Like many men, he wanted a woman to be 'just like his mama' so that he did not have to do the work of growing up.
Bell Hooks
I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounters, and recalling Joseph Campbell, who wrote in the conclusion to 'Primitive Mythology' that men do not discover their gods, they create them. So do they also, I thought, looking at the notes before me, create their animals.
Barry López
The rainbow is the pot of gold to those who observe.
Thomas F. Shubnell
It is not enough that you look for Him.You must hunt for God each and every dayas if your life depends on it.Because it does.
Kamand Kojouri
-“I remember my father telling me about England’s redrawing of India’s boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu from the Muslim, but they used outdated maps. Twelve million people had to relocate because the Brits screwed it up so badly. And a half million people died during the resulting chaos. And before that, Iraq was unilaterally cobbled together, causing many of the conflicts we see today. There are dozens of such examples. The strong countries smashing the weaker ones and then avoiding responsibility later for the very problems they caused.”-“You keep proving my point, Tom, that we’re rotten to the core.”-“My point is we never learn!
David Baldacci
There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.
Helen Humphreys
Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.
Cassandra Clare
Because, good God, Lily Wellstone had the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and the spirit of the devil glinting from her eyes. She was a woman worth losing his soul for.
Carolyn Jewel
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Please don’t worry that yoga will contradict your religious belief systems, as Pranashama Yoga embraces all religions and beliefs systems. I believe we are all One and that Love is the highest truth. Love is my Religion.
Dashama Konah Gordon
I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo." -Liberty Jones
Lisa Kleypas
The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.
Karen Salmansohn
Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
And i chose life and love and happiness and pain...
Anna Akana
When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.
Molly Friedenfeld
Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.
René Guénon
The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.
David R. Wommack
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
Alice Walker
She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual guías in Santo Domingo. Hers is her own self. I can see Mami’s soul desperately trying to find its way back into her small body.
Raquel Cepeda
I don’t want to see Bev get hurt. Not after all those years of shoveling Roger’s shit, and um…this is awkward. I’m just wondering—” “I’m keeping her,” Tom finally said with exasperation. John choked on his beer. “You’re keeping her?” “That’s what I said.” “Does she know you’re keeping her?” “Nope. Not yet. Keep it under your hat.” “No problem. Good luck.” “I don’t need any goddamned luck. I got daisies.
Penny Watson
I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.
Shirley Tallman
Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.
Debasish Mridha
Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.
Marianne Moore
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
Alexandre Dumas
You NEED to look back to remember the awesome memories, to remember the positive lessons you have learned, to help someone else learn from what you have lived and to see how far you have come.
Tanya Masse
Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.
Shannon L. Alder
If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.
Martha Wells
...my soul bleeding tears of anguish
Katie MacAlister
If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!
Mehmet Murat ildan