Quotes by Authors - Page 3662

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,
Stephen Hawking
A leadership comfort zone brings stagnancy, deprives one of innovation, stifles growth and frustrates both the leader and the team they lead. Your personal preferences like leadership style, communication style, prejudices, habits and mannerisms must be effectively managed so that they do not work against you. You have to be careful that your strengths do not end up becoming a hindering comfort zone. Seek to lead, driven by a cause.
Archibald Marwizi
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
L.M. Montgomery
The ability to love is the divine power of human.
Debasish Mridha
Run wild and free like a waterfall
Anamika Mishra
And why did he have to call me “quiet”? I hated being called quiet. People always said it like it was some kind of deficiency—like just because I didn’t put everything out there right away, I was unfriendly or arrogant. My mom had understood. You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room
Jenna Evans Welch
It's only life. We all get through it.Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.
Dean Koontz
When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet.
Anthony T.Hincks
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
Kim Edwards
It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.
Francesca Lia Block
The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.
Saul Bellow
When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.
Shannon L. Alder
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.
Jane Austen
I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.
Sarah J Maas
But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned. There was a time when it was of vital interest to us to find out whether there was a God or not. Obviously the existence or otherwise of a future life must be of the very first importance to somebody who is going to live her present one, because her manner of living it must hinge on the problem. There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads.Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.
T.H. White
Crying is NOT a weakness. Cry as much as you have to. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to let your tears flow. Crying is a natural part of life. We all have feelings, and sometimes crying is all that we can do. Crying can help relieve the pain, hurt, disappointments, and all of the other things that life can throw our way. Know that it’s okay, and know that you’re going to be okay as well. Wishing You: Peace of mind, Comfort, Happiness, Joy within and LOVE.
Stephanie Lahart
I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage?
Donna Lynn Hope
...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.
Jan Louch
Hark,” he said, his tone very dry. “What stone through yonder window breaks?”Kami yelled up at him, “It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!
Sarah Rees Brennan
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Mrs. Sarah Payson
Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.
Raheel Farooq
How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. What do you call that? Billy thought. That reconstitutitive intelligence, berserker meme-splicing, seeing in nothings first patterns, then correspondence, then causality and dissident sense.Vardy even smiled. "Paranoid," he said. "Theology.
China Miéville
Solitude is the greatest treasure and through it, you can rebuild your life, reorder your life and solve life’s problems.
Sunday Adelaja
A flower is symbol of beauty for eyes, but music is the expression of beauty for ears.
Debasish Mridha
Knock! knock!who's there?me!me who?that's right?what's right?meehoo!that's what I want to know!what's what you want to know?me who?yes, exactly!exactly what?yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain!exactly what on a chain?yes!yes what?no, exactlywatt!that's what I want to know!I told you-exactlywatt!exactly what?yes!yes what?yes it's with me.what's with you?exactlywatt-that's what with me.me who?yes!go away!knock knock...
Shel Silverstein
to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We can do this the easy way,' Oblivious snarled. 'Or the hard way.''What's the easy way?''You leave immediately.''And what's the hard way?''We make you leave.'Skulduggery's head tilted. 'What was the easy way again?
Derek Landy
There was no going back and that was exactly what she craved.Deep breath.“Consent.
Jennifer Kacey
n the pursuit of dreams, your unshakable commitment is the only force more powerful than your thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Commitment will pull you towards the fulfilment of your idea even when you doubt yourself.
Dragos Bratasanu
If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...
Jennifer Crusie
They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever like being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course, is insulting to anybody.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Who needs toothpaste when you have cigarettes?
kevin mcpherson eckhoff
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
Lydia Larue
Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
E.A. Bucchianeri
There is no greater love than the love of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.
Francis Mont
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.
Ronnie Coleman
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.
Charles Dickens
Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.
Jon Gordon
Be at peace with your soul
Lailah Gifty Akita
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
Pietro Aretino
Given the fact that intuition is about receiving information and knowledge, something that every human being frequently experiences, the choice becomes ours as to whether or not we honor the incoming information we receive.
Susan Barbara Apollon
Behind these eyesthere is a girl trapped withinher pain – a girl feeling all the emotionsof anger and sadness.She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39)
Chimnese Davids
Putting some 'gray in play,' as Chad referred to it, always helped. HE said the act of rationalizing the pros and cons helped to cloud the issues enough to avoid a moral quandary. It allowed us to believe the ends justified the means. Seeing gray helped to remove the black-and-white, right and wrong ethical choices.. . Had I become so jaded in my life that I had actually forgotten the difference between right and wrong? Or had I simply tried to ignore the difference so I could sleep at least two or three hours a night?
Luke Lively
But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be." "What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now. "It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things.
Lisa Ann Sandell
Never focus on the end. Only focus on your first step.
Brodi Ashton
But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.
Dawn Dais
Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!
D.H. Lawrence
Learning from others is primary to your success, even doctors seek advice from specialists.
Unarine Ramaru
A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
Angela Flournoy
Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?
Robert Clark
We never expressed this to each other in Chinese, because it wasn’t something said in Chinese culture; the emotions were too strong, the words too coarse, and besides, it was assumed that parents and children loved each other.
Atom Yang
If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman," you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin.
Richie Norton
I watch a spider outside my window, how she carefully weaves a dreamcatcher in the corner. Just for me.
Frances Ivy
Far from the maddening crowds,Love leaves a trail;If you take my name, I shall comeLeaving behind all my veils!
Neelam Saxena Chandra
Okay,” he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around his neck and set her
Cindy Gerard
Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.
Ashley Jeffery
I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.
Ann Charles
Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
Maya Angelou