Quotes by Authors - Page 3948

Mind knows the questions, soul knows the answers.
Amit Ray
Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.
Richard Brookhiser
Reality is only for people with no imagination.
Gavin Freeman
The goal of the church is to bring the kingdom answers to the people
Sunday Adelaja
Ok," he says. "First lesson."Noah broadens his stance, taking his place firmly on the embassy side of the threshold. "in the United States," he says. Then, with both feet, he leaps on to the sidewalk. "Out of the United States." Quickly, he jumps back toward me. "In the United States." Another jump across the threshold. "Out of the United States. In. Out. In --""Is this the part where I hit you?
Ally Carter
Having fun is a pretty powerful way to start any serious relationship.
Shya Kane
I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it.
Louise O'Neill
but my dad said it was no excuse."But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much."No, you don't.""I hate you!""No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes."He's my whole world.""Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom.
Stephen Chbosky
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
Orhan Pamuk
Not much was said of Gaberone except its riches and its danger. The prisons were said to be in-escapable, the shanty towns cheap, the police didn’t bother the illegal immigrants unless they were caught committing crimes. A dangerous paradise.
Thabo Katlholo
Pops: How about you finish this sentence for me, Jason? When a girl says no she means...Justin, looking desperately at me: No?Nana: Are you sure?Justin, shifting uncomfortably: I'm sure. No means no.Nana: Well look at you. You got one right. Now here's another, even tougher sentence for you to finish. Premarital sex is...Me: Nana! I'm so sorry Justin.Nana: Unlike Pops, I'm not moving on. Justin?Pops: His name is Jason.Justin:Uh....uh....Pops: While you think about that, why don't you tell me how you feel about drinking and driving?Justin: I'm totally against it, I swear!Nana: Methinks he protests too much.
Gena Showalter
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .
Stephen King
The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We cannot 100 percent know the depth of another person’s heart. We cannot know the whys and whats of his soul.This idea could be sad, but it doesn’t have to be. Instead of rendering human beings powerless, it could render them more compassionate. Knowing that the stranger who just bumped you in the hall or that the awkward loner who sits behind you in class each have a story, makes it easier to chose kindness — again, again, and again.
Chelsey Philpot
Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.
Toba Beta
When you fall in love with a writer you will never die.
Anonymous
You have to believe in your dreams, to reach out for your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind.
Criss Jami
Faith and doubt cannot reside together. An iota of doubt is enough to taint the entire process, it is like a drop of red ink in water.
Malti Bhojwani
Conclusion: I don't need the water reclaimer at all. I'll drink as needed and dump my waste outdoors. Yeah, that's right, Mars, I'm gonna piss and shit on you. That's what you get for trying to kill me all the time.
Andy Weir
...but at night when he turns the awkward [telescope] skyward, he catches his breath at the clarity of the image and the vast populations of stars unknown to him until then, the riotous glittering in the dark crevices between constellations, a convocation of bright spirits waiting to be found.
John Pipkin
Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of compensation for having been born. 'There are no strings on me!' They sang; but I, pinnoccio, saw the strings. Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.
Salman Rushdie
When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations
Sunday Adelaja
No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together.
Whitney Otto
Maybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too.
Marissa Meyer
Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.
Joe Abercrombie
Over the next few days, every knowing glance and furtive look reminded me how much small towns loved to gossip. My mother delighted me each day by telling me what she’d heard. I’d pushed Leo behind a snap pea display at the farmers’ market and wrestled him to the ground. I’d offered him my bagel repeatedly, refusing to take no for an answer. I’d been seen out behind the market, helping him load up his vegetables and been caught holding his cucumber. That was my favorite.
Alice Clayton
When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.
Suzy Kassem
Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.
Alan Gibbons
The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible.
Daisaku Ikeda
Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.
Daisy Goodwin
[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?
Nick Hornby
Every thought you cultivate is a brushstroke on the canvas of your life. Your life then, is an outer picture of your inner thoughts.
Toni Sorenson
We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.
Patrick Carman
the woman is rain,and when she falls,she is a monsoon.to love her is to drown.
Ava
Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.
Warren Eyster
Money is a necessity, but not the determinant of a successful life. It is there to secure you, but not to save you! It is there to support you, but not to sanctify you!
Israelmore Ayivor
I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for you.(Mercer)
Philip K Dick
The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in
Harper Lee
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?
Cassandra Clare
This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we treat children long enough as if that were true, they will come to believe it is true. So many people have said to me, "If we didn't make children do things, they wouldn't do anything." Even worse, they say, "If I weren't made to do things, I wouldn't do anything."It is the creed of a slave.
John Holt
To solve a problem, change your awareness, perception, and consciousness about the problem.
Debasish Mridha
In what way did your parents screw up to make you the woman you are today?
Nicki Elson
Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.
Rebecca Walker
Each of us must have something to live for
Sunday Adelaja
Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.
Maya Banks
The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, "What can I do in this situation?
Sunday Adelaja
Say it for me, Rainy. No other man.
Kenya Wright
And if you want to scream her name out when my cock is fucking you, you scream it, right into my ear.
Ella Frank
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
Ray Bradbury
If you don't write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan
Tom Clancy
Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.
Roman Payne
I know a beautiful soul when I feel one. The empath in me honors the authentic in you.
Melody Lee
The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today.
Margaret Atwood
My master then, assuming he is solitary, in my image, wishes me well, poor devil, wishes my good, and if he does not seem to do very much in order not to be disappointed it is because there is not very much to be done or, better still, because there is nothing to be done, otherwise he would have done it, my great and good master, that must be it, long ago, poor devil. Another supposition, he has taken the necessary steps, his will is done as far as I am concerned (for he may have other protégés) and all is well with me without my knowing it. Cases one and two. I’ll consider the former first, if I can. Then I’ll admire the latter, if my eyes are still open.
Samuel Beckett
My advice to any girl ... read and learn about sexuality and surround yourself with people who you can talk to and who can support you through your journey. Be comfortable with who you are. Connect with others as you get to discover you are not alone. Don't suffocate yourself ...
Rena Otieno
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
Leo Tolstoy
Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day a happy day.
Helen Boehm
Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
Gary Inbinder
Just imagine spending your entire adult life in the big city, meeting tons of attractive fellow singles day in and day out, year after year, but having to wait until just before you kick the bucket to have sex. And if that is not torture enough, when you finally get to do it, your only option is to go back to your hometown and lose your virginity with someone from your high school.That's a salmon's sex life in a nutshell.
Marah J. Hardt