Quotes by Authors - Page 3953

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
Emily Brontë
Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value.
Mensah Oteh
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
John Green
Reality doesn't care about convenience or dramatic story progression.
Anonymous
Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.
Stephen R. Covey
If you harbor preferred principles and ways of behaving that have never brought you ANY happiness, or even much luck in your personal relationships over a number of years—this should not be taken as a sign that all women are bad or that none of them are serious, butA SIGN THAT YOUR OWN ATTITUDE AND DATING STRATEGIES ARE FLAWED AND NOT REALLY SUCCESSFUL—and can only bring you further disappointments with women!It seems like an elementary, easy thing to accept. Strangely, thousands of people seem, for some reason, to be unable, or stubbornly refuse, to see the truth and draw such a logical conclusion.
Sahara Sanders
She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
Simone Elkeles
For sixteen years, I had seen just emptiness in those eyes. Her eloquent eyes had lost their expressiveness to destiny.
Anmol Rawat
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
Mary Ellen Chase
You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?
Curtis Sittenfeld
Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.
Matt Haig
If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.
Anita Diamant
Although we are urged to walk in another man's shoes, I think, first, we have to walk in another pair of our own shoes. Doing that will free up a lot, including our ability to be more compassionate and less judgmental.
Charles F. Glassman
I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.
Brian Joyce
This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.
Jodi Picoult
My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.
Cheryl Strayed
I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies
Margaret Atwood
A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known.
Joyce Carol Oates
They have been together for so many years that they are no longer like two people but one strange four-legged creature. For her, so much of their marriage is about talk: she likes to talk, he likes to listen. Without him, she has no one to whom she can address her remarks, her observations, her running commentary about life in general.
Maggie O'Farrell
I dare travel on a destiny defined path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith removes fear from your mind by adding courage to your heart.
Courtney Brooks
Young people will always need mentors to guide and support them.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.
Pittacus Lore
Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together."What?"Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud."That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."The people who've been in your secret hiding places."The people you bite your thumb in front of."Hi."Hi."..."..."Wow. My first Lindsey."My second Colin."That was fun. Let's try it again."Sold."..."..."..."...
John Green
One of the most scariest thing in life is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you is...yourself
Demi Lovato
What do you want me to say?" he asked, his voice sharp and moody. "That I had a moment of weakness when I saw it?That for an instant I felt the pang of being homesick? Yeah, I did. There, you now know the Dark-Hunter who has no soul has a heart. Are you happy? ""I already knew you had a heart. "He stopped at a red light and looked at her. A fierce frown creased his brow as if he were trying to figure her out."Believe it or not," she continued, "it shows in everything you do.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.
Anna Gavalda
There is an unequivocal question in every layer of a dawn's beautiful rise that asks: "What are you going to do with this one glorious day?
Melanie Gow
Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing.
Debasish Mridha
For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.
Agatha Christie
Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.
Akiko Busch
Nothing can contain the limitless spirit of a boundless heart.
Ken Poirot
I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.
Anna Gavalda
The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'loving things for reasons'. You find beauty and hope in the existence, rather than the achievements, of such a child. Most parenthood entails some struggle to change, educate and improve one's children; people with multiple severe disabilities may not become anything else, and there is a compelling purity in parental engagement not with what might or should or will be, but with, simply, what is.
Andrew Solomon
I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.I said I don't want to talk about it.
Tamora Pierce
Don't look around for the path you are meant to follow, forge it yourself.
Toni Sorenson
Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don’t be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don’t be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In the past, the starting point of my relationships was what Iwanted instead of what God wanted. I looked out for my needs andfit others into my agenda. Did I find fulfillment? No, I found onlycompromise and heartache. I not only hurt others; I also hurt myself,and most seriously, I sinned against God.
Joshua Harris
I wanted to belong, like everyone else around me did, but there was no country I could say was mine. I had no one to tell me that many other people in the world have a fragmented identity; that it doesn’t matter. That who we are as a person is what’s important.
Hyeonseo Lee
Taking charge of our life reinforces our self-worth.
Sam Owen
Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.
Richard Bowes
It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write!
Yael Shahar
Every new day brings new adoration and new adventure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Remember: There's a reason the fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers.
Michael Callahan
Life is short. Write naked.
A.D. Posey
Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So, when you are lonely remember it's true: somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.
Atul Purohit
Give it all you can.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Without you, I’m not me. Something inside that I didn’t even know about is broken without you.
Roxanne Snopek
If sharks could smile, they'd smile like he was now.
Kathleen Peacock
Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.
Flann O'Brien
Hermione: You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!
J.K. Rowling
The great hall was shimmering in light, sun streaming from the open windows, and ablaze with colour, the walls decorated with embroidered hangings in rich shades of gold and crimson. New rushes had been strewn about, fragrant with lavender, sweet woodruff, and balm... the air was... perfumed with honeysuckle and violet, their seductive scents luring in from the gardens butterflies as blue as the summer sky.
Sharon Kay Penman
It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.
Rain Cooper
I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light makes the colors dance and flow, and look at it from a distant hill or from a boat in the bay or on the river, and you will see in any section of the view far better paintings than in this lentil soup that you people have to pedigree in order to love. I may be a thief, but I know color when I see it in the flash of heaven or in the Devil's opposing tricks, and I know mud. Mr. Knoedler, you needn't worry about your paintings anymore. I'm not going to steal them. I don't like them.Sincerely yours, P. Soames
Mark Helprin
Prayer, God’s glory.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.
Richard Paul Evans
What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict.
Dada Bhagwan
The problem with a lot people is, they are more concerned about their image than they are about their reputation. It should be the other way around.
Carroll Bryant
Beck stabbed a hand through his hair and continued.
Marilee Brothers
Together, we will prevail, and we will be free.
Aimee Carter