Quotes by Authors - Page 4010

The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!
Israelmore Ayivor
It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job as he got.
Rosanna Leo
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.
Darnell Lamont Walker
What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.
Will Advise
Bad things are gonna' happen to you, because they happen to us all. And worrying won't stave the really bad things off. Don't make the mistake of comparing your twisted-up insides to other people's blow-dried outsides. Even the most privileged person in this stadium suffers the torments of the damned just going about the business of being human.
Mary Karr
Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch
Rasheed Ogunlaru
As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
Anonymous
Just start at the beginning, you say? And what beginning might that be? I've come to the conclusion all starts are false ones. Tap the fragile shell of any beginning and you'll find another nested inside.
Christina Sunley
If we could be seen thinking, we would show blown bright one moment, dark the next, like embers; subject to every passing word and thought of our own or other people's, mostly other people's.
Dorothy Whipple
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
Chuck Wendig
I don't know if cats understand what their owners say, but they do have a strong survival instinct.
Manel Loureiro
Now, Watson," said he, "we have picked up two clues this morning. One is the bicycle with the Palmer tyre, and we see what that has led to. The other is the bicycle with the patched Dunlop. Before we start to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.
Joe Biden
It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
When you are mindful of Spirit and connecting to the breath with an open heart, that is yoga.
Dashama Konah Gordon
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
Sebastian Faulks
Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.
Brandi L. Bates
I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.
Dave Eggers
I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were craving to fit inside the other, and is melting and reshaping could be deeper, more resilient.
Tammara Webber
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.
Gillian Flynn
Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.
Patrick Ness
Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence ofan energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected… that the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine… that there is a single force moving within all of us.
Dan Brown
Just when you think you know.....you don't know.
Nanette Mathews
In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
Sophie Kinsella
Sometimes i don't have enough soul in my cheeks to show my face to the world.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
That’s the beauty of the universe. There’s always a new mystery.
James Rollins
He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.
Robin Hobb
Later, when we've found this mysterious ship of Hector's and are safely away, when I have time to rest and worry and a quiet corner to hide in, I will coldly remember that being a queen means being strategic. And I will imagine sending off the man I love to marry my sister. I'll rehearse it in my head, maybe. Get used to the feeling.
Rae Carson
Can you forgive her? Can you do that?There was no response.Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.And?And then you will be able to forgive yourself—and ask others to forgive you.
Alexander McCall Smith
We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once."How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?"One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.
MacDonald Harris
One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow
Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Accept everything, even if it's pain, even if it's sadness, because there's nothing absolute in this world. If everything were to disappear, at least I was thinking it didn't matter anyway. Even if in the future, everyone left me, it would be alright. I would never get hurt.
Jun Mochizuki
There is vast sea of all kind of creatures.
Lailah Gifty Akita
It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through her hands, dead at the bottom of sleep.
Clarice Lispector
The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!
John Steinbeck
Courage comes with action. The minute you step forward, the minute you declare your decision, the minute you say, "This is how it's going to go," courage comes. It floods through you and energizes every single fiber of your being. You don't have to wait for it. It'll be there.
Gail Blanke
I have sex," Grace shrugged.I meant with a man," Claudia said dryly.Now why would I ruin something so good by inviting a man along?" Grace asked.
Sarah Mayberry
Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
Jodi Picoult
The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.
Tennessee Williams
The criminal who revolted against society hates it, and considers himself in the right; society was wrong, not he. Has he not, moreover, undergone his punishment? Accordingly he is absolved, acquitted in his own eyes. In spite of different opinions, everyone will acknowledge that there are acts which everywhere and always, under no matter what legal system, are beyond doubt criminal, and should be regarded as long as man is man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Finally, I'm here and I'm old. It's depressing, it really is.
Derek Landy
Those who never trial, never fails.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it?
Tammy Mentzer Brown
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.""Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
The true purpose of your life is your ultimate abode.
Debasish Mridha
Endure graciously the difficult times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.
Sharan Newman
Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.
Steve Maraboli
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
David Nicholls
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Running a business well means knowing when it's time to make profit.
Auliq-Ice
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
Mark Jacobs
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.
Henry Miller
Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows
Sunday Adelaja
If you do not have the strength to forgive,then compel themselves and continue in that, do not write bad words.For all that you write, is your own burden, you're gonna wear.So just write nice!
Sanel Alić
What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?
Janet Fitch
Your rewards in life will be in proportion to the effort you apply.
Mensah Oteh