Quotes by Authors - Page 4235

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin
One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.
Matt Haig
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
Samuel Butler
I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing!I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit, awe-inspiring-words, to the souls longing for it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.
Kameron Hurley
A whore is a whore is a whore.Except when he's something else completely.From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun
Belinda McBride
I turned on the television and watched a movie about a girl who’d fallen in love with both a vampire and a werewolf. I’d already seen it a million times, so my eyelids grew heavy, fairly quickly. Ten minutes later I was out cold in my bed and dreaming of Duncan, who turned into a werewolf and was trying to kill my own vampire boyfriend. Every time I tried to see the vampire’s face, however, it was a blur.
Kristen Middleton
You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.
Sunday Adelaja
You have just one life here on earth and it behooves you to make the best out of it.
Sunday Adelaja
I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.
Chelsea Handler
What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.
Brandon Sanderson
Although the Bible is a living book, it will not jump into your palms pleading, "Read me please". You've to make a choice to do so!
Israelmore Ayivor
I cannot afford to lose you, too""You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you
Kiersten White
Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
John Derbyshire
Scrawny little mundane bastard.
Cassandra Clare
He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn’t work.
Ida Løkås
With every sunrise, I rise with joy. My heart dances with love. I begin a new life fresh like a flower.
Debasish Mridha
...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.
Bob Woodward
To love is the never ending purpose of life. To care is our endless sense if duty.To be kind to everyone is a divine beauty.
Debasish Mridha
Only the Truth can set you free.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Three quarters of respectable England hates you.""Half," Sebastian replied with a smile. "It's really only half. Judging by my correspondence, it may be as little as forty-eight percent. And of those, only a small number want to cause me bodily harm. The rest just wish to have me gagged or thrown in prison.
Courtney Milan
I stayed in the town until earlyevening, and when the sun began to sink, my heart did too. This is your last chance to goback, I told myself. Once it gets completely dark, you might never be able to leave here. Iwent home on the same buses that had brought me there. I arrived before seven, and no onenoticed that I had run away.
Haruki Murakami
So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
Hunter S. Thompson
I am asked what strength is. Strength is the ability to not do to others only the things that were done to you. It is said, that you should “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, but strength takes that even further and says, “I can give more than what I received in life, I can be more than those who gave me little, I can do more for others than what was done for me.” Strength, though well aware of the pain that is aroused by drawing from a well that is not naturally replenished by others, continues to replenish that well so that it may draw from those beautiful innate waters, so that it may give to others even those things that were not given unto it.
C. JoyBell C.
beauty pertains with everyone. It's just the perception that defines the differences.
shivangi lavaniya
I deem myself as intellectual and analytical as much as I can but still never miss the chance to goof around and joke about anything but I never laugh at nobody. Good humor is about laughing with not about laughing at.
Genereux Philip
There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you’ve been doing all your life, you’ve been doing it wrong. Dead wrong… Son, you want that realization to hit you when you’re 70? Or 50? Or when you’re still young, with your whole life still ahead of you?
Ali Sheikh
God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus’ steps.
Jim George
It is deep winter with shivering cold air, but my heart is dancing with joy and spring flowers.
Debasish Mridha
Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)
Charles de Leusse
Be true, unbeliever.
Stephen R. Donaldson
It was a sign of how worried and confused I was that I wasn’t completely distracted by the sight of his powerful thighs flexed in front of me.
Kathy Bryson
... economists recognize that, other things equal, cuts in tax rates reduce tax revenues in percentage terms by less than the tax-rate reductions. Similarly, tax-rate increases do not raise tax revenues by as much in percentage terms as the tax-rate increases. This is true because changes in marginal tax rates alter taxpayer behavior and thus affect taxable income.
Campbell R. McConnell
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
Maeve Binchy
Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to.
Avijeet Das
So here is another law, one of my favourite If I become famous the stupidy will end one for all. It's basically a jail for mankind stupidy!
Deyth Banger
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine...And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
Harlan Ellison
Cowards excuse themselves by the children. Heroes excuse the children. (Les lâches s'excusent par les enfants. - Les héros excusent les enfants.)
Charles de Leusse
Increase your happiness and the joy you experience every day through humour and laughter.
Mensah Oteh
And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)
Nicole Krauss
The past is our very being.
David Ben-Gurion
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
William Faulkner
Blessed are you who endure life trails.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses.
Rick Riordan
The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.
Thomas C. Oden
And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed.
Flannery O'Connor
So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off.""If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.
Cassandra Clare
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart
Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.
James Webb
When our God who is Mercy comes like a shout into your darkness, when the Father stoops down and tenderly picks up the pieces of your broken life, when Jesus steps in front of what you could have deserved, and when the the Lord of Heaven says, “I still want you,” after you thought no one would, it is the most amazing truth of all. I have been overwhelmed by this lavish kingdom gift called Mercy.
Angela Thomas
There are times to listen to the people that believe in you during those days you don't believe in yourself. Sometimes you look in the mirror and it's fogged up; the person looking back a blurred image, but those folks that know you and love you see the real you. Sometimes you have to trust the ones that are there for you in your darkest times to find out how much light exists in you. God bless you.
Lee Goff
Friends don’t build cages for each other.
Karen Marie Moning
Accept the past,dream of the future,but live in the moment.
Domonique Bertolucci
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
What is your heart worth to you? The answer is ‘everything’. Our hearts are worth the World.
Alaric Hutchinson
In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long.
Alexandre Dumas
Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.
Robert M. Drake
You do not need to solve problems, you just need to outgrow them.
Debasish Mridha