Quotes by Authors - Page 4256

I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.
Amy Smith
I can see wherecreation oftenstops while thebody still livesand oftendoes not careto.the death of lifebefore lifedies.
Charles Bukowski
A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.
Pawan Mishra
Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.
Kamal Ravikant
The most beautiful rainbows are sometimes formed in the ugliest storms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing.
Anonymous
How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.
Albert Camus
Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.
William Paul Young
I love today, it is a sacred time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.
David Levithan
Imagine a perfect world
Bruce McQueen
To influence a person is to give him one's own soul.
Oscar Wilde
My mother is the one true hero of my life
H.H. Princess Raden Dato'Seri Maria Amor Torres
The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.
Isaac Asimov
...and Lucy." She looked like she might cry.'What about her?'"Lucy smells like food." She nearly gagged saying it.'Sol, all that's normal. Lucy smelled good before I turned, and now she smells even better. But I haven't tried to eat her face and neither will you.'"She's not safe in this house."'Safer than out there,' I argued, even though I agreed with her. 'Look, you used to eat hamburgers.'She blinked, confused. "So?"'So, did you ever walk through one of the farms at a field party and suddenly try to eat a cow?'"Um, no." Her chuckle was watery but it was better than nothing. "And, ew."'Exactly. You can crave blood and not eat your best friend.
Alyxandra Harvey
Freedom is limited by the need to coexist.
Toba Beta
When I pray - I mean really pray - for people and situations throughout the day, I'm a much humbler person and more sensitive to the lives of the people around me. I am not the master of my fate and captain of my soul. I've tried that, and it makes me more of a task master and a jerk. Prayer puts things in God's hands, and I like the Creator's power more than my own.
Mike Tenbusch
LINK: .....It’s the imperfections that give you character out here.
T.S. Joyce
He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.
R.D. Ronald
Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.
Susan Vaught
Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.
Brandon Sanderson
He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.
Jonathan Maberry
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
John Banville
When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unhappy, there has to be another way.
Chris Guillebeau
I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.
Lauren Oliver
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
Steve Kluger
How can you showcase your unique expertise, valuable experience, and strong education without sounding egotistical?
Susan C.Young
Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...
T. Rafael Cimino
The consistency of their moods and emotions creates a predictable and consistent outcome that can be reassuring in our turbulent times. You know you can depend on approachable people to be well balanced, accepting, and empathetic to the needs and feelings of others.
Susan C.Young
Never trust a man who doesn't radiate love.
Debasish Mridha
We attract vibrations which are in harmony with the dominating vibrations of their mind.
Hina Hashmi
She might get lonely at times. But that was to be expected. The only way to stop those feelings was to live a life devoted to others. That was her true purpose in life. She was a mere background character in other people's lives.
Lily George
One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.
Madeleine L'Engle
Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.
Billy Graham
Don’t neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win.
Israelmore Ayivor
I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not.
Michael Cox
Do not go to my grave. Mary knows, I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people’s lips.Do not go to my old school. Do not go to my old house —I am not in any of those places. Look for me in your hearts and greet me there.
Kamand Kojouri
It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.
Sloane Crosley
Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.
Bryant McGill
A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.
Shannon L. Alder
Glorify Sustainable Organisations since they benefit all society
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
Superstition, she said. Soup with a bonobo finger in it is supposed to make a pregnant woman give birth to a strong baby. Putting another finger in the bathwater keeps the baby strong. "I hope the stupid polio", I said, and surprised myself by even sort of meaning it. I kissed the top of the bonobo's head. I imagined him in his crate, crying against the bars, someone lifting him out only to chop off a finger. Plunging him back into the crate, then pulling him out a few days later to take another....
Eliot Schrefer
After all is said and done more is said than done.
Anonymous
My parents say you’re no good, Elijah.” I exhaled and killed the cigarette in the grass.Laughing, Eli’s eyes went to my lips and his hands touched my bare midriff. “Really? And what do you say?”He had brought his lips so close to mine that it became hard to think about my next words when all I wanted to do was crush my mouth to his. I wanted him to completely consume me. “I think you’re broken,” I finally got out, and Eli arched a brow. “But I think I’m broken too. I just don’t know it yet.
Nadège Richards
Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.
László Krasznahorkai
The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
Colum McCann
You will achieve full success only if you will obey the Lord and do that which pleases Him
Sunday Adelaja
Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances? It takes grace and enough strength, to get up and begin again
Lailah Gifty Akita
So, your best defense is knowledge. It really is power, as they say...The more you know, the more easily you will develop your own philosophies about child rearing. When you have your facts straight, and when you have a parenting plan, you will be able to respond with confidence to those who are well-meaning but offering contrary or incorrect advice.
Elizabeth Pantley
I never said nothing...""I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!
Terry Pratchett
They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.
Mitch Landrieu
She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.
Lauren DeStefano
You don´t have to win the game, play until the others get tired.
Alin Sav
To every whisper if you listen carefully, you will hear or fail to hear something.
Auliq-Ice
Love elevates the beauty of life
Farshad Asl
Mistakes Are Life's Lectures You Didn't Plan To Attend But Situations Or People Made You Attend Them....Pay Attention And Learn From Them
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it.Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for?Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s.Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it.
Cecelia Ahern
With a book he was regardless of time.
Jane Austen