Quotes by Authors - Page 4269

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
Philip Roth
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Meljean Brook
But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I’ve said, there was only one. Seneca. Do you know who he was? He was a Roman philosopher who wrote letters to imaginary friendstelling them how to behave for the rest of their lives.. Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren’t – they’re witty. I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.
Mary Ann Shaffer
Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the celestial kingdom. With few exceptions this is the salvation of which the scriptures speak. It is the salvation which the saints seek. (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 670.)
Bruce R. McConkie
An idea without action is like a song without vocal.
Corine Timmer
If you are generous in yourrelationships you will receiveas much as you give.
Domonique Bertolucci
It will happen and I will be right there in the moment so don't wait me!
Deyth Banger
Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.
Maggie Georgiana Young
Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might've felt better if I hadn't slept at all.
Ransom Riggs
Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale about dragon daddies and false-hearted men, or mean mamas and friends who did them wrong. Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked.
Toni Morrison
Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.
Stefan Emunds
To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].
Dada Bhagwan
Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.
Robin Hobb
We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.
Simon Tugwell
There are hidden opportunities for each person everywhere and in everything, every day!
Sunday Adelaja
One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.
Ryan Lilly
Women have always been spies.
Harriet Rubin
Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can’t live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can’t live with Blame.
Scott Stabile
Entheogens (or psychedelics, to be more historically correct) have now been recognized as the mother of our Western ecology and conservation movements, as well as the entire field of transpersonal psychology and our apparent desire to return to some firsthand spiritual and/or mystical understanding of G/d (rather than blindly accepting traditional religious dogma without an experiential basis.
James Oroc
Only those who live for others become immortal, and the rest simply perish within a few weeks , or alas days, after their mortal demise.
Abhijit Naskar
Our species is angry on a deep level. We know something has been wrong for a long time. We are tired of being thrown the scraps. This is primal, guttural; the scream of an exhausted humanity who will not take no for an answer.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.
Ivana Trump
I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.
Michelle M. Pillow
In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother’s feelings for her.
Sonja Yoerg
She is like a flower. Her smile illuminates the whole world.
Debasish Mridha
We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.
Ruth Cardello
Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
You cannot convince someone to see something that they do not want to see, no matter how much you know it would improve their lives. You have to love and accept them exactly as they are today. If you cannot do that, you have to let them go and find their own way, in their own time, if they ever choose to do so.Otherwise, you'll be giving them the power over your happiness, too.
Doe Zantamata
Help!"This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. Suddenly my clothes were seized by a strong hand, and I felt myself quickly drawn up to the surface of the sea; and I heard, yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear:"If master would be so good as to lean on my shoulder, master would swim with much greater ease."I seized with one hand my faithful Conseil's arm. "Is it you?" said I, "you?""Myself," answered Conseil; "and waiting master's orders.""That shock threw you as well as me in the sea?""No; but, being in my master's service, I followed him."The worthy fellow thought that was but natural.
Jules Verne
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...
Charles A. Lindbergh
I hope I never figure out who broke your heart and if I do, if I do. I'd spend all night losing sleep. I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind. Well I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind.
Sara Quin
I couldn’t tear my eyes from the window, wanting to drink in as much of St. Louis as I could, knowing somewhere out there, one of those infinitesimally small lights was him. I wondered if he’d look up and see the planes crossing the sky like shooting stars, knowing one of those lights was me.
Leah Raeder
What do you mean Ronan's a magical entity? Is he a demon? Because this all makes sense if so.
Maggie Stiefvater
And being different? That turned out to the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are our superpowers.
Cece Bell
this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.
Winifred Gallagher
You have that look on your face,” she whispered mockingly, “that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin’-library look and now she’s going to spin around like she can read them all at once through osmosis.
Victoria Kahler
As McMasters raised the shotgun, the man removed his glasses. There were fields of stars where his eyes should have been. But they weren’t reflections of the night sky. These stars were a glimpse of a dim and distant future where the very laws of physics had been reduced to relics of a forgotten age. Feeble as dying embers, they were the palsied mourners at time’s wake.McMasters could hear the ultimate silence and feel the biting cold of the one true void. The promise of the eternal nothing beckoned to him. There was a sort of peace in the death it represented, not the death of mind and body but of shape and form. It was the final revelation, the casting off of life’s illusion in favor of the void’s embrace. from "Riders of the Necronomicon
James Pratt
One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.
Roy T. Bennett
So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
Franz Kafka
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.
Toni Morrison
Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.
Gary Paul Nabhan Stephan Trimble
Saying something is “meant to be” is a cop out. It’s a way for people to deal when they screw up or when life hands them a bowl of shit stew. The things that are meant to be are the things we can’t control, the things we don’t cause, the things that happen regardless of who or what we are. Like sunsets and snow-fall and natural disasters. I’ve never believed hardship or suffering was meant to be. I’ve never believed relationships were meant to be. We choose. In large part, we choose. We create, we make mistakes, we burn bridges, we build new ones.
Amy Harmon
We place this huge burden on answers to function as finish lines, when they more naturally perform as milestones. We fool ourselves if we believe that answers are the proper response to questions, when the formal acknowledgment of a question is to embrace its invitation to enter into the journey of learning.
Tristan Sherwin
Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number.
Maggie Stiefvater
Arise and pursue your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
Neil Gaiman
Yes, it was a "beautiful" sermon, tugging the emotions and conjuring up pictures of greatness and peace. But were they talking about the decent peppery ordinary old man he knew, or had the subject strayed to the story of some saint of the past? Or were there perhaps two men being buried under the same name? One perhaps had shown himself to Ross, while the other had been reserved for the view of men like William-Alfred. Ross tried to remember Charles before he was ill, Charles with his love of cockfighting and his hearty appetite, with his perpetual flatulence and passion for gin, with his occasional generosities and meannesses and faults and virtues, like most men. There was some mistake somewhere. Oh well, this was a special occasion...But Charles himself would surely have been amused. Or would he have shed a tear with the rest for the manner of man who had passed away?
Winston Graham
No one's an angel - especially if he's a man
Ken Follett
Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.
Jeff Horowitz
It really is quite simple. All women really want is to be needed, valued and loved above anyone else and they will make you a keeper. It's your actions she is paying attention to, not your words.
Shannon L. Alder
It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.
Tanya R. Liverman
Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest idea.' — Nikša Gligo (1972)
Richard Kostelanetz
When you are fed with the spoon of betrayal, you can choose to spit it out and live or swallow it and die
Ikechukwu Izuakor
Ignite the fire of loving kindness in your soul, fuel that fire with understanding and compassion for others, and start a bonfire of love worldwide.
Nanette Mathews
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
Stephen King
…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
John Wyndham
what's the saying? All is donkey balls in love and war?-Dan Garrett
Leah Rae Miller
Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them.
Steven Rowley