Quotes by Authors - Page 4343

Eternity exist in a holy time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.
Brad Herzog
Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.
Roman Payne
It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
Isaac Asimov
There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.
David Levithan
She asks why I like her.Might as well askWhy I breathe.Maybe tomorrow I won'tBreathe or like herAnymore.Maybe tomorrow the tidesWill stop.Maybe tomorrow will bringNo more rainbows.Maybe tomorrowShe will stopAsking useless questions.
Gail Carson Levine
When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes in life you've got to Ctrl, Alt, Delete and let go.
Marilyn Devonish
Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.
Austin Kleon
If we are at peace with this world, it may be because we have sold out to it and compromised with it.
Billy Graham
Well, we have to do something. There are all sorts of rumours about soldiers coming up.""These people are full of rumours. They love rumours." Paterson stood watching the bridge. "Their whole life is a rumour.
H.E. Bates
I want you too, so much,” she whispered.tHe murmured in her ear, “Then take me.
Thea Harrison
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.
Jim Butcher
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Terry Pratchett
Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience.
Debasish Mridha
A woman in love with herself is magnetic.
Abiola Abrams
Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.
Jim Butcher
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself.
Iain M. Banks
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
P.D. James
Lo shoots a withering glare his way. "Your our goddamn publicist, not the king of the caste, so stop acting like you have authority to banish my brother into another room.
Krista Ritchie
It is possible to escape the complexities, challenges and pace of modern life. All we have to do is close our eyes and picture a quiet world where time moves slowly.
Fennel Hudson
We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. And if we are a speck in the immensity of space, we also occupy an instant in the expanse of ages. We now know that our universe or at least its most recent incarnation - is some fifteen or twenty billion years old. This is the time since a remarkable explosive event called the Big Bang. At the beginning of this universe, there were no galaxies, stars or planets, no life or civilizations, merely a uniform, radiant fireball filling all of space. The passage from the Chaos of the Big Bang to the Cosmos that we are beginning to know is the most awesome transformation of matter and energy that we have been privileged to glimpse. And until we find more intelligent beings elsewhere, we are ourselves the most spectacular of all the transformations - the remote descendants of the Big Bang, dedicated to understanding and further transforming the Cosmos from which we spring
Carl Sagan
IT’S THE HOME OF THE FUTURE!! WHERE YOUR SAFTY IS ASSURED, AND YOUR HAPPINESS IS GUARANTEED!!
Jim Dyar
Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your identity is fixed, and you can't really leave, or connect with anything or anybody outside, until your physically no longer there.
Kim Gordon
Oh, it's called, em...' Kate thinks, 'I can't remember what it's called.''You're the same as me,' Dad says to her. 'You've got CRAFT too.''What's that?''Can't. Remember. A. Fuc-
Cecelia Ahern
It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.
Lance Conrad
All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.
Brandon Sanderson
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Pearl S. Buck
One day, back when I working at a video store, a woman accompanied by her two small sons walked up the counter with a tape box displaying a man slicing off someone’s head with a chainsaw. “Does this have any sex in it?” she asked. In my mind, it was like I was narrating a nature documentary on humans. “Watch as the American mother protects her young ones from dangerous influences.
Alex Bosworth
Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.
Meg Cabot
She is truly beautiful, but she doesn't have a beautiful face to match her beautiful heart. True beauty lies in the HEART.
Fabulous Godwin
She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.
Lorrie Moore
Extraordinary women who love and heal.
Jacki Delecki
When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
Zora Neale Hurston
You went to a party, did a keg stand, and got so drunk you forgot half the night. Congrats on this amazing milestone in your life." He squeezed my leg. "What are you gonna do next?""Uh, Disneyland?
Cindi Madsen
It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you remember what I forgot?
Erica Goros
There is no poetry without want. Desperate want.
Richelle E. Goodrich
What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
Mark Batterson
There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.
Coretta Scott King
But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do wit
Neil Gaiman
I read somewhere that every life is the story of a single mistake, and then what happens after.
Andrew Gross
All limits in life are self imposed.
Sean O'Donoghue Morgan
Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth
Augusten Burroughs
If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?
David Powers
Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.
Gillian Flynn
Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.
Billy Graham
During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business
Mark Twain
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
Christopher Reeve
We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.
Shannon L. Alder
I didn’t know what it was, who I was or who he was. I just knew what we could have become as one.
Dominic Riccitello
We keep searching for things all our life, yet seldom do we notice them!
Avijeet Das
Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors.
Amit Kalantri
Nothing from the past can still exist unless we drag it into the present moment through our minds. Holding onto past pain creates present pain. Holding onto old fears creates new fears. Holding onto former injuries caused by others is an act of current self-injury. What’s done is gone. The only way it can live within us again is through our willingness to revive it in this moment.
Emily Maroutian
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' Will finished. 'Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the course. 'Of course, why one would want to be and fire flock of sheep is another matter entirely,' Will finished.
Cassandra Clare
If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
Haruki Murakami