Quotes by Authors - Page 4465

I had an aunt named 'abnormal Shauna' once. But she passed away in an unfortunate cliff-top interpretative dance and fireworks accident.
Joshua Donellan
Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.
Megan Jacobson
When their chatter died to a contented lull, a small red squirrel ventured out of the oak grove and turned to the side, watching them with one bright black eye."An intruder," Annabelle observed, with a delicate yawn.Evie rolled to her stomach and tossed a bread crust in the squirrel's direction. He froze and stared at the tantalizing offering, but was too timid to advance. Evie tilted her head, her hair glittering in the sun as if it had been overlaid with a net of rubies. "Poor little thing," she said softly, casting another crust at the timid squirrel. This one landed a few inches closer, and his tail twitched eagerly. "Be brave," Evie coaxed. "Go on and take it." Smiling tolerantly, she tossed another crust, which landed a scant few inches from him. "Oh, Mr. Squirrel," Evie reproved. "You're a dreadful coward. Can't you see that no one's going to harm you?"In a sudden burst of initiative, the squirrel seized the tidbit and scampered off with his tail quivering. Looking up with a triumphant smile, Evie saw the other wallflowers staring at her in drop-jawed silence. "Wh-what is it?" she asked, puzzled.Annabelle was the first to speak. "Just now, when you were talking to that squirrel, you didn't stammer.""Oh." Suddenly abashed, Evie lowered her gaze and grimaced. "I never stammer when I'm talking to children or animals. I don't know why.
Lisa Kleypas
One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?
Sarah Mayberry
Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make
Loknath
Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.
Philip José Farmer
What you conquer within you conquer without.
Matshona Dhliwayo
For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, sometimes, I forgot about that in my quest to move forward.
Gwenda Bond
Life is a dream so dream big!
Debasish Mridha
Blood is really warm,it's like drinking hot chocolatebut with more screaming.
Ryan Mecum
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Ernest Hemingway
When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.
Shannon L. Alder
It is precisely when we hear little from our partner which frightens, shocks, or sickens us that we should begin to be concerned, for this may be the surest sign that we are being gently lied to or shielded from the other’s imagination, whether out of kindness or from a touching fear of losing our love. It may mean that we have, despite ourselves, shut our ears to information that fails to conform to our hopes — hopes which will thereby be endangered all the more. My view of human nature is that all of us are just holding it together in various ways — and that’s okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we’re all these incredibly fragile beings.
Alain de Botton
The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.
Cassandra Clare
I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
John F Kennedy
I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
Daniel O'Malley
One of the happiest moments in a father's life is when his children treat him like a brother.
Jorge P. Guerrero
Don't hide in the trees when you know that tigers can climb.
Anthony T.Hincks
As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator." - Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
A.J. Jacobs
Always err on the side of generosity.
Richie Norton
Ukitaka kujua maana halisi ya maisha yako kuwa tayari kufanya vitu vikubwa vitakavyohitaji nguvu ya Mungu kuvikamilisha – na kudumu katika maisha hayo kwa kafara ya maombi.
Enock Maregesi
Writers are highly resistant to reality. Just as well or the human condition would go undocumented.
Felix Long
Shoulds can masquerade as high standards or lofty goals, but they are not the same. Goals direct us from the inside, but shoulds are paralyzing judgments from the outside. Goals feel like authentic dreams while shoulds feel like oppressive obligations. Shoulds set up a false dichotomy between either meeting an ideal or being a failure, between perfection or settling. The tyranny of the should even pits us against our own best interests.
Meg Jay
...There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
With the right MINDSET, you can Survive, Thrive & Grow... Even in the Midst of turbulence and change
Tony Dovale
My body is cracking from the pain I have swallowed so Many times, heaving with sobs I can no longer suppress, my dignity dissolving in my tears, the agony of these past few days ripping my skin to shreds.
Tahereh Mafi
The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anger and animosity cannot enshrine what was once wonderful...
Mala Naidoo
Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?
Cecil Castellucci
Smile in front of the queen?" she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. 'Surely that's not allowed!
Tui T. Sutherland
If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.
Andrew Miller
After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as the Communists predicted. And Khrushchev did not 'bury' us. We buried him. Neville Chute's On the Beach proved as fanciful as Dr. Strangelove and Seven Days in May. Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb never exploded. It fizzled. The Clash of 79 produced Ronald Reagan and an era of good feelings. The Club of Rome notwithstanding, we did not run out of oil. The world did not end at the close of the second millennium, as some prophesied and others hoped. Who predicted the disappearance of the Soviet Empire? Is it not possible that today's most populous nations -China, India, and Indonesia- could break into pieces as well? Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now. First World nations are dying.
Pat Buchanan
Elle, what happened to your prudish behavior?” Elle laughed. “It took a back seat when I was given a mate so hot that he could cook bacon on his abs.
Quinn Loftis
Kindness is the master key which opens the gates of inner bliss.
Debasish Mridha
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
Lemony Snicket
Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.In South Africa, no one doubts that Wednesday's elections will be free and fair. While there is an unacceptable degree of government corruption, there is no evidence of the wholesale kleptocracy of Robert Mugabe's elite. While there has been the abuse of the organs of state by the ruling ANC, there is not the state terror of Mugabe's Zanu-PF. And while there is a clear left bias to Zuma's ANC, there is no suggestion of the kind of voluntarist experimentation that has brought Zimbabwe to its knees.
Mark Gevisser
I cry looking at our reality, through slave eyes. I bet they would say our generation has crossed the line.
Delano Johnson
Be real, rare, refreshing you! Fan the flames of self love and ignite your light!
Amy Leigh Mercree
No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way,
Tama Kieves
Stella turned to us. "One of us is going to have to swim it. Any volunteers?"Jamie shook his head. "Not it. Sharks, first of all, and second of all, sharks"- The Retribution of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin
I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.
Sally Brampton
Your inner critic is that voice in your head that second-guesses your choices, doubts your abilities, judges your appearance, criticizes you at every turn, and tries to convince you that you are never good enough.
Susan C.Young
Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
André Maurois
I have no words to express my sadness, grief, and frustration. I never thought Bengali people could do such a heinous and atrocious thing. My heart goes out to those innocent victims and their families.
Debasish Mridha
When we set a goal we are fulfilling our destiny. Even if we do not reach it, we have changed our lives and the lives of others by attempting to reach it.
Lawren Leo
Life is simple. It is meant to be lived. Don't over-complicate things. Don't lose your life in the things that don't matter.
Akiroq Brost
Life is all about discovery
Sunday Adelaja
When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overcome, and commonly draw us, even against our wills, to the things of the earth.I believe one remedy for this is to confess our faults, and to humble ourselves before God. I do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer: many words and long discourses being often the occasions of wandering. Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man's gate. Let it be your business to keep your mind in the presence of the Lord. If it sometimes wander and withdraw itself from Him, do not much disquiet yourself for that: trouble and disquiet serve rather to distract the mind than to re-collect it: the will must bring it back in tranquility. If you persevere in this manner, God will have pity on you.
Brother Lawrence
Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace.
E'yen A. Gardner
For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.
Sara Sheridan
Hope is the assurance of the promise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.
Scott Westerfeld
Far too often we allow the hurtful words of others to define us. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.
Eddie Capparucci
I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.
Laurie Halse Anderson
Chance is your godThough you're falling free you will land hard
Criss Jami
Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.
Craig Groeschel
Socrates insisted that there's a strong connection between your philosophy (how you interpret the world, what you think is important in life) and your mental and physical health. Different beliefs lead to different emotional states...
Jules Evans