Quotes by Authors - Page 4501

The Gnostic’s passionate adoration of Sophia was known as philosophia – the love of Sophia – a mystical communication with divine feminine wisdom, having little to do with the strictly intellectual, most often masculine, pursuit currently labeled “philosophy.
Zeena Schreck
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
Clarence Darrow
And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support.
Laisha Rosnau
Enlightened sexism is a response, deliberate or not, to the perceived threat of a new gender regime. It insists that women have made plenty of progress because of feminism — indeed, full equality has allegedly been achieved — so now it’s okay, even amusing, to resurrect sexist stereotypes of girls and women.
Susan J. Douglas
With faith, we can walk through the fair un-harmed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Your dreams are the golden gate to a life of inspiration. The more you allow yourself to dream of your ideal future, the stronger your inspiration.
Mensah Oteh
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.
Isabel Allende
You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
Lalita Tademy
I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.
Nenia Campbell
They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.
Margot Lee Shetterly
People can still see you even if you enter the next door. Even if you are dead and gone, they can still see you. What is necessary is whether they see you for the good, bad or ugly reason.
Israelmore Ayivor
Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental not physical.
Mary Baker Eddy
Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210
Amish Tripathi
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
Assegid Habtewold
Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood.
Jeffrey Zaslow
Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.
Erich Maria Remarque
Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.
Joe Hill
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson
Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others.
Sanchita Pandey
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
Madeleine L'Engle
Live large!!! In your mind, not in your body.
Jean Williams
Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.
Plamen Chetelyazov
I am not a extra-ordinary person, In the same way I am not a ordinary person.
AR Bharaty
God is the only source of happiness and money
Sunday Adelaja
The journey to the center of your soul doesn’t start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it’s a place only the rare dare venture.
Toni Sorenson
Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.
Hermann Hesse
When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you’ll be blameless.
Seth Godin
If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
Israelmore Ayivor
The pain of patience is better the pleasure of sin.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.
Barbara Pym
Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.
Henry James
..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.
Dean Koontz
Love isn't love until someone makes a mistake.
Dr. Sean McMillan
All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
Anonymous
The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion.
Joseph Goldstein
Terror builds inside him. The reality that tonight will be his last leaves a sour taste in his mouth. The Tainted will eat him, or on a more terrifying note—if that’s even possible—maybe turn him into one of them. He’d rather die. But first, he’ll take as many of those bastards out as he can. He throws his pack into the throng and jerks the blade from his belt. With a thudding heart, he slices through them. Blood arcs over him, onto him.
Laura Kreitzer
He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .
Anonymous
To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to you.
Israelmore Ayivor
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
Haruki Murakami
Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.
Max Gladstone
Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
Kim Edwards
It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.
Justin Cronin
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC ) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
Anonymous
You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.
T.F. Hodge
The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.
Sheila M. Burke
The more you depend on the will and Cosmic Energy to sustain yourself, the less your food requirements; the more you depend on food, the weaker your will and the less your recourse to Cosmic Energy.
Paramhansa Yogananda
I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
Theodore Roosevelt
I had a dream about you last night.. You pretended not to be a three hole punch.
Amy Sommers
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't be fooled, Clara. No one's new and shiny. Not really.
Lisa Smartt
The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.
Amanda Bouchet
No matter how much he denied his attraction to her, those red curls haunted his dreams like brilliant flames that couldn't be extinguished...t"Fuirich air falbh on teine," he said under his breath, but loud enough for her to hear. Stay away from the fire.
Victoria Roberts
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!
George Orwell
She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.
Wendell Berry
The most beautiful soul is the soul in love!
Lailah Gifty Akita
O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!
Albert Camus
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Robert M. Pirsig
He hasn't earned your your mercy."Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given.
A. Lee Martinez