Quotes by Authors - Page 4615

Education gives you lights to see, wings to fly, and music to sing.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Rosalind exploded with a shriek worthy of a tea-kettle.
Emma Clifton
I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.
Sara Sheridan
Somehow however just knowing that I could fully expect unhappiness to return – if not predictably then nevertheless reliably – was strangely liberating. The point was that even chaos had a structure a beginning and eventually an end. It was possible to live through it. I’d been doing as much for twenty years.
Caroline Kettlewell
What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered.
Ursula K Le Guin
God works by means; and it is by his people that he principally carries on his cause in the world. They are his witnesses. They are his servants. He first makes them the subjects of his grace, and then the mediums. He first turns them from rebels into friends, and then employs them to go and beseech others to be reconciled unto God. For they know the wretchedness of a state of alienation from him. They know the blessedness of a return. They have "tasted that the Lord is gracious." Their own experience gives them earnestness and confidence in saying to those around them, "O taste, and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
William Jay
There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
Gregory Maguire
My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.
Sally Bucko
Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1).
Shawntel Jefferson
Fear not! The Lord will rescue and deliver you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there’s a memory for them to happen in …
Graham Swift
I spent most of my adult life in relationships some good, some bad. It took years for me to realize that I was the common denominator in all of these relationships and I needed to love me first.
Sanjo Jendayi
Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God. Once when Jesus’ disciples wondered about the salvation of a man who desired money more than God, he said to them, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God” (Mark 10:27). Pursuing what we want is possible. It is easy. It is a pleasant kind of freedom. But the only freedom that lasts is pursuing what we want when we want what we ought. And it is devastating to discover we don’t, and we can’t.
John Piper
If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down, forever waiting at the tower window. Some jungle animal so noble and fierce you had to crawl on your belly through dangerous grasses to get a glimpse.
Michelle Tea
Today’s widespread social disharmony in relation to gender is not inevitable for human society, although it is the inevitable product of thousands of years of systemic gender injustice across the globe. Because we have never known anything else, it is difficult impossible for us to imagine what life would be like if we had grown up in a society that was truly integrated and healthy in relation to gender and sexuality. The entire fabric of human society would be vastly different from what we know today.
William Keepin
What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.
Haven Kimmel
The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.
Maggie Stiefvater
We're still not where we're going but we're not where we were.
Natash Jasefowitz
I believe in it because it is impossible.
Paul Torday
What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not only by the light of his own Christian viewpoint; he also finds friendship deficient when judged from the perspective of its own self-proclaimed ethical foundations. Thus, Kierkegaard concludes that the reciprocity involved in friendship actually betrays its essential selfishness.
Graham Smith
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever you are, be ready to create the enabling spiritual atmosphere for the sake of the kingdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja
When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes afraid to tell too much. She was afraid he would know her too well, that he would find some weakness in her, some element that would turn him away, maybe even a quality she didn't even realize she possessed.
Michael Stein
That girl was a goddess and once a guy got hooked on her it was damn hard weaning off. - Drake
Victoria H. Smith
Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:Bringing the world to the window.
Markus Zusak
Make every moment last forever, because nothing else does.
Tapan Ghosh
Sometimes you’re going to shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces. Either way, it’s okay.
Sheila M. Burke
Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.
Amit Kalantri
It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.
Charles Eisenstein
Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. “You’re worthy.” Stamp. “You’re enough.” “You have not failed completely.” Stamp, stamp.
Kimberly Novosel
If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.
Alain de Botton
All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would admit that the apple was hedged with every warning imaginable. So I too fell; perhaps all sins are not causes but effects, being the result of that first sin, Boredom.
K.W. Jeter
I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
Jim Elliot
So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and things they were yet to do!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.
Zen Cho
I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.
Khaled Hosseini
Experience is the best school,Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,Offering only one lesson called Life,That you could only finish once you're dead!
Nelson M. Lubao
My heart is schizophrenic.
Lesley Anne Cowan
If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuses behind us, no justification before us. We are alone with no excuses.This is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet in other respects is free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.
John Green
Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of herfather’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as henodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverwarewhen he thought no one was looking
Derek Landy
Be the star of your life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Moving beyond past wounds and hurts and building a culture of respect, dignity, and flowering love
William Keepin
Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best.
Cecelia Ahern Ahern
To really be of help to others we need to be guided by compassion.
Auliq-Ice
Hundreds of philosophies and scores of religions have been invented to circumvent the Word of God. Modern philosophers and psychologists are still trying to make it appear that there is some way out other than the path of Jesus.
Billy Graham
Find your inner bliss and then let it out to make the world blissful.
Debasish Mridha
To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold Macmillan
No soul sin beyond recovery.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!
Jarrid Wilson
Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.
Mark Twain
Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one’s own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase – some jackboot, Achilles’ heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse – into the dustbin where it belongs.
George Orwell
Though Kurt would later claim that his graffiti messages were political, in fact, most of what he wrote was nonsensical. He enraged a neighbor with a boat by painting “Boat Ack” in red letters on the ship’s hull; on the other side he lettered, “Boat people go home.
Charles R. Cross
You’ve loved with intensity and passion, and have learned to hide your heartache, learned to press your handkerchief back into your pocket and pretend that you are okay.
Jaclyn Moriarty
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
Patrick Rothfuss
One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.
Dianna Hardy
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
Ursula K Le Guin
Those who learn to love unconditionally possibly know the power of love and it's beauty.
Debasish Mridha
The shiny black nose of a fox appears through her door before the rest of it steps tentatively across the wooden floor to where she’s cooking. A pile of children’s clothes lie discarded in a corner of the room. The fox knows what she is cooking and holds back a shudder. There are some things even foxes know better than to eat.
Amy Kuivalainen