Quotes by Authors - Page 4654

You give the shirt off your back, no questions asked, and you stand alone at the cavernous mouth of your suburban closet—your entire life spent wonderingwhere your clothes went.
Kris Kidd
SMILE!!!!! TODAY is the TOMORROW you worried about YESTERDA"Y
Dale Carnegie
Let us dance as if life is a dance of our soul and spirit.
Debasish Mridha
Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.
Jim Highsmith
There is no lateness in life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.
Mark Batterson
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.
Criss Jami
NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream.Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.
James Patterson
He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I've seen so far on these streets.
Marie Lu
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne
...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...
John Geddes
Why is such a bad thing to die?
Han Kang
He caught her elbow before she'd taken more than a few steps. "Are you walking home?""Yes.""It's," he glanced at his watch, "nine o'clock."She shrugged out of his hold and continued on her way. "The Boogeyman doesn't come out until ten, so I'm good.
Robin Bielman
No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.
Auliq-Ice
The blue of winter, the brown of spring, the red of summer, and the fall of green. I seek the place of treasures past. I seek the truth of sand and glass. I call to the wind of seasons past. I bring with me the best of summer. I am the one with whom you bask. Deliver me and complete your task.
H.D. Smith
It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.
Rom Amor
Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.
Sarah Ockler
My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, she’s adorable. She’s tiny and blonde and sweet and as helpless as a kitten. Chloe reminded me of Lara, at first. The difference, as I discovered, is that Chloe really is as sweet as she seems and she isn’t as helpless as she looks.
Kelley Armstrong
When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.
Bryant McGill
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
Jostein Gaarder
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.
Francis Harold Cook
Surround yourself with what matters.
hlbalcomb
Happiness softens trials, changes perspective, elevates attitudes, focuses attention, redirects negativity, empowers us to see more clearly, and expands, widens, lifts, ennobles and deepens the sense of meaning and purpose we discover in life.
Auliq-Ice
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
John Fowles
Zac dangled his legs off the edge of the building, hanging onto every word I said as though I were some old time bard telling an epic war tale. I tried to be as detailed as possible, and I knew that I was doing a good job when he'd lean back and shut his eyes. He'd breathe slowly and watch the pictures that I painted for him with my words. He'd smile, not a cunning toothy one, but a sincere smile that comes only from being truly happy. I'd sit across from him and just watch his reactions. We could be up there for hours. I would see the sunset across his face and be as captivated with his skin's changing colours as he was with my everyday stories. That's when I learned to dislike winters.
Ashley Newell
Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the past as immutable and fixed, the present as reflecting actuality, and the future as undefined and nebulous. As time passes, the moment that was once was part of the present becomes part of the past; and a moment of the heretofore previously unrealized future arrives and becomes the new present. The past is a record, the present is real, and the future is an imaginary thought.
Kilroy J. Oldster
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
Viktor E. Frankl
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
Colum McCann
If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.
Sunday Adelaja
Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.
Vishwas Chavan
If you think everything is someone else's fault, you'd be wrong. If you think everything is your fault, you're also wrong. Assigning blame can keep you stuck in the problem. Move on to solutions.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.
Seanan McGuire
Every day you leave a legacy behind, so make it a good one by doing something of significance.
Mensah Oteh
Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.
Barbara Sher
There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.
Anthony Burgess
How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?
Virginia Woolf
If you want to punish a sage lock him in the same room with a fool.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.
Isaac Marion
That's the Christian life: a long journey in the same direction. It's about perseverance. Obedience. And a whole lot of grace. The hand of the master winemaker, forever pruning, producing fruit, and then making something profound and lovely out of our meager harvest.
Nicole Baart
That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror."I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?"Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.
Eoin Colfer
All I wanted was to share myself with him...in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.
Jess C. Scott
Those who prosper by thievery, thuggery, or by ruining another, have chosen to live on the devil's dime.
Bailey Bristol
Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.
Christopher Hitchens
Speak gently to young women as you would to your sisters
Lailah Gifty Akita
It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.
Katherine Marsh
Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken.
Idries Shah
In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest.
Arundhati Roy
The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.
Sara Pennypacker
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
Ambrose Bierce
Children are God's way to rekindle the dwindling magic in relationships.
Nilesh Rathod
Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.
Emlyn Chand
In all areas of your life, look for the multiplier opportunities where you can go a little further, push yourself a little harder, last a little longer, prepare a little better, and deliver a little bit more. Where can you do better and more than expected? When can you do the totally unexpected? Find as many opportunities for 'WOW,' and the level and speed of your accomplishments will astonish you... and everyone else around you.
Darren Hardy
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
I didn’t know what I would do. There was no way I could survive. I stared at my damp tent ceiling, feeling the frigid air against me, the frozen ground against my bottom, so cold my bare skin burned. I needed to get to the next trail-town, Mammoth Lakes. There was no one here to save me now.
Aspen Matis
The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped. Twisted, as I processed Thad's words.
Lynne Matson
Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.
Carew Papritz
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
Marcus Sedgwick
Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
Margaret McMullan
And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?
Marcel Proust