Quotes by Authors - Page 4696

Sunsets are loved because they vanish.Flowers are loved because they go.The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart.These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.
Ray Bradbury
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Madeleine L'Engle
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
Edith Wharton
Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens.
Russell Kirk
Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.
Soheir Khashoggi
This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls.
Bryan Islip
Delayed gratification is what makes a man.
Sunday Adelaja
Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.
David Fleming
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
David Nicholls
Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To pray 'in spirit and in truth' enables us to enter into contact with that infinite love, that inscrutable freedom which is at work behind the complexities and the intricacies of human existence. This does not mean fabricating for ourselves pious rationalizations to explain everything that happens. It involves no surreptitious manipulation of the hard truths of life.
Thomas Merton
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.
Laura Restrepo
And Garrison...""Yeah, Maddie?""Well," Madeline said with cheeks red as a beet, "since we're leaving tomorrow, since it's all ending,and way may not be in touch gain, or at least not often...I want to tell you...that I think you're..."Madeline suddenly stopped. She could not quite bring herself to say what she wanted to,Instead she simply stared at Garrison,Her heart aflutter and her palms sweating.In her Mind she was screaming it but her lips just wouldn't move."i think you're...too..." Garrison said with a wink.
Gitty Daneshvari
Sports programs are an important part of young people’s lives but should never over-shadow the true purpose of high school and that is to earn a diploma. So often today sports have become more important than an education. This must be remedied because the true focus must always be toward the student’s academic development.
George M. Gilbert
Live in day-tight compartments.
Dale Carnegie
My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.-Alina Chase
Megan Miranda
You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.
Mensah Oteh
Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.
Anne Rice
They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel.
Auliq-Ice
Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Bryant McGill
Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.
Brandon Sanderson
You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you, beyond what - not merely beyond what one sees, because one never sees any thing like it - but beyond what one fancies might be. But still I am not frightened. It is not by equality of merit that you can be won. That is out of the question. It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who loves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return.” (326)
Jane Austen
The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship.
Stephen K. Hayes
Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
Tamora Pierce
Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.
Kate Mosse
Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.
Suzy Kassem
Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.
Leslie Carroll
I wanted a complicated life.
Jonathan Harnisch
But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)
Gabrielle Zevin
Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.
Mischa Temaul
Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
O. Hallesby
You can’t repair character flaws with positive social media posts
Bernard Kelvin Clive
NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ
Stephen Colbert
When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill scream forfeited its life for the sight of the bacon, all the mice in the district, in their holes were overcome by trembling and shaking; with eyes blinking uncontrollably they gazed at each other one by one, while their tails scraped the ground busily and senselessly. Then they came out, hesitantly, pushing one another, all drawn towards the scene of death. There it lay, the dear little mouse, its neck caught in the deadly iron, the little pink legs drawn up, and now stiff the feeble body that would so well have deserved a scrap of bacon.The parents stood beside it and eyed their child's remains.
Franz Kafka
A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government in earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.
Ursula K Le Guin
Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited.
Stephen White
Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.
Sarah Dessen
Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.
Margi Preus
All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.
Kamand Kojouri
It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty.“Why is it important?” Because when you read about it, it’s easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refugee camps—to hear the stories of the people who had been raped or mutilated or forced to watch a parent or a sister or a child be raped or killed. It’s very hard to come face-to-face with such cruelty. But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle. I think that’s why we all need to read about it. I think that’s one of the amazing things about Tennessee Williams’s plays. He was so attuned to cruelty—the way Stanley treats Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. It starts with asides and looks and put-downs. There are so many great examples from Shakespeare—when Goneril torments King Lear or the way Iago speaks to Othello. And what I love about Dickens is the way he presents all types of cruelty. You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.
Will Schwalbe
The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.
Nella Larsen
There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.
Sōseki Natsume
I think we owe it to our children to share our wisdom. If we share our wisdom for the purpose of changing our children, then that’s hitting them over the head with a hammer or shoving something down their throats. If the wisdom turns into advice, that’s selfish. But if we simply share ourselves and let our children know our hearts, then it’s a gift. And I think it’s a gift we’re responsible for giving them.
Daniel Gottlieb
Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.
Billy Graham
And there you stand -Far away from the distant reality,Far away in my breathing dream,Far away in the traces of my livid eyes,Far away in my hostile fantasy.
Debatrayee Banerjee
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
Emily Mitchell
I don't have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I'm too busy loving the lovers.
Steve Maraboli
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
Patrick Ness
Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's up to you to steer it.
Aliya Whiteley
Look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Anonymous
Whatever you sow, you shall reap. It is better to sow good deeds; love, goodness and kindness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight.
Aditi Mathur Kumar
Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
George F. Will
A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.
Amit Kalantri
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Matthew Woodring Stover
Each delegated task must be both time-consuming and well-defined. If you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn’t improve the order of the universe.
Timothy Ferriss
I have faith that all is well, that all good things come to me in Divine timing. I can relax and surrender to the truth that I am divinely guided and cared for.
Eileen Anglin
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Henry Christopher Bailey
A man who is afraid will do anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru