Quotes by Authors - Page 473

... even though we belong to three different religions. We are alike in so many more ways than we are different.
Firoozeh Dumas
Not to be the salt and light on earth is to lack understanding
Sunday Adelaja
Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
Mark Twain
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
Alice James
Her steel blue eyes captivated him at first glance and along with the alluring scent of jasmine surrounding her presence, he lost all sense of time and rhythm, and barely remembered the ensuing conversation. Thinking he had died and gone to heaven, the only thing that stuck in his memory, as they found themselves pressed urgently against the wall of her hotel room, was her name; Ginny.
Virginia Alison
Patriotism is racism for the modern era.
Michelle Templet
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
Criss Jami
To get lost in the ecstasy and elegance of life, let me dive in the depth of love.
Debasish Mridha
This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.
Osamu Dazai
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
Ben Carson
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Anonymous
When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.
Colleen Hoover
The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.
Sharon Salzberg
I can't know your feelings", he said ,"if you don't know them yourself.
Kristin Cashore
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.
Gordon Korman
Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic.Curses bloomed.Girls bit into sharp apples instead of birthday cake, chocked on the ruby-and-white slivers, and collapsed into enchanted sleep. Unconscious beneath cobweb canopies, frozen in coffins of glass, they waited for their princes to come. Or they tricked ogres, traded their voices for love, danced until their glass slippers cracked.A prince would awaken, roused by the promise of true love, and find he had a witch to destroy. A heart to steal. To tear from the rib cage, where it was cushioned by bloody velvet, and deliver it to the queen who demanded the princess's death. Girls became victims and heroines.Boys became lovers and murderers.And sometimes... they became both.
Sarah Cross
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Where she ended, he began.
Donna Grant
She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?
Karl Pilkington
Actually, in its essence, democracy is a totalitarian ideology, though not as extreme as Nazism, fascism or communism. In principle, no freedom is safe in a democracy, every aspect of the individual's life is potentially subject to government control. At the end of the day, the minority is completely at the mercy of the whims of the majority. Even if a democracy has a constitution limiting the powers of the government, this constitution too can be amended by the majority. The only fundamental right you have in a democracy, besides running for office, is the right to vote for a political party. With that solitary vote you hand over your independence and your freedom to the will of the majority.
Frank Karsten
Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!
Preeth Nambiar
A blissful heart is a beautiful soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I think, honestly, the film industry is eating up comics characters at such a fast pace, and spewing them out as so much unspeakable, stench-y, crap. I mean, I think people are going to get pretty sick of the comics product of superhero, per se. Super-heroism seems to be so visceral for these times. Nobody needs a big clunky guy to throw cars about. You know, we’ve got drunks in town here that can do that. We don’t need that kind of superhero. What we need is a super-sage. We need a genuine group of wise people. We need to become wise. That’s the job of tomorrow; becoming wise, and integrated, and understanding.
Melinda Gebbie
The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.
Rick Warren
It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees.
Debasish Mridha
Her smiles are like the morning sun that illuminates my world.
Debasish Mridha
The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.
Neil Gaiman
Do what you like and like what you doIt will bring success, joy and happiness to you.
Debasish Mridha
Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.
Stephen King
You can either grow or degenerate. Either of these is happening all around you, all the time. There is nothing called a "safe comfort zone". This is a convenient name depicting the process of degeneration.
Manoj Arora
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle
Bruce Wayne Sullivan
It seems a lot of Christians are quick to condemn the world and write its inhabitants off as lost causes. It’s odd, though, Jesus never did. He healed and lovingly confronted. Jesus engaged and walked among his enemies, not to breathe fire upon them, but to breathe life into them. He could only change their lives through being part of their lives. He didn’t write books, he didn’t constrain his preaching to just the synagogues. He didn’t stand aloof bad mouthing the world and his enemies to his disciples in the safety of an insular compound. No, Jesus deliberately walked and lived amongst those he came to serve.
Katherine J Walden
Having studied the toxic biological effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation, I find it amazing that women will willfully strap on two radio frequency antennas to their breasts in the form of an underwired bra. The wireless industry knows the underwired bra as a dipole antenna or doublet.
Steven Magee
Disrespect for life is a direct reflection of violating the laws of the kingdom of love
Sunday Adelaja
The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.
R.A. Lafferty
Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
Marcus Buckingham
Whatever you do, love everybody around you.
Debasish Mridha
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris
Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
John Steinbeck
of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.
John Lanchester
... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.
Thomas Sweeney
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
Anne Lamott
Whoever dare dream, must do much activity to realize the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I was camped at the same site as her: Broughton Farm. She came over to my tent and showed me her blisters. She asked me whether I knew the reason why a blister can keep on producing fluid ad infinitum. I said that I had always wondered the same thing about mucus. One of the reasons we are together is because we have similar interests.
Joe Dunthorne
Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth.
Toba Beta
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Miguel de Cervantes
Heavenly Father, may your will be done in my life, in Jesus Name. Amen
Lailah Gifty Akita
You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.
Randy Alcorn
Healing your wounds will hurt, so cry. Cry your pretty little heart out until you have nothing left to shed, that's how beauty is grown; through the darkest of our days we become the light.
Nikki Rowe
I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.
Jalpa Williby
All it takes is one small voice to make a difference." Thread
Shawn Reilly
All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.
Eric Jerome Dickey
Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?
Henry David Thoreau
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
Simone de Beauvoir
That's very important about stories. They touch something that is human in us and is probably unchanging. Perhaps this is why the important knowledge is passed through stories. It's what holds a culture together. Culture has a story, and every person in it participates in that story. They world is made up of stories; it's not made up of facts.
Krista Tippett
Lysander saw that they were displaying all the timeworn and conventional feints and poor disguises of lovers meeting in a public place and hoping the real nature of their relationship would be invisible.
William Boyd
Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
It is wise to know God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.
Kerry Cohen