Quotes by Authors - Page 477

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
John Jay Chapman
The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.
Lisa Kleypas
Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.
Daniel Abraham
Miriva refused to believe that human decency should be a privilege given only to a small few, and when she complained to her mother that she did not want to be a broodmare for the sake of alliances between the villages, her mother slapped her and sent her to the fields to pick mehazi beans
Ash Gray
Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.
Abhijit Naskar
Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking about themselves and their own business, they thought, and their eyes seemed to blur, because they remembered asking those questions themselves, long ago.
Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio
In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet.
Victor Hugo
Breath control is crucial to most of the contemplative traditions... Qur'anic reciters chant long phrases for meditation. It is natural for the audience to adjust their breathing too and find that this has a calming, therapeutic effect, which enables them to grasp the more elusive teachings of the text.
Karen Armstrong
There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.
Shauna Niequist
You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough and in the dark days.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Most people want to be perceived as Katana swords, but they don’t spend enough time in the forge to even be butter knives.
Jason Taylor
I live to inspire, not start the fire.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Everything is up to psychology and Mindset.
Deyth Banger
Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.
Debasish Mridha
If only it felt like an academic exercise when she kissed him, instead of a soul-drowning tsunami of want and need.
Alexia Adams
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn’t stay still. Why stay still now?
Rob Liano
A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I thought guys were complicated. Maybe they are. But maybe they're easy and it's really me who's complicated.
Robin Brande
But it was not enough simply to perceive injustice. Mass resistance was possible only when people believed they had the collective capacity to change things. For poor people, this required identifying with the oppressed, and counting yourself among them—which was something most trailer park residents were absolutely unwilling to do.
Matthew Desmond
Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at the rich colour which came at every expressed emotion into her usually sallow face, at the faultless teeth which made her smile like a sunbeam.
Elizabeth Gaskell
The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.
Andrea Levy
When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.
George MacDonald
It's funny, because I had thought, living through those first two months after the night at the lake, that the great crisis was about What I Was or Who I'd Become or What Terrible Thing Was Wrong With Me (and About to Go Wronger) and Why All Was Changed As a Result. But I was still struggling against the idea that all *was* changed.
Robin McKinley
As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly experienced moments, as when Eva turned and the sun met her hair and for that one instant the symbol blazed out, those particular moments were eternal. Those moments actually went somewhere. Into a file of moments that existed out of time's range and could not be pilfered by God.
Louise Erdrich
And now she began muttering to herself. "God , who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.
Chinelo Okparanta
Never let people who are more unhappy than you tell you how to live your life.
Adam Kirk Smith
As she turns her head and focuses on me, I lift her palm to my mouth, press a kiss in its center. "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
Jodi Picoult
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Louis de Bernières
Was it really called dry humping, if they did it underwater? Probably not. Crying shame that they both had their jeans on, because this was definitely one of those adrenaline-fuelled moments of passion with a total loss of inhibition, where need and desire trumped all reason.
Suzanne Brockmann
A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies
Kevin J. Anderson
We call a story about love a love story. We call a poem about love a love poem. Well then, my dear, aren’t our lives love lives?
Kamand Kojouri
The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.
Kamand Kojouri
You cannot defeat darkness by running from it.
Seth Adam Smith
Have you chosen to accept what life has given you, or are you choosing to create your life? There is a powerful difference.
Tony Curl
As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.-Captain Tagon
Howard Tayler
It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to review by adversarial courts, and subject to change by an accountable legislature guided by an informed public. If Americans are not able to learn how their government is interpreting and executing the law then we have effectively eliminated the most important bulwark of our democracy. That’s why, even at the height of the Cold War, when the argument for absolute secrecy was at its zenith, Congress chose to make US surveillance laws public. Without public laws, and public court rulings interpreting those laws, it is impossible to have informed public debate. And when the American people are in the dark, they can’t make fully informed decisions about who should represent them, or protest policies that they disagree with. These are fundamentals. It’s Civics 101. And secret law violates those basic principles. It has no place in America.
Ron Wyden
Children are touched by heaven—their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children
Nadia Hashimi
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Daughter," said the Hermit, "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck.
C.S. Lewis
Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same regardless.
Lorrie Moore
The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
Rick Riordan
For years, we had stood on opposite sides of a divide, calling across because we could never jump the distance. This was the moment we discovered that, if we both shifted our weight forward, if we abandoned our fear of the drop below, not looking down, we could touch the tips of our fingers together. And though it wasn't much, in that moment, it was enough.
Stephanie Oakes
The establishment of the kingdom of God is forever
Sunday Adelaja
Moral questions may not have objective answers—whether revealed by God or by science—but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.
Kenan Malik
Art thou lonely O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.
John Oxenham
...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.
Brian Greene
In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Peace is not the absence of war—peace is the absence of fear.
Ursula Franklin
The graveyard is an everlasting resting place.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.
William Faulkner
How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?""We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.
Sara Gruen
Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.
Roman Payne
Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.
Jenny Offill
The municipality sent water through six Annawadi faucets for ninety minutes in the morning and ninety minutes at night. Shiv Sena men had appropriated the taps, charging usage fees to their neighbors. These water-brokers were resented, but not as much as the renegade World Vision social worker who had collected money from Annawadians for a new tap, then run away with it.
Katherine Boo
A novel, or so-called “fiction,” if deeply researched and conscientiously written, might well contain as much truth as a high-school history textbook approved by a state board of education. But having been designated “historical fiction” by its publisher, it is presumed to be less reliably true than that textbook. If fiction were defined as “the opposite of truth,” then much of the content of many approved historical textbooks could be called “historical fiction.”But fiction is not the opposite of truth. Fiction means “created by imagination.” And there is plenty of evidence everywhere in literature and art that imagination can get as close to truth as studious fact-finding can.
James Alexander Thom
There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
Anonymous