Quotes by Authors - Page 484

Sometimes I feel that I could stand in the middle of the square and scream and thrash about like a wildling, and no one would notice.
Kerrigan Byrne
If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.
John K. Brown
Let’s stop glorifying the devil, giving him power that he does not deserve or have.
Sunday Adelaja
Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.
Laurie Nadel
The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.
S.A. Tawks
Richard, Bill has the socialist disease in its worst form; he thinks the world owes him a living. He told me sincerely - smugly! - that of course everyone was entitled to the best possible medical and hospital service - free of course, unlimited of course, and of course the government should pay for it.
Robert A. Heinlein
You're thinking I'm a changed man. That God has changed me. And that regardless of the fact that my father has left so much damage in his wake, I shouldn't hate him for it. You're telling me to think to the future ... That I shouldn't hold bitterness against the father who left ... And you hope that i can finally forgive him, which is something I've never quite been able to do." "Goodness," Sera beamed back at him. "I thought all that? I'm much wiser than I give myself credit for.
Kristy Cambron
You intend to keep me confined in here with you for three days?" His voice was low and ominous."It doesn't have to take three days," she said, "It just depends how long it takes for you to come to your senses.""My senses?" he shook her so hard she thought her teeth would rattle. "It is you whose mind is disordered if you think you can tame me like some pet! Is that what you think, Vesta? That you can somehow turn a man like me into your little lap dog?""No," she said, as earnest as she had ever been in her life. "I could never imagine you as a lap dog. Ever. You are a Mastiff. Big, powerful, dignified, brave, and yet gentle." She nodded with a look of self satisfaction. "Yes. Most definitely a Mastiff." from THE VIRGIN HUNTRESS
Victoria Vane
Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.
Ashwin Sanghi
The Lord is my strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.
Charles Frazier
Strong personal relationships are characterised by an ability and willingness to do each other favors. Strive to put family first, then your social circle, and back off on efforts to be a social media superstar.
Mark Sisson
O, flower! If you bloom with love in spring, will you understand if my soul sings?
Debasish Mridha
Today she feels she is the master of her craft. Today she is free of the grinding tyranny of doubt. The voice that mocks her ambition. The voice that bites and slanders and causes her more heartache than any other voice. Today she is focused, she is exultant. Her every brushstroke like a wake of radiance. Today she can move the paint around the canvas at will. If only painting were like this every day. Without the sudden extinguishing of light, the collapsing of belief, the cursing and flailing, the knots and clenched fists in a world gone suddenly dark.
Glenn Haybittle
Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
Steve Maraboli
It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
Your attitude of gratitude will bring you altitude in business and multitude in blessings.
Farshad Asl
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
Jules Verne
Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us. We pray in Christ's name, Amen.
Kate DiCamillo
It draws you in and you feel involved as if you're watching. - Barbara Bailey
Scarlett Avery
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was locatedwill betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what wereally desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers.For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
C.S. Lewis
Complex prevents a person from implementing his potentials
Sunday Adelaja
Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb.
L.A. Larkin
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
Joan Didion
...For I do now know that it is cowardly. We do not have the right to think only of poetry on this earth. It is magical, but utterly selfish.
Hélène Berr
Mists may blur vision, Doubts to lies are heavy mists, Truth clears for all ways." ~ Angelica Hopes, Haikuan excerpt from If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.
Santosh Kalwar
Learn to uncrumple yourself, for life and people are always gung ho to crush you.
Vikrmn
Our portion is not constantly looking back at our fears and failures
Sunday Adelaja
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
Albert Camus
You were the devil. Dressed in everything. I wanted.
R H Sin
Don’t fear! Take care of revenge and hatred by hitting the haters with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.
Catherynne M. Valente
...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.
Michael Crichton
Wintertime is the best time of the year to get really fat.
Alin Sav
The bantering between them only caused their connection to spark that much more. Instead of forcing them to be at odds with each other, arguing did the opposite. It caused the flame to rise on the existing fire which churned inside of them, and they knew it and relished in the burn it created. There was a storm coming. As their desire intensified so did the turbulence of passion grow increasingly wild, demanding nothing less than consumption.
Madison Thorne Grey
You weren't picky about who got hurt. Still aren't. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
Rachel Caine
Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?
Brom
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
Karl Lagerfeld
Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.
Martha Moody
He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times for you.""I'm afraid of loving again. I'm afraid I've lost my faith.""You haven't.""The trapdoor I have in my mind? That can go to those bad places? It's almost gave way again.""You know the ways to keep it nailed shut.
Emma Forrest
Making Disciples through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ in the Spirit of Excellence!
Hans Blunk
If the lords of the underworld can't bring me out of this funk, no one can.
Stacey O'Neale
To love is to open the window of your heart for all of the beauty of the world to come in and dance with the joy in your soul.
Debasish Mridha
Next to God, Family is the best thing.
April Floyd
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
Vernor Vinge
Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore
Iverson glanced down at my white-knuckled grip, then at my eyes. A hint of a smile more subtle than a single flick of snow crossed his face, and his eyes nodded approval.
Allen Eskins
your trouble is you. you came and get to know the facts ,which were not for you .now till end you will claim your share in to the story ,will remain as outsider
litymunshi
True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my book K.H. trilogy
Angelica Hopes
We judge. We do it every single day. We have forgotten to differentiate between ' A simple observation with no results' and 'Analyze to yield
Bhavik Sarkhedi
If there is such a things as "race", there is only the Human one.
Tim Heaton
Who can understand the profound mystery of God?
Lailah Gifty Akita
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George Eliot
Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.
Neil Gaiman
For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
Rachel Carson
At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.
Anthony Liccione
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
Criss Jami