Quotes by Authors - Page 4979

All surgery and no makeup make Jack a dull girl.
Brian Spellman
Never assume you are alone, because you never truly are. Only when your life has surely ended and your loved ones have forgotten you is when you are gone. Gone from this world and the next.Sleep is when you are most vulnerable. It’s a sanctuary and a curse; how you perceive it is up to you.
Mandi Lynn
The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.
Ellen J. Barrier
Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.
Kemi Sogunle
Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising very slowly to a great height like smoke from a fire, as a pale shrouded figure it loomed over the Hill. For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing.
J.R.R. Tolkien
If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.
Idries Shah
That's the craziest, dumbass thing I ever heard tell of. What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Hell, if I wanted a man, I'll get the real thing not one of these chippies.
Rita Mae Brown
Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality, but when you have said 'sex' you have said all. A man who can give up sex can give up Beethoven.
Nanavira Thera
It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.
Richard Paul Evans
He had a body that begged to be painted…with chocolate.
L.G.A. McIntyre
Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures . . . a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to.
Andrew Holleran
That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault." Lulu
Ruth Reichl
You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.
A.J. Darkholme
Everyone should keep a dream journal, did you know that?
Sophie Kinsella
A dreamer is a gifted man ,who, plucks out his dreams of sparkling stars.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
Clarence Darrow
Suddenly, she gave a little half-smile and whispered dreamily; "When I was a little girl, here for the summer, I used to ride my bicycle to Mass."I know; the Karê wanted to say. I used to watch you.
L.J. Maas
A boy who'd thrived in the shadows.Now he had to live in the light.To live . . . fiercely.To fight for every breath.
Renee Ahdieh
I look at you, and I see the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth. Inside and out you are beautiful. I know you better than anyone else could ever know you, because I can see into your thoughts and read your memories. The very light in you, our tremendous capacity for loving, humbles me.
Christine Feehan
But I was 22 when I started this job, and you know what? Sometimes it really is okay to just have a fucking job. Not a passion, not a career, but a steadfast source of bi-weekly income deposited directly into a checking account from which food, and medicine, and apps one totally forgot about having downloaded will be paid for.
Samantha Irby
You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it.
Deyth Banger
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that o
William Faulkner
You know?” he asked.“Yes. I know what I am.”“You – you do?”“I’m a time traveler.
Darynda Jones
Let your light shine.
Pooja Ruprell
It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation
Keigo Higashino
Invest your capital of love to get the best dividend of a beautiful life filled with happiness.
Debasish Mridha
He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did
Soroosh Shahrivar
In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The mind and flesh of man are set on fire by pride; for it is precisely in his wickedness that man wants to be as God. Confession in the presence of a brother is the profoundest kind of humiliation. It hurts, it cuts a man down, it is a dreadful blow to pride...In the deep mental and physical pain of humiliation before a brother - which means, before God - we experience the Cross of Jesus as our rescue and salvation. The old man dies, but it is God who has conquered him. Now we share in the resurrection of Christ and eternal life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The aim of life is self-development
Oscar Wilde
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
Donald Miller
O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.
Abhijit Naskar
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.
Stephen King
It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.
Deb Caletti
Your powers don't work in the rain do they? A little bit of water and your fire fizzles out? So Little Miss Perfect does have a weakness after all!
Heather James
Sometimes the loneliness had been almost too much, he thought, and always at those times he had found comfort in the woods, where he said nothing. He wondered if the others were still gloomy; no one spoke of it any longer. He smiled as he thought of how the women had wet and screamed and straddle behind him, I want to run to catch up once more.
Kate Wilhelm
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
John Steinbeck
It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.
Timothy B. Tyson
You are the only person who can make you happy and whole. You do not have another half out there waiting to be discovered.
Raphael Zernoff
It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand. Something that makes them feel strong or clever. It's why they love the ocean.
Maggie Stiefvater
We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong.God, who inhabits eternity, sees things differently. He knows that our lives are just a mist. We should trust Him. It was not that long ago that Jesus came and it will not be that long before He returns.
Douglas Wilson
It isn't the happy ending that Ingrid and I have dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and had you close
Nina LaCour
He turned to me. “Call me later?”“Yes.”“Promise?”“I promise,” I said.And then he leaned down and kissed me. And this time it wasn’t Romeo kissing Juliet. It was Quinn kissing Delia. And that was even better.
Jennifer Sturman
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.
George Eliot
If you keep wandering in the dark streets, may be it is because you find peace in the darkness rather than in the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion.
David G. McAfee
Reading...inspires,enlightens,nurtures,refines,educates,informs,transforms,persuades,challenges,engages, entertains,mesmerizes,captivates,gratifies,rewards,quiets,and calms.Granted, it won't get the dishes done,but sacrifices must be made.
Richelle E. Goodrich
My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on the stage. It means to play a role totally, while at the same time you know deep down inside yourself that you are not the role that you are playing. Working as an actor gave me early a spiritual discipline, which taught me a lot about awareness and meditation. Life is also about learning to play different roles, and learning to change between different roles with the same easiness that you change shirt.
Swami Dhyan Giten
She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.
David Foster Wallace
Conversations were struck up between strangers, regular diners as well as infrequent customers, as if united by a sense of gratitude at the sheer unlikeliness of it all - a high achievement of industrial civilisation that deserved to remain for everyone, but which has now gone the way of the airship and the ocean liner. Much of the nostalgia concerning railways is partial, even false; not this.[On British railway dining cars]
Simon Bradley
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.
Giacomo Casanova
There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.
Aberjhani
Talk to yourself like a cherished friend. Treat yourself with love and care. You are perfect, just as you are.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Father, it’s Wistala. Wistala.”Father grimaced. “You’re a star, Wistala — I saw you twinkling beneath dear Irelia last night. You, Auron, and Jizara all in a row. I’ll be up there soon. Wait.
E.E. Knight
It seemed that there was no time to catch up with all the things that were happening. I would be at the construction workers' demonstration one day and then marching with the welfare mothers the next. We got down with everything - the rent strikes, the sit-ins, the takeover of the Harlem state office building, whatever it was. If we agreed with it, we would try to give active support in some way. The more active i became, the more i liked it. It was like medicine, making me well, making me whole ...My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of the struggle and i wanted to dance. I was never bored and never lonely, and the brothers and sisters who became my friends were so beautiful to me.
Assata Shakur
The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.
P.J. O'Rourke
We have joy for the assurance of the promise.
Lailah Gifty Akita