Quotes by Authors - Page 620

Death is the great equalizer
Bangambiki Habyarimana
And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance.
Sunday Adelaja
The highway of human possibility extends on forever into unknown territories, which have not yet been imagined.
Bryant McGill
Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.
Anonymous
Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.
Steve Maraboli
...please don’t throw any more rocks at the barrier keeping the demonic hordes of the void from pouring over the world.
Garon Whited
Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships.
Bessel A. van der Kolk
I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.
J.K. Rowling
We receive the authority when we are born again. As we are made new creatures in Christ Jesus, we inherit the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we can use it in prayer against the enemy.
Kenneth E. Hagin
The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.
Sharon Salzberg
Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.
Elizabeth George
I'm transferring Ian down to New Orleans to assist with this,” Arch said as he looked at both men. “I would send Shayne, but Anna won't let him go anywhere without her. They're still in the honeymoon phase.” He made a quote motion with his fingers. Peter and Vincent exchanged horrified looks, before Peter responded. “Please, don't put us through that torture.
Rose Wynters
It’s hard to find words to explain why you love someone, they don’t make words with that much passion. And even if they did, there isn’t a perfect combination of syllables and sounds to create a word strong enough to explain love. Love is just a filler word, a useless word that tries to do a job that no word can.
Kandi Steiner
The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.
Anne Lamott
...you play the instrument you have.
Ursula K Le Guin
Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be without good writers?
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war, enough killing. Enough. No more.
Ellen Newhouse
You will serve. Either someone else's vision and purpose, or your own.
Alan Froggatt
The Proclaimers thunder through my head.Imagine it.Imagine killing someone to the tune of two Scottish nerds wearing glasses and flattop haircuts. How will I ever listen to that song again? What will I do if it comes on the radio? I'll think of the night I murdered another man and stole his life with my own hands.
Markus Zusak
People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.
Katherine Rundell
The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.
Richelle E. Goodrich
But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge of the world that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
Cormac McCarthy
May God’s grace awaken the heart of writing in my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita.
Lailah Gifty Akita
His phone rang just as he set his evidence kit on the ground. He glanced at the display and took the call. "Hey, Mom."t"I ran into Cindy Jenners at the store today."t"No."t"She's such a nice young woman."t"Not interested."t"Your sisters abandoned me."t"They didn't abandon you. They got married."t"They moved to other states. I don't have a single grandchild. within driving distance. How can they be so curel?" She gave a guilt-laden pause. "Mrs. Ottmann said she saw you talking to some blonde with Massachusetts license plates by the feed store yesterday."tChase closed his eyes and brushed his thumb and forefinger over his eyelids. "I was giving her a speeding ticket...
Dana Marton
One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.
Markus Zusak
Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The knowledge of the Holy Scripture is a great wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The sexiest thing about a man is the he can make a woman smile even when she thinks there is nothing to smile about.
Courtney Giardina
Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
Through dreams, God awakened me; through prayers, God directed me.
Teresa Odden
we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are.
Tahereh Mafi
When you walk around feeling quietly upset, frustrated, angry or some other negative emotion, people around you will detect it to some degree or another, even if only subconsciously.
Sam Owen
She'd lived in the same house with this man and never once thought about his thighs in the last year.
Sara Rosett
The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.
C.S. Lewis
Pure joy is rare. That’s why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak.
Bauvard
He went through the bills with the jaundiced eye of a China trader, asking himself not whether he had been stolen from, but where the theft had occurred. If he couldn’t find it, that would suggest his factor back home in Shanghai was either cleverer or more honest than he had thought, and Crane didn’t think he was particularly honest.
K.J. Charles
Flowers are nature's gift of love for you.
Debasish Mridha
...the tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.
Richard K. Morgan
What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way?
Amy Fellner Dominy
God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.
Matt Chandler
I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the néant, and it seemed to me that my own death was the only thing left that I could create.
John Fowles
Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way contributing to the greater good, holding on to happiness is like carrying water in my hands.
Paula Poundstone
Propping up a seat at the bar we devour chicken wings like life does dreams
David Louden
Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It’s happened once, it could happen again, so you’re always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it’s reappeared...
Matt Dunn
I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You know what you are, Sam Brody?" she whispered, wrapping her arms around his neck. "A big, fat tease." They both knew there wasn't an ounce of fat on him. They also both knew exactly what she meant.
Jill Shalvis
The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.
John Bevere
In a group of five workouts, I tend to have one great workout, the kind of workout that makes me think in just a few weeks I could be an Olympic champion, plus maybe Mr. Olympia. Then, I have one workout that’s so awful the mere fact I continue to exist as a somewhat higher form of  life is a miracle. Finally, the other three workouts are the punch-the-clock workouts: I go in, work out, and walk out. Most people experience this.
Dan John
Live as though today is your last, love as though tomorrow will never come, and dream as if there are no limits.
Gary Westfal
Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.
Sara Sheridan
Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.
Danielle Bernock
Time is a valuable wealth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.
Idries Shah
Gabe watched, holding his breath as the figure slowly turned. The body moved in an almost unnatural way as it shifted and crawled slowly on all fours across the floor. When the candlelight at last fell on the figure, Gabe could make out the auburn hair of his beloved Sophie. Her hair was matted, greasy, and hung in her face.Gabe saw her shoulders were hollow looking and her skin was almost glowing white. Gabe caught sight of Sophie’s fingers, her knuckles were bloody, and her nails cracked and peeling. Instinctively, Gabe fell to his knees and crawled to Sophie. Without even giving it a thought, he grabbed her hands and pulled them closer to the light.
Wendy Owens
Insects crawled across my skin, legs skittering across my flesh, numbed paths of cold left in their wake. They were the creatures that heralded my ghosts, and I knew them well, yet the revulsion they caused in those moments far exceeded anything I’d felt before.
Hazel Butler
I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!
Alia Mamdouh
There is no rerun of life. Rejoice while breathe.
Lailah Gifty Akita
People who represent social organization in a country are a force in that country
Sunday Adelaja
The greatest thing that gives me peace about time is knowing that I get to make choices about what I do with it. I also find it amazing that when there is something I really want to do, I find the time for it.
Sheri Kaye Hoff