Quotes by Authors - Page 646

The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others.
Gift Gugu Mona
Truth is non-negotiable and its promise is love.
Maria Erving
It called to him, a sweet heady beacon of femininity, fertility, and fuckability. His three favorite f-words.
Christine Warren
And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light.
Garth von Buchholz
God, Beauty and Truth are synonymous. Take any one of the three paths and you will reach the goal.
Amit Ray
Whatever connection we thought we had before this...it doesn't compare to this moment. No matter what happens between us in life, this moment has just merged pieces of our souls together. Well always have that, and in a way it's comforting to know.
Colleen Hoover
You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.
Marty Rubin
You are not as great or terrible as you think you are. Neither are they.
J.D. Mader
unaccountably we are aloneforever aloneand it was meant to bethat way,it was never meantto be any other way–and when the death strugglebeginsthe last thing I wish to seeisa ring of human faceshovering over me–better just my old friends,the walls of my self,let only them be there.I have been alone but seldomlonely.I have satisfied my thirstat the wellof my selfand that wine was good,the best I ever had,and tonightsittingstaring into the darkI now finally understandthe dark and thelight and everythingin between.peace of mind and heartarriveswhen we accept whatis:having beenborn into thisstrange lifewe must acceptthe wasted gamble of ourdaysand take some satisfaction inthe pleasure ofleaving it allbehind.cry not for me.grieve not for me.readwhat I’ve writtenthenforget itall.drink from the wellof your selfand beginagain.Mind and Heart
Charles Bukowski
The general public has failed to realize that the USA government has built a High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in most cities with the mass deployment of smart radio frequency transmitting utility meters.
Steven Magee
Keesha looked at me for a long time. "I did leave you alone. We all did. But you didn't get better. You didn't stop. You're still doin' all your weird shit. And I think it's time to stop.""You think it's time to stop!" I exploded, and lunged at her with my hands outstretched. I pushed her real hard. She almost fell down. "I don't care what time you think it is!" I screamed. "Do you think I want to do this! Do you think I like it?""You pushed me!""Yeah. So what?""You're so afraid of being interrupted that you pushed me!""I'm not scared of being interrupted, you jerk! I'm . . . I'm scared . . . I'm scared of being." I crumpled into a ball and sat down where I was standing. I sat on a crack. Unevenly."Who are you anymore, Tara?"Tears spilled over my frozen lashes and disappeared across my cheekbones. I had never felt so defeated. "I don't know.
Terry Spencer Hesser
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Charles H. Fowler
If there is no any patience, forbearance and forgiveness. Then there is no peace.
Muditha Champika
You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.
Sunday Adelaja
And she was not beautiful asleep. Her expression slack and not angelic. The very ordinariness of it so beautiful he felt a yearning to be something more than he was or could be. And as good a player as he was, he knew as he turned on the reel to reel and hugged the Fender once again that nothing he composed would ever be as beautiful as her ordinary sleep.Watching her he played the music of her sleeping. And by surrendering made something beautiful.
Steven R. Boyett
the gods play nofavorites.
Charles Bukowski
A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.
Barack Obama
There is plenty of dignity in just holding on
Steven Erikson
Repetition opens doors, you know?
Tim Lucas
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
Naomi Shihab Nye
A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes.
Semezdin Mehmedinović
I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
Frank Herbert
So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?”Aphros frowned. “I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________.” He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.
Rick Riordan
Much effort is needed for a dream to come true.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
Charles de Lint
It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.
D.H. Lawrence
No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.
Jeannine Atkins
InsomniaI cannot get to sleep tonight.I toss and turn and flop.I try to count some fluffy sheepwhile o'er a fence they hop.I try to think of pleasant dreamsof places really cool.I don't know why I cannot sleep -I slept just fine at school.
Kathy Kenney-Marshall
Ideology is dead..Politics is about barter..you give some, take back a lot more. Its business at the end of the day. - Ravi Nehra
Tuhin A. Sinha
It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.
Neal Shusterman
The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.
Rebecca Scherm
When he flashed that rockin’ smile of his again, I couldn’t help but think that me being cute was what might be crossing his mind. Then again, maybe he thought I was a dumbass. Either way, he smiled, which was good enough for me. - Ariel
Victoria H. Smith
When I create characters for the world of others I realize how much I have yet to experience.
Teresa LaBella
Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.
Paramahansa Yogananda
No voting on who gets to be people.
N K Jemisin
And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.
Carl Sagan
The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.
Charles Stross
A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.
James S.A. Corey
The woman knows from living with the abusive man that there are no simple answers. Friends say: “He’s mean.” But she knows many ways in which he has been good to her. Friends say: “He treats you that way because he can get away with it. I would never let someone treat me that way.” But she knows that the times when she puts her foot down the most firmly, he responds by becoming his angriest and most intimidating. When she stands up to him, he makes her pay for it—sooner or later. Friends say: “Leave him.” But she knows it won’t be that easy. He will promise to change. He’ll get friends and relatives to feel sorry for him and pressure her to give him another chance. He’ll get severely depressed, causing her to worry whether he’ll be all right. And, depending on what style of abuser he is, she may know that he will become dangerous when she tries to leave him. She may even be concerned that he will try to take her children away from her, as some abusers do.
Lundy Bancroft
It is important to give, not only to those closer to us, also to our enemies.
Sunday Adelaja
I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. Most of all I dreaded paying a bill-my awkwardness when I handed over the money after buying something did not arise from my stinginess, but from excessive tension, excessive embarrassment, excessive uneasiness and apprehension.
Osamu Dazai
I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could not save you.
Suzannah Rowntree
The breath of being is been able to share your bread.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness.
Aspen Matis
There should be an absolute discipline in the house of God
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.
Asa Don Brown
The waltz held the feeling you get when you finish a well-loved book. It left me longing for something I couldn't name.
Louise Miller
Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.
G.K. Chesterton
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.
Manuel Rivas
I believe that the ‘love of your life’ is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they’re it.
Dawn Lanuza
Today is a new chapter in the story of your life. While you're holding the pen, what will you write? Now, is your time to shine! Will you continue holding the pen? Or, will you express yourself from deep within?
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
In order to know how to pray for people, we have first to determine: Whether, they are saved or not.
Sunday Adelaja
The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole thing oddly personal, a sense of one painter’s hand moved by impulse and afterthought as much as by epic design. I hadn’t expected to register such pleasure and sensation. The air was color-scrubbed, coppers and ochers burning off the metal skin of the aircraft to exchange with the framing desert.
Don DeLillo
I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their separation. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost in this fearful world. I will not play with bullies. I will continue to be brave and kind. I will speak for real unity. And no matter what, I will never stop loving.
Scott Stabile
You can only overcome a negative attitude with a positive attitude.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Can they love? Or is it a bit of code meant to get a reaction from humans? Can anyone tell real love, in a bot or in a human?
Judd Trichter