Quotes by Authors - Page 709

Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.
Donna Lynn Hope
Dreams Are Where It All Begins
José Eduardo Agualusa
Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.
Samuel Bowles
Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead and the living, the known and the hidden. Never in my life have I arrived at a new place without getting the blessing of its saints first. It makes no difference to me whether that place belongs to Muslims, Christians, or Jews. I believe that the saints are beyond such trivial nominal distinctions. A saint belongs to all humanity.
Elif Shafak
Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?
Marc Bekoff
If the breath of life is taken, man turn to dust.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.
Brom
I was insanely jealous of Lucille. More jealous than I'd ever been of anyone in my entire life. Because she truly meant it. All I could think was, why can't I be as stupid as Lucille? Why can't I blame all my successes and all my failures on The Lord Jesus Christ Almighty? I would be so fucking happy if I lived like that.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
Elizabeth Peters
Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.
Karen Joy Fowler
Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.
Dan Pearce
Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.
Bill Veeck
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
Heroes don’t seek attention. But they show up continually in the little things. Train your eyes to look for them. They may not be as loud as the headlines or newsfeeds. But they’re all around you, multitudes of them. Train your eyes and listen with your heart… Both rightfully know that the quiet things, the little things, they are the big things. They are far more important than the noise of the world.
Renata Bowers
Love and marriage are completely unrelated enterprises. Marriage bears as little resemblance to love as competing in the Olympics does to your afternoon jog.
Zinzi Clemmons
A speech that's full of sparkling wit will keep its hearer grinning provided its end is close to its beginning.
Anonymous
Emotions serve as our guiding system. They tell us what we feel about something. This indicates the degree of alignment with the source's energy.
Hina Hashmi
This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.
Sylvia Plath
Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.
Norton Juster
Even though prayers are not offered only to get a desired result, there is little doubt that most miracles are the result of prayer. God wants us to pray to him and ask him for things, just as any loving father and mother want their children to come to them with whatever is on their minds. But if our focus is solely on getting the outcome we want, the prayer will fail, precisely because our belief is placed in the wrong place. It’s a great irony. If all we care about is the result, then we are effectively making that result our God, rather than God himself. So if we are praying to our “God”—the God of results—rather than to God himself, then we are praying to a “God” who is not God, and who is therefore powerless to help us.
Eric Metaxas
An excuse will not wake up early
Johnnie Dent Jr.
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the world- pulsing the way our heartbeat drums under our own skin. And I believe that there's a connectedness between everything that gives some people a deep and abiding affinity to a certain kind of place or creature.""Like totems?""Maybe. Or maybe something even more personal- something that's impossible to articulate with the vocabulary we have at the moment.""This is too weird."Annie shrugged. "What can I say? It's getting late, the stars are out. Once the sun sets, I tend to embrace whatever wild spirits are running around in the darkness, talking away to each other. I leave the logic of streets and pavement and cars and tall buildings behind and buy into the old magics that they're whispering about. Sometimes those little mysteries and bits of wisdom stick to the bones of my head and I carry them right out into the sunlight again. They're like Jack's stories, true and not true, all at the same time. They don't exactly shape my life, but they certainly colour it." She glanced at him, "I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is
Charles de Lint
As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities. It's not always easy to make the transition from a beautiful London park filled with children to a war zone, but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war- to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
Lynsey Addario
I wear makeup and I don dramatic attire because I like control. I’m not interested in controlling others but I’m invested in strict self-governance. This is why I don’t do many face-to-face interviews. I don’t like being caught off-guard. It all goes back to that attempt to create order amidst disorder. One of the most frightening things about losing your mind is that you feel like your body, your brain, every part of your essence is being invaded. There is such a palpable helplessness to that narrative and I hate the sense of victimhood that it implies. Certainly, this is how I felt during my moments of psychological disquiet. I felt like my personhood was under attack. Performativity is important to me because I’m the teller of my own stories. I have been performing these multiple roles for so long that they have bled into my identity. I have become the man that I always wanted to be.
Diriye Osman
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
Sherry Turkle
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.' Critic John Berger's well-known quote has been true throughout the history of Western culture, and it is more true now than ever.
Naomi Wolf
A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever.
Iain M. Banks
Do not justify art, once you do, it limits the feelings it is apt to inflict. Art with Boundaries shadows all its principles.
Unarine Ramaru
Don’t just be everywhere, be everywhere that your clients are, where you matter most.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
He was one of those capital M Men.
Lauren Dane
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Brené Brown
Maybe we're all ongoing stories, defined at various stages of life, or whenever people oblige us to declare ourselves. Fiction is marvelous for studying this, allowing the writer and reader to leap decades in a sentence. No other art lets you bend time as much.
Tom Rachman
There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one’s physician.
Christopher Hitchens
A human being should learn to make decisions independently in order to achieve goals efficiently
Sunday Adelaja
So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will beecstatic.”“They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really?
Cassandra Clare
If you are trading silence or compliance for love, you are being cheated. When acceptance or love is withheld if you reveal secrets, the value of the relationship is just an illusion. Love cannot be earned, bought or traded–only freely given. You are worthy of love that doesn’t require you to protect your abuser or sacrifice yourself.
Christina Enevoldsen
All men are ‘real men’, whether they wear KingGees or a pink tutu.
Miya Yamanouchi
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
Oswald Chambers
What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.
Leanna Renee Hieber
If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That's okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you're a fuckup
Justin Halpern
The right, real and good connection between things produces the right, real and good things.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.
Stormie Omartian
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
Anthony Burgess
Give an inch he'll take an ell.
Thomas Hobbes
I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants
Steven Magee
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.
Nicholas Sparks
take free food or tea from anyone talking about Godand find Heavenits gotta be out therefor there must be Godand how could any talk of good or God be wrong
Dito Montiel
The time and situation is always right to express and experience the beauty of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
Wonder at everything and ask, why?Love everything and wonder, why?
Debasish Mridha
Beacon, beacon, lonesome on a hill—Waves run aground, pound ‘round, what a thrill!Water water everywhere crashes,Shore’s not lazy for it mashes, bashes…..Summer’s when tourists traipse o’er to see you,Offering to wipe-wash your dust and mildew;Summer painters place you with dinghy and gull,Historians have you as subject o’er which to mull.When feline Fog drifts gently or is heavy,tYour bright light’s followed by boat bevy;And during those calm, clear days and nightsYou’re that upright nautical dream exciting tiny tykes.
Mariecor Ruediger
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
Elizabeth Gilbert
When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.
Bryant McGill
We are all disciples of the light.
Steven Magee
Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is for us and those like us to do nothing.
Julie Kagawa
Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.
Marty Rubin
A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live
Sunday Adelaja
But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?
Patrick Carman