Quotes by Authors - Page 732

Lord Ironman, please play tonsil hockey with me, just this one time. There, does that make you happy?
Mercy Celeste
If someone ridicules you, say to him, I love you.
Debasish Mridha
I say there is no darkness but ignorance," said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?
Brian Spellman
My world burns severe.Pockets of sweltering air attack every inch of me exposed, heated by fire spewed forth from the lungs of dragons. For defense I raise a glowing sword that shines by virtue of powers contrary to those I fight against. It is a battle that rages on and on for as long as any man can endure. But there are days I feel I cannot―drained and weary unlike these monsters that lash at me as if sustained by an abiding fervor in their bellies. The battle is harsh and my weapons
Richelle E. Goodrich
If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.
David Graeber
So far as feelings were concerned, there was no discrepancy between the very finest feeling in this world and the very worst; that their effect was the same; that no visible difference existed between murderous intent and feelings of deep compassion.
Yukio Mishima
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.
George Orwell
In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.
Ángeles Arrien
How I wished all my problems were just a piece of cake. Eat it entirely and then it's all gone.
Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Homeless people bear God's image too.
Philip Yancey
Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on a foundation. The learner must be allowed to enter at any point without prejudice. This is why you shall never hear or see a television program begin with the caution that if the viewer has not seen the previous programs, this one will be meaningless. Television is a nongraded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away with the idea of sequence and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.
Neil Postman
The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.
Steven Redhead
Don’t despise any experience. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
Jeremiah Burroughs
Don't follow your heart as it can lead you astray, but instead, open your heart and allow God to lead you.
Pauline Seaport
Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.
Tina Fey
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
Henry Miller
To stand against the enemy is to rest in what Jesus has already done.
Pedro Okoro
Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.
Stephen C. Lundin
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive
Ursula K Le Guin
That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
L.M. Montgomery
Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.
Scott O'Reilly
Lucius shrugged. "Perhaps in time you will find it useful.""Sure. I'll keep it on my shelf right next to The Idiot's Guide to Becoming a Mythical Creature.''Lucius actually laughed. "Very funny. I didn't know you made jokes.""I'm a funny person," I defended myself. "And by the way—I don't snore.""You do snore. And you mumble, too."My blood froze. The dream . . . "What? What did you hear?""Nothing too intelligible. But it must have been a rather pleasant dream. You sounded ecstatic.
Beth Fantaskey
When you said no time for love,I heard needy expression of love.
Toba Beta
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
Sue Monk Kidd
Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn't get the luxury of all those things one hundred percent of the time, but we call that normal behavior based on a gut feeling.” I said. I looked at his wife and she busted out laughing. Her husband was trying to catch invisible butterflies above his head—dementia. My patients teach me the most sobering of truths: Why wreck his smile. If I could see them, I would want to catch them too.
Shannon L. Alder
Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.
Marion Jensen
The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
Salmon Rushdie
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
Rose Wilder Lane
There are always cats around Charlie's, but they are usually refugees seeking asylum from the local rat population, and rather desperately friendly.
Robin McKinley
You draw characters speaking loud and clear but you’re not hearing them.” her mother told her, then she kissed her forehead and mumbled how she liked her art and went downstairs. Cecilia wrote these words on her bedroom wall, just behind her headboard for no one to see it but herself to know that it exists.
Basma Salem
Why did you do this? You could lose your job or worse.” “I wanted to spend some time alone with you. Tomorrow, you might be leaving for good.” He leaned down and pressed his lips to hers. Reluctantly, he pulled away. “You’re worth the risk.
Julia Crane
My arms are too short to box with God.
Johnny Cash
As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.
Cristina Marrero
[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.
Tina Fey
Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.
Doug Dillon
I adore forgotten words, long lost folk tales, and books with pages soft and crumbling. I am a collector of scents and memories. The things that others bury are the things I hold most dear.
Nichole McElhaney
Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
Lauren Oliver
She'll never be all the way tame, just the way she's made ... sorta like you, I imagine.
Carly Kade
He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat
Cassandra Clare
The choice of a great mindset is a great life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!
Robin Hobb
Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Don't ever be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly rejected, spat upon and seen as an unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is and then they accept, celebrate and enjoy it.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I start every morning with a Rosicrucian ritual, meditation and exercise. I can't separate myself from this habit of connecting myself to the other realm every day, not anymore, because I'm actually more there than here. I always was, but now I know how to maintain this balance, even in solitude.
Robin Sacredfire
Anger will always stand in the way of your dreams. Don't let anyone take your dreams.
Sue Fitzmaurice
The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.
Elizabeth George
Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun.
Debasish Mridha
Normative mind tends to be naive.
Toba Beta
...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.
Robert B. Parker
It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.
Katarina Bivald
We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers - but where are the great lovers? After a moment's reflection one is back to Abelard and Heloise, or Anthony and Cleopatra, or the story of the Taj Mahal. So much of it is fictive, expanded and glorified by the poverty-stricken lovers whose prayers are answered only by myth and legend.
Henry Miller
But nobody writes fairy talesabout the ugly and poemsare not there for the brokenand I will never find myselfin the words of a hymnnor will any whispered prayerever say my name(which name, which meam I looking for?)because I am shoutingat a cross splintered into piecesby my angry fists, and cryingat the stained glass fallinglike killing rain around me.
Miriam Joy
If you want to know the truth,” he says, leaning forward like he’s getting ready to tell a really good story, “it has to do with Kelsey. And the biggest lie of all.”And that’s when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do.
Lauren Barnholdt
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
He conquers who endures.
Anonymous
Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.
Craig Groeschel
Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.
Mary Doria Russell
You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!
Oscar Wilde