Quotes by Authors - Page 739

Sometimes there’s someone who makes you feel so at home that you flourish.
Marnie Woodrow
What’s the most difficult thing you can do? Live simply. ‘Cause in order to be self-sufficient, you got to get well near everybody else to work for you.
M.C. Humphreys
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John E. Kennedy
That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.
Nicholas Sparks
Help me,” I sobbed. “I beg you, help me.” My eyes burned, butno tears came. I had lost the basic human ability to weep. Human…Iam no longer human. “Destroy me. Take pity and send me on my way.
Carol Oates
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
W.H. Auden
Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.
Nenia Campbell
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
The seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action.
Chloe Thurlow
Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and purpose of life. That may be, but why should we assume religion explains such things any better? Just because religion attempts to answer such questions does not mean its answers are correct. And such answers never seem to achieve any consensus. What is the meaning of life? Your answer is as good as mine--or just as bad.
G.M. Jackson
Other pressing problems with the current medical model [of mental disorder] is that it encourages false epidemics, most glaringly in bipolar disorder and ADHD, and the wholesale exportation of Western mental disorders and Western accounts of mental disorder. Taken together, this is leading to a pandemic of Western disease categories and treatments, while undermining the variety and richness of the human experience.
Neel Burton
There are silent killers like poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related conditions. These remain a daily and ongoing catastrophe, but they rarely manage to achieve and sustain, prime-time headline coverage on the news. Why not report on these until someone acts on them?
Archibald Marwizi
You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.
Lily King
Or should I say that he is like the hand that is able to scratch your itchy parts with the perfect amount of strength!
Memeko Arii
Are you living your dream or someone’s dream?
Lailah Gifty Akita
Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.
T.L. Rese
You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.
Ryan Lilly
The busier you are, the more intentional you must be.
Michael Hyatt
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
The instinct voice is your divine soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The complexity of the so-called individual that’s been praised for decades in America somehow has narrowed itself to the ‘me’. When I was a young girl we were called citizens – American citizens. We were second-class citizens, but that was the word. In the 50s and 60s they started calling us consumers. So we did – consume. Now they don’t use those words any more – it’s the American taxpayer and those are different attitudes.
Toni Morrison
Loneliness can make you feel that you have a kingdom in darkness.
MRK ONTIM
Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.
Ana Claudia Antunes
For a large majority of youth raised in church, the church has become irrelevant to their goals and pursuits in life
Sunday Adelaja
Act with the heart of the warrior.
Bohdi Sanders
You exist only because God wills that you exist.
Rick Warren
what would the masters do?when people arn’t successful, they sometimes wonder, why not? they get answers, then they wonder why those answers don’t seem to meet their needs. they get the wrong answers, and they get upset about it. perhaps they’re really getting the right answers, but answering the wrong questions.too many people ask nothing but “Why” questions.they analyze and analyse problems - but no solution. “you can analyse a glass of water and you’re left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink”.“Why?” questions can drive us crazy. “What?” questions drive us sane.What questions lead us to practical solutions.
Peter McWilliams
He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own bed. Like Eve after the fall, her nakedness was obscene to her now.
Naomi Ragen
I have the mind of Christ. The best life you could ever live is the one that your creator destined you for. The one He made you for. He has given us everything we need ......... to become like Him. To reach to your potentials. Worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Patience Johnson
We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing
Susan Glaspell
Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us. It’s more often a boring, complicated story of wrong assumptions, miscommunication, bad administration, and cover-ups—people trying, and mostly failing, to do the right thing, hurting each other not because that’s their intention but because it’s impossible to avoid.
Tim Kreider
Society has made it so I have to get paid in order to do basic things like eat and be indoors and not be naked. Once that's happened, morality's bound to get slippery.
Karin Lowachee
A block from his hotel, Gary cleared his throat. “I thought you said going back to my room might be dangerou
Christine Feehan
Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.
Lisa Kleypas
My past has shaped me, that's true of anyone.
R.K. Lilley
Any casual observer can tell at a glance I'm not the person I think I am.
Marty Rubin
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Barbara Kingsolver
To fix hearts one must know one's own.
Will Advise
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.
Dean William R. Inge
Detective, any warm-blooded male with a pulse would have his hand on your glorious ass. May I?""Knock yourself out."His fingertips sketched over that tight sheen of Lycra before cupping a taut globe for a squeeze. "What kind of workout do you do to get that kind of muscle tone?"She put her face up close to his. "I beat the shit outta guys who grab my ass.
Nancy Gideon
Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.
V.E. Schwab
Where your heart is, there is your treasure of happiness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
And so even the righteous heart is besieged by the blinding light of false knowledge. Falsity is like an ocean that presses around solitary moments of truth, treatening to overwhelm or blind the seekers of knowledge, to eradicate them in an instant of self-deceiving brilliance.Knowledge is power; it guards our souls - guard it well.
C.S. Goto
But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator’s report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills.
Neal Stephenson
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about "compatibility" and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for.
Timothy J. Keller
We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!
Alisa Hope Wagner
If my mom sees you here, she’ll ---“t“Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?
Jamie Farrell
We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
John Piper
We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.
Dillon Burroughs
It's not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic jam or stadium trampling or the hierarchy of cruelty in high school; it's something we collectively force one another to do.
Tim Kreider
He looked down at the mask hanging around his neck. So simple a lie, and he could walk freely throughout the world.But would he then be trapped within the web of his own deception? What freedom could he find in denying the truth about himself?
R.A. Salvatore
A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.
John Christopher
Be careful with your faith !It could make you see the good side of hell on earth.
Toba Beta
Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger.
Jennifer Donnelly
Look at this beautiful world!
Heather Demetrios
I'm not going anywhere...
Katie Reus
When I was around Sunny, there was no time to dream about some easier, prettier, more comprehensible, less fucked-up existence. Now was all we had: Sunny lifting her eyes to meet mine. Cupping water in my own hands to rinse the blood off her head. Sunny’s tongue on my nose, her tail thudding on my leg. The reach of my hand across her spine. The words of comfort and rage and fear and sadness and hope that I spoke only in her presence.
Shannon Kopp
The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
Robert Greene
I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.
Katie McGarry
I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.
Marilynne Robinson