Quotes by Authors - Page 763

When you are happy for other people's dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her dream baby was jumping in her womb crazily for joy!
Israelmore Ayivor
It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever
Rosamunde Pilcher
Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.
Billy Graham
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.
Douglas Adams
The act of creation, the impetus to undertake it, is always some kind of feeble attempt to understand one’s own creation, the nature of creation itself.
Glenn Haybittle
I had wanted to disappear, if only so the cancer could disappear with me. But the stars whispered that there was no such thing. You don’t ever disappear. You just change. You leave. You move on. But you never disappear. Even when you think you want to.
Amy Harmon
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of the past, anyone would say he was doing a spectacular job.
Ann Patchett
The pathway to a truly successful life is to yearn, learn and earn.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt
Rick Riordan
They used to tell me if you’re depressed anyway, why not be depressed and take a walk instead of being depressed and staying in bed? If it makes no difference, why not get up and go out?
Rebecca Rogers Maher
Sesungguhnya, penulis yang bersemangat jauh lebih menjanjikan daripada penulis yang berbakat.
Mohammad Fauzil Adhim
The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever had in my life.”“But I’ve never kissed you,” he whispers back. Around us the rain sounds like falling glass. “Not since third grade, anyway.” I smile, but I’m not sure if he can see it.“Better get started, then,” I say, “because I don’t have much time.
Lauren Oliver
We have the ability to stand up faster than we fall.
Alin Sav
If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.
Michael Bennett
One man's deviance is other man's lunch break.
Jenn Bennett
I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?
Peggy Kopman-Owens
She loved the fact he was older than her and more experienced, he had so much to teach her and she couldn’t wait to learn.
Kassandra Cross
Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!Don’tbe caught up in your outer world.Paygreater attention to your inner world
Allan Rufus
Really, there was only one problem with Mr. Davis, as far as Gregory was concerned; He taught math.
Greg Pincus
... the only difference between carnivores and plants is that the latter eat meat through ‘translator’ organisms. Maggots and bacteria ‘pre-chew’ dead animal matter, which plants then absorb as nutrients. So if eating pre-chewed food does not change the fact that a baby is human, why should a plant be any less of a carnivore because it out-sources the digestion of animal protein to organisms of decay?
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God
Sunday Adelaja
Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.
Philip Pullman
I’m not sure we’re quite the monsters you want us to be.
Gavin G. Smith
It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
Excellence is the result of loving more than others think is necessary, dreaming more than others think is practical, risking more than others think is safe, and doing more than others think is possible. Every day is a golden opportunity to learn, practice gratitude, and positively impact the world around you. Do not ask for instant fulfillment in your life, but for patience to accept your current frustrations. Do not ask for perfection in all you do, but for the wisdom to make better choices. Do not ask for more before saying, “THANK YOU” for everything you have already received.
John Geiger
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
Rob Sheffield
One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.
André Maurois
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.
David Rakoff
But that's not quite right either.I miss Paris, but it's not home. It's more like... I miss this. This warmth over the telephone. Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Bridgette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home.I mull this over as our voices grow tired and we stop talking. We just keep each other company. My breath. His breath. My breath. His breath.I could never tell him, but it's true.This is home. The two of us.
Stephanie Perkins
Maybe I’ll leave you hard and aching for days, months, years. That’s how long I’ve been hard for you. Turn about’s fair play, dontcha think, Paul Guy?” (from Finding Eden Excerpt)
Kele Moon
We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.
Sharon Salzberg
Freedom is will-power to define my path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?' 'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.' 'You're letting me demean you!' She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7
Sharon Kay Penman
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar Wilde
Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing
Raja Rao
So damn pigheaded. I’ve studied you, not to report you, Caspar, but because I want a relationship with you.
Rie Warren
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
Sakyong Mipham
Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Because when you cared about people, you handed them a little piece of your heart, and with those hands, they had the power to cause pain.
Shelley Coriell
The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows
Hope Mirrlees
Listen to me, there is freedom in love. Every day should feel like independence day
Evy Michaels
All the same,' said the Scarecrow,'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.''I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman,'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
L. Frank Baum
God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.
Jim George
Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.
Kevin D. Williamson
Also I didn't habe 20/20 vision whch you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
Mark Haddon
...he is thinking about thoughts; so many thoughts piled up, such a quantity of half-remembered knowledge, so many emotions brought up from the well to spill out: the unrolling of history - a river into which you can't step twice, a collection of biographies end to end, a hilltop to survey the surrounding plains and so on - but also, more so, the anxieties prompted by the spooling of time and the awareness of its unstoppable nature; and random thoughts...
Justin Cartwright
The holy eye is the one who is able to see the extraordinary beauties of the ordinary days!
Mehmet Murat ildan
God rest ye little children let nothing you affright For Jesus Christ your Saviour was born this happy night Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay When Christ the Child of Nazareth was born on Christmas day.
Dinah Mulock Craik
When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to submit to your voice
Bernard Kelvin Clive
At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…
Elie Wiesel
What is serious in laughing, worrying, grieving, mourning, concerning about anything which is temporary? Well, it is funny, actually, when you know life isn't immortal.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
I gave you the best of me.
Nicholas Sparks
Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.
Victoria Kahler
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
David Nicholls
I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.
S.A. Tawks
It’s great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that’s not what you’re there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people.
Beth Ramsay