Quotes by Authors - Page 775

You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...
Carmen DeSousa
Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that.
Jo Nesbø
Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not die for long. Wolf said, no, people will die, people must die, all things that live must die, or they will spread and cover the world, and eat all the salmon and the caribou and the buffalo, eat all the squash and all the corn. Now one day Wolf died, and he said to the fox, quick, bring me back to life. And Fox said, No, the dead must stay dead. You convinced me. And he wept as he said this. But he said it, and it was final. Now Wolf rules the world of the dead and Fox lives always under the sun and the moon, and he still mourns his brother.
Neil Gaiman
Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility!
Mark Donnelly
But nothing warps time quite like childhood
Brian K. Vaughan
Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will.
James Joyce
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
T.S Eliot
Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny" Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard
Hank Quense
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
Mark Twain
For a case study in personal branding. Google “Jarod Kintz.” He’s kind of a big deal.
Ryan Lilly
The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank.
Mira Grant
So, what are you going to do about it?”"Watch this!""Oh, that’s just freaking great. ‘Watch this!’ The two most dangerous words in the English language. I’m getting out of here before lightning strikes.
Theodore Jerome Cohen
The Bible is instruction, it is light, it is the Word of God that predicts future events, warns of dangers and holds us back from falling and getting hurt.
Sunday Adelaja
I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.
Kevin DeYoung
A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes.
Sunday Adelaja
His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood.
Debra Anastasia
It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful.
Richard Flanagan
Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others. I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't.
Maggie Nelson
Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he generally found more there than a nameless and transient desire to acquire plastic trophies. He and Nubbins were not even in the same ball park.
John L. Parker Jr.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving
Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it.
Alice Hoffman
I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying.
RVM
He doesn't need to tend her, because she hunts her own prey. He doesn't need to shield her, because she kills her own enemies. He doesn't need to look for her, because she's always at his side.
Kate Quinn
Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first finger-bowl.The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. Mrs Guinea never said anything, and it was only much later, when I told a debutant I knew at college about dinner, that I learned what I had done.
Sylvia Plath
Create an environment to grow consistently and to influence everyone around you positively. Your future doesn’t have to equal your past. You are designed to achieve greatness, to be happy and to live the life you deserve. Start with setting a P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E. Goal.™
Farshad Asl
Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death.
Idries Shah
This thing we have, it hurts, he continued. But the pain is almost sweet because it means YOU happened. We happened. And I can't regret that, no matter how little or how long I get to tag along with you and pretend that I don't hate having people recognize me or take pictures or having people whisper about my record--" Your record?"" My criminal record, Bonnie, Nothing platinum there. I'm an ex-con, and starting over and building a new life where I can put it behind me, I'm building a new life where it will never be behind me, and for you, its worth it. It's easy math.
Amy Harmon
Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?
Karl Pilkington
We all hold a monster inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed.
Mary Lindsey
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.
Arthur Conan Doyle
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.
Michael Shermer
Every good relationship we have is a gift of God's grace. Left to ourselves, nothing good would happen. Our problem has everything to do with sin and our potential has everything to do with Christ. Sin always draws towards self-interest. It is possible that even in our most altruistic moments are driven by what we get out of them
Timothy S. Lane
Dominate the market with your products of self-control; no matter how many temptations produced by the devil, you will still overcome with profits of excellence!
Israelmore Ayivor
The thing is, memory is about trust. We have to trust that what we remember is fact. And we have to trust what other people remember for things we never saw.
James Renner
Emma:“He broke your heart! How can you call it love when hehurt you so badly?”Kellan:“It was lovebecause it was worth it.
Jay Asher
You can't think in nothing, nothing in reality is something.
Deyth Banger
What life can you create when those activities spent “killing” or “wasting” time were put into the quest for a better you? What would your life be like if instead of “chilling and net flicks” you devoted time to wellness and thinking? A much better life awaits you with some simple choices, backed by intentional actions.
Tony Curl
The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.
Nadia Hashimi
Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.
Barbara Delinsky
Some women barter their bodies like whores with wedding bands. Some use sex like a sword. But some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus.
Paula Wall
Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.
Bob Goff
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.
Hermann Hesse
to be respected be respecting
Himanshu Arora
I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here.
V.C. Andrews
God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!
Israelmore Ayivor
If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth.Remember: Just because it's black and white, doesn't automatically make it a zebra.
Anthony T.Hincks
I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the other side of the party, hearing laughter and the emptying of bottles while I peacefully make my way to the river, a lonely road, following the smell of the ocean. I’m the one waking up at 4am to witness the sunrise, where the sky touches the sea, and I hold my elbows, grasping tight to whatever I’ve made of myself.
Charlotte Eriksson
While watching the current state of America, I have concluded we should welcome the truth no matter how it arrives and justice no matter who or what it affects. When we don't, we become a vessel of mendacity and hypocrisy.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
If you were looking aside and mentally adding up the hours until the execution of a young killer, all that registered was something dark flashing by. But if you happened to be gazing directly at the window in question and you happened as well to be feeling unprecedentedly calm, four-tenths of a second was more than enough time to identify the falling object as your husband of forty-seven years.
Jonathan Franzen
Love has no wings, but is an angel. Lust has no horns, but is a devil.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans.
Dennis Prager
The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.
Ernesto Che Guevara
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.
Alexander McCall Smith
Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite trifling cause, offending him. The truth seems to be the nobody likes to see himself described as he is, or cares to see exactly set down what he said and did. Well, even i can understand that - because i don't like it myself when I am the sitter not the portraitist: the frailty of egos- and the more accurate the strokes, the greater the resentment.
Truman Capote
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„
Tracie Molton
Some gifts are baits! Watch out!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.
Scott Lynch
Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system.
Robin Sacredfire
When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing.
Sunday Adelaja
Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.
Patricia Fripp