Quotes by Authors - Page 805

His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache.
K.M. Golland
And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click.The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out."You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door."Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.
Julia Quinn
God will make a way for you out of all difficulties in order to preserve you
Sunday Adelaja
Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age—is not just something that happens to the church; it is something that happens in the church. In fact, it’s difficult to think of secularism as anything other than a Christian heresy.
Michael S. Horton
You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy
Dale Carnegie
Health makes good propaganda.
Naomi Wolf
It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something
Elizabeth Gilbert
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
Michael Ondaatje
I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You should also have a bio that plays up your brand—this will be used for any kind of press or speaking engagement. Make it jazzy and exciting, and don’t be afraid of language that really touts you.
Kate White
And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.
John Fowles
One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity can be undermined. (page 125, Chapter 9, Graeme Galton)
Graeme Galton
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was.Only the is.
Augusten Burroughs
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
Jules Verne
Choose well the people around you, friends and everyone else around you. They can teach you lesson, some people give it like this other give it by the hard way.
Deyth Banger
Fantasize and start dream building. Bring your dreams into material reality. See yourself at your best. Transform yourself with dedication and work for excellence.
Mark LaMoure
When your out of space, your out of place at the same time.
Auliq-Ice
If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.
Eoin Colfer
For lack of love one does a million other things.
Marty Rubin
The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it's content can perpetually change with your perception.
Jennifer Sodini
What did Finnick Odair want?” he asks.I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation of Finnick. “He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice.Peeta laughs. “Ugh. Not really.”“Really,” I say. “I'll tell you more when my skin stops crawling.
Suzanne Collins
Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
People try to get off the hook by giving excuses. Actually the reason why they are doing that is to try and get rid of the guilt which invariably accompanies such acts. They are trying to lessen their burden by passing on the responsibility on to others. They mix up excuse with reason. An excuse is an excuse and most certainly not a reason.. Be careful while accepting excuses because you may unwittingly take on responsibilities which were not yours in the first place.There’s another type of excuse- the one you give to yourself. You don’t want to get up early in the morning, or you don’t feel like exercising, or you don’t want to mow the lawn and so on, therefore you will try and justify your action on the pretext that you slept late or couldn’t sleep properly or you have some imaginary ailment or the sky is overcast etc. Actually you are trying to get rid of that guilty feeling of not doing what you ought to have done.
Latika Teotia
Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
Charles Dickens
A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.
Charlie Donlea
It's asking us our names," Falkor reported."I'm Atreyu!" Atreyu cried."I'm Falkor!" cried Falkor.The boy without a name was silent.Atreyu looked at him, then took him by the hand and cried: "He's Bastian Balthazar Bux!""It asks," Falkor translated, "why he doesn't speak for himself.""He can't," said Atreyu. "He has forgotten everything."Falkor listened again to the roaring of the fountain."Without memory, it says, he cannot come in. The snakes won't let him through."Atreyu replied: "I have stored up everything he told us about himself and his world. I vouch for him."Falkor listened."It wants to know by what right?""I am his friend," said Atreyu.
Michael Ende
The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
Rabih Alameddine
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J.R.R. Tolkien
By morning, Adelaide was beginning to understand why she'd never completely understood how God worked. Given that He had made the bewildering, maddening, incomprehensible species that was man from His own image, it stood to reason that the Creator would be a complicated mass of logic never meant to be understood by the female mind. That, or the fall of man in the Garden of Eden had taken them even further off the path than she'd ever realized
Kristi Ann Hunter
He liked confidence in a woman. And intelligence. And apparently he liked sass, all wrapped up in a straight-laced, tight-lipped bodyguard.
J.K. Coi
The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new genre based on a mixing of others. The potential for modern-day muses is as vast as individual creativity.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
Stop, stop pretty water!"Said Mary one dayTo a frolicsome brookThat was running away."You run on so fast!I wish you would stay;My boat and my flowersYou will carry away.But I will run after:Mother says that I may;For I would know whereYou are running way."So Mary ran on;But I have heard say,That she never could findWhere the brook ran away.
Eliza Lee Follen
Money makes the world go round; however, happiness greases the axle. Without this lubricant, life will seize.
Paul Van Der Merwe
We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital “T” or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small “t,” seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.
David W. Earle
It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.
Rudolfo Anaya
Never stop learning, and always be ready to teach yourself things you don’t know. The only things you will remember are things you care about.
Jonathan Tepper
Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
Christopher Paolini
To the PROBLEMS of our life, we are the SOLUTIONS. To the QUESTIONS of our life we are the ANSWERS
Sesan Kareem
I'll tell you right now, the doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is the door; if you have an old, old story, that is the door.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.
Charles F. Glassman
I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.
Mike Mignola
Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain
You will know him by the blade he carries and the Dark-born skill with which he wields it, for none who know the love of the Father may defeat the Darkblade, yet all must stand against him.
Anthony Ryan
Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
Phil Cooke
Delay is not denial.There is a waiting time
Ikechukwu Joseph
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.
Neal Asher
A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.
Fennel Hudson
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
Frank Lloyd Wright
You don’t get to break someone's heart and think everything is fine just because you say sorry. That's just not fair.
Carey Heywood
Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..
Esther Dalseno
When wounds are healed by love,The scars are beautiful.
David Bowles
You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.
Cherise Sinclair
I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they will stay where they are, never moving, until the last bath is out of their bodies, and indeed they will remain in the place where they came to grief even after death, held fast by the tiny claws that stiffened in their last agony,until a draft of air detaches them and blows them into a dusty corner.
W.G. Sebald
Earth is not the only planet where there is life,' Sandra began.I frowned. 'Well, yeah, the NASA thinks there are aliens in outer space, right? Or maybe in other planets. You into science?'Sandra exchanged a confused glance with Janis. 'No,' she said slowly. 'I'm not particularly a science geek and I'm not talking about aliens or planets, Nashira, I'm talking about a star.
Deepika Kumaaraguru
There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.
Leigh Brackett
...[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time...As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.
Kimberly McCreight
Broken hearts don't need medical treatment, they need a lover to mend them.
Dixie Waters