Quotes by Authors - Page 835

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
Edith Wharton
May the Lord grant you tender kind heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.
Charlene Costanzo
In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.
Sonia Sotomayor
Want to forget that you’re growing older? Walk across green grass with bare feet.
Toni Sorenson
Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.
Robin Hobb
Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?
Kelli Jae Baeli
I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive!
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.
Curtis Sittenfeld
I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies.
Agatha Christie
Wherever, I am, you will always be in my heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?
Oswald J. Smith
Deacon flushed and smiled. "I guess you're right. I just want to feel, like...used. I want you to fuck me like I'm...like I'm--""A cheap whore?" Mark supplied. He was familiar with the feeling."Yes!" Deacon looked relieved. Then nervous again. "Only don't..."Mark wound an arm around him and kissed his cheek. "Spit it out. If I can clean my bowels out in front of you, you can tell me how you want to be fucked."Deacon hesitated. "Just don't be mean about it, okay? I want you to be dirty but not mean. Does that make sense?""Completely.
Lisa Henry
What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and physicians that did pioneering work in those disciplines. It has since resisted all attempts to correct it. As a result, the individuals involved in this research have not only wasted decades of time, and effort, and money but have done incalculable damage along the way. Their beliefs have remained imperious to an ever-growing body of evidence that refutes them while being embraced by public-health authorities and translated into precisely the wrong advice about what to eat and, more important, what not to eat if we want to maintain a healthy weight and live a long and healthy life.
Gary Taubes
The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…
Charles Finch
Passion trumps fear
Jen Sincero
Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.
Mark Lawrence
I don't want tea, I want justice!
Ally Carter
To have a mission is to find your own gift
Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.
Shirley Corder
True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength true. One does not don the mask of strength in response to fear, which is a con, like those crazy small reptiles that stand up on their hind legs and spread useless wings to intimidate as a last resort. You stand there in self-respect for Christ’s sake and take it with some courage, responding in accordance with your honest values, taking sincere responsibility for them. Stand up for who you truly are, not the image you would like to sell, nor shrink to fit into the false harmony around you.
Darrell Calkins
Is it possible to be the visionary and the actionary of your own life? Not only possible, it's the way most of you intended it to be. It's the best of all worlds. What can be more exhilarating than to find a dream from the contrast, to fixate on the dream and let it give you pleasure as it grows, and then to watch Law of Attraction bring it into manifestation while you help with your action? does it get any better than that? You didn't think so as you made the decision to come forth into these physical bodies. You said, "This is the best time in all eternity for a Creator to Create.
Abraham-Hicks
The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
Henry David Thoreau
Puzzles’ are bound to arise for everyone, but how does the puzzle get solved, that much science if people get to know, it is more than enough.
Dada Bhagwan
He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.
John Lanchester
Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.
Jo-Ann Mapson
We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
Chuck Palahniuk
Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.
Bryant McGill
Love was a verb with a certain amount of energy attached to it - a daily quota - and you had to choose on whom you wanted to spend this energy. That was love. That was why people had to pray for it. If it were not finite, no one would pine for love in their lives - they would just wait to receive or learn to give.
Alice Pung
What I want from you comrade, what the world wants from you, O dearest, are the neurons of steel, within which dwells a mind of the same material of which the thunderbolt is made.
Abhijit Naskar
They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.
Yukio Mishima
Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.
Thomm Quackenbush
There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.
Michael Scott
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
Stephen Hawking
By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.
Stephen King
Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus
Allan Rufus
All change begins with someone having a thought.
Paul Morley
It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.
Stewart Stafford
War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
George Orwell
Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.
Elizabeth George
It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men.
Francis Wyndham
He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.
E.M. Forster
Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion.
Bauvard
Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.
Louis de Bernières
Even painful memories are ties that bind.
Milan Kundera
The shrewd marry for money, the scheming marry for status, the calculating marry for power, but the wise marry for love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You have the power to bring out the best or worst in people. Focus on the good in people and that is what you will get more of. Focus on peoples potential and you can bring out the best in them. The power is in your focus.
Jeanette Coron
In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
Jerry W. McCant
I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.
Amy Hempel
Once you can let go of illusion and draw upon a more universal source of motivation then you will re connect with your true purpose on Earth.
Gary Markwick
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.
John Grogan
My writings are the window of my soul through which you can see me, feel me, and understand me.
Debasish Mridha
Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love.
Debasish Mridha
Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.
Leonardo Donofrio
A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery.
Toni Sorenson
I may walk a different path than you, but it doesn't mean that either one of us is lost.
Toni Sorenson
What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
Justina Chen
There’s no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can’t—and shouldn’t—force yourself to want something ‘normal’ and stop wanting what you truly want. It’s a sure way to make your life miserable.
Alessandra Hazard