Quotes by Authors - Page 876

This reminds me of old times,” he said, and his lashes lifted. As his gaze drifted over me, it was focused but all too brief, because he looked away, a muscle working along his jaw. “Kind of.”A flush raced across my cheeks as I switched out the ball for a new one. He was right—this was like all the other times I’d cleaned him up. Well, when I was younger, I tried to clean him up, but had no idea what I was doing, but as we grew older, and he got into fights defending me or for some other reason, this was our routine.Except I was pretty sure that when his gaze roamed over me just now, he’d checked out my breasts, and that was definitely something that hadn’t happened before.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.
Israelmore Ayivor
God doesn't promise us an easy life. But He does promise to love us and never leave us, no matter what happens.
J.E.B. Spredemann
...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.
Lisa Unger
Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.
Jim Rogers
It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.
Nick Hornby
Life of scarcity teaches creativity.
Jag Randhawa
Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.
Tiffany Reisz
Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge
Jan Valtin
For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.
Lang Leav
In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.
Ravi Zacharias
Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.
Charles R. Swindoll
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
Life is here to teach us, so be a good student. Mistakes are the only way we learn.
Dannika Dark
To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
John Howard Griffin
And Nurd, who had never had a mother and father, and who had never loved or been loved, marvelled at the ways in which feeling so wonderful could also leave one open to so much pain. In a strange way, he envied Samuel even that. He wanted to care about someone so much that it could hurt.
John Connolly
My best days are Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday." "Ian," Wesley noted, "that covers the whole week." Ian nods his head. "Pretty much.
Carroll Bryant
Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
Medeia Sharif
My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came of his skin. it was like there had never been any hole in my chest. i was perfect- not healed but as if there never had been a wound in the first place.
Stephenie Meyer
My wild heart craves shadows. Like a bat unfurling its wings, I open myself to darkness; I open myself to truth.
Nichole McElhaney
Your attitude determines how you experience the world.
Sanaya Roman
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner
Endure the times for a better tomorrow.
Lailah Gifty Akita
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.
Damon Knight
One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.
Maria Augusta von Trapp
Little tape recorders, that's what kids are, Cat thought. If you want to find out what your husband is saying behind your back, play Barbie with your daughter.
Jan Strnad
You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can’t get into your brain unless you open the door.
Toni Sorenson
Does the silents of love cry out in your heart today? Words that can not be spoken, calling out to you; a voice so tender and sweet wanting to tell you the secrets of life, crying out to you with a love so deep. It's the voice of the Father wanting to embrace you with all that He is, just say yes Lord I hear!
John M Sheehan
You sure you don't want me to bring you back something?" Her eyes moved in the direction of his office. "A hit man? Some holy water?
Christina Lauren
And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.
Cassandra Clare
Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.
Eraldo Banovac
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley
It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time
Sunday Adelaja
Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.
Chuck Palahniuk
Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made for me, that would shatter the foundations of my very existence. I would see that I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive. For a long time I wouldn’t be ready to accept that my worldview could be wrong, but I do not look back with shame at my ignorance.
Deborah Feldman
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
Jasper Fforde
We shall face many troubles. But the Lord shall deliver us from each one of them.
Lailah Gifty Akita
He had the tendency, unfortunate for a new member of the committee, to like if not the rich themselves, at least their activities and surroundings, and to dislike the poor; a woman in rags toting a baby, barefoot children, made him feel sadistic rather than compassionate.His socialism, then, had the impatience and unfriendliness of a fashionable doctor forced to attend a tramp run over in the street.
Hans Koningsberger
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
Lydia M. Child
Life is filled with endless opportunities. You must search for the opportunities.Seize every opportunity and make it great.
Lailah Gifty Akita
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
Osho
This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.
Ann Brashares
Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.
Debasish Mridha
It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints
Gyan Nagpal
The entire world is surviving only due to ‘beliefs’, not because of ‘Knowledge’ (Gnan). Every human being is (living) only because of beliefs.
Dada Bhagwan
She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were gentle, and some were wicked. Some were smart, like Fido, and some were foolish, like the hens.
Roger Lea MacBride
The greatest energy must be use for work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?
Lindsey Rietzsch
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
Hermann Hesse
That woman," Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then?
Jim Butcher
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
Jerome K. Jerome
When he told F. of his disgust at the eyelid's movement, he must have been sixteen. When he decided to study medicine, he must have been nineteen; by then, having already signed on to the contract to forget, he no longer remembered what he had said to F. three years before. Too bad for him. The memory might have alerted him, might have helped him see that his choice of medicine was wholly theoretical, made without the slightest self- knowledge. Thus he studied medicine for three years before giving up with a sense of shipwreck. What to choose after those lost years? What to attach to, if his inner self should keep as silent as it had before? He walked down the broad outside staircase of the medical school for the last time, with the feeling that he was about to find himself alone on a platform all the trains had left.
Milan Kundera
It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.
Andrew Davidson
For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.
David McNally
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Oscar Wilde
Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
Anonymous
At that, Marty howled great big, messy sobs, and Elanor, the little lady in the yellow suit, who organized the weddings at the church, came running with a box of tissue.Oz appeared in the vestibule, looking alarmed. “Is everything all right? I thought someone was strangling a duck.”“Do you mind?” Marty snapped. “Me and the bride, here, we’re having a moment.
Jenn McKinlay
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Marianne Williamson
I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
Sherman Alexie
Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for guidance, counsel and formula on how to be successful in life's endeavours.
Ogwo David Emenike