Quotes by Authors - Page 1021

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

Stieg Larsson

When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we’ve perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.

Sharon Salzberg

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

Stephen King

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

Don DeLillo

Don't fight the system, mock the system

Trevor Noah

Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.

Kate Morton

We are each given a life to show what we can achieve during our time here on Earth.And we are each given a heart to show how we can be compassionate and kind during our time here on Earth.We shouldn't waste either.

Anthony T.Hincks

He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

Jonathan Safran Foer

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

Paul Di Filippo

Life is a game. Either you win or lose. Never allow the fear of losing prevent you from entering the game.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn't added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it's peace of a kind he hadn't imagined himself worthy of receiving.

Anthony Marra

Sometimes you have to go ‘yippee-ki-yay’ on a person who deserves it.

Naima Simone

They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,' Porcelain remarked.'Ha!' I said. 'Shows what little you know! I hate them!''Hate them? I should have thought you'd love them.''Of course I love them,' I said.... 'That's why I'm so good at hating them.

Alan Bradley

It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.

Auliq-Ice

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")

Alice Brown

And Mega has a crush on Chester.""I do not!""Do too, Mega.""He's like, old!""How old, Christian says.""Like at least thirty or something."Lor laughs. " Fucking ancient, ain't it, kid?""Dude," I agree. I like Lor.

Karen Marie Moning

You know, the answer to your problem is just an attitude change away.

Cameo Renae

Be enthusiastic.

Lailah Gifty Akita

[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.

Rebecca Solnit

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J.K. Rowling

A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

Kilroy J. Oldster

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .

Graham Greene

Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We can't control our destiny. We can't go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment by setting a goal and pursuing it for a better life with a greater purpose.

Ellen J. Barrier

Crying is part of the adventure

Gail Carson Levine

The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, the #devil had his teeth pulled, and all he can only do now is gum you.

Paul Silway

There is peace where mind and heart agree.

T.F. Hodge

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.

Kamal Ravikant

We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual.

Chris Matakas

He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that was somehow worse.

Stephen King

A fucked-up family's a fucked-up family, whether or not werewolves are involved.

Carrie Vaughn

Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic facts and reason it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

Hedrick Smith

I'm a sucker for curiosity's whims.Does that make me a cat person?

Richelle E. Goodrich

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Dalai Lama XIV

Her heart is of a much harder material... A diamond. Beautiful, but deadly…And amid people with hearts of diamonds, it is best to remember that no one is exempt from their malevolence. Not even themselves.

Katlyn Charlesworth

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Tim O'Brien

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

Idries Shah

one of the central themes associated with developing a sense of authenticity involves inventing plausible narratives of self. For instance, Charles Taylor (1992) argues that the modern desire for authenticity is often prompted by a feeling that our life is shattered and it is difficult, if not impossible, to piece our life together in a meaningful way. He suggests that reclaiming authenticity would entail the provision of a space where we can once again craft coherent narratives that bind our life together.

André Spicer

This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator – you can just discard him, dump him – and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. (Laughs) That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside.

Sadhguru

You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling.

Anthony Liccione

...It's who you are. You're like a hummingbird, defying reality, a beautiful mystery, spreading your sweetness to all the needy flowers. Well, I'm no pretty garden blossom and I don't need your brand of sugar.

Karin Kallmaker

It is better to sow good deeds; love, goodness and kindness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The hate in heart can consume you not outside events.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Thomas Merton

Not all were joyful tales; we needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work.

Juliet Marillier

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Abiding time is extravagant daily time with Jesus. This extravagant time is the center of abiding. Not legalism, not dry discipline, not manufactured spirituality, but joyous soaking in the presence of Jesus, lavish spending of time with Him who is most precious, Him from whom all life flows. In a world that is over-connected yet lonely, frantically busy yet accomplishing little of eternal value, super-informed but egregiously ignorant on what really matters, abiding gives Jesus the best of our time, in which He leads us to the best of times.

Missionaries Who Love The Arab World

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

Junot Díaz

What am I to y

Dianna Hardy

Unless you build castles in the air, how can you make them?

Tapan Ghosh

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.

Ursula K Le Guin

It's a hypothesis. History won't take us far enough to confirm it. And our certainties never really hold water. One day you feel like dying and the next you realize all you had to do was go down a few stairs to find the light switch so you could see things a bit more clearly.

Anna Gavalda

Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Edward O. Wilson

No individual existence can be traced further than the moment of conception, which determined that what was to be born would be this person and no other. The person may change from baby to child, and from boy to man, but through all these changes he will remain this person and cannot be another, because all possibilities to the contrary that may have existed before the moment of conception ended forever with the moment of conception.

Nick Joaquín

Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.

Alaric Hutchinson

To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

David Guterson

Where have they gone?" "Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

Susanna Clarke

Chloe. Always Chloe with him and his brother. I know I sound like a whiny brat when I complain, but I think I have a good reason. I’d just discovered that I was a witch and my mother was a bitch—the murderous kind. I was now on the run with three kids who didn’t want me along.No matter how hard I tried to keep up and help out, the guys only cared about Chloe. If I ran in front of this bus to push her to safety, they’d race to her side to see if she was okay. Probably give me crap for bruising her when I shoved her out of the way.

Kelley Armstrong

Reality is Like Mother NatureSometimes BeautifulSometimes Painful Sometimes Memorable Sometimes ForgetfulSometimes CaringSometimes HarshBut we all Accept it Because its the Same For EVERYONE!

Look Im A Cat

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