Quotes by Authors - Page 1098

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

Truly, there is magic in fairy

Richelle E. Goodrich

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens

Bangambiki Habyarimana

No one escapes from life alive.

Michael Crichton

Buchan had discovered a wealth of small tidbits. He now knew her first name - Tatiana. Like Shakespeare's fairy queen. "Be she but little, she is fierce.

Karen Hawkins

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does.

Joan Didion

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need. 'How could you possibly know that?' 'We looked it up on the E-nternet.' Aunt Mercy smiled proudly. I couldn't imagine how my aunts knew anything about the Internet. The Sisters didn't even own a toaster oven. 'How did you get on the Internet?' 'Thelma took us ta the library and Miss Marian helped us. They have computers over there. Did you know that?

Kami Garcia

Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!

Ngina Otiende

Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it.

Debasish Mridha

The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!

Ray S. Jones

Church leaders need to pray more than they lead.

Alin Sav

As he waited for her, he braced himself for the sight of her, ready to turn out the light as soon as she reached her bed.tBut when Daniela came in, she wasn’t wearing her nightgown. She returned from the bathroom in a bath towel. And then she locked the door behind her and dropped the towel. Drops of water glistened on her naked skin as if she’d been painted with diamonds.t“Christ,” he breathed.

Dana Marton

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Jasper Fforde

I’d rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.

Steven Aitchison

Knowledge is potential power, but wisdom is the readily available power of the mind.

Debasish Mridha

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being?

Nema Al-Araby

The mindset of the Champions is All of it or None of it they don't play second- fiddle.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself.

Hermann Hesse

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Hélène Cixous

These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,' he said, 'the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles.

Paulo Coelho

But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones taring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your brread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words.

Patrick Rothfuss

Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night.

Rosabetty Muñoz

Racism watching is a puzzle solving activity and often involves debunking pseudo-science. The investigator must try to figure out what makes people believe in weird ideas. As Stieg said in an interview, ‘Fifty years later, people still believe in this; the whole Neo-Nazi movement. There is absolutely no sense in this. They do it contrary to everything science tells us. Contrary to human goodness or altruism, contrary to rational thinking. And this is fascinating, why?

Eric Bronson

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.

Habeeb Akande

I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

Sarah Dessen

Amie frowned. 'That’s what I can’t figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It’s sick, really.

Jennifer Silverwood

Our children and grand-children will not make us people, their availability does not make us different from animal

Sunday Adelaja

It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.

Peter Ackroyd

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Michael Phelps

All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.

Bryant McGill

Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be certain that their children were ready to cope with adversity, for it was surely coming to them one day whether in personal or national life. The development of character involves self-discipline and often sacrifice of one's own desires for the good of self and others. Montessori education, developed in this historical period, reflects this emphasis on the formation of the child's character. However, parents today are more likely to say their primary wish for their children is that they be happy. In pursuit of this goal they indulge their children, often unconsciously, to a degree that is startling to previous generations. All parents need to remember that true happiness comes through having character and discipline, and living a life of meaningful contribution -- not by having and doing whatever you wish.

Paula Polk Lillard

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

Christine Feehan

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Toba Beta

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life.

Jim George

If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.

Richard Rohr

You look beautiful - David

Scott Westerfeld

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

David Heinemeier Hansson

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Keith Ablow

There is no limit on the level that the reflections can be at and in a modern environment, such as a city, the albedo can increase the power levels many times of the sky based solar radiation of direct and diffuse combined. The trees prevent the albedo reflections from occurring.

Steven Magee

Percy's ears turned as pink as Alex's jeans. "Anyway, maybe we've been looking at this all wrong. I've been tying to teach you sea skills. But the most important thing is to use whatever you've got to hand - your team, your wits, the enemy's own magical stuff.""And there's no way to plan for that," I said."Exactly!" Percy said. "My work here is done!"Annabeth frowned. "Percy, you're saying the best plan is no plan. As a child of Athena, I can't really endorse that.

Rick Riordan

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior

Soraya Diase Coffelt

She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable."Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.

Cassandra Clare

The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.

Gabriel Brunsdon

Nothing is hurt unless you are negative thinker

Tagor Manroo

How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

Habib Sadeghi

Higher education-I wonder how much longer the deception can go on.

Marty Rubin

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Flannery O'Connor

Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.

Rachel Gibson

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.

James McBride

Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Richie Norton

That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

L. Frank Baum

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

The only way to do great work is to just do it!

Wali Zahid

I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.

Rachel Thompson

Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day.

Ellen J. Barrier

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

Scott Westerfeld

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Mark Batterson

The results you deserve depend on your will to make your success happen."-Steven Cuoco

Steven Cuoco

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