Quotes by Authors - Page 155

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.

Carl William Brown

It is just as important to give all of what you are, than all of what you have. Nevertheless, it is always reciprocated.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

When RBG fretted over the first dry opinion the chief justice assigned her, O'Connor gave her a pep talk. As RBG read that opinion on the bench, O'Connor, who had dissented in the case, passed her a note. "This is your first opinion for the Court," she had written. "It is a fine one, I look forward to many more." Remembering the comfort that note gave her on such a nerve wracking day, RBG did the same for the next two women to join the court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Irin Carmon

There is always a price to be paid to be a success if you are ready to pay then success is all yours.

Deepak Burfiwala

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings ofthe past, theirvoices thickwith greaseand ordure,sewer-greedto corrode the earwith the horrorsof the pastand the voidsof new stupidity.One could drownwaiting for the poorto makeone fine distinction.Yes, destroy ussay the richand you losethe rootsof God.

Norman Mailer

Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A system should be viable, it should let your dream to be developed and born

Sunday Adelaja

What others think about you is none of your business.

Jack Canfield

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

Nigel Cumberland

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anaïs Nin

He stared at the corner of the yellowed ceiling, at the spider web and its solitary occupant. “Why here?” he asked the spider. “You could choose anywhere instead of this house. I know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.” The spider said nothing. Come to think of it, Callum was sure the spider hadn’t moved even an inch in the last week. Maybe it was dead. Dead and crisp like the untouched wasp carcass on his window sill.

Scott Kaelen

They tell me you're the best and the worst thing to have happened to me, but I do not see how it can be both. For if my death resulted from your presence, an everlasting sleep would have me dreaming happily of us together. I see no bad in that. Therefore, you must be the best thing to have ever happened to me because you make the worst seem wonderful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name Desolation Sound still hovered in the liminal space and felt to her both oracular and haunted.

Ruth Ozeki

God made us for a specific purpose

Sunday Adelaja

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

Sonya Hartnett

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

Adriano Bulla

Many are of the mindset that a door will open for them one day. That is great, but what if no door opens for you in quite a long time?Do you continue to wait, or find an alternative?My answer to you is learn to create your own door. By so doing, you will create a future for yourself, and thus you can have control over your life and be the driver of your destiny.

Oscar Bimpong

What do you feel like you SHOULD be doing instead of writing? IF you have an answer, then you have guilt. The "should" of life are always linked to guilt.

Andi Cumbo-Floyd

Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's a Christmas miracle. I had no tree. Now I have a forest.

Richelle Mead

And there, shimmering in the Mist right next to us, was the last person I wanted to see: Mr. D, wearing his leopard-skin jogging suit and rummaging through the refrigerator. He looked up lazily. "Do you mind?"Where's Chiron!" I shouted.How rude." Mr. D took a swig from a jug of grape juice. "Is that how you say hello?"Hello," I amended. "We're about to die! Where's Chiron?

Rick Riordan

Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

William Trevor

What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home is safe with them. I hope.

Victoria Aveyard

Wisdom is the mind’s currency.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Permit no man to make mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your priced possession, value it

Bernard Kelvin Clive

What we dream repeatedly, we become.

Debasish Mridha

We long for authenticity, yet spend much time comparing and contrasting ourselves to others. We are each one special, unique and authentic in our own right. The only way to measure yourself is not against another, but by the Creators divine blueprint of you and you alone. Be yourself~ you are divinely different and unique!

Mishi McCoy

No doubt, a father he is the most respected man in our lives, the most admired person. He is the protector, and the guardian of our lives.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Life is about execution rather than purpose.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wet milling (to produce starch) is an energy-intensive way to make food; for every calorie of processed food it produces, another ten calories of fossil fuel energy are burned.

Michael Pollan

September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.

Catherynne M. Valente

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

Morrissey

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

Patience Johnson

I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.

A.A. Bell

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Margaret Atwood

Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.

Truth Devour

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Demetri Martin

When you can quiet the fluctuations of your mind and drift into stillness & silence, you can finally hear the whispers of your heart… the whispers of god.

davidji

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

Thomm Quackenbush

The memory of his voice made her feel warm and happy, though she could not explain why

Anamika Mishra

Only the living water can satisfied our thirst.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace is the nature of the mind. And bliss is the nature of the Soul!

Dada Bhagwan

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin

John Green

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.

C.S. Lewis

There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If we allow ourselves and everyone else the freedom to fully individuate as spiritual beings in human form, there will be no need for us to be forced by worldly circumstances to take hands and stand together. Our souls will automatically want to flock together, like moths to the flame of our shared Divinity, yet each with wings covered in the glimmering colors and unique patterns of our individual human expression.

Anthon St. Maarten

Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest.

Shellie Palmer

When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice.

Debasish Mridha

Linh Cinder. Such a pleasure. My master has spoken so highly of you.”Cinder paused and studied her again. “Who are you?”“I’m called Darla. I am Captain Thorne’s mistress.”Cinder blinked. “Excuse me?”“He asked me to stay and keep watch over the vehicle,” she said. “He’s just gone inside to be heroic. I’m sure he’ll be glad to know you’re here. I believe he’s under the impression that you’re out in space somewhere.

Marissa Meyer

You don't have to make fun of it.""Actually I do," I said. "I make fun of almost everything.

Jim Butcher

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Sun Tzu

Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.

Amit Kalantri

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

Tim Fargo

To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking.

Jurgen Appelo

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers

Instead of complaining about your situation, actually do something about it. Playing "poor me" just ain't sexy.

Miya Yamanouchi

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

Tom Robbins

Why is the world in need of a leader like you? You must lead for significant impact. As a leader, find the “cause” driving your leadership brand and pursue its resolution with passion and excellence.

Archibald Marwizi

Let us also acknowledge that the hearts which suffer the most from our wars are those of mothers. Their vital voices have been left out of the political equation for too long. An Iraqi or American mother cries the same as an Israeli or Afghan mother. The eyes of a mother who has suffered the loss of a child can destroy the soul of anyone who gazes upon them. More souls become casualties of war than physical bodies. War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.

Suzy Kassem

What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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