Quotes by Authors - Page 29

There is always something beautiful to hope for. Always have a goal to shoot for.

Debasish Mridha

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Yann Martel

True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.

Richard Rohr

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

Jodi Picoult

If you have a warm heart and you care for others you'll be happy and the community in which you live will be happier too.

Auliq-Ice

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

Iain Pears

Partner struck me as an ugly euphemism. Euphemism in the sense that people don’t like to talk about sex, so they displace it on to some kind of business model. Since I have a distaste for business, I see no appeal to something that sounds like a financial leadership team.

Barbara Browning

Its amazing to contemplate what human mind is capable of, incredible functionality, specialty of describing something beautifully without even experiencing called the work of imagination, carries us to a world we have never been before.

Pushpa Rana

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain’s almond. They kept the people spellbound

Amira Aly

The only power the devil has is in our area of ignorance.

Sunday Adelaja

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

That’s the moon,’ I said.‘Gran likes it like that,’ said Lettie Hempstock.‘But it was a crescent moon yesterday. And now it’s full. And it was raining. It is raining. But now it’s not.’‘Gran likes the full moon to shine on this side of the house. She says it’s restful, and it reminds her of when she was a girl,’ said Lettie. ‘And you don’t trip on the stairs.

Neil Gaiman

Life is short. Things can change very suddenly. Make the best of every situation. Look for the silver lining. Maintain a positive mindset. Remain optimistic. Never give up hope. Savor every day you are given. Live with gratitude. Appreciate even the smallest things. Genuinely do the best you can, and once you do, don't dimish this by undermining your efforts by whatever limitations you face. Acceptance can be hard at times, but it is necessary to keep moving forward. In order to deal with situations as they come in the best manner possible, we must let go of things we have no control over. Energy must go towards the here and now. Be cognizant of your blessings, of how precious life is. Live with gratitude and appreciate every moment.

Akiroq Brost

But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury, to show that you can prove anything by it. It all depends on who makes use of it. Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. I am speaking of the abuse of psychology, gentlemen.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If a job opens up that she could “sell” you for, tell her, “You’ve been such a valuable resource for me. I would really appreciate having your help on something. There’s a terrific position open at Company A, and I’m hoping you would be able to advocate on my behalf.” Don’t be shy about also asking a sponsor, “Do you know anyone I could talk to?

Kate White

Don't treat your husband the way he deserves, but as Christ expects.

Ngina Otiende

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

James Rozoff

All worthwhile endeavours begin in your thoughts, and focusing your thoughts appropriately will increase your chances of success.

Mensah Oteh

The adversaries main goal is to confuse & discourage the great.

Auliq-Ice

Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting.

Leslie Leyland Fields

If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door.

David W. Earle

If Satan showed up in your room, you don’t have to be afraid of him; he’s not a factor. He and his agents of darkness are under your feet; you are superior to them!

Paul Silway

With the wolves around, your humbleness is your worst adversary.

Pawan Mishra

My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place."Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?"Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It's a pook, a messenger...spy is more like it," Kern explained sourly. "This one will tattle, and I'll never hear the end of it when I go back." An eyebrow lifted. "Consorting with a human.

Lori J. Fitzgerald

You stay close to me, Mikki Jones. Close enough that I can hear you breathe. Got it? ""You always take care of new recruits?""Never

Eve Silver

Stay in my arms and look into my eyes, into that light which exists only because of you. You will find all the reasons to stay in this world which have the habit of breaking you every time.

Akshay Vasu

Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

Oscar Wilde

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Clarence Darrow

Oh, "Tanstaafl." Means "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." And isn't,' I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, 'or these drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless.

Robert A. Heinlein

We must only believe.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

The Law-of-Destination is straightforward and simple: It is not possible to arrive where we never take the time to go.

Heather K. O'Hara

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

Ann Patchett

We thought we'd seen it all. The real horror of war is always waiting for you at home. It's waiting, I tell you. We were so damned happy when we got back. We'd made it. We survived. But it's always waiting. Waiting. You let down your guard. And there it is. You can't ever let up. Give up.

James Anderson

Youir're doing this wrong.

Will Advise

Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.

Sherry Thomas

Live your greatest dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Look around you at the people you've been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear.

April White

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.

Jay Bell

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

George Orwell

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.

Katie Couric

She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic tradition she ad been since the age of twelve and a half "bogeret l'reshut nafsha"--an adult wit authority over her own soul. The Torah taught, Choose life. And so, rather than die of pride, Sofia Mendes sold what she had to sell, and she survived.

Mary Doria Russell

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Idries Shah

The winds of potential change blow constantly through our existence altering potentialities until a tipping point or nexus shakes our thread into a different weave, a new existence. It is our pattern-sensing consciousnesses that tricks us into believing remaining static is an option, that this day is like the next or the one before, as if the chaos that change will inevitably bring can be avoided. It's a comforting lie . . .

Larry J. Dunlap

Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.

Lolly Daskal

Many educators are loth to admit that the pursuit of pleasure might be a valid reason for drug use, or to recognize young people's curiosity, their need to experiment, to take risks and define their own boundaries.

Tom Feiling

If we study the Scriptures, we find the well of salvation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Daniel Keyes

Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds, petty criminals and others who were unable to fit into society or take care of themselves. It was rare, too, that they were locked up.

Mike Jay

Observing the wizard’s high magic was his biggest privilege as Kadmeion’s assistant.

Lita Burke

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Colson Whitehead

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

Brandi L. Bates

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

Carl Sagan

Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

Jessica Day George

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Michel de Montaigne

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