Quotes by Authors - Page 34

God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.

Lionel Suggs

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

Guy de Maupassant

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

William Thackeray

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.

Don DeLillo

You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

Mortimer J. Adler

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

Sam Harris

The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.

Byron Katie

God Made Nature, Nature Need Friends.

Rocky13

I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.

Dorothy Parker

God has and always will remain faithful to His word. Even when my doubts and fears threaten to drown me as I thrash blindly against my Rescuer, He carries me to the other side. When fiery circumstances take my breath away, He hides me in the shelter of His wings.

Katherine J Walden

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

Eraldo Banovac

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

Anne Brontë

If you hang to pain, hurt, embarrassment, guilt and such emotions you will find that they will dominate your life. They won’t allow you to move on unless you make a conscious effort to deal with them and free yourself. Talking to friends, family or to God can help remove the burden from your chest and make you feel better.

Latika Teotia

Whatever you had -- I don't know what it was, and that's fine. But it must not be easy for you. You miss him, and that's okay. But you have to figure that if it's too much hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

David Levithan

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

Louisa May Alcott

Breathtaking.That was the word, Liv decided, which had convinced her to wear the ludicrous outfit, because no one - not the one, solitary boyfriend she'd had during high school, or the leering frat boys she avoided at college parties - had ever spoken to her with such reverence. And with Xander beaming down at her, she did feel beautiful.

Danika Stone

It’s a bet – the more you Give, the more you will Get.-RVM

RVM

No matter how rich you can ever be! The greatest wealth is in loving yourself and fulfilling your God-Given purpose on earth.

Gift Gugu Mona

Marriage as it should be... two individuals loving the other more than they cared for themselves. Giving and giving until theoretically they should be empty, yet always invigorated with more to give.

Sharon Lathan

As you get older you strip away the things you don't have time for, and then you are left with only the things you have time for. Your life gets skinnier and skinnier until you wonder why you go on. You go on because there are things that must get done. You become no longer a person so much as a place, an unfunny place where things come to get done.

Jonathan Goldstein

People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.

Jesse Lyn Stoner

I want to know why you love me.Because I don't make sense without you. You're part of me.

Dani Pettrey

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down.

Sylvia Plath

Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And...look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he find me wholesome enough? Am I fuckable? Is he allergic to feathers?!

Emilie Autumn

Everything you do or say interests me.""Really," she said skeptically. "What about Lord Westcliff's claim that I'm shallow and self-absorbed?"As she faced him, Simon braced one hand on the wall near her head and leaned over her protectively. His voice was very soft. "He doesn't know you.""And you do?""Yes, I know you." He reached out to finger a tendril of damp hair that clung to her neck. "You guard yourself carefully. You don't like to depend on anyone. You're determined and strong-willed, and you're decided in your opinions. Not to mention stubborn. But never self-absorbed. And anyone with your intelligence could never be called shallow.

Lisa Kleypas

...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.

Toni Morrison

Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Holding on to grudges holds you back from achieving success.

Debasish Mridha

I don't care if you love me or not, but I care that I love you without any thought.

Debasish Mridha

It was nothing less than murder, in her eyes

Emily Brontë

I let go of all that I had thought was wounded, for there is no ego to wound, no ego to hold on with; there is only love & freedom to love.

Jay Woodman

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!

Rossana Condoleo

For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.

Markham Shaw Pyle

I always thought 'love at first sight' was silly and incredibly irresponsible. Then, you came along and you flipped it on me. I understand it now. I do! ~Sheriff Derrick Decker

Laney Smith

It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Randall Wallace

Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality.

Mensah Oteh

The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

Asa Don Brown

Must it all be either less or more,Either plain or grand?Is it always 'or'?Is it never 'and'?That's what woods are for:For those moments in the woods...Oh, if life were made of moments,Even now and then a bad one--!But if life were only moments,Then you'd never know you had one....to get what you wish, only just for a moment--These are dangerous woods!Let the moment go...Don't forget it for a moment, though.Just remembering you had an 'and,' when you're back to 'or,'Makes the 'or' mean more than is did before.Now I understand--And it's time to leave the woods.

Stephen Sondheim

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

George Eliot

Valek was liquid in motion. As i watched him, one word came to mind: beautiful.

Maria V. Snyder

In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don't act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you were spending time aiming.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

We cross paths with certain people in our tangled lives for a reason. It's not by chance, not an accident but it's on a purpose. You were made to be part of someone's life for it was written long before you were born."- Elizabeth's Quotes

Elizabeth E. Castillo

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

For the rest of the night he sat by himself under the elm-tree. Until this moment it had never seemed to him that his magicianship set him apart from other men. But now he had glimpsed the wrong side of something. He had the eeriest feeling - as if the world were growing older around him, and the best part of existence - laughter, love and innocence - were slipping irrevocably into the past.

Susanna Clarke

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth and they never believe me.

Anonymous

Sometimes I worry that belief and hope are the same thing, and that truth is something else entirely.

Adi Rule

...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...

John Geddes

Do you really want people to like you for something that you’re not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others.

Susan C.Young

In a godless universe, all we have is each other.

Marty Rubin

When the Lilliputian family of the Pequenos migrated to Gulliver’s land of the Man Mountains, they expected to encounter many strange issues while settling in. What Mrs Pequenos didn’t anticipate was her daughter’s announcement that she was in love with a Man Mountain boy and was going to get married.

Mads Sukalikar

Anyone who would rejoice to see someone else live a life of destruction is also, living an unrighteous life.

Ellen J. Barrier

Religions take hold and dominate a culture, not because they accurately portray reality, but because they appear to, once having been accepted – such that succeeding generations are heavily indoctrinated into the shared cultural mindset from birth.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it.

Debasish Mridha

However interesting and lovely my days were, I could get from one day to the next only by passing through a night. I have, it is true, known lovely nights here; nights of sound sleep and good dreams and nights made wakeful by happy thoughts. but I have not always been a good sleeper, and my thoughts at night have sometimes been far from happy.

Wendell Berry

But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change,but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways ..... And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.

Becky Albertalli

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you.

Debasish Mridha

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

Charles R. Swindoll

It does not matter where you are—from this very moment on you choose the direction of your life.

Toni Sorenson

Don't build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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