Quotes by Authors - Page 44

It's what you do when you grow up, apparently, face up to things you'd rather not and accept the fact that nobody is who you thought they were, maybe not even close.

Jenny Valentine

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

Patrick Rothfuss

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

J.M. Barrie

I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats

Neil Gaiman

Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you.

Mindy Hall

If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois’s famous words, “the problem of the color line,” then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification.

Naomi Murakawa

But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are merely fallible and human? As soon as we admit that there are scriptural mistakes (or concessions to the ignorance of the times), then how can the Bible be an inerrant guide to ethics and morals? Might sects and individuals now accept as authentic the parts of the Bible they like, and reject those that are inconvenient or burdensome?

Carl Sagan

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

Jodi Picoult

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job

Laura Dave

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Marisha Pessl

To reject the Word of God is forsake the holy grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Tony Robbins

It's a date, not a duty

Johnnie Dent Jr.

hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks.

Lurlene McDaniel

I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter.”“No one is just a woodcutter,” replied Terence.“A person's always more than his present occupation.

Gerald Morris

My love is for you lives after life, for infinite time even though I will never get you, but my love for you is forever.

Debasish Mridha

There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.

Lauren Kate

Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren't a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings?

Nicolas Barreau

Fame, infamy, they're of the same family.

Gemma Malley

If your trust is in man, your joy will soon be buried in the cemetery. If you hope is in cars, your happiness will soon be found in the mechanic shop. You are missing it if man is your hope.

Israelmore Ayivor

Love is where unseen and unsaid things merge with each otherwhere silence is thirsty of happenings

Seema Gupta

Love is the only highway to happiness.

Debasish Mridha

There can be no one better than yourself, so be the best version of you because no one is born to represent another.

Gift Gugu Mona

In his time the Pirate Captain had made a number of dramatic entrances of his own – not always intentional it had to be said, as quite often they were the result of him accidentally setting himself on fire – but even he had to admit that Cutlass Liz’s dramatic entrance set an extremely high dramatic-entrance standard.

Gideon Defoe

Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference.

Farshad Asl

The destination lies in the dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't try to fix the past,try to build the future.

christos Stavrou

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Richard Paul Evans

God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

Mandy Hale

In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children.

Adam Gidwitz

Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. “That’s not standard procedure,” he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over the stray’s body to open the back passenger-side door. “Yeah, well, I’m not your standard enforcer.

Rachel Vincent

The language of the heartIs the only languageThat everybody can understand.

Sri Chinmoy

The most reliable topic for small talk is the goings-on of stars whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a particular story is truth or fiction. This is way out of balance. It invades the privacy of men and women who didn’t give up being human when they became famous, and it negates the meaning inherent in our own lives. (300)

Victoria Moran

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

Bryant McGill

Posture Power, when interviewing for a job remember. Poor posture shows uncertainty and a lack of confidence and ability. Good posture conveys confidence and an air of capability.

Cindy Ann Peterson

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

Italo Calvino

In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.

Orhan Pamuk

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

Anthony Burgess

Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's hidden Being." This means that we and all other creatures live by a sanctity that is inexpressibly intimate, for to every creature, the gift of life is a portion of the breath and spirit of God. (pg. 308, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)

Wendell Berry

I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard.""You'll never find out. You--------" He kissed me. ~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner

Lisa Kleypas

Time is your most valuable currency!

John Di Lemme

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

Benjamin Lotter

It was like a mask had been pulled away from his face, uncovering a monster hidden beneath his friendly façade.

Danika Stone

I write for pages,get lost in the mezzaninehidden from stages.

Kristen Henderson

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

I stood in your doorway this morningdreaming you’d turn aroundyou’d tilt your headyou’d softly whisper ”stay”or that you’d grab my armsto shake me while askingwhat the hell are we doingwe loveeach otherand this is not rightso we will make this worknow stay!You poured your coffee. Stirred the spoon like a crystal manwith your back to me and not a sound. the fridge humming elegies while the clock ticked onand the streets are so clean here people rushing to workand maybe I should be tooby nowat this agethis stagethis town.I will stand in that doorway dreamingfor many nights to come.

Charlotte Eriksson

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

Charles Bukowski

We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.

Ravi Zacharias

If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?

Laura Schroff

Production is the greatest assessment of time well spent

Sunday Adelaja

Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was a beast and beasts care not for such things, and the girl died along with her dreams.From childhood's grave sprang a young woman, jaded before her years, who knew that beasts could wear the skins of men, and that evil could exist in sunlight, as well as darkness.Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Nenia Campbell

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

Charles Eisenstein

She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was,

Stephen King

Great. There goes our security deposit."~ Sean

Dianne Duvall

That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.

Christopher Bollen

The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.

Henry Miller

I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale.

China Miéville

Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control.

Auliq-Ice

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