Quotes by Authors - Page 48

The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long ago.

Kristen McNulty

The Day will Go On... Until your Life will Go On..

boddu subbarao

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

Elizabeth Kostova

I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time when it will be silenced, an art that can become inflamed with its own virtue, fall in love with its own decline, and court its own demise.

Jorge Luis Borges

Learn, learn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Discover the God in Life itself. And one who does, becomes a better version of himself or herself. If the entrepreneur thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better entrepreneur. If the student thinks he or she is the God, he or she will be a better student. If the Scientist thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better Scientist, and so on.

Abhijit Naskar

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

Jodi Picoult

oh, oh GreenHollyWood says with a smile and even and angry sounds like devil who comes from hell... says not to lie and now he lies... so clever and such a smart ass. (Isn't he?!??!)

Deyth Banger

Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.

T.F. Hodge

The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.

Destiny Booze

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Mark Twain

When you have a lot of goals to accomplish, it is very important you do your own “Kaizin”. Shift those that are unnecessary now to the following day and carefully deal with a bigger task in smaller bits

Israelmore Ayivor

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

Erin Morgenstern

Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture the gods, diddling around on Olympus, wallowing in the nectar and ambrosia and the aroma of burning bones and fat, mischievous as a pack of ten-year-olds with a sick cat to play with and a lot of time on their hands. 'Which prayer shall we answer today?' they ask one another. 'Let's cast the dice! Hope for this one, despair for that one, and while we're at it, let's destroy the life of that woman over there by having sex with her in the form of a crayfish!' I think they pull a lot of their pranks because they're bored.

Margaret Atwood

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

C.S. Lewis

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

C.S. Lewis

Occasionally, a dog will be presented as some training method for having a baby. "My girlfriend and I got a dog. We are going to see if we can handle that before we have kids." This is a little like testing the waters of being a vegetarian by having lettuce on your burger. Okay, maybe that metaphor doesn't make sense, but neither does using a dog as a training method for having a baby.

Jim Gaffigan

He couldn't remember the last time human hands had willingly touched him. Not true. Miranda had. She had touched him as if he were just a man. He had lived on those moments ever since, pulled them to the fore when loneliness threatened to suck him down and drown him

Kristen Callihan

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

Kamand Kojouri

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

Scott Hastie

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed to have cosmetic surgery, book a cheap weekend in Paris, change your name to something more glamorous, buy the fifth series of The Sopranos, divorce your spouse, sell up and move to Devon, or adopt a child from Guatemala.

Lynne Truss

I'm grateful for past betrayals, heartaches, and challenges... I thought they were breaking me; but they were sculpting me.

Steve Maraboli

Writing which flows is more like play than work!

Suzy Davies

Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are.

Assegid Habtewold

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

George Orwell

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.

Ryū Murakami

It's not that I am "above" feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred keeps a person with you, and the last thing I want with me in my thoughts is someone who doesn't deserve to be there.

Donna Lynn Hope

Emotional blackmails and psychological threats are the feces of a rotten soul.

Angelica Hopes

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

Gregory Maguire

Do you have a shoulder to cry on?Someone who would listen to your deepest woes without judging you?Or is it just you and the image in the mirror?

Sanhita Baruah

Losing your job gives you the ability to decide what product each unit of your passing life should produce

Sunday Adelaja

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

James Baldwin

I could smell something. Fear.I could taste it now.It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him ...

Markus Zusak

For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered them. He ministered to his face and hands objectively, as if they were not a part of himself. When his eyes met the staring eyes in the mirror, they slipped away as they must have slipped away, Guy thought, that first afternoon on the train, when he had tried to avoid Bruno’s eyes.

Patricia Highsmith

I love really long books because it feels like you are diving into a pool for a very long time.:)

Lola shub

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Aberjhani

But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.

George Carlin

Anyone can find the bad in any situation but it takes love to see the good in all things.

Mensah Oteh

Heaven for climate hell for company.

James M. Barrie

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.

Ellen J. Barrier

He was going to take a dive into this lake. He just didn’t know it. Cerise rose, finding footing in the soft mud. The water came up to just below her breasts and her wet shirt stuck to her body. William’s gaze snagged on her chest. Yep, keep looking, Lord Bill. Keeeeeep looking.

Ilona Andrews

I am a product of two worlds and each world has given me a reason to love, be kind and grow strong.

Shilpa Raj

You're going to need this," she said, and pulled out a condom."At some point, we're also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher.""Promises, promises.

Nora Roberts

A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live human being has moved out of these bodies long ago. But something moved in when the original tenant moved out.

William S Burroughs

We’re not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It’s why people like you and I need to record our people’s stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then will we know true peace.

Melina Marchetta

But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it!

Trenton Lee Stewart

A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so many great power pack man and women of God who lack wisdom.

Patience Johnson

I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one.

Gillian Flynn

Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).

Richard Baxter

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

Patricia A. McKillip

She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.

Turcois Ominek

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

Woody Allen

Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?

L.J. Smith

He parked the car, pressed the button for the roof to fold back, and undid his seat belt. "It's an emergency."Goldilocks giggled. She unfastened her belt and hopped onto her knees. "Yes, I can see" - she glanced down at his crotch - "That we're in danger of a detonation. What's the protocol in a situation like this, Mr. Environmentalist?""I'm afraid I have no choice but to advocate for release.

Robin Bielman

Gratitude is an overflowing joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

J.K. Rowling

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance.

Stephen L. Burns

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