Quotes by Authors - Page 863

Mr. Tall, blond and delicious?” She’s a huge fan of Gabriel’s. Maybe it’s because he kissed her hand, or because he showed her nothing but courtesy during that weekend in the castle. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s because she knows I’m in love with him.

Magda Alexander

The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's full of saints and it's been full of saints for years. Since longer than anything. Saints were there before there were even gods. They were waiting for them, and they're still there now.Saints eat fish and shellfish. Some of them catch jellyfish and some of them eat rubbish. Some saints eat anything they can find. They hide under rocks; they turn themselves inside out: they spit up spirals. There's nothing saints don't do. Make this shape with your hands. Like that. Move your fingers. There, you made a saint. Look out, here come another one! Now they're fighting! Yours won.There aren't any big corkscrew saints anymore, but there are still ones like sacks and ones like coils, and ones like robes with flapping sleeves. What's your favourite saint? I'll tell you mine. But wait a minute, first, do you know what it is makes them all saints? They're all a holy family, they're all cousins. Of each other, and of ... you know what else they're cousins of?That's right. Of gods.Alright now. Who was it made you? You know what to say.Who made you?

China Miéville

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

Alex and Brett Harris

He had existed for a long time and was fluent in many languages - most of them…dead ones.

Alan Kinross

We need to consciously remember that we have an unprecedented responsibility to protect our planet, because without it we have nowhere else to live.

Gugu Mona

How were you taken prisoner?' The interrogator asked my father. 'The Finns pulled me out of a lake.' 'You traitor! You were saving your own skin instead of the Motherland.' My father also considered himself guilty. That's how they'd been trained.

Svetlana Alexievich

It’s hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who’ve never lived overseas, but when you’re an American living in a geographically separated region within a country like Korea, you form bonds with people who you’d never associate with stateside.

Tucker Elliot

Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more 'righteous' or more 'moral' person - than the other person, or even in your own right - in fact, if that's why you're doing it, it is far more likely to do the opposite.

Christina Engela

She longs for fresh air and common sense, and is not willing to be a dolt for the sake of being called a deity.

Kate Gordon

Personality can either kill or enhance your appearance.

Mary Mihalic

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, for they will feed you delicious morsels that they may later feast upon your tender flesh.

Michele Faison

Good or bad is created by humans and pertains only to them.

Jeff Tikari

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

Lee Smolin

He had decided that if he ever returned to his old job he would create a special level of hell, an enormous inescapable shop of attractive but useless and overpriced items that the damned would wander for eternity in the cold delusion that this was what they wanted. And then Nerys had taken him to IKEA and Clovenhoof realised the humans had once again beaten him to it.

Heide Goody

There are three ways to take down a wild tusklan.The average hunter takes a large-bore weapon with which to shoot the animal. When it works, the method is quick and efficient. But if the first shot fails to hit a vital organ, the tusklan may be upon its attackerbfore a second shot can be aimed and fired.The wise hunter takes a smaller-bore weapon. The method is less likely to produce a first-shot kill, but the second, third, or fourth shot may succeed. However if the bore is to small, none of the shots will penetrate to vital points, and the tusklan will again triumph over its attacker.The subtle hunter takes no visible weapon at all. He instead induces a thousand sting flies to attack the tusklan from all sides. The method is slow, and destructive of the pelt. But in the end, the tusklan is dead. And dies never knowing where the attack came from.

Timothy Zahn

It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in the yard Pa was sorting, counting, the empty bottles he would sell back: the bottles going clink clink as Pa stuck them in the sack. The fowls were fluffing in the dust and sun: that crook-neck white pullet Mumma said she would hit on the head if only she had the courage to; but she hadn't.

Patrick White

I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!

C. JoyBell C.

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy."I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

Janet Evanovich

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

Calvin Trillin

Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.

Paul Isaacs

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

J.M. Coetzee

Anger is a tiger that can eat you alive if you are not careful.

Debasish Mridha

Love is respect,recognition and honourgiven without expectation.

Theodore Volgoff

In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive.

Ogwo David Emenike

Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive.

Kaz Lefave

Animal thoughts are dangerous,’ the woman told her gently. ‘Animals are too wild. Talking to them and looking inside their minds can harm you, because they just want to turn you into one of them. You’re going to have to learn to use your powers responsibly.

L.A. Randomfox

I think Livingston was going to steal a kiss in the moonlight."tLily wrinkled her nose. "Well, I certainly wouldn't have given him one. He made me too uncomfortable, and I just met him!"tTyler cupped her face with his hands, leaning closer. "What about me?" he said, his voice low. "Will you give one to me?"t"I shouldn't." The lonely years stretched ahead of her. Her earlier vow to make memories rose and suddenly she was desperate for some kisses of Tyler's to remember. In answer to his question, she tilted her mouth to his.

Debra Holland

Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.

Weike Wang

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

Ann Hood

The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be.

Archibald Marwizi

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

Tod Goldberg

I was caught by him. I was absolutely, unintentionally ensnared. Held by the look in his cocoa brown eyes when he spoke, commanding me. I shivered at his words as if they were touches sliding down my spine.

Paloma Beck

If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.

Lise Arin

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.

Mark Driscoll

The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.

Rick Perlstein

I wiped my hands on my apron and went to the window. Outside, the prairie reached out and touched the places where the sky came down. Though the winter was nearly over, there were patches of snow and ice everywhere. I looked at the long dirt road that crawled across the plains, remembering the morning that Mama had died, cruel and sunny. They had come for her in a wagon and taken her away to be buried. And then the cousins and aunts and uncles had come and tried to fill up the house. But they couldn’t.

Patricia MacLachlan

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

Brandi L. Bates

A true friend lets you know that the door is always open, even when it’s closed.

Charles F. Glassman

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

Paulo Coelho

He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.

Amanda Hocking

With her face tilted up to his, the subtle edge of moonlight touched along the edge of one high cheekbone, the tilted edge of one eye, and those beautiful, enticing lips. Obeying an impulse he couldn’t put into words, he lowered his head and covered her mouth with his.

Thea Harrison

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Sabaa Tahir

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

Søren Kierkegaard

People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face

Adeline Yen Mah

we are not born to be PERFECT!but to be TRUE !

epey herher

To the untrained eye, Ben had nothing, at least by the bizarre rules that governed high school. But really, Ben was one of the few who wasn't pretending, one of the few who was free.

Jay Bell

‎Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key.

Truth Devour

But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God’s existence.

Juhani Peltonen

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

L.M. Montgomery

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her. And 50, at an age when it would appear - since one seeks in love before everything else a subjective pleasure - that the taste for feminine beauty must play the larger part in its procreation, love may come into being, love of the most physical order, without any foundation in desire. At this time of life a man has already been wounded more than once by the darts of love; it no longer evolves by itself, obeying its own incomprehensible and fatal laws, before his passive and astonished heart. We come to its aid; we falsify it by memory and by suggestion; recognising one of its symptoms we recall and recreate the rest.

Marcel Proust

...he wonders by what process virtually any discussion about the war seems to profane these ultimate matters of life and death. As if to talk of such things properly we need a mode of speech near the equal of prayer, otherwise just shut, shut your yap and sit on it, silence being truer to the experience than the star-spangled spasm, the bittersweet sob, the redeeming hug, or whatever this fucking closure is that everybody's always talking about. They want it to be easy and it's just not going to be.

Ben Fountain

I've been through hell in this life, yet risen up and survived.I felt pity after heard that boy's preaching about motivation.

Toba Beta

Each relationship is an elaborate and complex dance of energetic exchange.

Amy Leigh Mercree

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Ken Wytsma

On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.

Bryant McGill

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Chögyam Trungpa

Love is a magical power. If love is not a living magic, then what is?

Debasish Mridha

…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.

Jan Wong

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