Quotes by Authors - Page 890

In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.

Martha Cooley

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

John Steinbeck

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Gretchen Rubin

A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

Sunday Adelaja

The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.

Steven Magee

Will it take the rest of my life to process what has happened? I don't know.If Freddy were here, he would say, 'Yet', as per the rules of a playful accord we have concerning unacquired knowledge, whereby if one of us said they didn't know something, the other had to say 'Yet'. And then the other one--usually me--would provide the missing information, or we'd look it up, or just speculate.

Liz Jensen

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.

David Eagleman

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

Truman Capote

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

Nora Roberts

A man who do not understand the reality of divine love is he that don’t know God

Sunday Adelaja

He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.

Kitty Thomas

It’s either you are converting your time or not

Sunday Adelaja

How to raise sons who respect women:Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.

Alfa H

Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again.

Debasish Mridha

When a man looks into a mirror and can no longer see his own reflection... he has lost his way.

Brian Leslie

Time is always ready.

Debasish Mridha

We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

C. N. Lester

When happiness depends on a situation or creation, it is not happiness; it is the joy of action.

Debasish Mridha

All what is existing already existed. We are together for a while pondering in agile world.

Santosh Kalwar

Meditation is an interesting practice. It is so simple that anyone can learn how to do it. You sit still, relax, concentrate, gently struggle with the mind, and create moments of peace. That’s it. I have revealed my trade secret. Of course there is a little more to it, but not much. However, that doesn’t mean that meditation is easy. By comparison, swimming is also simple, yet, it takes years of practice to become good at swimming, especially if you want to swim at sea. Running is even simpler. Nonetheless, we all know that in order to become a good runner, practice is imperative. And for both you need coaches. The same is true about meditation. Simple is not the same as easy.

Gudjon Bergmann

If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.

Anonymous

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

Daniel Quinn

We must depend on God’s grace for every good deed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The godly shall seek God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly.

Sunday Adelaja

Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Give me the lowest place: not that I dareAsk for that lowest place, but Thou hast diedThat I might live and shareThy glory by Thy side.Give me the lowest place: of if for meThat lowest place too high, make one more lowWhere I may sit and seeMy God and love Thee so.

Christina Rossetti

Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.

Sanober Khan

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

Suzanne Collins

W. S. Plumer said, “We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, ‘I have sinned’; but the returning prodigal said, ‘I have sinned against heaven and before thee’; and David said, ‘Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.

Jerry Bridges

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

Ilchi Lee

Unhealthy people tend to be unhappy people.

Toni Sorenson

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

Esmé Raji Codell

You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The only measurement I understand is perfection.

Amit Kalantri

The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life’s winds blow against you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he’d affected her. Of how he’d changed her.

Katherine McIntyre

Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape, perhaps intelligent, perhaps idiotic, from a senile situation. It is a dialectical movement, it keeps tearing open the wounds while trying to heal them. Here we see the only acceptable path open up towards an existence worthy of human beings. Here the seriousness is unfaltering and absolute. Where it will lead no one knows.

Aase Berg

Right now universes are being created thrown together and destroyed the world over. Seven billion souls, each preoccupied with their own unique reality, each with a head full of memories, plans, learned knowledge and accumulated trivia; birthdays, telephone numbers, bus routes, passwords. Each one with somewhere to go, something they need to get done. They all have birth certificates and shoe sizes. Every single one has a story.

Graeme Cameron

As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves.We then spend our lives looking for Himwhen all along, He has been concealed behind the veil of 'I'.

Kamand Kojouri

We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are.

Colm Tóibín

Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

Anne Rice

Don't Fear the Reaper.

Rae Hachton

My beauty doesn’t lie between my thighs.

Tracy Ames

A man that is focused on his purpose always saves his time.

Sunday Adelaja

Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and devotion—I still don't believe in them. For I know the truth. Only one such miracle worker exists who performs magic in my life, seeing to my wants and needs without fail. That queen is my mother. With unwavering faith I believe in her.

Richelle E. Goodrich

There was much work to be done in the crone's cottage, but the Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented. She came to love the changing seasons and learned the satisfaction of sowing seeds and tending crops. And although she was becoming beautiful, the Princess did not know it, for the crone had neither looking glass nor vanity and thus the Princess had not learned the ways of either.

Kate Morton

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.

Jennifer E. Smith

Besides, two kinds of people have the courage to make someone else's decisions: the hero, who comes to your rescue when you can't even cry out for help, and the tyrant. The only difference between them is the hero listens. As soon as you can talk, he'll put you down if you say so.

Skyler White

A balanced diet” is not so much about protein/fat/carbohydrate ratios. The real ratios to consider, at least for the typical American or European, are energy consumption/expenditure, pleasure/actual need, food/everything else.

Darrell Calkins

There are no healing agents.

Herbert M. Shelton

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

Brian Tracy

A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds.

Sanober Khan

Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people.

Belsebuub

Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies—good or bad—cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Four laughs vibrate in harmony,WarmDeliciousReal.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

Rick Yancey

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

Jodi Picoult

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