Quotes by Authors - Page 911

Do you understand any of this?" he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive screens."Some people understand the value of an education."Hale stretched and crossed his legs, the settled his arm around Kat's shoulders."That's sweet, Kat. Maybe later I'll buy you a university. And an ice cream.""I'd settle for the ice cream.""Deal.

Ally Carter

There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!

J.P. Vaswani

To have more, you must genuinely thank more.

Maddy Malhotra

Jesus preached to crowds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, in order to make only twelve of them into His disciples, He took time to work with each person individually

Pastor Adelaja Sunday

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

Corrie ten Boom

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

Florence Fabricant

Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

Mary DeTurris Poust

The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.

Anonymous

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. "He had a pair of my best, sharpest sewing scissors poised, ready to cut. Penis in the scissors. I said, 'What are you doing?' He said, 'This doesn’t belong here. So I’m going to cut it off.' I said, 'You can’t do that.' He said, 'Why not?' I said, 'Because if you ever want to have girl parts, they need that to make them.' I pulled that one right out of my ass. He handed me the scissors and said, 'Okay.

Andrew Solomon

I had an uneventful few days," it told her. "The most exciting thing was an hour-long lecture from the headmaster on taking our studies seriously. He said next year's exam will arrive sooner than we think.""No, they won't," Valkyrie said, frowning. "They'll arrive next year, exactly when we expect them.""That's what I told him," the reflection nodded. "I don't think he's comfortable with logic, because he didn't look happy. He sent me to the Career Guidance counsellor, who asked me what I wanted to do after college."Valkyrie stowed her black clothes. "What did you say?""I told her I wanted to be a Career Guidance counsellor. She started crying, then accused me of mocking her. I told her if she wasn't happy in her job then she should look at other options, then pointed out that I was already doing her job better than she was. She gave me detention.

Derek Landy

The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.

Helen Hodgman

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.

Ray Bradbury

Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to ‘be strong’. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.

Yasmin Mogahed

A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other.

Jim George

You are on your way to building a significant life when your service to others stops focusing on the now and the immediate future and instead focuses on generations to come and how your actions today will impact them long after you are gone.

Mensah Oteh

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

The first lie of life is to say that there is such a thing as trust. Can you truly say you even trust yourself?

Michelle Horst

Men like cars women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Rita Rudner

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

Terry Pratchett

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

Vishwas Mudagal

I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.

Sebastian Barry

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

John Green

Tickles are what power my giggle machine.

Anthony T.Hincks

What constitutes worth? In short, I would say the valuable attributes you have in relation to how you can productively use them... All attributes have value, but they have worth if they are used productively.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

V.S. Pritchett

..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

Laini Taylor

Heal yourself, heal the world. To change our world, we must heal and open our hearts.

Eileen Anglin

Our love is sharpened by the stone of our challenges and strengthened by the struggles of our growth.

Steve Maraboli

Tis both a blessing a and a curse to desire a man in a physical manner.

Leigh Ann Edwards

Why didn't you let me die? You could have finally been free.""I gave up trying to imagine a world without you." - Essallie & Kayden

Alivia Anders

The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. The earth is man’s domain. Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.

Sunday Adelaja

Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

Piper Kerman

The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack, but the praying must be in the body, and form the blood and bones. Prayer is no petty duty, put into a corner; no piecemeal performance made out of the fragments of time which have been snatched from business and other engagements of life; but it means that the best of our time, the heart of our time and strength must be given.

E.M.Bounds

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

Terry Pratchett

I guess I might be bi-curious," Ben said quietly.""What?""I said I could be sorta bi-curious," Ben said loudly. "That's someone who is fundamentally straight but is curious about sex with

Eli Easton

Praying is the purest pleasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You care so much for that special person because it feels like that person is part of you.

Sandra Villa

See more than your eyes can see.Hear more than your ears can hear.Do more than your hands can do.Go further than your feet can go.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.

Tina Sequeira

Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.

Israelmore Ayivor

The dictionary feeds me daily, thesaurus always adds the gravy, big words I bite, so very tasty.

Delano Johnson

They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.

Charles Dickens

The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.

Ken Wilson

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

Michael Jay

Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said.

Tahereh Mafi

When they would spar, Calic held nothing back, as if he possessed a deep rage clawing for release. He demonstrated a ferocity Sebastian had never seen the likes of. Sebastian had the same rage bubbling inside him. However, he was able to hone it differently by focusing on the survival of his crew

Kiersten Fay

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.

Sue Monk Kidd

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Criss Jami

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Hermann Hesse

Good health is a holy blessing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.

A.D. Posey

You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.

Jenny B. Jones

Never go into battle for your ego, Learn to battle for something much greater.

Mensah Oteh

The universe created us for and with love, joy, charm and beauty; but we are always running behind what is dirty.

Debasish Mridha

Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming of what you own.

Germany Kent

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

Stephen King

The power of belief gives legitimacy to whatever may be necessary.

Steven Redhead

The way you think is what you are.

Gian Kumar

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