Quotes by Authors - Page 913

Entrepreneurship is like a weighing machine whose load content should tilt towards passion to solve a pressing need, more than passion to make money.

Auliq-Ice

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Pete Wentz

There was a fine line between fear that would excite and fear that would paralyze the senses.

Cherise Sinclair

Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now” from Cinderella In Focus

H.L. Balcomb

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Charlotte Brontë

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Robert A. Heinlein

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

Neil Gaiman

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

Rebecca Solnit

You don't know much," he murmurs. "You know all the wrong things." "Wrong? Not to me." He shakes his head. He looks so sincere. "Try it," he whispers. A challenge, daring me, and he cocks his head to one side and smiles his crooked, dazzling smile. I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.

E.L. James

Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

Justin Alcala

On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one prophetic bird, who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence, as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.

Thomas Hardy

People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!

Deyth Banger

Be thankful for what you capable of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no.

Marya Hornbacher

Touch paper only once.

Robert Allen

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try.

Rob Liano

Peace for Israel,” he said.“Is that possible?” I drew closer.“Yes, if we have peace with God first.

Rachelle Ayala

Treat everyone with the sweetness of love and respect.

Debasish Mridha

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

Kazuo Ishiguro

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

Anthony Horowitz

It's never about time. It only takes one moment.

Jay E. Tria

If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our cell has a Chief called General Abacha and he has a second in command. Once you come in, you have to give them some money. If you don't, you're in trouble.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.

Hope Barrett

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Albert Camus

Thinking about lunch. Smoked salmon with pedigreed lettuce and razor-sharp slices of onion that have been soaked in ice water, brushed with horseradish and mustard, served on French butter rolls baked in the hot ovens of Kinokuniya. A sandwich made in heaven

Haruki Murakami

I enjoy the healing music and touch of love, touching my heart and soul when I give it away.

Debasish Mridha

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

Jim George

Horror shares an edge with hilarity.

Shannon Huffman Polson

You ever wake up in the morning and kiss the mirror and say "HELLO BEAUTIFUL" if not you have the wrong connection with your reflection.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics—Well, they can do whatever they wish.

Isaac Asimov

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.

David Levithan

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

Oscar Wilde

Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.

Richard K. Morgan

This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would.

Elizabeth Kostova

Now right here, where the borders of South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya all come together, there’s a patch of land, perhaps 14 or 15 thousand square kilometers—about the size of Montenegro—that is contested. This is just some unpopulated marginal cattle grazing country that is a hot soggy sponge in the rainy season and then a scorching hot griddle in the dry season. There are just a few villages, and most of those are just seasonally occupied.

James Wesley

Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase 'same-sex marriage' for the term 'marriage equality'. This phrase is ordinarily implied to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was. Throughout much of history in the west, the laws defining marriage made the husband essentially an owner and the wife a possession. Or the man a boss and the woman a slave.

Rebecca Solnit

love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

Ava

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

Annie Dillard

The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

Cormac McCarthy

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn

By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others.

Danielle Joworski

Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.

Sam Owen

If you turn from evil ways, you will be well.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?—What weight?—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?—We are not vessels; we are missiles.—We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.—We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful.

Dave Eggers

You have to set yourself a particular goal

Sunday Adelaja

The true energy of Love confidently and unwaveringly burns away all sediment that clings to story while dropping us hard into the naked and raw hum of Right Now.

Elisa Romeo

What you're experiencing isn't a dry spell. It's a dust bowl. Tell me, do you find cob webs in there every time you get yourself off?

Parker S. Huntington

Nobody special had come around to replace Duane, and she was moping, going to bed alone every night with a box of Velveeta and a fork.

Laura McHugh

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

Cristiane Serruya

You can be a loser all the time; but if you feel yourself like a winner, you will be a winner

Annabel Navarro

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

James MacDonald

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