Quotes by Authors - Page 927

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

Paulo Coelho

Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the light hinders you. In the darkness your senses learn when they should quit – in the embrace of the dark everything becomes what it really is. People fear the dark but unlike the light it does not lie to you. In the dark you can go where you long to be.

Neil Gaiman

Our beliefs are the lens through which we see the world. They are the glasses we put on in the morning, which provide the patterns we see. As we become more self-aware, we can identify our patterns, and then, to the extent we desire, change our lenses.

Patrick Sweeney

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

Garry Kasparov

It is not the love of money that is evil—it is the lack of money that causes evil. It is working at a job we hate that is evil. Working hard yet not earning enough to provide for our families is evil. For some, being deeply in debt is evil. Fighting with people you love over money is evil. Being greedy is evil. Committing criminal or immoral acts to get money is evil. Money by itself is not evil. Money is just money.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You will never know how it feels unless you were the one facing the situation.

Shayne Y.

His fingers have been slowly lacing through my hair.

Colleen Hoover

Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.

Gift Gugu Mona

I am looking forward to the departure of the corrupt Obama administration in 2017.

Steven Magee

Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark the light Stronger than the wrong the right Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

Phillips Brooks

Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link in a love-speech. It was not merely that he had confessed to her as he would have to no other soul in the world - 'To no other soul in the world,' he had said! - his doubts, his misgivings, and his fears; it was that every word he uttered and that came to her, during the lasting of that magic, had sung of passion. If he had uttered the word 'Come', she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, 'There is no hope', she would have known the finality of despair. Having said neither, she knew: 'This is our condition; so we must continue!' And she knew, too, that he was telling her that he, like her, was… oh, say, on the side of the angels.

Ford Madox Ford

Erase the victim mentality. Remember you are capable of achieving greatness. If only you'd believe in your abilities to overcome. You are victorious. Celebrate the victory.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received

Jules Evans

Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.

Lisa Mangum

When we know that it's a planet just like this one, only with a better climate and worse people--when we know they're all propertarians, and fight wars, and make laws, and eat while other starve, and anyhow are all getting older and having bad luck and getting rheumatic knees and corns on their toes just like people there...when we know all that, why does it still look so happy--as if life there must be happy?..."... "If you can see the whole thing," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives....But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the art is, is to see it as the moon. They way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

Ursula K Le Guin

My life is an adventure." she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. "I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore.

Marissa Meyer

Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.

Kilroy J. Oldster

You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.

Shannon L. Alder

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

Ann Brashares

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

Swami Dhyan Giten

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

Rick Riordan

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

Paul Theroux

My mom said:‘Don’t put your finger in your brother’s ear! If you want to know how that quarter trick is done, go ask the magician.’ So I tugged on The Great Arturo's pant leg until he finally taught me how. That was my first magic trick! I was five years old.

Autumn Morning Star

The Dreaming is always; forever... it's always happening, and us mob, we're part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.

Kate Constable

It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever.

Andrew Cormier

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

Sarah Dessen

Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law there will be. In heaven there will be no law, and the lion shall lie down with the lamb. The values of an unjust society will reflect themselves in an unjust law. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed.

Grant Gilmore

Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.

Israelmore Ayivor

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

We must look hopeful.

Jerome Lawrence

Hang onto your humanity with all you have. Cherish it. Remember, you are the one in control of your destiny and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.

Cathlin Shahriary

The antagonists of finance’s future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.

Usman W. Chohan

When our fears collided so did our souls.

Shana Vanterpool

...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.

Louis L'Amour

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

David Millar

Lately, however, I have changed my thinking on this. I have a new Greek mythological figure in mind for the CIO; Cassandra. Cassandra made the critical relationship-building error of spitting on Apollo. As retaliation, Apollo gave Cassandra the power of prophecy, but also the curse of never being believed. (Cassandra eventually goes insane, by the way, so you all have that to look forward to.)

Martha Heller

We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.

Vladimir Nabokov

The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.

Victoria Schwab

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?

Oliver Sacks

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Khaled Hosseini

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

JOHN C MAXWELL

Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.

Josa Young

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

Jennifer Elisabeth

To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.

Shannon L. Alder

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

Elizabeth Gilbert

People should be more careful about what they read to their kids,” Park said. “Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.

Jennifer Crusie

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

G.K. Chesterton

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.

George Lancaster Spalding

If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Jodi Picoult

The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, following their murky rules.

Assegid Habtewold

Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it

Idries Shah

You’ll be stronger, Alayna, having explored the part of you that you’ve been afraid to know. I’ll have to stop if you tell me to, so you’ll actually hold the power, but you won’t tell me to stop. You’ll beg me not to, and when you leave here, you’ll believe you’re the gorgeous, sensual being I see in front of me.

Scarlet Wolfe

I walk across the park to her flat. It is over-heated and there is a great deal of pink. This used not to unnerve me. Now when I step into the bathroom I recoil.Pink bath, pink basin, pink toilet, pink bidet, pink tiles, pink wallpaper, pink rug. Brushes, soap, tooth brush, silk flowers, toilet paper: all pink. Even the little foot-operated waste-bin is pale pink. I know this little waste-bin well. Every time I sleep here I wonder what I am doing with my time and hers. She is sixteen years younger than I am. She is not the woman with whom I want to share my life. But, having begun, what we have continues. She wants it to, and I go along with it, through lust and loneliness, I suppose; and laziness, and lack of focus.

Vikram Seth

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

Alan Kinross

The wonderful world!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

C.S. Lewis

There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious to help, so used to giving orders and to being obeyed. There he is, ever since I came into the world, possibly at his instigation, I wouldn't put it past him, commanding me to be well, you know, in every way, no complaints at all, with as much success as if he were shouting at a lump of inanimate matter.

Samuel Beckett

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