Quotes by Authors - Page 949

Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference.

Criss Jami

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

T.L. Rese

By the power of God, everything came into existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Patience is the food of understanding.

Idries Shah

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.

Pat Barker

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

Janny Wurts

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.

Edward deBono

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.

John Green

Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.

Alice Hoffman

Desperation is the best innovator

Tony Cleaver

Do you have a girlfriend?''No,' I said quickly.Deny Honour again. Peter only denied Jesus three times. I must have denied Honour like three thousand times.

Ruth Ahmed

Speak well to people; tell them the truth today! If you meet them another day, tell them the same truth! That shows how you can maintain the real character you poses!

Israelmore Ayivor

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.

Ilchi Lee

Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.

Neil Gaiman

When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If we rest, we shall renewal our strength

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you never listen, you can't see. The devil has got so many people so disconnected that they cannot even listen or even sense when the Lord is speaking.

Patience Johnson

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

Erich Fromm

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.

Paul Collier

These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this city. That's how we lose the city - that's how our knowledge of what the world is is taken away from us - when what we know is blasted into rubble and what is created in its place bears no resemblance to what there was and we are left strangers in a place we knew, in a place we ought to have known.

Bilal Tanweer

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

Natalie Angier

Life can get tough, but it's never impossible with a good attitude to your latitude.

Mary-Ellen Peters

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

Nicholas Sparks

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The more we read, the more we learn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

Debasish Mridha

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song but the man who is worthwhile is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Anonymous

On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they wouldn’t have had Auntie Teg and my mother, but I don’t think they did it more than twice. Then there’s the way they talk about sex in school and in church. And there’s no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think yes, the world would be better off without it.

Jo Walton

Nervousness kill us... because we think we have only one opportunity that is in the Present and we don't think about the future! We loose our balance.

Vikram Roy

Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.

Elizabeth George

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J.R.R. Tolkien

In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid.

Madeleine L'Engle

Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, 'Is this my life?', remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

Sophie Kinsella

I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.

Nicki Elson

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?

Kristen Callihan

Seize the day, then let it go.

Marty Rubin

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

Joelle Charbonneau

He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence that would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would certainly lose if she were ever false to them.

L.M. Montgomery

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Kristin Hannah

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.

Thomas B. Brooks

I'd rather change my dreams than live knowing four innocent men were in prison or hanged for a crime they didn't commit.

Naomi Rawlings

We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier. . . . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.

Barbara Pym

Being born of the dreams and nightmares of humans, they weren’t truly faery or demon. The semantics of labels didn’t matter. There was just light, and there was dark, and neither of them belonged in this world.

Cari Silverwood

You may face opposition not only because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right. Not all oppositions are meant for a better life!

Israelmore Ayivor

Love while there is a still a blessed possibility to love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.

Danielle Esplin

Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration—poetry, novels, music, dancing—if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.

Ben Fountain

I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.

Neil Abramson

There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

Rob Bell

This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.

Kat Howard

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

John Steinbeck

Sometimes it’s OK to go with the flow; you need not to be a winner, diverse, superior, special EVERYTIME.

Aman Jassal

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

Sheryl WuDunn

It's the way some men say, 'I'm not the problem' or that they shifted the conversation from actual corpses and victims as well as perpetrators to protecting the comfort level of bystander males. An exasperated woman remarked to me, 'What do they want--a cookie for not hitting, raping, or threatening women?

Rebecca Solnit

Borges's extreme architecture attempts to visualize the universe by assigning to every object real and unreal, now and yet to come, a code or sign, a corresponding figure within the Library. It seeks to render totality visible, to effect a total visibility and visuality. The Library of Babel is a view of the universe inside and out, an X-ray of the universe and universal X-ray, seen from within and without. It is a representation of everywhere: a perfect duplication of the universe. And of you: universal. An endless and eternal cinema, an imaginary archive that extends into the universe until it is indistinguishable from it, until you are indistinguishable from the universe.

Akira Mizuta Lippit

You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?" "Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns." "No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're...good.

Ally Carter

'You're like starlight,' Cam whispered, and his teeth scraped up my jaw. I shivered. 'I could lose myself in you.'

Lisa Henry

I am graceful, joyful and wonderful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I was now well prepared to be a career criminal. I had the proper training and a natural feel for the business. I had a respect for the old-liners like Angelo and Don Frederico. I had been a witness to both murder and betrayal and had my appetite whetted for acts of revenge.I just didn't have the stomach for any of it.I didn't want my life to be a lonely and sinister on, where even the closest of friends could overnight turn into an enemy who needed to be eliminated. If I went the way Angelo had paved, I would earn millions, but would never be allowed to taste the happiness and enjoyment such wealth often brings. I would rule over a dark world, a place where treachery and deceit would be at my side and never know the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. p368.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

Anne Rice

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