Quotes by Authors - Page 954

God loves us the way we are but too much to leave us that way.

Leighton Ford

Och, my potion is boiling. I need to say good night and keep an eye on the pot. Ye canna overboil newt's eyeballs.

Vonnie Davis

often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else’s loss.

Deb Caletti

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Ivan Illich

Witch, do this for me,Find me a moonmade of longing.Then cut it sliver thin,and having cut it,hang it highabove my beloved's house,so that she may look uptonightand see it,and seeing it, sigh for meas I sigh for her,moon or no moon.

Clive Barker

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

Robert M. Drake

The world sees the junk that is going on in the churches, and they don't want any part of it. If we really accept the Great Commission in Matt 28:19, we will put our differences aside, we'll stop asking, 'What is in it for me?' and we will genuinely start loving each other.

Anna M. Aquino

Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head."Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.

Patrick Rothfuss

strangers seem uncomfortable when you question them about their childhood. But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

Jenny Lawson

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

W.H. Auden

A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, “Help.

Robyn Carr

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Lionel Shriver

Don’t lose the positive power to make right choices that will convert your tears into smiles.

Israelmore Ayivor

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Elizabeth Taylor

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

Roy T. Bennett

Do whatever you want, as long as you say you want to be a part of Europe. And then you’ll get away with anything. Look, the Albanians do God knows what. They sell weapons and women, they take hostages. And the world forgives then, as long as they’re pro-Europe and pro-NATO. They’ll forgive us, too. That’s the trend in today’s world.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you’re in it, when you’re up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don’t exactly notice how bad things really are. It’s not always as apparent as it would seem. Unhappiness, when it involves another person, can be like that line from The Sun Also Rises about going bankrupt, how it happens two ways: gradually, and then suddenly.

Sarah Dunn

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

J.K. Rowling

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.

Santosh Kalwar

So you went back to your friend’s next donkament two weeks later, and this time you just laughed right along when they gave you that framed picture of the poker hands. And when they called you ‘pigeon,’ ‘fish,’ and ‘muppet,’ you just smiled and batted your eyes and said stupid things like ‘Does a straight beat a crooked?’ And while everyone else was throwing a party, you just sat there acting like a tourist with your kill stack until you were in the money. Those poor dills…they didn’t know what hit ‘em, did they?

Elle Lothlorien

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

Sun Tzu

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Wendell Berry

How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?

Jen Pollock Michel

You are the owner and controller of the most powerful engine with the potential to win all wars of life—it is your ever changing mind.

Debasish Mridha

You ought to pray for grace to handle the uncertainties in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm

Renae A.Sauter

Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too!

Bram Stoker

Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

Anonymous

Breathe deeply, focus your thoughts, and say out loud, “The quest begins here.

Fennel Hudson

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

Catharine Marshall

Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.

Carl Sagan

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

Lloyd Jones

If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.

Maggie Stiefvater

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Maya Angelou

The campus spreads around him like the verdant pleasure garden of an ancient king. He is enraptured by the enormous trees that lift branches like cathedral roofs overhead, shoot roots like polished ballroom floors underfoot. In the hot afternoons he leaves the crowded rooms to study under the protection of these spreading giants.

Nayomi Munaweera

Never forget to be kind when you have to be critical.

Debasish Mridha

She couldn't see the homemade colored sprinkles, the tender yellow cake, or the pale pink frosting made with strawberry syrup enhanced with a little rosewater. Although our local strawberries weren't in season yet, I had conjured the aroma and taste of juicy berries warmed by the sun. I hoped this flavor would help the two old people return once more to their youth and the carefree feeling of a summer day.

Judith Fertig

There is a sacred time, when the soul desire to know the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!

Bruce Ames

The greatest religion you can ever have throughout your entire existence, is Love.

Abhijit Naskar

The more we have of Jesus, the greater the love we have; the greater the love, the greater the sacrifice; the greater the sacrifice, the more we become like Jesus; the more we become like Jesus, the more successful our local churches become.

Eric Samuel Timm

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Pearl S. Buck

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside?Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

Louise Penny

Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself.

James Baldwin

If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.

Abhijit Naskar

His love is like an unquenchable fire and He refreshes with living waters. I thirst daily and go to the well to drink and be consumed

Lori McPherson

All you need in life is to know thyself; to live with the knowledge that it’s just life and that's the way it is. You need a sense of what your life means to you, the appreciation of yourself, your friendships and the love of others. You need a desire to grow as a person, to discover what your gifts in life are to yourself, others, and the world. You are the only you in the world. Embrace who you are....

James A. Murphy

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Nancy Springer

Be Prepared For Life's Emergencies. Always Arm Yourself With God's Word.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

Elizabeth George

I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.

Amy Tintera

Everything is fine, nobody is happy...

Anonymous

Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.

Anthony Liccione

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Don Roff

We hope you have found challenge in your path this morning.” -- Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred

Jordan MacLean

Bloom with hope! Breathe in with hope in your soul. Thrive on with endurance in your heart. Move on with a productive mind. Listen carefully to the soft message of whispering hope.

Angelica Hopes

Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.

Drew Goodman

A thought to ponder: If I couldn't use words to speak, what would my life be saying?

Evinda Lepins

To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.

Israelmore Ayivor

I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.

Tahereh Mafi

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