Quotes by Authors - Page 959

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

Jane Austen

Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.

Mark Batterson

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

Neil Gaiman

Cauldron save you.Mother hold you.Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey.Fear no evil.Feel no pain.Go, and enter eternity.

Sarah J Maas

The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they'd never done and go where they'd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.

Mark Batterson

This is Africa, my friends … These folks do things differently.” Sven Taxel, who regards himself as an expert on South Africa because he has read Wilbur Smith, Rian Malan and André Brink, tries to calm his fellow congregation members.

Harry Kalmer

He touched her cheek, and he looked into her eyes. He saw his whole world there

Julia Quinn

Fake a smile. No one knows you're broken.

Demi Lovato

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

Martha Stewart

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Eckhart Tolle

So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant."well...yes, but I'd never date the UPS guy. Those brown shorts are just not a turn-on for me.

Lisa Kleypas

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

Abhijit Naskar

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

Sun Tzu

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

James Joyce

Relaxation is the beginning of creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?

Katie McGarry

The “Gospel” is not a sermon title or the name of a book in the Bible. The Gospel is the person of Jesus Christ and it is the power of God to bring people to salvation. Romans 1:16

John Paul Warren

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

Albert Camus

I've felt basically lucky ever since, almost every day of my life. That's something else love should make you feel. It should make you fell fortunate.It will be made clear to you in a stray gesture, the line of a throat. Something in the hands. There may or may not be any music playing. But there will be a certain velocity of the spirit, a sensation of dropping through clear space unimpeded, and you think, This is the one. I found you.

Suzanne Finnamore

As a kid, she'd always loved Halloween. A magic night. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in the air.

Cynthia Eden

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

Neal Stephenson

The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously has the spiritual vision necessary to see the unseen spiritual world. One who knows both Matter and Spirit is thus the true knower, and is a spiritually intelligent being.

Awdhesh Singh

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...

Jasper Fforde

It is my deepest desire to share the worlds of people we don’t often see or read about in media. With my writing I seek to introduce you to the worlds I’ve always known existed around me and within me.

Casey Curry

A conscious understanding of the kind of cloth we wear, each moment of time, makes us be aware of what we must do or what we should never think of doing because of the cloth we wear!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It just takes one person—a teacher, a friend, a parent. If I didn't have you and Dad, if you hadn't made it so clear you loved me as much as you did, or if you'd said, 'yeah, why don't you do it, and put yourself out of our misery, just shut up,' I would have killed myself. I really would have. I spent most of those days wishing I were dead anyway, and what always stopped me was the fact that doing so would destroy the lives of the only people who ever cared about me.

Nenia Campbell

Try it on.""It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled."It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened."Zip it up?"Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up, if you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, I will track Scott down, and when I find him, it won't be pretty.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Accept me for who I am.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you walk in the light, all the darkness around you shall disappear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Conduct, not speech, flowery

Munindra Misra

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.

Winston S. Churchill

The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sacred joy exists in any suffering.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?

Orhan Pamuk

[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

Gideon Haigh

Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit.

S.A. Tawks

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.

Rene Denfeld

A vision keeps you going even when your partners and sponsors leave you.

Alin Sav

She closed her eyes and held all her dreams between her fingers like a dandelion and just blew it. She smiled watching it fly through the air, making everything look beautiful around her while a tear rolled down her cheek.

Akshay Vasu

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Philip G. Zimbardo

Emulate greatness to be great.

Debasish Mridha

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Christina Rossetti

Probably... or maybe... one day!

Deyth Banger

I pulled Thanos in for a kiss, surprising him. I wasn’t sure if it was our bond or the fear this might be my last kiss, but I didn’t hold anything back. I let him in. He took full advantage, plundering my mouth as if I were the last woman on Earth, which could have been a result of him being trapped in a desolate wasteland for the last five hundred years—but I decided not to overthink it.

H.D. Smith

Books were already a familiar refuge, after all, and they still took me in without the slightest judgment. They don’t close to you the way a person can. You might feel as though you don’t belong anywhere, least of all in your own home, you might feel bound to a person whose actions you abhor yet unable to divorce yourself, struggling to individuate in their shadow—“all these feelings you wouldn’t dare articulate to another person, no matter how highly trained—but you can bring your whole untempered self to books. You can ask them anything, and though you may need to search for the resonant lines, though the answer may come at a slant, they will always speak to you, they will always let you in.

Carolina De Robertis

He looked down at my fingers wrapped around his coat then lifted his eyes to mine. 'My tiny huntress, do you know what you've done to me?

Tess Oliver

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Eric Hoffer

Father never went into depth about what happened if I woke up, unable to remember how I’d died, but most definitely in the hands of those not selected to have s’mores and sleepovers for all of eternity.

Heather Heffner

...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)

Katherine Paterson

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

A.D. Posey

Love affords you these three things: smiles, hugs, and kisses. Joy affords you these three things: pleasure, laughter, and good memories.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do you miss her?I blinked. Did I what? This was my best friend since preschool we were talking tabout, tthe girl whose snack and math homework I’d shared since before I had tmemorized my town phone number, who’d buried her cold, annoying little feet tunderneath me tduring ta thousand different movie nights and showed tme how to use ta tampon. She’d grown tup in my kitchen, she was my shadow-tself—or I was hers— and Sawyer twanted tto know if I missed her? What the hell kind of question was that?

Katie Cotugno

I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions.

Margaret Atwood

No feeling is wrong. You have the right to your feelings. However, you do not need to wallow in them, and you do not have the right to act them out. The world hasn't suddenly become your punching bag or litter tray.

Anna Valdiserri

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

Charlotte Brontë

The body often contains emotional truths that words can too easily gloss over.

Esther Perel

Happiness cannot be owned.It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.

Mimi Novic

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

George Carlin

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