Quotes by Authors - Page 999

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.

Amit Kalantri

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

Jim Butcher

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Bodie Thoene

I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm not able to give you those. Not for the others, anyway. For myself? Guilt. Shame. Fear. Self-belittlement. I discovered at an early age that I was-- shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general world than the other one. I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me--and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame. Shame. Shame.' It's society's way of dealing with someone different.

Ken Kesey

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry".

Erich Wolf Segal

May the light shines on the people siting in darkness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

GlowtWhat can you do and how can you be in order to bring out the best in others and truly help them shine?•tBe complimentary; say something nice.•tBe a great listener and make them feel like you are hanging on every word.•tCreate enthusiasm and anticipation for the person they are getting ready to meet.•tAct as you have personally invited them to the party and help ensure they have a wonderful time.•tGive people an experience, not just a conversation

Susan C.Young

I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.

Cesar Millan

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

Oprah Winfrey

But if a girl don't have her intuition, she don't got anything.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

A.J. Darkholme

The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend clubs her to death. The final clinch of male romanticism is that each man kills the thing he loves; whether she be Catharine in A Farewell to Arms, or the Grecian Urn, the 'tension that she be perfect' means that she must die, leavinf the hero's status as a great lover unchallenged. The pattern is still commonplace: the hero cannot marry. The sexual exploit must be conquest, not cohabitation and mutual tolerance.

Germaine Greer

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Buffy Andrews

He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more

David Thewlis

When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the constant noise that pervade our world, and find rest in the probing depths of God's love.

Adam S. McHugh

And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most...they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

Brad Meltzer

Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.

Ricky Maye

Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.

Truth Devour

Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself."I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.

Tove Jansson

If there is someone whom you would really like to impress, learn as much as you can to be informed, enlightened, and aware of them before you meet.

Susan C.Young

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

Sarah Dessen

If we have not changed, we have not learned

John G. Miller

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Leslie Marmon Silko

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.

Barbara Pym

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

Kiera Cass

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

Roma Tearne

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

A.J. Darkholme

They were looking at videos, and the woman was giggling quietly, as they often do in porn stores, unable to believe what they’re seeing, the monuments men have built to vaginas and to the very notion of sex.

Drew Nellins Smith

One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It’s like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face.

Cheryl Strayed

She’s beautiful. Her responsiveness is intoxicating. I have to have this woman.

D.L. Hess

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

Rick Riordan

Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.

Robert K. Greenleaf

There's also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion, and generally losing one's faculties.

Joanne Harris

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Evelyn Waugh

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

Kevin Wilson

Your bread may be small but with God’s blessing it will increase

Sunday Adelaja

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

Irvine Welsh

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

Dean Koontz

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

Shannon L. Alder

I love fools who don't know they are fools but hate fools that know they are.

Hmedon

You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.

Lisa Cach

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

R.F. Georgy

Mind is basically the beginning of madness. And if you are too much in it, it will drive you mad.Mind has no certainity about anything. If you are betweeen two polarities of the mind,in a limbo--always to do or not to do,you will go crazy. You are crazy! Before it happens,jump out and have a look from outside at the mind.Mind is basically indecisive and awareness is basically decisive.So any act of awareness is total,full without repentance.

Osho

And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop.

Ally Carter

A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well.

John Green

Repetition opens doors, you know?

Tim Lucas

The real lessons is the reality of living life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

Suzanne Collins

We nurture kind souls with kind deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

Jasper Fforde

This boy needs a dog.What makes you say that?He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

Kent Haruf

In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor your child should know what it means? It is there not so much to convey a meaning as to wake a meaning. If it do not even wake an interest, throw it aside. A meaning may be there, but it is not for you. If, again, you do not know a horse when you see it, the name written under it will not serve you much. At all events, the business of the painter is not to teach zoology.

George MacDonald

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

Jon Ronson

Their necks also beautifully demonstrate the jury-rigged nature of evolution while simultaneously refuting the notion that some divine Artificer intelligently designed organic life

Brian Switek

Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

Max McKeown

As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.

Markus Zusak

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-""She's foul enough to be one...""Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

J.K. Rowling

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