Quotes by Authors - Page 179

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.
Karl Lagerfeld
If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.
Shannon L. Alder
The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.
Sonya Renee Taylor
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.
Moderata Fonte
She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!
Mary Ann Shaffer
All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.
Asa Don Brown
Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bait--dragon bait--what do you stand for?""Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.""Franky, it seems to me that you've turned yourself into a stereotype.""You may be right. I don't care. As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.""Well, you may get off on being a beautiful stereotype, regardless of the social consequences, but my conscience won't allow it." "And I goddamn refuse to be dragon bait. I'm as capable of rescuing you as you are of rescuing me.""I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins
Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.
Shannon L. Alder
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.
N.H. Kleinbaum
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf
When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never let anything be a setback in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.
Gugu Mona
If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it's optimal level. Go to sleep!
Lalah Delia
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear is an assassin; if you let it in your life, it will kill your dreams.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.
Matshona Dhliwayo
​I wanted to present Neuroscience to people in a way that would diminish their differences.
Abhijit Naskar
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Live in the question...Leave all the answers blank...Let's play with the magic of uncertainty
Dipin Damodharan
When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you count your blessings, count life twice.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I didn’t want a story—a beginning. Not anymore. I have long ago stopped walking on a road where my dreams walk around. I change my destination a hundred times if I ever see an old wish of mine standing there in its real form. I don’t know them. I don’t want to. They too must not know me. They too must not recognise me as their owner.
Khadija Rupa
Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.
Kamand Kojouri
If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.
Ken Poirot
Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.
Kamand Kojouri
In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.
Matshona Dhliwayo