Quotes by Authors - Page 18

Hey, get a load of those two! It must be mating season or something...
Rachel Renée Russell
As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize that this was a premonition that once I entered college I would never get out, and that my matriculation would turn into some sort of life sentence.
James Kakalios
The inaugural morning at Merston High was officially over. It was no longer a mysterious place in Melody's imagination, filled with endless possibilities and hooks on which to hang hopes for a better tomorrow. It was completely - boringly - normal. Like meeting an online crush after months of e-flirting, the reality didn't live up to the fantasy. It was dull, predictable, and way more attractive in the photos.
Lisi Harrison
The house-cat is a four-legged quadruped, the legs as usual being at the corners. It is what is sometimes called a tame animal, though it feeds on mice and birds of prey. Its colours are striped, it does not bark, but breathes through its nose instead of its mouth. Cats also mow, which you all have heard. Cats have nine liveses, but which is seldom wanted in this country, coz' of Christianity. Cats eat meat and most anythink speshuelly where you can't afford. That is all about
Helen Exley
As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.
Jerry Spinelli
A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
Andrea Dworkin
Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.
Molly Friedenfeld
Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren’t dark-skinned. Instead, white people and black people were both the same neutral skin color. The only way that slave holders were able to tell the slaves apart from themselves was by marking them in some manner, like a brand or something. After Abolition, when former slaves had children they were no longer given marks to tell them apart from anyone else. Imagine now that illegal Mexicans who sneak into America in hopes of making a better life for their families are this same neutral skin color, just like “white” people and “black” people. There is no concrete way to tell them apart from anyone else except that they might sound different. But once they have children who sound just like everyone else there is no concrete way to tell them apart from the “natives.” As human beings, we naturally find ways to categorize ourselves. The very first thing that we do when we see a person is compare their appearance to our own. We use an internal ranking system. Maybe it’s time to consciously abandon our internal ranking system. The only way to achieve true equality is through colorblindness. Let’s try a little harder and see what happens.
Aaron B. Powell
We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.
Manal Al-Sharif
Dreams are achieved by sweat, blood, tears and an iron will!
Avijeet Das
Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.
Michelle M. Pillow
Increase calls for review, check-up,control, and analysis.
Sunday Adelaja
People with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) are known to put their computer equipment several feet away from them with a large monitor on a big font and they use a wired USB keyboard and mouse to control it.
Steven Magee
I'm like my cat. I run around in circles in my apartment, because the big bad outside is just too big. And scary. And outside. How do stray cats deal with all the stress of having no protection from all the air that’s going on around there, without anyone to guide and control it into timidity?
Will Advise
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
George Orwell
There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and without these spinning wheels, they simply do not know how to function. They are like toys on wheels of manipulation and control. If you remove one of the wheels, they'll never be able to feel secure, be whole.
C. JoyBell C.
In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.
Alexis Hall
The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.
Vikrmn
When people who remember her better than me talk of her, she is always described as headstrong and irresponsible, which, if you think about it, are just different words for untameable. The wind is untameable, and so are rivers, and there is something poetic in that.
Claire Wong
The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings of manufactured supremacy.
T.F. Hodge
Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.
Barbara Kingsolver
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.
Elizabeth Kolbert
Humans would become very sick without natural radio frequency (RF) exposures.
Steven Magee
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.
Daniel Quinn
Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection we can clearly see that this is in fact, an insult to animals.
Christina Engela
Knowledge comes by revelation through the study of the Scriptures
Pedro Okoro
Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Your sincere and honest effort only,shall lead you to the path of SUCCESS!!!tttttttt - Adbhut
Santosh Adbhut Kumar
Listen to your heart, it will guide you on the right path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The path to tranquility gets through the storms!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They call me a tyrant . . . One arrives at a tyrant's throne by the help of scoundrels . . . What faction do I belong to? You yourselves. What is that faction which, since the Revolution began, has crushed the factions and swept away hireling traitors? It is you, it is the people, it is the principles of the Revolution.
Maximilien de Robespierre
There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at this rate." (But it's hard to feign innocence if you've eaten the apple, he reflected.) "And it looks to me as if it is going to go on, because the French aren't going to give in, and certainly the Arabs aren't, because they can't. They're fighting with their backs the the wall.""I thought maybe you meant you expected a new world war," he lied."That's the least of my worries. When that comes, we've had it. You can't sit around mooning about Judgement Day. That's just silly. Everybody who ever lived has always had his own private Judgment Day to face anyway, and he still has. As far as that goes, nothing's changed at all.
Paul Bowles
In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt
Trotsky
What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral,What you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.
Debasish Mridha
Failures and fears are the part of the journey we call life. Don't let them stop you or derail you from your chosen path.
Debasish Mridha
Don't complain but compliment.Don't compete but empower.
Debasish Mridha
Measure your day by the love you are giving away.
Debasish Mridha
Nothing lasts for long. Even moments of beauty transcend and transform.
Debasish Mridha
Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...
Rasheed Ogunlaru
God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!
Sunday Adelaja
We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.
Craig Groeschel
For Thousands To Come To Christ, We Must Employ Kingdom Principles
Sunday Adelaja
True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.
Timothy J. Keller
According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
Jen Pollock Michel
Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it’s too crowded.
Sol Luckman
Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.
Stephanie Perkins
The human race has the capacity to render itself extinct unless alternatives are found to the patterns of intraspecific warfare that have dominated civilized history. Ours has long been a predatory species. Living, for humans, depends upon the ability to kill as clearly as it does for lions or wolves. But lions and wolves, like almost all predatory species, normally limit their killing to prey animals, and they are equipped with elaborate ritual precautions to prevent the destruction of their own kind. Humans appear to be unique among predators in their enthusiasm to destroy members of their own species. Perhaps this unusual behavior can be attributed to some genetic deficiency which may lead humans ultimately to join the rest of nature's failures in the biological graveyard of extinction. Or perhaps our willingness to kill ourselves, like so many of our other problems, is something we have devised by misusing our enlarged brains.
Joseph W. Meeker
The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
Jasper Fforde
Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.
Bryant McGill
As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards—independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and backgrounds—to ensure that they met the NIH’s ethics requirements, including detailed informed consent. Scientists said medical research was doomed. In a letter to the editor of Science, one of them warned, “When we are prevented from attempting seemingly innocuous studies of cancer behavior in humans … we may mark 1966 as the year in which all medical progress ceased.
Rebecca Skloot
Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.
Caroline Lucas
Bushido as an independent code of ethics may vanish, but its power will not perish from the earth; its schools of martial prowess or civic honor may be demolished, but its light and its glory will long survive their ruins. Like its symbolic flower, after it is blown to the four winds, it will still bless mankind with the perfume with which it will enrich life.
Inazo Nitobe
Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink
Judy Polumbaum
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
Aberjhani
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.
Galt Niederhoffer
Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.
Joanie Connell