Quotes by Authors - Page 191

Isolate the changes necessary to bring about the life you most desire.
Steven Redhead
Love is a strange feeling indeed, a feeling that every person must experience at least once in his or her life. A feeling that makes us feel one with God!
Avijeet Das
I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope!
Avijeet Das
Take a deep breath and pause for one minute without doing anything! There did you feel the magic?
Avijeet Das
Don’t mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Don’t cry over the present, it has no sympathy for you, and I don’t weep the future, it has no mercy on you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The fakirs always throng the sea-shoreTo find meaning in the chaosAnd then they too become melancholyFeeling nothing but their naked toes.
Avijeet Das
The night is the balm for the wounded soul!
Avijeet Das
You resting your head tenderly on my shoulders while we sit below the old Oak tree. And we smile at each other and gaze lovingly at the fascinating sunset over the hills. This moment makes me feel completely alive as if we have reached not just cloud nine or ten but also cloud infinity!
Avijeet Das
Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.
Avijeet Das
The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day!
Avijeet Das
Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Two minds are smarter than one.Two hands are stronger than one.Two hearts are mightier than one.Two souls are greater than one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You must be more alive than life.You must see darkness danceand hear silence sing.You must be more awake than lightfor we aren’t born sleepingand we shouldn’t live sleeping.Only then will death’s slumberbecome sweet.
Kamand Kojouri
Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Water returns to the ocean. Light returns to the sun. Life returns to God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life on Earth.
Steven Magee
Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest.
Germany Kent
At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
LIFE IS GOVERNED BY CERTAIN PRINCIPLES AND ETHICS THAT MAKE US WHO WE ARE!
Napz Cherub Pellazo
If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
absolute equality not possible . what is possible ,we can honour the qualities in each person .that would reduce this gap
litymunshi
Do not waste your life away by wishing for days you may not even get to see.
Carlos Wallace
When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end.
Ken Poirot
Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
Kemi Sogunle
Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.
Suzy Kassem
The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.
Suzy Kassem
But since the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, terrorists have killed many times that number of people in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have died here in terror and counterterror violence, slain by bombs, bullets, cannons, and drones. America's 9/11 has given way to Pakistan's 24/7/365. The battlefield has been displaced. And in Pakistan it is much more bloody.
Mohsin Hamid
If the political left weren't so joyless, humorless, intrusive, taxing, over-taxing, anarchistic, controlling, rudderless, chaos-prone, pedantic, unrealistic, hypocritical, clueless, politically correct, angry, cruel, sanctimonious, retributive, redistributive, intolerant, and if the political left wasn't hell-bent on expansion of said unpleasantness into all aspects of my family's life the truth is: I would not be in your life. If the democratic party were run by Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh, if it had the slightest vestige of JFK and Henry "Scoop" Jackson I wouldn't be on the political map. If the American media were run by biased but not evil Tim Russert and David Brinkley types I wouldn't have joined the fight. You would not know who I am. The left made me do it, I swear, I am a reluctant cultural warrior.
Andrew Breitbart
Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent system with its short periods in office, personalities shape administrations. Democratic leaders often rule through trusted retainers instead of official ministers. In any court, power is as fluid as human personality.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Power is not pleasure, power is pain.
Amit Kalantri
Money is not as good as power, but power is as good as money.
Amit Kalantri
Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free cou
Salman Rushdie
Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.
Steven Magee
Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent.
Joseph J. Haeggquist
The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) whistle-blower complaints, enforce hardly any police internal affairs allegations, and corrupt corporations with lobbyists can continue operating outside of the law.
Steven Magee
There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!
Steven Magee
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.
Thomas Piketty
How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he knows it to be.
Agatha Christie
Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Power hungry=life loving
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry
Bangambiki Habyarimana