Quotes by Authors - Page 246

No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your back?
Tom Carter
When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.
Clark Zlotchew
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.
John Waters
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...
Thomas Hardy
You think he has some bomb defusing MacGyver contraption cooked up that involves lube, condoms, and a paper clip?
Stephani Hecht
The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw, it was going to be ugly, and I was going to enjoy every damn minute of it.
C.M. Stunich
Might as Well Laugh...remember...when...Life...made...sense
Ellen Hopkins
Fuck your manners.""You don't have to settle for just my manners.
Nenia Campbell
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
Azar Nafisi
You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.
Catherine Coulter
Sex either blows your fucking mind, or it’s not good enough.
Karen Marie Moning
...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.
Christopher Moore
I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind...
Terry Pratchett
Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.
Clark Zlotchew
So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.
E.L. James
Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North Carolina, their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom of a Waffle House just off the interstate. My parents have sacrificed so much for this dream! And that is why we must journey on, despite all trials and tribulations! Not for me and least of all for the poor cheerleader in question, but for my parents and indeed for all immigrants who came to his great nation in what they themselves could never have: CHEERLEADER SEX.
John Green
Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued.
Mandy Hale
Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you.
Mandy Hale
Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else.
Mandy Hale
You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.
Mandy Hale
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
Mandy Hale
It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl’s shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure.
Mandy Hale
Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!
Mandy Hale
A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.
Mandy Hale
Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.
Mandy Hale
She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “single” about a single mom.
Mandy Hale
There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.
Mandy Hale
No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.
Mandy Hale
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
Mandy Hale
God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.
Mandy Hale
That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.
Mandy Hale
Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination.
Mandy Hale
Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.
Mandy Hale
Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.
Mandy Hale
Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.
Mandy Hale
If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will know. And when it’s not – it’s time to go.
Mandy Hale
It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.
Mandy Hale
True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.
Mandy Hale
Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.
Mandy Hale
In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.
Mandy Hale
The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.
Mandy Hale
There is nothing that can happen TO you that can’t also happen FOR you…if you’ll let it.
Mandy Hale
If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!
Mandy Hale
Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't.
Israelmore Ayivor
Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.
Mandy Hale
We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.
Mandy Hale
You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.
Mandy Hale
She hasn’t got it all figured out...far from it, in fact.But she loves God and she loves to dance…and she’s her own “Better Half.”The bravest woman I know?She is the reason I do what I do.She is The Single Woman.She’s me…and she’s you.
Mandy Hale
Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.
Mandy Hale
Never abbreviate your dreams. Only short-hand people always do that. Their punishment is that they can't stretch far, further and forward into the future. Dream only big dreams!
Israelmore Ayivor
Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to “protect” you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary.
Charles F. Glassman
In fact, if you're wondering if I expect miracles---the answer is yes. Even when they don't seem to happen, I keep believing in them. Even when I stop believing in them, I'll always start again. Because if you don't have hope, what's left? I believe. And maybe they'll happen in a way I never saw coming--they usually do. Or maybe I'll find the way to make them happen myself. But ether way--I expect miracles.
Jennifer DeLucy
A sense of accomplishment Ahh yes. There's just (Nothing like it) Today, KNOW You can make it happen like no other. It's the Truth. Lean into the direction of your dreams today. Everything is brewing for you, all that you want is on the brink of complete overflow. Get out of your own way and Allow the overflow to happen.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
You cannot do anything unless you allow your passion to motivate you. People may tell you, "you can do it", "you can make it" "it's possible" but when you tell yourself always " I can't make it", it's your choice that rules everything!
Israelmore Ayivor
To stop being resistant to your success coming together, just say Yes.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know with ALL of your heart that you will. You will succeed in spite of any obstacles that may try to hinder you! There’s so much power in having a positive attitude, positive mindset, and positive outlook.
Stephanie Lahart
I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows the reason for which he created me. I am not here on earth to merely live and depart.
Israelmore Ayivor
It could be worse. I could be you.
Markus Zusak
My usual instruction to students when they are preparing to write their examinations is "think before you answer the questions". I am convinced that some multiple choice answers could be so close that you might not know the very one that answers the question correctly! Such is life. To choose your suitable dreams, you must think well!
Israelmore Ayivor
Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn’t have a positive outlet, it can destroy your life. It is not another person that will make your life better; it is the qualities in them that you admire. Incorporate those attributes into your own life and you won’t miss a thing.
Shannon L. Alder