Quotes by Authors - Page 257

Don’t you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?
Kamand Kojouri
Tell me where the swans go in the winterI need to know if the mute ones can sing.Tell me why stars fall from the skyI need to know if it is luck they bring.Tell me why feathers land near youI need to know if you've injured your wing.Now, tell me where you end, my angelFor I no longer know where I begin.
Kamand Kojouri
The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. We are altricial, or helpless at birth, because we have to depend on others so that later in life when we are capable, we help those in need. And this is very much part of the circle of life.
Kamand Kojouri
Everything is possible, but where can I find everything?!
Ljupka Cvetanova
I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face.
Ljupka Cvetanova
An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.
Na'ama Yehuda
The truth is: I was lost in him. I had gone from losing one of the most important people in my life and then losing someone I loved a month later. I wrapped myself in people, in lust, in the idea of love. I met him and I met a gentlemen, and when I found out who he truly was, I was still in love with the gentleman and justified all of his actions.
Dominic Riccitello
One day he’ll realize he is and was wrong. But that’s for him to figure out. You can’t change people or make them realize things they don’t want to see.
Dominic Riccitello
Prejudice is an act of violence.
Kamand Kojouri
To see her is to be seduced by her.
Kamand Kojouri
One thing I can assure you, life is not easy, but it can be simple. Focus on what's important and don't let your distractions derail you.
Tony Curl
Live brightly.
Lana M. H. Wilder
No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.
Kamand Kojouri
Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.
Kamand Kojouri
The differences between women are all cosmetic.
Ljupka Cvetanova
All this waiting.Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an old friend.Waiting to depart. Then, there’s the big waiting: waiting to grow up. Waiting for love. Waiting to show youryour parents that when you have kids you’ll be different. Waiting to retire. Waiting for death. Why do we think waitingis the antithesis of lifewhen it is almostall of it?
Kamand Kojouri
In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.
Kamand Kojouri
Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return.
Kamand Kojouri
I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.
Raymond Carver
What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances.
Nikki Rowe
Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.
Ljupka Cvetanova
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
Ljupka Cvetanova
Such an impolite person. He is honest with everyone.
Ljupka Cvetanova
I went into the new year loving myself in different ways, in a different possibility. It was then that I understood things I hadn’t. It was then that I understood people I hadn’t. We work in ways where sometimes we don’t align because our intersections lead us elsewhere. We find ourselves in rapids which lead to lightning, in beds that leave us homesick. We lust after the impetuous, in hopelessness, and sometimes in the reactive. We like things and people who are bad for us and that’s fine. It’s fine because it’s life. It happens. They exist. We exist. We all exist together in this world where nothing seems to make sense. Where everything is nothing but imaginary because it’s what we imagine it to be. Reality exists and it’s there, but life is what you make it. Your actions ask for it. How you exist is how you exist.We take every new year and give it a theme because we’re scared of how it could be. You change in the moment, not by years. You be to become and becoming is something which frightens people. Lead by example instead of letting the example lead you. Take this new year and find yourself in people who question it because questioning is how you gain from it.
Dominic Riccitello
I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path.
Ljupka Cvetanova
Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.
Ljupka Cvetanova
There's something about kindred spirits, you meet them and for a moment this world no matter ugly, makes sense. They bring a sense of freedom and clarity to one conversation; just enough to remind you of who you are.
Nikki Rowe
His boat sank. They were all on his side.
Ljupka Cvetanova
When I see my future, I see you...
Swapna Rajput
Life is like a train going in circles, the train is comfortable - it has nice scenery, it provides warmth and food & for most a loving atmosphere. Most of the people stay on the train there entire lives, maybe every now and again they may peep out the door, some might even get off only to quickly realise they want back on. Then you have the rare ones who I aspire to be, those who are bored of the train - to them - the thought of living without it, is risky but the reward of tasting life outside of doors and walls excite them enough to try.
Nikki Rowe
Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.
Ljupka Cvetanova
I watched you undress. Shame on you!
Ljupka Cvetanova
When is it too right but too wrong to be right?
Dominic Riccitello
I give away examples!
Ljupka Cvetanova
Almost two hundred sixty-six years ago on my home world, Earth, my forefathers did the same thing. They declared their independence and free agency from an enemy that oppressed them. No one at that time expected this rebellion force to win the war. They were severely outnumbered, and they were extremely inexperienced compared to their enemy. Despite those odds, they succeeded in winning the war, giving them their independence and freewill to choose. (Adrian Palmer, Worlds Without End: The Mission)
Shaun Messick
Making the ungrateful grateful is a tedious endeavor.
Ana Monnar
I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my wings only fans the blaze. I consume myself, but to no end.Finally, my wings begin to falter, I lose height, and gravity pulls me into a foamy sea the color of Finnick's eyes. I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. When I am adrift and unable to navigate, that's when they come. The dead.The ones I loved fly as birds in the open sky above me. Soaring, weaving, calling to me to join them. I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them. The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Biting again and again. Dragging me beneath the surface.The small white bird tinged in pink dives down, buries her claws in my chest, and tries to keep me afloat."No, Katniss! No! You can't go!"But the ones I hated are winning, and if she clings to me, she'll be lost as well. "Prim, let go!" And finally she does.
Suzanne Collins
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?
Roman Payne
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
Paolo Bacigalupi
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
Marilyn Manson
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
C.S. Lewis
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?""Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it.""Small world," said Coraline."It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spider's webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
Neil Gaiman
During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.
Criss Jami
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.
Anthony Liccione
We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting daylight and darkness with incorporeal obscenities. From across an immeasurable divide, we brought the supernatural into all that is manifest. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance. Our heartbeats are numbered, our steps counted. Even as we survive and reproduce, we know ourselves to be dying in a dark corner of infinity. Wherever we go, we know not what expects our arrival but only that it is there.
Thomas Ligotti
I think I’m learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it.
Charlotte Eriksson
In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.
Barry Webster
On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.
Alain de Botton
So every time I lose one of my shoes and my brother looks at me angrily thinking I’m trying to catch a prince with a lost shoe, or mistakenly cuts myself and the whole world around me thinks I’m trying to attract a vampire, I just laugh sounding like a complete stranger to them. And to everyone like them. I know I don’t need to be a Cinderella. Or an Isabella. I already own things, all things, every single thing, which I love and proudly dream to own. They're just not here…not in this world. And that definitely doesn’t mean, I lost them.
Khadija Rupa
You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!
Israelmore Ayivor
Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!
Israelmore Ayivor
Pretty much every day consists of me trying to save the world.
Lisa Bedrick
Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.
Criss Jami
The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.
Sarah Noffke
Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.
Simone de Beauvoir
Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
The world seems to be witnessing a deluge of 'haterisms', and racist propaganda because evil's pain was born to die, and it's time of tyranny is near the end. Don't get caught up by the souls of wickedness; this ain't your fight. ~T.F. Hodge
T.F. Hodge
I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.
Charlotte Eriksson
You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.
Israelmore Ayivor
The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!
Israelmore Ayivor