Quotes by Authors - Page 294

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow porcession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it. In his head, he could roam anywhere, and he found that his mind was quick and clear, his imagination unfettered and supple. He could stay with a thought for hours, turning it about.
Laura Hillenbrand
The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.
Sean Carroll
Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him."Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her."It takes a man with real heart"—he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest—"to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Clive Barker
At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he’d ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else.
Victoria Forester
...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.
Steve Martin
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.
Vladimir Nabokov
It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.
Sarah Dessen
I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad -- who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.
P.G. Wodehouse
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
Saul Bellow
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!
Larry Niven
I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.
David Sedaris
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston
He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been br
Brandon Sanderson
That's the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the line day after day or how they can fight for something they may not believe in. Not everyone does. I've worked with soldiers on all sides of the political spectrum; I've met some who hated the army and others who wanted to make it a career. I've met geniuses and idiots, but when all is said and done,we do what we do for one another. For friendship. Not for country, not for patriotism, not because we're programmed killing machines, but because of the guy next to you. You fight for your friend, to keep him alive, and he fights for you, and everything about the army is built on this simple premise.
Nicholas Sparks
Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.
Nicholas Sparks
I've learned, that not all worth is measured by price. I've found so many gems that didn't cost me much!
C. JoyBell C.
I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it and that it's not crazy to fear you'll never have it again, even though your fears are probably wrong. Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.
Cheryl Strayed
Toni, I barely know you, but I canna see anything remotely unworthy about you. any man would be blessed and honored to receive yer love." (Ian MacPhie)
Kerrelyn Sparks
I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over.
Nyrae Dawn
Sometimes I didn’t think the world was worth it.Saving.Sometimes I didn’t think I was worth it either.
Kami Garcia
Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.
Christian D. Larson
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Everything worth having comes with a trial worth withstanding
Debalina Haldar
Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
Nina de Gramont
If you cherish something enough", she told me, "it doesn't matter how old or worn or useless it's become; your caring for it immediately raises its value in somebody else's eyes. It's just like rehab- a body's got to believe in their own worth before anybody can start fixing them, but most people need someone to believe in them before they can start believing in themselves.
Charles de Lint
Your enormous soul had so many choices of who it could show up as. It chose you.
Jacob Nordby
Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.
John Green
I am ready for love, but I am not a seeker of it. My truth is; the more I love who I am, the more I will attract my perfect mirror of love to meet me halfway.
Nikki Rowe
Don't Wait on Someone to Love You, Love Yourself...Embrace your Worth
Travess
There is worth everywhere and in everything we see.
Sunday Adelaja
I understand the logic behind removing toxic people from one’s life. But I also understand that many who are “toxic” are acting out of a painful past… and that to marginalize someone who’s not known much love is to validate that they don’t matter. To live in the world we desire – a world of good people, safe places – requires less fence-building and more heart-building. It requires valuing the worth of all people and loving the hurt as much as possible.
Renata Bowers
I’ve always felt a person’s worth is equal to how much of themselves they willingly invest into something they know no one else sees value in.
Rebecca Timberlake
What is worth pursuing is worth staying on course for.
Steven Redhead
Don't ask whether it's going to be easy. Ask whether it's going to be worth it.
Michael Josephson
The biggest battles you face in love are the battle to know your worth and the battle to know when your boundaries need to be protected.
Shannon L. Alder
You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?”She had no answer.
Kiersten White
Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness
Sunday Adelaja
Self-worth and net worth are not the same.
Rick Warren
Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance.
Koren Zailckas
In the end it was worth it.
Anthony T.Hincks
You are worth infinitely more than you could possibly imagine.
Seth Adam Smith
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush......unless the bird has the flu!
Ankala Subbarao
A picture is worth a thousand words.......and a video is worth a million pictures.....
Ankala Subbarao
You’re looking for real love in a ‘right now’ culture. And, many people might mistake you for just a ‘right now’ person. But, don’t let that fool you. You deserve the real love, the forever love. It might not be ‘right now’, but it’ll be the right love. And, it’ll be worth the wait.
Liz Newman
You don’t have to stop fighting for others, you just have to remember to fight for yourself too.
Liz Newman
Don't ever reject a smallwhen you can't take it all.
Toba Beta
But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these years you have known only shadow and silence, and we have so much to show you. To sav
Amie Kaufman
...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.
Ernest Becker
All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Be patient, child!” said the Music. “But she will forget me.” “Do not worry, child. I am there. I shall not forget.”And she stared out at the planets and gentle stars and the galaxies and became forlorn for she had known a special love.“The Universe is so large, just look at it!” she cried. “Believe.” The Music sang.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
The Angel of Death took the woman's frail hand. "Don't be afraid." she said. "Life is your past. Death, on the other hand, is your soul preparing for a new beginning. A brand new adventure, if you like." An excerpt from Paradox - Equilibrium. Book 4 in the Paradox series (release date 2013)
Patti Roberts
And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We are medium-sized mammals who only prosper because we've developed a half-arsed ability to terraform the less suitable bits of the planet we evolved on, and we're conscious of our inevitable decay and death, and we can't live anywhere else. There is no invisible sky daddy to give us immortal life and a harp and wings when we die.
Charles Stross
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.
John Green
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France
Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.
Alexandre Dumas
Reincarnation?”He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.
Patricia Briggs
The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.
Woody Allen
I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
Veronica Roth