Quotes by Authors - Page 312

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.
Susan Donovan
3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.
Elizabeth Eulberg
...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.
Malcolm Gladwell
Rules help us live our liveswhen we lose the will to do it on our own
Yvonne Woon
Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread
Mario Puzo
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
Vera Nazarian
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Douglas MacArthur
How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
Caroline Stevermer
Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.
Janet Fitch
I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.
Anna Kendrick
Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.
Neil Gaiman
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
Terry Pratchett
The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.
John Green
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
Dalai Lama XIV
I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.
Sara Quin
Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me."Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window."Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy...
Catherine Fisher
Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.
Kimberly Novosel
There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.
Brian Jacques
It’s okay to feel whatever you need to feel. Just promise me that you will never, ever feel guilty. Promise me that you will never blame yourself. It’s not your fault. You’re just a little girl and it’s not your fault that your life is so much harder than it should be. And as much as you’ll want to forget these things ever happened to you and as much as you’ll want to forget this part of your life existed, I need for you to remember.
Colleen Hoover
My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.
Veronica Roth
Without doubt, it is the greatest act of courage that is often the most fearful.
Christine Brodien-Jones
Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave.
Christine Brodien-Jones
The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.
Bryant McGill
I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.
Peter S Beagle
This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.
Cassandra Clare
You are one brave woman," he whispers, "I am in awe of you.
E.L. James
Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.
Donna Lynn Hope
Always live the adventure.
Christopher J. Holcroft
Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out
Sara Bareilles
Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you liveMaybe one these days you can let the light inShow me...how BIG your BRAVE is!
Sara Bareilles
Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.
Gary Ponzo
Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain.
Katherine McIntyre
She who is brave is free.
Anonymous
It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.
Joan Didion
A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
Jeanette Winterson
Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
Veronica Roth
I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not
Veronica Roth
Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!
Gerald Morris
Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.
Holly Black
If you're brave enough to follow truth it will shatter you and your illusions at the same time.
Bryant McGill
it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
Lois Lowry
Fortune favors the brave."Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!
Sherry Thomas
Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers.
Alexis Hall
Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing in the world is to let someone love you.
Jennifer Probst
Ruexner chuckled and put away his knife. Gisela kept her eyes on Valten. Even though her bottom lip trembled, she still looked like the bravest woman he had ever seen.
Melanie Dickerson
Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.
Terry Pratchett
She whispered, "Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and I know you can do it. You are the boldest, bravest, most noble knight in the Holy Empire.
Melanie Dickerson
If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.
Debasish Mridha
Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.
Debasish Mridha
Most times you only have to be Brave ENOUGH.
andrea T Goeglein
It’s just you, Little Monster. Own it or it will own you.
Penelope Douglas
When the song is over, she bows and I clap. I wonder how come she seems so brave. There is no part of her she hides. Lakeisha sits with me now on the bed and says,"Wanna hear a story?" I don't have to say yes before she tells me .
Heidi W. Durrow
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert Schuller
I knew what I wanted to do. Sometimes you just had to be brave.
Gwenda Bond
She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.
Glennon Doyle Melton
Brave is doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do.
Colin Myles
The only choice you have right now is the color you want the house painted, and your choices are white and white." She was yelling by the time she finished, her face flushed.
Linda Howard
Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruinedpurse. She slid the shoes on and straightened her shoulders. "I will go as a lady should," she claimed bravely. "In patent leather heels.
Abigail Roux
Be brave, be victorious
Mary E. Pearson
Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.
Brandon Sanderson