Quotes by Authors - Page 4983

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.
Sandro Veronesi
Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.
Dallas Athent
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm heart, the conclusions thus attained are often so profound and so unerring as to possess the character of truth supernaturally revealed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.
Stephen R. Lawhead
Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as the size of the emotion.
Dalit Orbach
Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.
Marty Rubin
For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ...It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can't help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand.
Nelson Algren
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
Alain de Botton
Intuition is the art of the moment. Intuition is always in the moment, in the here and now. While the intellect always moves like the pendulum of a clock between the memories of the past and the fantasies of the future, intuition is always in the moment, always in the here and now. The more we develop our inner being, the inner source of love and truth, the inner quality of being here and now, the more we also have access to our intuition.
Swami Dhyan Giten
Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
Chuck Palahniuk
But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.
William Saroyan
Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may—until that time comes, I have the right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I'm sure you won't do him more harm than you'll do the truth good. Or until I'm hauled before somebody that can make me talk.
Raymond Chandler
Your greatest path of influence is love.
Mollie Marti
Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.
Donna Lynn Hope
Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.
Mollie Marti
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.
Criss Jami
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
Criss Jami
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
Criss Jami
A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
John Steinbeck
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
Italo Calvino
Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.
Mollie Marti
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you like Rhiannon more than me?" ... They're two completely different concepts. When a girl asks you a question like that, there's no way you can be honest. They say they want you to be honest, but then they get all upset when you are. You can't win. There's no way to win. There are questions you just can't answer without manipulating the truth.
Susane Colasanti
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
Christopher Vogler
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George Eliot
You can't be spontaneous within reason.
Brittany DeLaBarrera
The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.
Ted Dekker
Face the truth or the truth will face you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.
Jackson Burnett
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
William Faulkner
Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities.
Truth Devour
It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.
sunny-drunk
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
Carson McCullers
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
Lionel Suggs
Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.
Tony Vigorito
I thought I had everything until I found you.
Turcois Ominek
The truth is, it's not the act that I'm scared of, but giving myself so entirely to someone. As long as there are lines to draw and boundaries to cling to, I can pretend that I'm safe from the wanting that threatens to consume me. I'm separate, still all my own. But after...What then? What comes after, when he has that much of me, to do with as he chooses? When I have him. Will it ever be enough?
Abigail Haas
I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
Patricia Briggs
the gods play nofavorites.
Charles Bukowski
Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?
Criss Jami
There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.
Criss Jami
Being truthful is the new beautiful.
Suzy Kassem
There is nothing more powerful than truth. It is undeniable and should always be appreciated. The truth gives you unlimited freedom to be who you are and express how you feel. The truth offers you peace of mind which is something we all love.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
Criss Jami
The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary
Stephen King
How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows
Alex Morritt
Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.
Amit Kalantri
I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend over backward, stoop down low to hear its voice breathed up from the ground, from the dead places. You may think there’s something in it for you, something to understand or make sense of.But I know the truth: I know from the nights of Coldness. I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It’s hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing— is run.
Lauren Oliver
The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.
Jennifer Elisabeth
I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
Criss Jami
If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The strong man is not one who is good at wrestling, but the strong man is one who controls himself in a fit of rage.
Anonymous
Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.
J.M. Coetzee
Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.
Suzy Kassem
People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth
Bangambiki Habyarimana