Quotes by Authors - Page 5076

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.
Gertrude Stein
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
Theodore Roosevelt
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
Jodi Picoult
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
Alfred Brendel
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
C.S. Lewis
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
Zig Ziglar
It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
Margaret Thatcher
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Hunter S. Thompson
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
Terry Brooks
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
Alan Bradley
A truth that no one knows is still the truth.
Sharon Shinn
Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.
Anaïs Nin
I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.
Steve Maraboli
Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.
Robin S. Sharma
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
Henry David Thoreau
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Truth builds trust.
Marilyn Suttle
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.
Anaïs Nin
The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
Ellen Hopkins
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
Diana Wynne Jones
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Oprah Winfrey
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.
Zora Neale Hurston
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
Dalai Lama XIV
God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.
Amit Ray
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Maya Angelou
In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.
Steve Maraboli
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
Francesca Lia Block
But there's always a first time for everything
Melissa de la Cruz
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
C.S. Lewis
I do like the world quite a lot.
Shannon Hale
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
Virginia Woolf
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Trina Paulus
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
Jason Fried
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
Max Lucado
Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
Lloyd Alexander
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Stephen King
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
Byron Katie
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
Garth Stein
Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.
Kelly Cutrone
I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.
Amy Harmon
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
Laini Taylor
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
Sarah Dessen
A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
Shannon Hale
It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.
James Patterson
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
Stephen King
Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.
Warren Ellis
I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
Neil Gaiman
The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
Ally Carter
So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.
Sabaa Tahir
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
C.S. Lewis
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.
Camille Paglia