Quotes by Authors - Page 5089

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.
Neil Gaiman
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama XIV
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
George Carlin
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Margaret Walker
Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.
P.C. Cast
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Try a little harder to be a little better.
Gordon B. Hinckley
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
Laurie Halse Anderson
The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!
Edward J. Stieglitz
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
J.K. Rowling
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
Sarah Dessen
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.
Chuck Palahniuk
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
J.K. Rowling
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
J.K. Rowling
‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
Chico Xavier
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
Lilith Saintcrow
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
Christopher Paolini
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
Kathryn Stockett
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J.K. Rowling
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
J.K. Rowling
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.
C. JoyBell C.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Louis L'Amour
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
A.A. Milne
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
John F Kennedy
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Cornelia Funke
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Haruki Murakami
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")
Maya Angelou
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki Murakami
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
John Green
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.
C. JoyBell C.
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L.M. Montgomery
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A.A. Milne
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Thomas Szasz
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
John Green
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
Nicholas Sparks