Quotes by Writers - Page 164

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan W. Watts
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan W. Watts
My past is everything I failed to be.
Fernando Pessoa
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You be good. That's your business. The rest, leave to God. That's his business.
Fakeer Ishavardas
My imaginary pal up there, Mr. NOT, tells me it's my dog-damn ism to kick your illusory he-man's ass. Now, what do you say to that?
Fakeer Ishavardas
Accepting the facts is always tough, so we search for forgiveness to this universe everyday to break the shackles, hurt is a prison and I from a very young young age refused to be held prisoner or even conform.
Aidan McNally
Life isn't something you possess, it's something you take part in.
Louis ck
We have to remember that progress isn’t just a straight line upwards, O.K.?It’s a weird roller coaster where sometimes you’re screaming for joy, and other times you’re barfing in your own face.
Colin Jost
Everybody dies. Including your messiahs. And gods.
Fakeer Ishavardas
...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
H.G.Wells
Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.
Fakeer Ishavardas
I have met the devil - he is not!
Fakeer Ishavardas
You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
If your believed in book-told god is a silly sod, you too are.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Remember, you are as dispensable as the most indispensable king of kings, the mighty lord of silly worldly men.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Don't worry. Life goes on. With or without you. So, live it, while it's given you.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Live joyfully this life. Once gone, who knows if we ever get it back. Atheists think we do not. Mystics say you will. Either way, chill.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Till the time Mother Nature takes away what she had bestowed upon us for free - this wonderful gift, of life. Value it, while you have it.
Fakeer Ishavardas
It is no use dying, before one does.
Fakeer Ishavardas
After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Do not believe in a god who is as silly, and meaner than you. For, that would surely be your higher-self, and your stupid alter-ego.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Blind-believers and staunch atheists have the same god - namely, a self-deluded, one's own shadow's bot.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Were I but perfectly normal, I would just not be.
Fakeer Ishavardas
All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.
Fakeer Ishavardas
I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else. Just One Self.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Science is good, is not God.
Fakeer Ishavardas
Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at least the metaphysical.
Fakeer Ishavardas
As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.
Fakeer Ishavardas
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
José P. Rizal
... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.
José Saramago
Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy
Agona Apell
But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.
Fatema Mernissi
I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
Dick Van Dyke
If I had a choice, I wouldn’t be here… I wouldn’t be anywhere.
Faraaz Kazi
Those who are made can be unmade.
Hilary Mantel
An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.
Hervé Le Tellier
Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everything was there and movement as well… Light is an element that we carry inside us and which can grow there with as much abundance, variety, and intensity as it can outside of us…I could light myself…that is, I could create a light inside of me so alive, so large, and so near that my eyes, my physical eyes, or what remained of them, vibrated, almost to the point of hurting… God is there under a form that has the good luck to be neither religious, not intellectual, nor sentimental, but quite simply alive.
Jacques Lusseyran
Some people are like that - always searching fro something better, never satisfied.,Makes you wonder if they ever get a good night's sleep. They must toss and turn, dreaming about a softer mattress or a plumper pillow.
Farahad Zama
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
Bear Grylls
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
Richard Steele
If your heart is a volcano,how shall you expect flower to bloom?
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Stones Come And Go, The Big Fish Eat The Little Fish And I Keep On Battling.
Ahmed Abdulrahman
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
Herman Melville
I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.
Núria Añó
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
Fannie Hurst
For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious. There is nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes, which it is not prudent to challenge, one judges by the result.
Niccolò Machiavelli
I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.
Niccolò Machiavelli
For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.
Niccolò Machiavelli
But confining myself more to the particular, I say that a prince may be seen happy to-day and ruined to-morrow without having shown any change of disposition or character. This, I believe, arises firstly from causes that have already been discussed at length, namely, that the prince who relies entirely upon fortune is lost when it changes. I believe also that he will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful. Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. One can also see of two cautious men the one attain his end, the other fail; and similarly, two men by different observances are equally successful, the one being cautious, the other impetuous; all this arises from nothing else than whether or not they conform in their methods to the spirit of the times. This follows from what I have said, that two men working differently bring about the same effect, and of two working similarly, one attains his object and the other does not.
Niccolò Machiavelli
A smile is the best way to get oneself out of a tight spot, even if it is a fake one. Surprisingly enough, everyone takes it at face value. I read that in a book.""If you keep staring at me, I'll hit you.""I only became part of your team recently when I replaced Sasuke, so I don't know everything that's going on. I don't really understand people either. But even I can tell that Naruto really loves you. Naruto's been shouldering that promise for a long time...I think he means to shoulder it for the rest of his life. I don't know what you said to him, but it's just like what's been done to me - it feels like a curse. Sasuke causes Naruto pain, but I think you do too.""Sasuke is only helping spread his darkness across the world. Letting him live will only sow the seeds of another war. He's just another criminal now. Sasuke lost all hope of coming back when his group, Akatsuki, attacked our village. Your fellow Konoha shinobi would never accept him now. Sakura's not stupid, either. She understands the position he's put us all in. That's why she came out here, to tell you herself.
Masashi Kishimoto
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Everything is hard before it is easy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always be tenuous. There is always the possibility the peregrine will rediscover the strength of his heart.
Rebecca K. O'Connor
In today's romantic climate, many people are plagued by what we will call "the upgrade problem". Singles constantly wonder whether there is a better match, an upgrade.
Aziz Ansari