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Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don’t do.
— Shawn Casemore, Operational Empowerment: Collaborate, Innovate, and Engage to Beat the Competition
... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Perseverance is the steady pathway toward prevailing.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.
— Louis L'Amour
... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Real leaders don't rule over territories but over heart's of the people.
— Amit Abraham
A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
…golf was no longer the most interesting sport to the corporate czars because they found playing with natural balls much more satisfying.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
If a country complains that they don’t have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.
— Sunday Adelaja
We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.
— Patrick L.O. Lumumba
Great leaders create great cultures regardless of the dominant culture in the organization.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
Leaders set the context and create the conditions in which individuals and organizations thrive.
— Bob   Anderson, Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results
From one dog all the dogs bark.
— Marty Rubin
When we limit ourselves by being the person we “should” be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, truths we need to slow down to excavate.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
You leaders, where do you lead your people to? Do you sow in them the seed of possession?
— Sunday Adelaja
I am strategically and methodically preparing leaders in a more result oriented setting.
— Sunday Adelaja
A leader should have the same attitude of God’s love toward people.
— Sunday Adelaja
Leaders in the body of Christ must be humble and broken from the Lord’s hand to be truly useful in His kingdom.
— Greg  Gordon
Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see “Why are you not leading”?
— Carlos Wallace
Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.
— Gary Rohrmayer
Self-reliance is an America virtue but not a biblical value. Solomon wrote, "The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice." (Proverbs 12:15) The word 'listen' carries with it the meaning of seeking out as well as receiving advice. A lot of pain can be prevented if leaders would just check in with their coach before a making a big decision.
— Gary Rohrmayer
Leaders should not stand in front of people. They should stand behind the people.
— Sadghuru
A strong team consists of people who know how to follow a leader.
— Sunday Adelaja
Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.
— Gary Rohrmayer, Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church
Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it
— Narendra Modi
Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. It's why the whole world is falling apart.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If you don’t know what your barriers are, it’s impossible to figure out how to tear them down.
— John    Manning, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.
— Bonnie Marcus, The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.
— Cheryl A. Bachelder, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others
Demonstrating integrity is indispensable for leaders.
— Scott K. Edinger, The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company
Know the strength of the followers and tap into their energy. Get others involved. Trust them to do their best. Finally, don't forget to praise the workers.
— Teresa Hampton, Leading Ladies: Willing Hearts, Willing Hands
But as much as we like the familiar, as leaders we must be willing to learn, and learning many times requires stretching, growing, and becoming a bit uncomfortable in the process.
— Teresa Hampton, Leading Ladies: Willing Hearts, Willing Hands
Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gedichte
Thought leadership is when a leader's thoughts are being used by leaders to lead others.
— Onyi Anyado
It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.
— Jimmy Carter, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Intellectuals are rarely successful as leaders. They are so trapped in their ideals that they cannot venture out in the real world to win and lead.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
It is never easy for any leader to choose between differentiation and equality. You are condemned either way. When you treat everyone equally, you are considered just by majority as equality benefits below average people and they seem to always be in majority. At the same time, you are also condemned because you can’t produce results with people having a crab mentality. However, if you choose to reward the excellence and punish the non-performer, you achieve the desired results but get condemned for being unfair, unjust, cruel and Darwinian.
— Awdhesh Singh
Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.
— Jim George, A Leader After God's Own Heart: 15 Ways to Lead with Strength
All great leaders are known to have faith. They first develop faith in themselves, which means they connect their body, mind and intellect with their soul. They also connect their soul with the Universal Soul where all souls of the world are connected with each other. Leadership is thus a spiritual quality that comes from faith and trust.
— Awdhesh Singh, Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness
If you wish to succeed as a leader, you should be capable of transforming the souls of people, which control their intellect, mind and body. A good leader transforms the souls of the people, which then become like his own soul...Once the nature of the followers is changed, they ‘willingly’ follow the path of their leader A leader transforms ordinary men into exceptionally powerful people just like a strong magnet transforms an ordinary piece of iron into a powerful magnet.
— Awdhesh Singh
The most interesting aspect of leadership is that it cannot be predicted. All great leaders had been quite ordinary in their early years. It was only when they became leaders that people started recognising them as leaders.It is difficult to identify specific qualities that make a leader. However, when leaders emerge, people are inclined to point out their leadership qualities. Yet, when other people imbibe the same qualities and try to imitate the actions of their leaders, they may fail.
— Awdhesh Singh, Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness
Academically brilliant persons usually make excellent managers and bureaucrats as they can efficiently implement the vision of the government or world leaders by following the prescribed methods. However, they may prove to be poor leaders, for they may not have taken the pain to understand the world on their own, and hence, cannot contribute any new thought or line of action to tackle new problems.
— Awdhesh Singh, Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness
Those who are blindly led, blindly follow.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
A leader is one who chooses the interest of his followers over his personal ignominy. He can beg, steal and even snatch for the followers. He suffers individual loss for the sake of the gain of his followers. That makes him a leader whom people follow because they themselves do not have the courage to do so. People do not mind if someone else does all the dirty jobs for them while they can enjoy the fruits without getting their own hands dirty.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
We praise our leaders when they act against our adversaries. But when our own interest is threatened, we begin to dislike the same leaders, irrespective of the sincerity of their intentions. An effective leader is bound to create enemies.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
Hatred is the emotional price leaders must pay for getting love and honour.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
Effective leaders have the ability to serve and appreciate others while at the same time enabling them to achieve greatness.
— -Shandel Slaten
Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.
— S. E. Entsua-Mensah
Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
— Richie Norton
Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.
— Adam LiVecchi
A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.
— Todd Stocker
Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.
— Mark W. Boyer
People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of the interests of others.
— Dean M. Schroeder, The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other.
— Al Ritter
If prophets are real, they are not leaders but followers.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Politicians obfuscate. It gets them re-elected. If no-one can understand what is going on, then the perception is that we need someone to guide us through the fog. Many people want to be led. A few people even think that they need to be led.
— Sieg Pedde
Effective leaders make it easy for people around them to tell the truth, to be candid and open.
— Al Ritter
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leadersare made rather than born.
— Warren G. Bennis
There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong.
— Al Ritter
The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.
— Gary Patton
True Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.
— Matthew Norman, Domestic Violets
I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!
— Bill Cosby, Himself
Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.
— Fela Durotoye
The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.
— Mark      Miller, The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
— Mark      Miller, The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
— Mark      Miller, The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
— Bill Hybels, Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.
— Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold
Richard rubbed his temples. He had a headache from lack of sleep. "Don't you understand? This isn't about conquering lands and taking things from others; this is about fighting oppression."The general rested a boot on the gilded rung of a chair and hooked a thumb behind his wide belt. "I don't see much difference. From my experience, the Master Rahl always thinks he knows best, and always wants to rule the world. You are your father's son. War is war. Reasons make no difference to us; we fight because we are told to, same as those on the other side. Reasons mean little to a man swinging his sword, trying to keep his head.
— Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold
The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That’s why it cannot last." "Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?""The need to lead is a symptom.
— Whitley Strieber, The Key: A True Encounter
Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ.
— Sue Mallory
There are no perfect leaders.
— Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty
Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.
— Orrin Woodward
Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear
—  they say what voters want to say.
To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.
— Sue Mallory, Equipping Church, The
I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.
— Ogwo David Emenike
We are attempting to build, within our movement, non-exploitative ways of relating to one another based on trust and concern rather than political expediency. We have serious personal/political intentions in breaking down hierarchical and elitist structures, and for experimenting with leaderless groups and collective decision making. In dealing with the media these revolutionary principles and practices are destroyed. The media works to create leaders, it knows no way of relating to us on our own terms. Being interviewed and presented as a leader is a real ego trip--the media brings out the most counter-revolutionary traits in people. Elitism, dissension and division are the ultimate results.
— Nancy Ferro
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
— Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown
In a world of words, anything is possible...
— Laura Wright LaRoche
Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something.
— Ryū Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era
If I disagree with you sometimes, it's because I have a mind of my own.
— Emma Paul
Do the things you want to do; if you don’t, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.
— Soupy Sales
Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.
— Elizabeth  George, Believing the Lie
You are the Jehovah of goodness, Allah of brotherhood, Buddha of reasoning and Krishna of love. And that’s more than enough gods, that the world will ever need.
— Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.
— Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
How well it was said," answered the fisherman, "that swords can be kept off with shields but the Eye of Wisdom pierces through every defense!
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
Words are seeds. They grow with time. Wisdom is to plant in your mind words that you desire to harvest.
— Grace Penuel
Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.
— Kevin N. Fair
Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation
— Karl Wiggins, Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm
The quality of a man is not determined by the opinions that others hold of him, nor by the opinions that he holds of himself. The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes. Only that and that alone.
— C. JoyBell C.
Don't ruin the moment by saying something stupid. There's elegance in things left unsaid.
— Kurtis J. Wiebe, Peter Panzerfaust, Vol. 2: Hooked
Sometimes the answer is in the question.
— Cristina Smith, The Word Search Oracle- Yoga for the Brain™
God doesn’t help anyone, humans do.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament
No matter how big a hen's hut is, it must bow to enter
— Ikechukwu Joseph
A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.
— Abhijit Naskar
Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament
Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.
— Abhijit Naskar
Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage.
— Abhijit Naskar
Every person is bound to make the first impression with the help of words
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives of others in some most amazing ways
— John M Sheehan
My favorite alphabet is 'R'. It has got: Revenge, Racism, Reincarnation, Renaissance, Revival and Resurgence.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
If you're gonna catch fire
—  you better love my heat.
Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation.
— Abhijit Naskar
O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own story is a life worthy to be read
— John M Sheehan
The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.
— Abhijit Naskar
Stop looking at people's religions. Try to look at the goodness within them.
— Abhijit Naskar
Contentment is the greatest wealth.
— Abhijit Naskar
Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.
— Abhijit Naskar
Beauty lies in simplicity.
— Abhijit Naskar
Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
My past is ahead of me because I am beyond my past.
— Steven Cuoco
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
— Publilius Syrus
The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.
— Alexis  Hall, For Real
Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.
— Alexis  Hall, For Real
It's not what you do, it's what it means.
— Alexis  Hall, For Real
You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words,
— Eyden I., Kiss Friendzone Goodbye
Everything in its own time. If your time is not right now, your right now may be soon.
— Steven Cuoco
Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.
— Amit Abraham
The truth actually lies mostly in three words - God bless you, I love you, I adore you, I trust you, I believe you, I mistrust you, and finally God curse you, I hate you and talak talak talak. Only the frauds and politicians speak beyond the three truthful words.
— Amit Abraham
Each day you wake up, you wake up with billions around the world but when the sun sets, not all retire. It is a joyful privilege to note that you are a unique person among billions of people who wake up each day to walk on the surface of the earth. It is a noble responsibility to note that you have to use this privilege effectively.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
under the lighthouse there's always darkness
— Tsukasa Hojo, Cat's Eye, Vol. 4
I am yet to see an insane who would use the mid of the high way as a home. Regardless of the degree of insanity, there is always a regard for the value and essence of life
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Your tongue holds your fate, and your fingers drive you to it.
— Elie Chansa
Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A person’s voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.
— Frank Beddor
I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.
— Elizabeth Scott
Style is art and fashion is everything. Personal expression should reflect the best of who you are and respected without being misunderstood.
— Steven Cuoco
If you don’t walk according to the Word of God, then you are on the way that leads to self-destruction
— Sunday Adelaja
If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.
— Syed Arshad, If It's Not Love
People don't care what you name it, G. They like pie for what's on the inside.
— Kat Yeh
Even if you think you are thinking and acting globally, there is always more to learn and know!
— Auliq Ice
Words that comes out of your mouth describes you character and personalty
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
— Guatama Buddha
A woman who's self confident doesn't need to compete with other females. She knows her worth and lives a purpose filled life.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.
— Ellery Adams, Poisoned Prose
You get one chance.You get to do this thing one time and you don’t even know when it goes from swirling forward and around and around in circles to just a plain cold stop and nothing more. Can you believe it? All this time I’ve spent weighing this and weighing that, worrying about this and worrying about that, living back then and living forward, caring about what so-and-so thinks and about so-and-so, too, but never living here, here, this moment here. Never even acknowledging that this moment even exists, and it hits me, like a live volt through the chest.This moment here.This is all you get.Before you are part of the sky
— Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit
A book is not just a collection of words, it is a perception portrayed on blank sheets. You know, getting you the feelings of blowing winds and rains and sun and flowers around, the smiles, the tears, the notional links with the characters and make them all alive, while you read. And that's sure as hell a gruelling task !
— Syed Arshad
You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'?
— Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel
The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.
— Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway
Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they'll never succeed because you are unique.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Half of wisdom is love and friendship with people.(the other half is to guard yourself against the evils of people)
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.
— Glen Duncan
If we have touched another's life with our action and through our words then we have lived.
— Aisha Mirza
A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness. I am speaking now but I am saying nothing. I am just making noises, and, as it happens, they are organized in words and you should not draw meaning from this.
— Cecil Baldwin
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
— Andrea Hairston, Redwood and Wildfire
The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.
— Darynda Jones
Word – An eternal power,In a wrong place at a wrong time,Inflicts more pain than a weapon
— Samir Satam, Postcards From Memory
Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.
— Ben Abix
Close People Are That Closer, As They Can Share Everything With A Stranger But Not To The Really Closed Ones.
— Jay Patel
Facts do not lie within biased opinions.
— Dawn Stewart Field
'Time to live dangerously. We're having pancakes.' 
— Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him
We must embrace the darkness as well as the light in order to truly understand life.
— Andrew Fairchild
The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
— L.A. Hilden
He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.
— Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.
— Tessa Dare, Any Duchess Will Do
Ladies let me give you some advice: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as “deserving” respect; you get what you demand from people,
— Tucker Max, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore & enjoy. Live heart-fully.I’m a writer & philosopher, of course I have the right to invent words! I try not to do it carelessly, I only write what sounds and feels right.
— Jay Woodman
If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
— Ben Bova
if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies.""Jace," Clary said, "this is important.""Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge," he said as an afterthought. "I hear he'll do anything for a -""JACE!" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. "JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said."Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.""Easy mistake to make," Jem said.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???Graystripe:...Drowning?Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?
— Erin Hunter
I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He looked at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?""Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register.""Really?""No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what?
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.”Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?”Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman!
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise.“Smoke and fire,” she said. “Clanging on metal all day long. You’re scaring away the birds!”“Oh, no, not the birds!
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
If you are going to do that, would you mind not jostling the bed so much?' came a sarcastic voice near the head board. 'Perhaps you could roll around on the floor.
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Daughter
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.
— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Knock him out, Paris!''Sure. Want me to spew diamonds from my ass while I’m at it?
— Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night
Just three words? Nothing about his physical health? His equipment? His supplies?''You got me,' she said. 'He left a detailed status report. I just decided to lie for no reason.''Funny,' Venkat said. 'Be a smart-ass to a guy seven levels above you at your company. See how that works out.''Oh no,' Mindy said. 'I might lose my job as an interplanetary voyeur? I guess I'd have to use my master's degree for something else.''I remember when you were shy.''I'm space paparazzi now. The attitude comes with the job.
— Andy Weir, The Martian
Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid.""Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.
— Tessa Dare, A Week to Be Wicked
I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.
— Karen Chance, Embrace the Night
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least.
— Jane Austen
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
The mage pulled my knife out of his side and looked at it. “Nice knife.” The voice was deep but female.I threw my second knife. The blade bit into the mage’s chest. Shit. Missed the neck. “Here, have another one.
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds
There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.
— Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!""Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight.""What?""I set fire to the boat.""But we're on the boat!""I know.
— Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point.
— Ottilie Weber, Family Ties
Give me a few minutes.”“You have time.” He sat in the grass.“Are you just going to sit there and watch me?”“Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best.”“Peasant?”He shrugged. “You started the name calling.
— Ilona Andrews, On the Edge
Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.
— Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.
— Christopher Moore, Fool
Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson
— Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry
Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.
— Kerry E. Wagner
Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film."Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?""I just told you.""You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider.""Why ask if you think you know?
— Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key
We were in such good moods, we even decided to hit Todd's house for candy. Sam rang the doorbell, and when it opened, this hideous, rubber monster face roared at us. Sam screamed. Todd started laughing and took off the mask. I yelled, "Put it back on! Put it back on! Your hideousness is terrifying!"Todd did a fake yuk-yuk-yuk at my joke. "What are you guys supposed to be? Is it Prom Night Massacre or something?"Sam sighed at Todd's obvious stupidity. "We're zombie princesses, Todd. Can't you tell?" She stuck her arms straight out in front of her and said, "BRAINS! BRAINS!"I patted Sam on the head and said, "Sorry, Sam. You're wasting your time with this one.
— Kristin Walker, A Match Made in High School
I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered.""What! How long has it been?""Five minutes. I got bored.
— Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye
YES. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL. LIKE A SUAVE THING. In fact, from here on, please forward my mail to 1 Suave Hill, Suave Boulevard, Suavieland, Planet of She's-So-Smooth-I-Can't-Believe-She's-Not-Butter.
— Michele Jaffe, Kitty Kitty
Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer...""Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.
— Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key
Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.
— Jim Butcher, Changes
Nobody liked my plan."You want us to split up?" Chase asked, his brow wrinkling in obvious bewilderment.Lake echoed the sentiment, her voice flat. "Why would we split up? There's four of us and one of him." After a brief moment's pause, she amended her head count to better reflect the real odds. "Three and a half of us, one of him."Three and a half, as in three werewolves, one human. I narrowed my eyes. "For your sake, Lake, I'm going to pretend that Devon is the half."Dev, unquestionably the strongest person in the room, just shrugged and let me keep my delusions. "It's because of my petite stature," he said. All 6'4" of him.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves
Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
He seemed only ... annoyed. Annoyed, and sweaty, and hot. "Yeah, well," he said, "the next time you decide to sneak out of our magically warded apartment through a door that shouldn't really exist, leave a note.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
Minho snickered and leaned back in his chair. “Man, you are one butt-load of sunshine, let me tell you.
— James Dashner, The Maze Runner
You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.
— John Flanagan
Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.
— Banksy, Wall and Piece
Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Jules stood up and stretched gracelessly. “Let’s hurry up and pay before she”-she indicated Claire with a flick of her thumb-“sees something shiny and we lose her again.
— Kimberly Derting, The Body Finder
Is this the girl?” Kieran’s voice was very different: It sounded like waves sliding up the shore. Like warm water under pale light. It was seductive, with an edge of cold. He looked at Emma as if she were a new kind of flower, one he wasn’t sure he liked. “She’s pretty,” he said. “I didn’t think she’d be pretty. You didn’t mention it.”Iarlath shrugged. “You’ve always been partial to blondes,” he said.“Okay, seriously?” Emma snapped her fingers. “I am right here. And I was not aware I was being invited to a game of ‘Who’s the Hottest?'"I wasn’t aware you were invited at all,” said Kieran. His speech had a casual edge, as if he was used to talking to humans.“Rude,” said Emma.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
— John Green, Paper Towns
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.
— Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.
— Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. “I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined,” he said sourly.
— Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
Discord says it's a good idea. That's comforting.
— Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy
Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously fuck you up.
— Ice-T, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
A psycho murderer who lubed. How considerate.
— Jordan Castillo Price, Among the Living
While Daniel disappeared into his room, probably to limn the contours of some exquisite constellation of philosophical nonsense for his internship applications and gasp in the throes of his overachieving OCDness.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.
— Jim Butcher, Hex Appeal
I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
— Daniel O'Malley, The Rook
His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes.
— Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?
— Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke
... We are Nephilim; we fight our own battles." "That's not precisely true, is it?" said a velvety voice. It was Magnus Bane, wearing a long and glittering coat, multiple hoops in his ears, and a roguish expression. Clary had no idea where he'd come from. "You lot have used the help of warlocks on more than one occasion in the past, and paid handsomely for it too." Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
— Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
... As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
I thought you were a drunk.""A drunk?""Bloodshot eyes, dirty clothes, getting home in the wee hours of the morning, making a lot ofnoise, grouchy all the time as if you had a hangover… what else was I to think?"He rubbed his face. "Sorry, I wasn't thinking. I should have showered, shaved, and dressed in asuit before I came out to tell you that you were making enough noise to raise the dead.
— Linda Howard, Mr. Perfect
Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!" "Obviously not," the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice.
— Erin Hunter, The Forgotten Warrior