Quotes by American Authors - Page 1000

Why had he assumed time was some sort of infinite resource? Now the hourglass had busted open, and what he’d always assumed was just a bunch of sand turned out to be a million tiny diamonds.
Tommy Wallach
The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.
Lisa Kleypas
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
Green Day
I no longer know who I am, as I refuse to remember who I was.
Hans Lindor
When a team is in possession of the ball, but cannot advance its agenda any further, they have to ‘drop back and punt.’ Doing this requires that they step back to regroup, reassess, and reorganize their strategy in pursuit of winning the game. When you are faced with change and apply this regrouping process, you are better equipped to make decisions for your next steps. Rather than settling back into old habits and doing what you’ve always done, create something fresh, new, and awesome.
Susan C.Young
For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.
Augusta Scattergood
She begins, “What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?” and answers, “Our question is this: Are we loved? I don’t mean by one another.” She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.
Pat Schneider
And with a frenzied, frightened, anxious heart, she tumbled headfirst into the life she was destined to live.- Future
Abby Rosmarin
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
Criss Jami
Don't you dare touch yourself today. I want your orgasm and I plan on getting it later.
T.K. Leigh
People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence. Terrified of squandering our existence, we each seek to break out from our muteness and strike an accord with our brothers and sisters whom share our inherent desire to reach a global consilience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Victor spread his hands and beamed. “There’s a truckload of supplies sitting on a dock in Madera. We got food, medicine, and machines ready to roll. All we need is a pigheaded truck driver with giant cojones and no brains to ram the stuff past the blockade and save the day.” The pilot leaned back and put his hands behind his head. “Naturally, I thought of Abel Yeager.
Scott Bell
Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.
Jim Berg
Don’t listen to any advice from anybody who has fewer published bestsellers than you, or anybody with more bestsellers than you. Or anybody with the exact same number of bestsellers as you. Don’t listen to any advice at all, even this advice I’m telling you right now.
Dan Alatorre
I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything--what a relief!
David R. Hawkins
Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.
Bryant McGill
To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.
Alan W. Watts
[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.
Paul Krugman
Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.
Andy Weir
But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of what, until now, has been senseless.
Dani Shapiro
Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is right).
Alexandra Katehakis
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams
You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.
Roseanne Barr
Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you.
Deborah Brodie
I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose
Zach Sobiech
As the sun has endless lights, endless power, endless warmth, so do you also have endless love with endless power and, even better, your power of love and capacity to give grows by giving.
Debasish Mridha
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
Henry Ward Beecher
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
Bernie S. Siegel
Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?
Ben Lerner
(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit," which was and is awesome.)
Tina Fey
I think for a time I was unsure what love meant. And now at least I AM sure that a very big part of it involves caring about someone SO much, that you find yourself using Your energy to make their life the BEST it can possibly be. And in turn they do the same for you. Until you both are strong enough to overcome whatever struggles you might have battled on your own, and also struggles you still have yet to face.
Bethany Brookbank
Freedom of thoughts are more important than any other kind of freedom.
Debasish Mridha
What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline cracks.
Jodi Picoult
It’s perfectly understandable, in my opinion, to find good things in the teachings of Jesus Christ or any other figure, mythical or otherwise. But to base your life on the teachings of Jesus as they are portrayed in the Bible and claim that you are not religious is disingenuous.
David G. McAfee
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title—whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.
Matthew Bomer
It's strange how can lose things that are still right there. How a barrier can go up at any moment, trapping you on the other side, keeping you from what you want. How the things that hurt the most are things we once had.
Robyn Schneider
Funny thing about fear. When you cling to it, the fear grows exponentially, a monster morphing into a suffocating mass. But when you face it head-on, conquering the beast before it swallows you whole, you find there was nothing there to fear at all. The chains break, and the whole world feels lighter than ever before.
Juliette Cross
Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.
Dan Allender
Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.
Debasish Mridha
I see the cultural messaging everywhere that says an ordinary life is a meaningless life. . . . I know the yearning to believe that what I'm doing matters and how easy it is to confuse that with the drive to be extraordinary. I know how seductive it is to use the celebrity culture yardstick to measure the smallness of our lives. And I also understand how grandiosity, entitlement, and admiration-seeking feel like just the right balm to soothe the ache of being too ordinary and inadequate.
Brené Brown
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Opportunity to help others is the opportunity to help yourself in disguise.
Mayur Ramgir
And it is a profound consolation, perhaps the only one, to this haunted animal that wastes most of a long and ghostly life wandering the future and the past on its hind legs, looking for meanings, only to see in the eyes of others of its kind that it must die.
Peter Matthiessen
All of Europe, as far as we knew, was gone. It might as well not be there anymore. Russia was gone. By the time you got to wondering where America went there just wasn't any more room for it in your brain. A world without America just couldn't happen - the global economy would collapse. Every two penny warlord and dictator in the Third World would have a field day. It just wasn't possible. It would mean global chaos. It would mean the of history as we knew it. Which was exactly what happened.
David Wellington
We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
Marty Rubin
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
Deepak Chopra
Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.
Theodora Goss
As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .
Judith Viorst
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George Santayana
Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.
Stephanie Osborn
Suppose each of us make up a list of, say, fifty or more books that we believe should be in the library. Then , when Robinson goes to the bookseller in Philadelphia let him start with the first of each of our chooses, then the second of each, and so on down, omitting duplicates, of course. Let him go as far as his money lasts. How does that sound.""Vandaliz has a library," Fell said, "and so has Springfield and Edwardsville. why not Everton.
Harold Sinclair
And then finally she came - and the whole world faded out around us and we were just alone on the crowded sidewalk. I've heard it called love.("I Won't Take a Minute" aka "I'll Just Be a Minute" aka "Wait for Me Downstairs" aka "Finger Of Doom")
Cornell Woolrich
ASK YOURSELF: Do you appear self-confident or unsure? Do you project a calm demeanor or scream instability? Do you come across as a leader or try to stay invisible? Do you walk with purpose and intention or doubt and trepidation? Do you look vibrant and energetic, or stressed out and overwhelmed?
Susan C.Young
Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.
Bryan Way
Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.p 44
Michael Perry
Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.
Jacob M. Appel
As a gentleman- assuming you still have some pretensions in that direction- of honor- again, perhaps presumptuous, but still supposing your passing acquaintance with the concept- it is your duty- I won't even trouble to speculate here, but remain naively hopeful- to protect those under your care.
Connie Brockway
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
Ursula K Le Guin
Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.
Richie Norton