Quotes by American Authors - Page 1008

...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.
Criss Jami
Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.
Ishmael Beah
How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story.
Stacey Trombley
It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.
Shawn Green
Wherever you are and whatever you do, I hope you find the time to dwell in your favourite memories. It is one of the most beautiful and relaxing things we can do, no matter when and no matter where.
James Andrew Crosby
If you give them enough of yourself, they might realize that you're bleeding out from the pieces of you you keep giving them, and maybe give you something back. But then they don't. So you sit there. Less than you were.
Danielle Jordan
How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
Stephen R. Covey
There is nothing, he tells me, more odious than a German. However, their women are seductive, and they make the world's most beautiful music. My employer sings me a German song. He sounds like a buffalo in distress. Afterward he makes me read to him from the Bible.
Sofia Samatar
about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.
Khaled Hosseini
The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.
Sloane Crosley
How was I supposed to know ‘lucked out’ means ‘I got screwed over’ in Australian?
Elle Lothlorien
I am wildness and madness made flesh. You're just a girl"–he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–"and I am the wolf in the woods.
S. Jae-Jones
I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do such things?You mean harness light and water? Speedy asked. Change the weather?Yes.It's only the beginning, Speedy said. There are more marvels waiting. Some not so marvelous.Such as?Be not in haste, said the tortoise.There is nothing here but time.If you live long enough, you will see.Of course, though, you will see them from your cage.Live long enough? I asked. Are there mortal dangers here?The tortoise chuckled. The boy doesn't always take very good care of his prisoners, Rex the lizard chimed in.What do you mean? He doesn't feed us enough?Sometimes he doesn't understand what we need to survive, Rex answered. Sometimes he plays too rough.How can a creature able to bend the laws of nature be so cruel? I asked.
Patrick Jennings
He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Jennifer Donnelly
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles F. Stanley
Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.
J.D. Jordan
Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the planting of seeds that have produced new forms of truth, morality and meaning on my own terms, not according to the dogma laid down by religious ruffians or a vengeful God. If, as believers claim, the word "gospel" means good news, then the good news for me is that there is no gospel, other than what I can define for myself, by observation and conscience. As a journalist and free-thinking human being, I have come not to favor and fear religion, but to face and fight it as an impediment to civilized advancement.
Steve Benson
The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?
Kameron Hurley
Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve
Napoleon Hill
Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!
Walt Whitman
Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.
Diana Rowland
Freedom is to forgive one another for perceived wrongdoing
Judy Azar LeBlanc
Nico was devastatingly alone. He’d lost his big sister Bianca. He’d pushed away all other demigods who’d tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone.
Rick Riordan
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.
Zoey Dean
Even through the dulling effects of the pill, he wanted to be rid of his itching brain, his ignited skin, the flesh beneath, to in some way become so ethereal and Unbound to the earth that he could unsee, disavow, disavow
Jeff VanderMeer
One can't step into the river twice
Ann Howard Creel
Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.
Lisa Kleypas
Stand tall, my friends, when the fool comes around.
Ross Caligiuri
In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.
Sharon Salzberg
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Elon Musk
If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.
John Piper
When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.
Kelly Cutrone
I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library."Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.
Amanda Quick
On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.
Criss Jami
I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.
Scott Stabile
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
Anna Godbersen
What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms, the answer is that it wll elevate your spirit. And that's why I can't take much stock in the idea of going through a list of books or 'covering' a fixed number of selections, or anyway striving for the blessed state of having read this, or the other. Having read a book means nothing. Reading a book may be the most tremendous experience of your life; having read it is an item in your memory, part of your receding past... Why we have that odd faith in the magic of having read a book, I don't know. We don't apply the same principle elsewhere: We don't believe in having heard Mendelssohn's violin concerto...I say, don't read the classics -- try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.
Rudolf Flesch
Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.
Maureen Chiquet
I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.
Steven Magee
I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth.
Criss Jami
the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.
Richard DuFour
In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him. That's one of the things I admire about him, how he is always unapologetically, uncompromisingly himself. His spine is erect and impatient; white hairs blaze across his chest.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When you love yourself, then you are at peace. Wants or needs cannot destroy it
Debasish Mridha
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Jane Fonda
The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.
Billy Graham
Gary Robinson died hungry.He wanted fried chicken, the three-piece box for $2.19. Drunk, loud, and obnoxious, he pushed ahead of seven customers on line at a fast-food chicken outlet. The counter girl told him that his behavior was impolite. She calmed him down with sweet talk, and he agreed to step to the end of the line. His turn came just before closing time, just after the fried chicken ran out.He punched the counter girl so hard her ears rang, and a security guard shot him—three times.
Edna Buchanan
The branches are a storm around me, and I fall into a deep well of green. The needles and limbs rush past. It is a whirling motion of green and brown branches.
Ned Hayes
The universe is made of stories, not atoms!
Muriel Rukeyser
I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto
Clara E. Laughlin
Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?
Adam Langer
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, "On! on!" — but o'er the Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast.
Edgar Allan Poe
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost
I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.
Walter Dean Myers
We are confusing making “progress” with eradicating the larger problem.
Carlos Wallace
It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
Randy Alcorn
I always say that creating positive change in the world starts with just one person: you. That’s why it is so important to learn to be the right kind of selfish. It’s essential to learn the art of taking care of ourselves so that we can have the energy and the willpower to take care of each other and the world that we live in
Lizzie Velásquez
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Kate Capshaw
And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.
Jennifer A. Nielsen