Quotes by American Authors - Page 1022

If time and space, as sages say,Are things which cannot be,The sun which does not feel decayNo greater is than we.So why, Love, should we ever prayTo live a century?The butterfly that lives a dayHas lived eternity.
T.S Eliot
Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely.
Debasish Mridha
I can’t relate to your razzle-dazzle, your wish for voluptuous when my symphony is spanx.
Kelli Russell Agodon
The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of them astride white stallions, galloping across the countryside, charging across emerald meadows and through a forest the color of flames. Isabelle's hair streamed behind her like a river of ink, and Simon had even managed not to fall off his horse--never a foregone conclusion.
Cassandra Clare
Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.
Robert Silverberg
To be sure, there are human abilities that other animals lack, but the more we learn about animals, the more abilities we discover that humans lack. Obviously, if animals were included in the Olympics, humans wouldn’t take home any gold medals. We can’t run as fast as a cheetah, swim as well as a fish, or lift as much weight as an elephant.
Linda Bender
I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.
L.J. Smith
The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.
Colson Whitehead
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
Nikola Tesla
Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.
Debasish Mridha
Not many people ask me out.
Marina Sirtis
A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.
Sara Raasch
Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties… go after your faith with body, mind & soul.
Erica Goros
Maybe the entire world is in love with you and I'm the only one brave enough to admit it.
Sean Glatch
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.
Christopher Hitchens
I do not see the value of separating humans into a body, soul and spirit. We don't do this with any other mammals, so why do we do it with ourselves? Thinking and fresh ideas arise naturally from the rhythm of one’s internal felt-sense. It is the process artists demonstrate to humanity—to express our individuality in real-time, as a living process, rather than a “copied” idea.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.
Jim Rohn
There is a certain new ferocity in her eyes now. A certain new thing that was not there before. I recognize it as scar tissue. When a bone breaks, it heals stronger in the cracks. I realize this is what is happening to her heart.
Nayomi Munaweera
turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.
Ken Kesey
Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you.
Elizabeth Newton
Every small town has at least one house the children whisper about; the type of house that has always been abandoned; where the once pristine white paint has faded to a grimy gray; where the windows are boarded, and the lawn never grows; where children hold their breath and close their eyes as they pass by. A house that sounds like it contains an army of whispering spirits when the wind whistles through the nearby trees.In the town of Blackwood, that house could be found on Creep Street. It had stood there as long as he could remember.
The Blood Brothers
maybe silent hurting is the new Mid-Western love
Daniel Bailey
There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.
Caroline George
Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.
Patrick Reinken
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...
Cheryl Strayed
The Hot Air Balloon CharmLife Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar
Viola Shipman
Heart connection brings meaning to life and spirit to body.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Someone who loves you will reveal beautiful things within yourself... things you had never noticed before... things nobody else cared to.
Steve Maraboli
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
From attraction and affectionCover of perfectionFailure beyond texture to a painful lessonEverything that was from the start wasn't from the heart
Criss Jami
I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.
Martha Graham
I'll always choose you.Gabe Willoughby
Hope Collier
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling
Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.
Evan Meekins
One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
John Green
Often it takes that “knife in our heart” to drive us to Him. Our faith, our very lives, depend on God, and when we enter the valley of grief, we need His help or we will never climb another mountain.
Billy Graham
Progress is hard on history.
Justina Chen
A woman’s magnetism is not a body measurement.
Riley Murphy
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
Edna Ferber
It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone. If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the dream of never dying or of traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits, to declare that this dream was not a feverish trick of the mind but was an actuality at least as real as that other, thinner, more unhappy illusion we call normal life. After all, the intimations of endless love were the same now as they were thousands of years before, while normal life had changed a thousand times and in a thousand different ways. Which then, was more real?
Scott Spencer
Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.
Suzy Kassem
I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way.
Jamie Mason
Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.
Madeline Miller
When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, . . . I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.
Elmina Drake Slenker
Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?" […] There really is only one overarching point that all of these stories have revealed, and that is–and I say this without the slightest bit of hyperbole or melodrama; it's not metaphorical and it's not figurative; it is literally true–that the goal of the NSA and it's five eyes partners in the English speaking world–Canada, New Zealand, Australia and especially the UK–is to eliminate privacy globally, to ensure that there could be no human communications that occur electronically, that evades their surveillance net; they want to make sure that all forms of human communications by telephone or by Internet, and all online activities are collected, monitored, stored and analyzed by that agency and by their allies.That means, to describe that is to describe a ubiquitous surveillance state; you don't need hyperbole to make that claim, and you do not need to believe me when I say that that's their goal. Document after document within the archive that Edward Snowden provided us declare that to be their goal. They are obsessed with searching out any small little premise of the planet where some form of communications might take place without they being able to invade it.
Glenn Greenwald
Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures,and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.
Richelle Mead
Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don't care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so.
Louisa May Alcott
For over a century and a half, anarchists have been arguing that coercive, hierarchical organization (as embodied in government and corporations) is not equivalent to organization per se (which they regard as necessary), and that coercive organization should be replaced by decentralized, nonhierarchical organization based on voluntary cooperation and mutual aid. This is hardly a rejection of organization.
Chaz Bufe
(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.
Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy
She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.
A.S. King
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
Joseph J. Ellis
He who loves you deeply owns you without your knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
Mother (fragment)...You asked me if I would be sad when it happenedand I am sad. But the iris I moved from your housenow hold in the dusty dry fists of their rootsgreen knives and forks as if waiting for dinner,as if spring were a feast. I thank you for that.Were it not for the way you taught me to lookat the world, to see the life at play in everything, I would have to be lonely forever.
Ted Kooser
Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends?
Jan Karon
they start in the ice garden, through the twins grow impatient with leisurely pace that celia prefers to take around the frozen trees. before they have traveled halfway through the space they are begging to ride the carousel instead.
Erin Morgenstern
Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.
Donna Tartt