Quotes by American Authors - Page 1033

My color is my joy and not my burden...
Bebe Moore Campbell
So they spread the paintings on the lawn, and the boy explained each of them. "This is the school, and this is the playground, and these are my friends." He stared at the paintings for a long time and then shook his head in discouragement. "In my mind, they were a whole lot better."Isn't that the truth? Every morning, I go to my desk and reread yesterday's pages, only to be discouraged that the prose isn't as good as it seemed during the excitement of composition. In my mind, it was a whole lot better.Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page closer to what you have in your mind.
David Morrell
I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.
Anthony Liccione
I was where my heart held out hope that someday I would be again. It was the reason I never forgot him. My heart had held onto him. And as he clung to me, as he soothed me, held me, I felt everything begin to relax.
Rebecca Ethington
The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware.
Chris Prentiss
Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising.
Jennifer Melzer
Love doesn't always mean rings and veils and walks down the aisle.Sometimes love means broken windows and broken hearts,and not being able to fix either. And sometimes love means telling you, there's no such thing as time in Heaven so don't rush to meet me. Stay a while, and pick, girl, the roses.
Jennifer Gooch Hummer
God has already equipped you with the skills you need to achieve your dreams. If you just try, work hard, take control of your destiny, remain true to yourself and believe it is possible, you will have unlimited power to achieve the impossible.
Germany Kent
Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true.
Billy Graham
High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.
Eugene Mirman
It’s not by story alone that successful advocates urge others to take action. Advocating with our personal stories takes a specific kind of preparation. It requires practice with elements of persuasion, public speaking, media interview skills and storytelling—not to mention healthy does of fortitude and commitment.
John Capecci and Timothy Cage
The number one way culture is shaped is by what leaders model.
Mindy Hall
Most world-historic events - great military battles, political revolutions-are self-consciously historic to the participants living through them. They act knowing that their decisions will be chronicled and dissected for decades or centuries to come. But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for prosperity. And of course, if they do recognize that they are living through a historical crisis, it's often too late- because, like it or not, the primary way that ordinary people create this distinct genre of history is by dying.
Steven Johnson
There is a wager that we must all make; for the small stake of some rewarding mental training, we can attain lasting contentment and contribute to a positive outcome for our planet.
Neil Hayes
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
Marita Golden
A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain.
Marie Lu
Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.
Stan Slap
Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.
Francesca Lia Block
The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.
George R.R. Martin
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.
Robert Schuller
Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. However, just because you know and understand the nature of something or someone, does not mean that you will come to terms.
Lionel Suggs
The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.
Ron Baratono
She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.
Lauren Oliver
To live a life of excellence, you will have to take risks. You will have to step into new territory and climb new mountains. If you’re up to something that’s as big as you are, it’s going to be scary. If it feels perfectly safe, you are probably underachieving. To leave your mark in the world, you will have to stand someplace you’ve never been willing to stand before. And you will have to have the courage to aspire to excellence. To create an extraordinary life you will have to be present in each moment and give 100 percent of yourself. You will have to commit each day to being the best you can be, and aspire to perform your daily tasks in the most conscious way possible. Living your best year requires you to take a moment each time you’re about to make a move—whether you are about to deliver a communication, make a decision, or put something into your body—and make sure that move reflects the very highest choice you could make. 
Debbie Ford
I’ve always wanted to be the sort of boy who does the right thing without having to think about it first, the kind of boy who makes his bed every morning and wears his mouth like a vase for words of kindness and simplicity. My agents keep telling me I’m too bruised to play the part. They have no idea how hard it is to make my bed when I’m constantly sleeping in yours, how difficult it is to keep my body from bruising when I’m almost always on my knees, making room in my vase for you, and watching while you text all the boys who are up for the role.
Kris Kidd
Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.
Kenneth Eade
I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.
Maureen Brady
Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.
Shannon L. Alder
Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.
Jodi Picoult
Be careful when you ask Karma for something that you have always wanted. When I was young, I asked to be surrounded by beautiful women. Now I have a wife and four daughters.
James Hauenstein
In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering.
Jeff Lindsay
To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.
Debasish Mridha
Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.
Danielle Steel
Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.
Mia Castile
To know shame is to be human. And to have the capacity for empathy is also to be human.
Brené Brown
We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.
Bill W.
Envy is a buzz killer."~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
There is no darkness like that of a confined space.
Lauren DeStefano
Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the doctrine of grace means as messed up their false worldview should make them.
Timothy J. Keller
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
JOHN C MAXWELL
Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham
Barbara W. Tuchman
To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive
Greg Van Eekhout
MANY DOGS RUN WILD IN THE CITY.SOME ARE ABANDONED BY THEIR OWNERSAND OTHERS ARE BORN TO LOST DOGS.STRAYS HAVE A LIMITED LIFE EXPECTANCYEVEN WHEN THEY BAND TOGETHER IN PACKS.THEY ARE PREY TO DISEASE, PARASITES,WEATHER AND AUTOMOBILES.THEY TEND TO BE FRIGHTENED AND VICIOUS.THEY ARE UNABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVESOR ANYONE ELSE.
Jenny Holzer
I don't think it's really about being bitchy or demanding or cold or calculating: those characteristics, after all, can be attached to most women with even the paltriest of evidence. I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too deep, too vibrant, too opinionated...
Elizabeth Wurtzel
The hunter does not seek dead game.
Frank Herbert
Listen to the earth, Feel the fire. Allow the power to flow through ye.
Jean M. Grant
Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?
Ana Monnar
The wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.
Richard Hovey
It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.
Darnell Lamont Walker
You know what’s worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.
John Hennessy
The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
Dillon Burroughs
Give yourself wherever you can, whenever you can. You will have more to give and share again and again.
Debasish Mridha
I had some peculiar ideas about love. I’ll tell you what I thought on the subject back then: it’s about as much use as a barrel with no bottom. When I fed the pigs and two of them got to scrapping over an old soft onion, I thought: that’s love. Love is eating. Love is a snarling pig snout and long tusks. Love is a dress like the sun. Love is the color of blood. Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.I said I loved her back. I put my hand on the door and I said I loved her back and when I said it I thought of kissing her and also of shooting her through the eye.
Catherynne M. Valente
Scarlett activated the viola and it came down like short shimmering curtain that covered her eyes with a band of violet light. It dilated her eyes, increasing her binocular summation so that everything in her field of vision was magnified and clear. It also protected her retinas from any sort of laser fire or plasma flash.
April Adams
A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.
Mary O'Hara
Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you’re willing to live in a cardboard box on the streets with him, then marry him.
Lori Colombo-Dunham