Quotes by American Authors - Page 1068

You only fail when you stop trying.
Thomas Edison
Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don’t achieve that in reality.
Colleen Chen
To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.
Rubye Armorer
Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.
DaShanne Stokes
We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don’t talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.
Ashley Mansour
Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature’s immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens us to the beauty inscribing our own humanity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stands out for its frank discussion of his handicap and how it changed his worldview. In it, Holman was reminiscing about a few rendezvous from his past. Disarmingly, he admitted that he had no idea what his paramours looked like, or even whether they were homely. Moreover, he didn't care: by abandoning the standards of the sighted world, he argues, he could tap into a more divine and more authentic beauty. Hearing a woman's voice and feeling her caresses -- and then filling in what was missing with his own fancy -- gave him more pleasure than the mere sight of a women ever had, he said, a pleasure beyond reality. "Are there any who imagine," Holman asked, "that my loss of eyesight must necessarily deny me the enjoyment of such contemplation? How much more do I pity the mental darkness which could give rise to such an error.
Sam Kean
I was terrified of what might have happened to you," I choked
Becca Fitzpatrick
If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car
Judy Gold
Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you.
Donna Lynn Hope
If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.
Anthony Liccione
Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.
Ilsa J Bick
She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches beeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
Suzanne Collins
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
Dorothy Allison
The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.
Ally Condie
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
Aristotle declared that, ‘It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.’ Does the intrinsic tension between opposing ideas create a lamplight of stereoscopic vision? Does the mental friction generated by antinomy, a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles, lead to war within the mind or does the natural rasping of abrasive thoughts spur the mind to create soothing metaphorical thoughts in order to attain conceptual peace?
Kilroy J. Oldster
The Law-of-Destination is straightforward and simple: It is not possible to arrive where we never take the time to go.
Heather K. O'Hara
Upturned face.Parted lips. The good-night kiss he couldn’t leave without. Only, Megan’s lips were stiff and unyielding. She didn’t pull away. It might almost have been better if she had. Instead, she’d allowed the kiss to occur, taking it with the same cool detachment offered in her words.
Mira Lyn Kelly
Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.
Siri Hustvedt
All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.
Harold Bloom
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck
My job as a therapist is to help victims of trauma understand that they are not to blame. They are not responsible for the bad things that happened to them as children, nor are they responsible for the personal problems that developed as a result. What they are responsible for is fixing those problems. This can only be done by bravely facing the past, identifying the effects that the past has on the present, and working through all the painful emotional baggage.- Scared Selfless
Michelle Stevens
There's always a price.
Kenya Wright
We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.
Agnes Newton Keith
However, I don’t understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea?
Garth Stein
There are things I can't force. I must adjust.
CM. Ward
Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic, with a good chance of A. indifference and B. disinterest in what the critics say.
Panic at the Disco
I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52)
Russell Freedman
Be the love you seek.
Bryant McGill
When you are ready to be done with the day, praise yourself with love and kindness for the hard work and accomplishments made during the day.
Debasish Mridha
The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear.
Debasish Mridha
A psycho murderer who lubed. How considerate.
Jordan Castillo Price
I needed him like I needed air to breathe.
C.J. English
Cosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the _cosmic belonging_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan discourse is about turning a _compassionate gaze_ onto others regardless of one's nationality and citizenship, origin of birth, religion, gender; race and ethnicity, sexuality, or ability
Namsoon Kang
Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
This woman lawyer said the best men wanted to be pure for their wives, and even if they weren't pure, they wanted to be the ones to teach their wives about sex. Of course they would try to persuade a girl to have sex and say they would marry her later, but assoon as she gave in, they would lose all respect for her and start saying that if she did that with them she would do that with other men and they would end up by making her lifemiserable.
Sylvia Plath
Since beginners can only remain in contact with the object of observation for short periods, initially one should meditate in brief sessions even eighteen times a day; in due course stability will be achieved of its own accord, at which time the session can be lengthened. It is important not to try at first to meditate for long periods; otherwise, upon sight of the meditation cushion, one will feel nausea and laziness. The session should be left while it is going well, when one still feels that it would go well if continued.
Jeffrey Hopkins
Whatever it was that came over him that night pulled a cord—her laugh, or her surprise gasp slipping out to think he’d do something so bold.
Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
Lucy: I don't understand men.Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.
Sabrina Jeffries
It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.
Maggie Stiefvater
No one knows how another person feels in private.
Whitney Otto
People with depression can't just snap out of it or "turn that frown upside down." Depression can be a painful and overwhelming state that makes one unable to function, to think clearly or reasonably, or to want to simply face another day. Many people suffer alone and in silence because they are scared or ashamed. They feel weak…or pitiful. How can a person be incapable of having joy? “Why can’t I just have a good time? Why can’t I get on with it?
Sahar Abdulaziz
Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.”She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. “And damned be he—she—who cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”“Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you,” I told her, and she laughed.
Patricia Briggs
Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.
Robert James Waller
No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes--this is how mastery occurs!
Debra Crown LPC-S LCDC
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
Carl Sagan
The simplest things are the hardest to understand.
Kevin Wilson
The majority of our relationship took place over the phone, saving me tons of calories in unswallowed semen.
Jenny Mollen
He’s called you, like, four times in the past week. And seriously, you should be embarrassed. I’ve never met anyone who has as much phone sex as you two.” My eyes narrowed on her. “How do you know about the phone sex?” “Duh. I pick up the phone and listen.” I gaped at her.
Gena Showalter
Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.
Tatjana Soli
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects.
Henry Ward Beecher
He suffered," added Athos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you.
V.E. Schwab
Happiness is important. Fun is everything.
Ray Bradbury
After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.
Jim George
...and it's ridiculous that anyone would praise a child for standing with arms spread out on a wooden cross, as if she were Jesus's dead sister wearing a checkerboard tablecloth.
Amy Tan
True friends don't come with conditions.
Aaron Lauritsen
Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit
Brian McNaughton
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
Elie Wiesel