Quotes by American Authors - Page 1086

You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they’re healthy and you’re not, because they’re kind and you’re this angry, frustrated . . . thing.
Tracy Guzeman
If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth.
Holly Mosier
It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.
Scott Turow
Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict?
Buffy Andrews
I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
Boys fight the wars. We’d have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.
Herman Wouk
Freedom is what's left when the belief systems deconstruct.
Dana Gore
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
Charles Bukowski
We need to find the light within ourselves, so we can see our true worth.
Imania Margria
People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there.
Ashly Lorenzana
...God expects every man to be what he claims to be. If we say things we do not believe, and profess things we do not feel, and lay claim to things we do not possess, we are tricksters and deceivers, causing mischief and confusion in the world.
Charles Jefferson
Polish has developed unimpeded; someone put their foot out and tripped English. The human grammar is a fecund weed, like grass. Languages like English, Persian, and Mandarin Chinese are mowed lawns, indicative of an interruption in natural proliferation.
John McWhorter
I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love.
Richelle E. Goodrich
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
Howard Schultz
At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and patient. We didn't expect this at all. We thought they would fail to understand how democracy works. We thought they would be afraid of the Khmer Rouge. We thought they would passively accept their fate. We were wrong.
Heidi Postlewait
They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.
Esmeralda Santiago
The slam of a car door drew her attention to a new arrival. Maxville Deputy Sheriff Zach Manus emerged from his unmarked 2011 Camaro and stalked toward them. Deep sorrow and anger laced across his handsome features. His light-brown hair stood a little more on end than normal. He stopped in front of them, his frown deepening and his golden-brown eyes darkening.
Lia Davis
Your path might be a lonely one... but, you are NOT alone!
Martin R. Lemieux
I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima
Ernest Hemingway
you are what you wear
Treasure Stitches
Misery is a heart that can never be content with what it has and, by always craving something more, brings about its own destruction. And desolation is a heart so fearful of losing what it hoards that it never knows the richness that comes from being able to give.
Anne Bishop
The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.
J. Michael Straczynski
In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
Don Marquis
Yes...and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him too.""Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor.""In that case, you have my permission to make out with her as long as I can watch.
Cassandra Clare
For associations to emerge healthy and strong, they must re-engage with their members around the heart-centered why of why they exist, leverage current leadership, and build future leadership while they integrate the balance of technology and face-to-face experiences.
Holly Duckworth
But I love him. You know it. You can't ask me to just sit back and let Paul do this. If he succeeds I won't even remember having met Jesse." "Right," my dad said reasonably. "So it won't hurt." "It will," I insisted, "It will hurt, Dad. Because deep down I'll know. I'll know there was someone… someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that, Dad, huh? What kind of life is that?
Meg Cabot
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.
Nancy Arroyo Ruffin
The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
E. Lockhart
By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea,From there the wind comes and blows over the world,By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea,From there the clouds come and rain falls over the world.
Jane Bierhorst
... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.
Brad Thor
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
I do not know that everything happens for a reason. I simply know that everything happens.
Erin Loechner
Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact.
Seth Godin
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castañeda
But it's a neurological fact that the scared self holds on while the reasoned one lets go.
Mary Karr
Nothing succeeds like success. Kill me now.
Doug Westberg
Christianity is being compared with other religions as never before. Some so-called Christian leaders even advocate the working out of a system of morals, ethics, and religion that would bring together all the religions of the world. It cannot be done. Jesus Christ is unique.
Billy Graham
We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night
W.S. Merwin
Living up to other people's expectations, limits your potential. You'll either find they are unreasonably high, or set so low you should consider it an insult. Only you should determine how far you're prepared to go and what you'll do to get there. And no one can lay claim when you achieve success. Don't worry about meeting the standard when you are the standard
Carlos Wallace
I suppose you’re young,’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo
Tyne O'Connell
President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.
Steven Magee
Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."Clara: "What?"Tucker: "You.
Cynthia Hand
It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.
Ming-Dao Deng
When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.
Cathryn Louis
I just keep losing. I mean, some people just...are supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on earth who...are supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners?
Donald Glover
Grandfather informs me that is not possible.
Jonathan Safran Foer
John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
John Taliaferro
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
Patch Adams
I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility.
Lionel Suggs
As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.
Scott Westerfeld
By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society.
Debasish Mridha
Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.
Lamar Giles
They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
In his worn blue jeans and a black T-shirt, the early-morning sun hits Isaiah just right, highlighting him like he’s a relaxed tiger bathing in the warmth. The light glints off his double rows of hoop earrings and there’s a twinkle in his eyes that makes me feel like he has a secret, but not the type kept from me. No, it’s the type that suggests I’m in on it, and that it involves a lack of my clothes.And maybe some of his.As if I spoke the thought instead of keeping it internal, Isaiah lifts his shirt to scratch at a spot right above his hip bone. Good Lord, he’s pretty. I soak in the sight of the muscles in his abdomen like I’m a plant in the Sahara Desert, except it doesn’t quench my thirst. It only causes my mouth to run dry.Isaiah smiles like he knows what I’m thinking, and heat licks up my body and pools in my cheeks. What really causes my blood to curve into itself is the wicked gleam in his eye. It’s a spark that says he’s done very naughty things I’ve never even heard about.
Katie McGarry
Life could be very distracting, thought Isabel. And that was a good thing. It kept her from focusing on things that couldn't be changed, such as the fact that she'd never finished culinary school, or that she'd allowed one failed relationship to keep her closed up tight inside a hard, protective shell. Now she had a new project that consumed her every waking moment- the cooking school. It was true that she didn't have the official certification from a prestigious institute, but she had something that couldn't be taught- a God-given talent in the kitchen.She clung to that gift, grateful to let the passion consume her and fill her days with a joyous pursuit. She believed living and feeling well came from eating well, appreciating the simple things in life and spending time in the company of family and friends, and that was the mission of the Bella Vista Cooking School.
Susan Wiggs
But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.
Claire Legrand