Quotes by American Authors - Page 1091

Love everything around you as if everything is yours.
Debasish Mridha
Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers--ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.
Madeleine L'Engle
In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.
Gordon B. Hinckley
There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?""Evil's afoot.""Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.
Jim Butcher
...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.
Tad Williams
Much that may seem evil can be good.
George R.R. Martin
Once you embrace that continuous change is a natural process for your growth and evolution, you will be reminded that who, what, and where you are now is a temporary condition. Understanding this fact is foundational for hope, positive change and resilient transformation.
Susan C.Young
Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought
Simon S Tam
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.
Aimee Carter
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.
Anna Quindlen
God's green earth can no longer sustain itself for those who worship the golden calf. Those who have put this planet in jeopardy shall no longer live. We have been working hard for this day to come and we have help from every God-fearing being on this planet. Many will say they believe, when in their hearts, they truly worship Mammon.
Stephen Biro
In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety ... we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
Jerry W. McCant
You are the author of your own life story. You have the leading role and get to determine how you interact with your supporting cast and other characters. Without realizing it, you may have allowed the events in your life to write your story for you rather than taking deliberate action to write it in your own voice. What will it take to love your life story to create the happy endings you desire?
Susan C.Young
Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.
Henna Inam
Each day is a blessing, and I awake wondering what wonderful thing, no matter how big or small, will happen to me today.
Ron Baratono
History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.
Timothy Snyder
It was not Death, for I stood up,And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.
Emily Dickinson
To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Honesty is all I've got," she said finally, speaking in a low voice. "I don't have family. I don't have beauty, or a man. I don't have money, and I sure as hell don't have a future. All I've got to prop up my pride is my word." Her chin rose. "When Jenny Jones says something, you can bet your last peso that it's true.
Maggie Osborne
...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Timothy J. Keller
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him.
Mark Twain
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
Wendy Mass
I think no matter who you are, no matter what you do in your life, no matter where you come from, you have to fight; we all fight in different ways. And its a metaphor, sometimes its literal, and I really believe that freedom is on the other side of discipline. Your mind can only match where your body is. And so its...you're never mastering it, there's always a lesson--things catch you in unexpected ways. And I think that's a beautiful metaphor for life.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any
John Paul Warren
I will take you home, his lord had said. Home. He held to that word, as a man holds to a rope in a raging sea.
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you.
Jim George
Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Here’s the three-ingredient recipe for a glorious day: think a higher thought, move your feet forward, serve someone you’ve never served. Do those three things and your life will improve in a millisecond.
Toni Sorenson
Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
Erma Bombeck
That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.
Lacey Alexander
But everybody still walked in eggshells around the two of them, trying not pick sides, though loyalties were inevitably divided.
C.J. Daugherty
Someone who loves you, will act as sibling rather than a lover.
Olivie Boyke
If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.
Heather James
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.
Stephen King
I never met a word I didn't love
Gail Carson Levine
There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail—only learn, grow, and become better than you've ever been before.
Hal Elrod
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward J. Phelps
The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting—the way it offers no provision for transmitting news like “I have lost my left leg” or “I have been admitted into hospital wounded and do not expect to recover.” Because it provided no way of saying “I am going up the line again,” its users had to improvise. Wilfred Owen had an understanding with his mother that when he used a double line to cross out “I am being sent down to the base,” he meant he was at the front again. Close to brilliant is the way the post card allows one to admit to no state of health between being “quite” well, on the one hand, and, on the other, being so sick that one is in hospital.
Paul Fussell
Consciousness resides in the gap between electrons, protons, and neutrons.
Debasish Mridha
Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.
John Patrick Hickey
I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on a wall. Some will stick, and some will fall off. But if you keep throwing the mud on the wall, eventually the whole wall will be covered in mud. I think writing is very much the same. You have to keep at it. Some will stick, and some will fall away, but you keep writing, and eventually, you've impacted thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people with your vision.
Michele E. Gwynn
The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.
John Gardner
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.
Jaron Lanier
This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn't need anymore clever people. It needs people with wisdom.
Jon Steele
God, you smell good. Your pheromones are a definite mating call to mine.
Robin Bielman
I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists
Simon Tam
People say mountains change in about ten years. If something as stubborn and mammoth as a mountain can change in a decade, the hearts of ordinary North Koreans can change. I'm sure of it. I'm living proof." --Ha Young, a North Korean defector
Jieun Baek
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.
Larry Atchley Jr.
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Scott Elledge
I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.
Lisa Kleypas
Don't bitch or punish the world: just create. Create something nobody's ever seen before and there is a good chance the world will notice you. Attacking teen girls on the internet is the saddest form of masturbation that exists and requires no discernible skill or talent. Because if you're not being useful in this world, you're being useless. Don't be useless: go make stuff that makes people happy.
Kevin Smith
A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.        To date, I had made three.
Melika Dannese Lux
It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.
Donald Maass
Anyone who looks good with a bald head is seriously sexy.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.
Christina Baker Kline
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington