Quotes by American Authors - Page 113

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.
Todd Stocker
Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself
Richard Feynman
We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Lane Allen
Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
Sharon Salzberg
Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar, you see, very unassuming, and order a martini. Then the bartender, Hilarity, hauls off and squirts me in the face with a seltzer bottle, ruining my n ice new camel hair suit, dousing my monocle and my watch fob, soaking my cravat. So, do I let him have what for, and blow my top? I do not. I simply say:Sorry, I believe I said 'very dry'.
Chip Kidd
i am a woman and a poem. – visceral
Nayyirah Waheed
There’s a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on these groups or the labels so you’d gather [there] and it would be like a library. - Lenny Kaye quoted
Gary Calamar
If there are no great teachers, how can we expect a great future?
Debasish Mridha
We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules," I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.
Kathryn Stockett
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness--cry and then walk--but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
Aimee Bender
The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.
Debasish Mridha
He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further squelched the subconscious screams, true message lost in the deceptive world of emotion and will.
Marcha A. Fox
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.
Criss Jami
Their musical ability and performance seems to derive from the past collective experience and presents itself in the individual unconscious today. Through it we tap into something eternal and it is apparent even in how they approach their playing. Perhaps we relate to it because, of any other instrument, the cello has a range that matches the human voice.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.
Billy Graham
I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs.
Lester Grinspoon
Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
Colin S. Smith
Be fearless like a newborn that is born with love and hope.
Debasish Mridha
Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end.
Ken Poirot
In reality, everyone is unlimited. All limits are simply illusions. Understanding is the breeze that sweeps them away.
Amy Leigh Mercree
A single employee, with one message, can succinctly capture the essence of a corporation the same way an iconic photograph captures a moment. Unfortunately, it is usually the negative massages that are published or used in lawsuits.
Kent Alan Robinson
Inspired action comes from the guidance of Spirit, not ego. When in doubt, don’t. Inspired action is responsive, not reactive.
Annette Vaillancourt
1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.
Satchel Paige
If I could have anything, it would be a radio to ask NASA the safe path down the Ramp. Well, if I could have anything, it would be for the green-skinned yet beautiful Queen of Mars to rescue me so she can learn more about this Earth thing called “lovemaking.
Andy Weir
Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.
Sherman Alexie
I MUST BE A TIME TRAVELLER BECAUSEI AM ALWAYS AHEAD OF MY TIME
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier
I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would have been easy to gut him then and there. Satisfying. But the need was too urgent. I felt pushed.
Mark Lawrence
God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.
Philip Yancey
One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.
Steven L. Stephenson
This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.
Lauren DeStefano
Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.
Rosa Parks
I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.
Marilynn Halas
What he wanted was Megan wanting him... but not needing him. Not vulnerable to him. Sure as help not trying to leave him over and over again... and simply failing.
Mira Lyn Kelly
Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin—sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.
Billy Graham
She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?
Jim Butcher
Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions
Douglass B. Reeves
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
Lionel Shriver
Pain is like a healing emotional fever.
Bryant McGill
We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.
Shannon A. Thompson
When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.
David P. Ingerson
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
Ann Brashares
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley Maclaine
And the reason I'm telling you all this is that I want you to know no one in my life has ever made me feel worse about myself than you.
Curtis Sittenfeld
Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald
It’s like a meatloaf.
Nicki Elson
Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste
Stanley Victor Paskavich
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.
John Green
I will not interfere with a male dragon while he is rutting.
Katie Reus
Cheer up the worst is yet to come.
Philander Johnson
Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.
Hilary Duff
Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally - that's the worst, I think, deficient morals.
Amy Tan
The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted to hallucinate, all she had to do was get up in the morning.
Allie Burke
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.
Tessa Afshar
Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.
Danny Dover
Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?""I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!
Charles M. Schulz
Thankyou,"Catherine said, the smile still hovering on her lips. "That is kind of you my lord. But i will never dance with you." Which, ofcourse, made it the goal of leo's life.
Lisa Kleypas
Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun.
Ksenia Anske
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell
Philip Henry Sheridan