Quotes by American Authors - Page 1149

Alliances are useful in some situations. In others, they are absolutely vital.But they must always be approached with caution. Unity of that sort is based on mutual advantage. While that advantage exists the alliance may stand firm. But needs change, and advantages fade, and a day may come when one ally sees new benefits to be gained in betraying another.The warrior must be alert to such changes if he is to anticipate and survive an anannounced blow. Fortunately, the signs are usually evident in time for defense to be planned and executed.There is also always the possibility that changes will serve to meld the allies even more closely together. It is rare, but it can happen.
Timothy Zahn
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
Jaak Panksepp
Manifestation is a process by which we transform seemingly unrealizable imaginations to reality.
Debasish Mridha
Lewis spoke for almost every member when he said, "There is no sound I like better than adult male laughter.
Philip Zaleski
Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all.
Bryant McGill
Trauma, if it doesn't destroy us, wakes us up both to our own relational capacities and to the suffering of others. Not only does it makes us hurt, it makes us more human, caring, and wise.
Mark Epstein
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
Aberjhani
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
R. Buckminster Fuller
They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.
Cormac McCarthy
Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.
Tyne O'Connell
Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace.
Suzy Kassem
I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.
Robin Beth Schaer
The biggest challenge in life is often to love ourselves
Melanie Greenberg
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground
Jamie McGuire
All would live long but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby.
Jared Diamond
He brightened. "Are you Irish then?"t"My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig.
Ashlyn Chase
Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.
Eric Jerome Dickey
The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.
John F Kennedy
The best thing you can do in life is to love unconditionally and endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison
With enough support you can be as ignorant as you want
Gary Heymann
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
Carl Sagan
The years teach us much, which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this, however, leadership matters; so do the institutional structures and the system of political governance.
Patrick Mendis
How was it then that I could see a monster in him as easily as I could see his dignity, his integrity, and his charm? I had learned over the years that he held everything in for as long as he could. When he reached his limit, unrelated incidents could unleash that pent-up anger to an unprecedented degree.
Kyrian Lyndon
If there really was one true god, it should be a singular composite of every religion’s gods, an uber-galactic super-genius, and the ultimate entity of the entire cosmos. If a being of that magnitude ever wrote a book, then there would only be one such document; one book of God. It would be dominant everywhere in the world with no predecessors or parallels or alternatives in any language, because mere human authors couldn’t possibly compete with it. And you wouldn’t need faith to believe it, because it would be consistent with all evidence and demonstrably true, revealing profound morality and wisdom far beyond contemporary human capacity. It would invariably inspire a unity of common belief for every reader. If God wrote it, we could expect no less. But what we see instead is the very opposite of that.
Aron Ra
I don’t chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I’ll hold the fucking door open for you.
Wiz Khalifa
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say ‘Here I am’ and those who walk into a room and say, ‘There you are.
Ann Landers
It dropped ice to the bottom of his stomach. He thought of the ruined bodies he'd seen, including the ones he himself had ruined. He realized that he had somehow expected that he'd never have to think again about the way people damage other people. The night of the invasion. Kestrel's back. His own. Roshar's scarred face. His own.
Marie Rutkoski
Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole."- Author Serena Jade
Serena Jade
That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.
John Corey Whaley
Without warning, Wesley lifted me up onto the pool table. His hands moved to my shoulders, and a second later, I was flat on my back, staring up at him as he smirked. He shifted so that he was on the table too, leaning over me with his face only inches from mine.“On the pool table?” I said, narrowing my eyes at him. “Seriously?”“I can’t resist,” he said. “You know, you’re pretty sexy when you’re pissed at me, Duffy.”First, I was struck by the irony of that statement. I mean, he used sexy and Duffy-implying I was fat and ugly-in the same sentence. The contrast was almost laughable. Almost.
Kody Keplinger
In kindegarten, he had learned how to make a bruise stop hurting: you pressed it over and over with your thumb. the first times it hurt so much your eyes watered. The second time it hurt a little less. The tenth time, it was barely an ache.
Celeste Ng
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.
Jonathan Franzen
Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.
Richie Norton
You know those primitive tribal people who believed a camera could steal your soul? Turns out they were right.
Heather Demetrios
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
Malcolm X
The threat, thus, in anxiety is not necessarily more intense than fear. Rather, it attacks us on a deeper level. The threat must be to something in the 'core' or 'essence' of the personality. My self-esteem, my experience of myself as a person, my feeling of being of worth - all of these are imperfect descriptions of what is threatened.
Rollo May
At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.
Leo Babauta
(I'm not online.) I don’t have a fax. I don’t go in for any of that stuff. The typewriter is as far as I went.
Walter Kaylin
Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.
Jenny Han
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" t There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.
Richelle Mead
I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.
A.E. Samaan
Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.
Jess Walter
When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.
Chris Kraus
They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.
Daniel L. Pals
I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
Robin Hobb
One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much.
Jael McHenry
By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.
Chris Prentiss
I don't need to write light, to see light. You are only disabled, if you disable yourself. I may have an illness, but I am not the illness Truth is, despite what they may say, I'll get out of this world alive. I am the Gospel of Myself.
Alexej Savreux
The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.
Christopher Buehlman
When you feel weak, energize yourself with the power of love, love everyone and everything, this world will be yours.
Debasish Mridha
President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.
Harold Holzer
What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of possible future events. Although boundary conditions operate on the future, they are probabilistic constraints, not absolutely determined fact. We assume that ten minutes hence, the room we are in will still exist. It is a boundary condition that will define the next ten minutes in our space/time coordinate. But we cannot know who will be in the room ten minutes hence; that is free to be determined. One may ask if we can really know that the room will exist at any future moment. This is where induction enters the picture, since in truth we cannot know with certainty. There is no absolutely rigorous way of establishing that. But we can make the inductive leap of faith that has to do with accumulated experience. We project that the existence of the room will remain a boundary condition, but in principle in the next ten minutes there could be an earthquake and this building might not be left standing. However, for that to happen, the boundary condition will have to be radically disrupted in some unexpected and improbable manner. What is so curious is that such a thing could occur.
Terence McKenna
Happiness is a perception—not a possession.
Debasish Mridha
In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.
Ernest Cline
The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.
Dan Groat
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Willie Aames