Quotes by American Authors - Page 1154

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
On paper it's perfect.But the thing about paper is: It burns.
Cat Patrick
Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best.-Deuce, (183)
Ann Aguirre
To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.
Suzy Kassem
Chase said, “It was a crazy idea.” An impossible idea.“Nothing is impossible, Chase, only improbable. And when you can see into the future and manipulate people into the right places, you can accomplish amazing things.”“I think I liked the idea better when it was in my head.
Adrienne Wilder
Prosperity is just around the corner.
Herbert Hoover
The marks we leave are too often scars.
John Green
A true dreamer dreams when he is awake.
Debasish Mridha
Truly," remarked Nandi as we entered a darkened tunnel, "it is amazing that you have not died yet, mistress." "Well, hang in there. The night is young.
Richelle Mead
We can best help our children not by sacrificing ourselves for them, but by trying to fulfill our own lives. When we are involved in an honest pursuit of our own goals, we serve as positive role models for our children.
Lisa Firestone
It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.
Nicole Krauss
Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.
Kilroy J. Oldster
You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.
Nicholas Sparks
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury
One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.
Allan Lokos
They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.
Lydia Davis
It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.
Steve Maraboli
no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.
Mark Helprin
When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given.
Kayt C. Peck
I appreciate the little things in life because it adds up to everything.
Lisa M. Cronkhite
Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.
Victoria Thompson
She is mine, and I am hers.
Richelle Mead
Local differences in the prices of commodities whose natures are technologically identical are to be explained on the one hand by differences in the cost of preparing them for consumption (expenses of transport, cost of retailing etc.) and on the other hand by the physical and legal obstacles that restrict the mobility of commodities and human beings.
Ludwig von Mises
But in the hours that were really minutes, he didn't beg me not to leave. He didn't say he hadn't meant it. When I stood, his gaze just followed me up. Then I was a shattered blown-glass blue rose, and every step away from him made my shards clatter and chime.
Jodi Meadows
I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.
Robert Silverberg
The here and the beyond are enough, but there were a few angels for whom it was not enough: who demanded a third dimension--who sought fusions, communes, who ate each other and created sex.
Dale Pendell
Stop fussing over me, woman. I will be whole again shortly, and then you can resume ogling me and desiring my body.
Katie MacAlister
The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.
Carrie Ryan
I find it hard to swallow the notion that the world is improved by extra suffering. And that goes for a lot of Christian doctrine. Jones commits a crime, so you expiate the evil by nailing Smith to a cross and it's all better. - John Leslie
Jim Holt
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.
John Taylor Gatto
Rule No. i is don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is it's all small stuff.
Robert Eliot
Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.
A.C. Crispin
Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.
Shannon L. Alder
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
...we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep....
Bob Dylan
The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.
Joseph E. B. Lumbard
We are often harsher judges than God himself.
Judah Smith
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
Thomas Merton
It doesn't matter if it's the real world or fictional," I insisted. "Crushes are the best part of liking someone, and they are completely safe. You get all the benefits of fantasising about someone, but none of the he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not drama. It's all the good parts with none of the parts that make you lie awake at night all angsty.
Liz Czukas
Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about engaging with the tribe and delivering products and services with stories that spread.
Seth Godin
I knew a teacher that kept a calendar on his desk. He didn’t use it for lesson planning though. Instead he was marking time until summer. That’s what prisoners do on walls. They mark the days until they go free. But if you’re marking time as a teacher, you aren’t redeeming the time with your students. A parent drops a child off at the beginning of the year and it’s your job to redeem the time and educate that child. It’s your responsibility to see that child progress throughout the year. The child should be a better student as a result of being in your classroom. You are responsible—for successes and failures—and you have an obligation to students and parents to redeem every precious minute you’re given as an educator.
Tucker Elliot
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
Rick Steves
An array of behavioral decision options establishes opportunities for personal growth. The knowledgeable choices that a person makes in a constantly varying physical setting and capricious social milieu reflect their character, and their evolving personality continues to affect their social and intellectual growth.
Kilroy J. Oldster
My dog hasn't said a word all day, he must have a lot on his mind
Seth Czerepak
She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.
Yiyun Li
What's he doing here anyway? And where is his shirt? I take a quick glance and swallow hard. Never Mind. The shirt can stay gone.
Jami Wagner
To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.
Lionel Suggs
It still hurts, but life is supposed to hurt. Too many people think life is supposed to be easy and perfect all the time. But there is always some hurt. It's part of being alive. You have to accept it's a piece that every single person carries. It's what makes us human.
Katie Kacvinsky
One always has to be willing to lose to be able to win... in battle and in life. I wonder. Are you willing to lose, Rayla?
Christie Rich
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
Anthony Robbins
Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Having faith and belief in my inner guidance allows me to see the world in a way that strengthens that faith and belief and brings with it a life filled with welcomed expectation and awe.
Charles F. Glassman
Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. Do you see that? I do what I must do. Where I go, I must go alone. So long as you need me, I’ll be with you in Havnor. And if you ever need me again, call me. I will come. I would come from my grave if you called me, Tenar! But I cannot stay with you.
Ursula K Le Guin
A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere.
Debasish Mridha
I don't need encouraging. I do well enough on my own.
R.L. Mathewson
There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.
Henry David Thoreau
In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should spread love,  your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love.  The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love.
Marianne Williamson
Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.
Maureen Corrigan