Quotes by American Authors - Page 116

Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.
Carlos Wallace
Let us keep in mind that we do not have to go to the scriptures inorder to approach God. We do not have to find the right scripture inorder to talk to God".
Thurman L. Faison
Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.
Dean Koontz
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
Right, I totally forgot. I can’t wait to taste the flummery.”“I’m not sure if I want to know what that is,” Manning said.“It’s a sort of jelly, but made into a mold that is shaped like a castle or a tower or just a”—Debbie Mae wiggled one hand—“big wobbly thing. The ragout of veal will be a hit, I’m sure. And the Roman punch will have to be changed a little bit. It’s usually lemon water and hot syrup with a lot of rum.
Mary Jane Hathaway
Until you get to know them in person, anyone you correspond with online remains a stranger.
Michael Miller
Life feels like fall of itself.""'A dream within a dream.""And I want to wake up.
Shannon Hale
I hope you enjoyed your visit. You never know. You may want to join forever.
Ellen Schreiber
What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get – the more specificity you harvest – the more precious becomes every ounce and spam. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. Rather the opposite, maybe. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).
Gregory Maguire
If one door closes and another door opens, chances are your house is haunted.
Tanya Masse
Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...
Christy Hall
A broken shoelace can strangle me.
Brian Spellman
There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections. In a figure drawing class, an obese woman's folds of flesh take on a kind of beauty. You can look at a man's shrunken chest or legs or buttocks with tenderness. Age is not ugly, just poignant.
Joyce Maynard
A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.
Wayde Goodall
Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.Bones to Gregor
Jeaniene Frost
Within every woman exists a warrior. Really.
Jessica Bennett
Just like you can’t reap a harvest without planting seeds, so you can’t get without giving.
Debasish Mridha
Keb would never forget how Gracie turned to the wall and trembled, how he felt nailed to the chair, thinking: we build a perfect picture of what we want our children to be. And when that picture falls and shatters, what do we do? His sister Dot once told him: we get on our hands and knees and put the pieces back together, and call it parenting.
Kim Heacox
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
John Wooden
Careful had never really been her style.
Tiffany Quay Tyson
I'm scared, all right?" I said. I could feel my stomach churn as my gaze rested on the wooden trunk.Nathan turned my chin, looking at me with an expression of utter sincerity. "You don't have to be. I'm here.
Markelle Grabo
Abdication Isn’t Empowerment
Miles Anthony Smith
I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me.
Anthony Liccione
I feel grace. Warm and flowing like a river, it pours over me. I am awash in grace and cannot help but raise my face to it as I would the sun. I want to laugh as it rains downs on me, ripples through my limbs, cleanses them of fatigue and self-loathing. I am reborn in this grace, and suddenly, I can do anything.
Robin LaFevers
I take this continent with me into the grave.
Ray Bradbury
Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.
Suzanne Collins
A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.
Debasish Mridha
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
Sarah Dessen
How long had it had been since she'd thought back on the evenings around the fire, number games at the kitchen table, or listening to her father sing? Too long. Yes, there had been bad times. And she had tallied them like figures in a column, not remembering to factor in the good. She had doctored the books.
Julie Klassen
So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL.
Mandy Hale
There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.
Colson Whitehead
It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.
Bob Mould
Want a little cheese with that whine, maestro?
Madeleine Urban
Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this world, because there’s free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.
Laura Anderson Kurk
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
Thomas Pynchon
An imagined evil can be worse than the real thing.
Joseph Julius Bonkowski Jr.
And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now—my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Yes, best friend of mine. I am the famous photographer you've admired for years, and the man who's admired you.
Kelly Moran
T-TrustE-EnthusiasmA-AdjustmentM-Memories
Deepak Chopra
Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.
Sam Killermann
It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?
Kami Garcia
Everything that I did, I thought of him. He had consumed me. He has crawled inside of me and become part of me, part of my day-to-day life. Even when he is not in my presence, he is part of everything that I do. He is in my mind. He has infected me. I paint my nails and I hope. I hope that he praises me. I hope that he smiles. I hope that when he says what he says, whatever it may be, that he ends it with those two words. Baby girl. I am ruined.
Scott Hildreth
Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?
Flora Rheta Schreiber
but when a person’s so stuck in their own hole of darkness — it hurts like hell when someone shines a light on them. Your eyes have to adjust, and let’s just say it isn’t a pleasant experience; it’s why people stay there.
Rachel Van Dyken
nothing's news.it's the same old thing indisguise.only one thing comes without adisguise and you only see itonce, ormaybe never.like getting hit by a freighttrain.makes us realize that all ourmoaning about long lost girlsin gingham dressesis not so importantafterall.
Charles Bukowski
Anything good on the trucks?""Some beautiful lake salmon, fresh asparagus, and new potatoes.""New enough their skin is peeling?""Yes.""I know what we're going to do today!" Lou felt the excitement surge. This was why she loved cooking: getting amazing fresh ingredients and making something extraordinary. Luella's traditional French menu didn't leave much room for creativity, so the daily special had become Lou's canvas, where she was limited only by her imagination and whims."We'll keep it a simple spring dinner. Roast the potatoes in butter, salt, and pepper. Maybe some thyme or tarragon, too. We'll top the salmon fillets with hollandaise and roast the asparagus.
Amy E. Reichert
It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.
Laini Taylor
Are you all right?” he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she’d been hurt. “I heard a woman scream.”“Ah, that would have been me,” Sebastian said.Harry looked down on his cousin, face frozen in disbelief. “You made that noise?”“It hurt,” Sebastian bit off.Harry fought not to laugh. “You scream like a leettle girl.
Julia Quinn
Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.
Lauren DeStefano
It's good to vandalize one's own work.
John P. Sousa
She's my pride, my winning prize, always a surprise, to look into her eyes, see her free soul, as soap that slips from the grip of control; a stroll through the park on a dark night with stars to spark the sky, heaven with no price tag I realize, love is the same: endless, priceless, full bliss; to have this princess I pinch myself thinking this is a dream, but to my reprise, I can only say I am now, at last, alive.
Anthony Liccione
When I remove the layers that say I can’t, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will.
Charles F. Glassman
I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.
Patricia Briggs
She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell."tHe smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.
Erin Kellison
At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.
Sheryl Sandberg
The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.
Stan Slap
Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.”“You should be.” His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought hers again. There was a note in his voice that gently robbed her of breath. “You could do with a bit of spoiling.
Lisa Kleypas
I believe we are more ready to embrace our lives in the here and now when we are able to recognize the continuity between the immanence of God in our world and eternity. Rather than simply waiting to be liberated to another time or place, we are being invited to collaborate in the healing and redemption of our world.
Mark Scandrette