Quotes by American Authors - Page 1196

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.
Shannon L. Alder
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Mark Twain
Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.
Orrin Woodward
Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help us to understand the evolutionary origins of disease, and this knowledge will prove profoundly useful in achieving the legitimate goals of medicine.
Randolph M. Nesse
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
Robert Nozick
Long after you and I are gone, God will still be at work—and many of the things we prayed for will finally come to pass.
Billy Graham
The perfect person isn't what you're being asked to be, but a beautiful soul will suffice. " ~ Roy Hale
Roy Hale
i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.
Maureen Johnson
Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
You live in a grim universe.”“That’s risk management for you.
Max Gladstone
There's a difference between religion and faith," Chandi said, "Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.
Allen Steele
You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.
Kathryn Davis
Luke opened the pizza box and, finding it empty, shut it with a sigh."Though you did eat allthe pizza." "I only had five slices," Simon protested, leaning his chair backward so itbalanced precariously onits two back legs. "How many slices did you think were in a pizza, dork?" Clary wanted toknow. "Less than five slices isn't a meal. It's a snack." Simon looked apprehensively at Luke. "Does thismean you're going towolf out and eat me?
Cassandra Clare
I was asked a series of ques
Julio Alexi Genao
Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it’s the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.
Nadège Richards
With his blond hair, broad shoulders, and perpetual tan,Bryce looked like a California underwear model. Not that I’d thought about him in his underwear.Much.
Chris Cannon
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
Criss Jami
In all fairness, darlin’, I should probably warn you that this ain’t my first rodeo.
Cindi Madsen
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one
Patti Smith
I hope we'll be friends." His grin was pure sin....tShe stuck with the truth. "I hope we won't be enemies.
Dana Marton
It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
John Bytheway
There is a differenece between a bad boy and a boy that's bad for you.
Dannika Dark
Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others." —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2
Joseph Telushkin
History can be rewritten, but at what cost?
Lauren Kate
A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam?
Alma Luz Villanueva
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Edgar Watson Howe
It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.
Chrissy Moon
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Ornette Coleman
Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.
Chuck Palahniuk
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
Madeleine L'Engle
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher
When we go through life believing that we need mercy, we’re more likely to extend it. As humans our tendency is to want justice for others, but mercy for ourselves. tIt doesn’t work that way. We reap what we sow. (Galatians 6:7) And the timing isn’t ours—it’s God’s. He often extends us mercy, not when we are well behaved, but when we are miserable, helpless, wicked, ungodly, and powerless. Even when we bring on our problems by our own choices, His mercy comes when we cry for it. To refuse to cry for it because we feel unworthy, is a win for Satan.
Toni Sorenson
I’d learned early on that the best way to accomplish anything was to grit your teeth and fight your way through it with the best grace you could muster…
Kristina Douglas
I think out of seven billion people, there is probably more than just one soul mate. Surely, the paid employee in charge of each person's love life has taken into account the possibility of fatal snake bites and heavy falling objects.
Augusten Burroughs
Sometime during high school he’d gotten . . . kind of . . . beautiful, and Harper found it easier to not look directly at him. When she did, it did strange things to her, making her voice high and her cheeks burn. So she only ever really looked at him out of the corner of her eyes, like one would look at a solar eclipse.
Summer Hines
He didn't mince words. “Anyone that wants to live, get in.” His voice was deep and powerful, matching the promise his body made. He was confident and self-assured, the kind of man you wanted in your corner when the monsters came knocking. With his arrival, our chance of survival had just shot up exponentially.
Rose Wynters
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.
Alexandra Bracken
Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.
Cormac McCarthy
We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.
Andrea Portes
We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.
Teri S. Lesesne
Why couldn't you turn into a fireball when we were on the same team!
Pittacus Lore
Truth is never a straight line; it is a circle that will take you back to what you know, in order to challenge your belief in what is fair, what is real, what is forgiveable, what is not and what type of person will you become today now that you know.
Shannon L. Alder
Love and hate are practically the same thing.
Kristin Halbrook
When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.
Shannon L. Alder
For me, recovery and self-care are inextricably connected. My recovery from abuse, addiction, and a suicide attempt required dumptruck loads of self-care.
Steve Austin
The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.
Suzanne Collins
...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...
The Fray
There is some evidence that dreaming is necessary. When people or other mammals are deprived of REM sleep (by awakening them as soon as the characteristic REM and EEG dream patterns emerge), the number of initiations of the dream state per night goes up, and, in severe cases, daytime hallucinations-that is, waking dreams-occur.
Carl Sagan
Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
Randy Alcorn
I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.
John Steinbeck
You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.
Rachel Caine
Well, wasn't this a night for firsts. Sex. Arson. Pants.
J.R. Ward
A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.
Ben Marcus
The voice sang on, “I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.” I played it again. I was not fine.
Kimberly Novosel
I recount as this journey begins where I rest to gather the tale from thissame old house resting on the hill, leaving me a view of a carnival once seen from just across the tracks. My pallet is dry now. The colors I see no more. The rain has washed away many of the signs that once stood for a prosperhome and family. My grave is waiting. The dreams once filled my head withimages of world unison, hope and companionship for all. The saga spokenthrough my canvas drew darker as the years went on to the bitter cold nights.All that comes to me now are glimpses of faces that graced my soul.
Kris Courtney
Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.
Sherry Turkle
To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education.To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help.When the object of man's conduct will be to improve the conditions of his fellow man and not the appeasement of a mythical God, he will become more understanding and more indulgent of the frailties, mistakes, and action of others, and by the same token he will become more appreciative of their efforts.He will develop a greater consciousness to avoid mistakes and to prevent injury. Life and its living will take on a greater significance, and our efforts and energies will be devoted to creating as much joy and happiness as possible for all living creatures.
Joseph Lewis
When you find yourself in need of courage, remember that it is your faith, not your spine, that needs strengthening! And your faith will be strengthened when you read the Bible, the only book with proven credibility to give you the courage to heal your disconnections and face your future with hope and confidence.
David Jeremiah