Quotes by American Authors - Page 1207

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
Jennifer Donnelly
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
Madonna
Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.
Sophia Dembling
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.
Barbara Kingsolver
A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.
Anthony Liccione
Stella couldn’t believe this was happening. Gavin and Holden were both in her bed and just as desperate for her as she was for them. Her life had morphed into a cross between a romance novel and a porno. If she was dreaming, she didn’t ever want to wake up.
Amanda Young
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
Flannery O'Connor
In an evil society a villain is the hero, because only the villain can speak the truth.
T.J. Kirk
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
Maya Angelou
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us.Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
Jack Kornfield
Some persons fancy that bias and counter-bias are favorable to the extraction of truth–that hot and partisan debate is the way to investigate. This is the theory of our atrocious legal procedure. But Logic puts its heel upon this suggestion. It irrefragably demonstrates that knowledge can only be furthered by the real desire for it, and that the methods of obstinacy, of authority and every mode of trying to reach a foregone conclusion, are absolutely of no value. These things are proved. The reader is at liberty to think so or not as long as the proof is not set forth, or as long as he refrains from examining it. Just so, he can preserve, if he likes, his freedom of opinion in regard to the propositions of geometry; only, in that case, if he takes a fancy to read Euclid, he will do well to skip whatever he finds with A, B, C, etc., for, if he reads attentively that disagreeable matter, the freedom of his opinion about geometry may unhappily be lost forever.
Charles Sanders Peirce
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
Jeff Bezos
Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.
Anthony Liccione
Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.
Stewart Stafford
But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age.""I thought you liked redheads.""I do. What's your point?
Christopher Moore
When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Ill lose myself in the pain. It might not make sense. But it works.
Lisa Schroeder
Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability.
Benjamin Harrison
The best stories are about a character who has a goal or noble quest and goes through hell to get it. Do you have a goal or quest like that in real life? Why not?
Kenneth Wayne Wood
Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life.
Bryant McGill
The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feels ‘invisible’ in a public sense precisely because her physical being - her ‘visibility’ - figures so prominently in her identity. She is judged as a body, she is ‘attractive’ or ‘unattractive’, while knowing that her deepest self is inward, and secret: knowing, hoping that her spiritual essence is a great deal more complex than the casual eye of the observer will allow… it might be argued that all persons, defined to themselves rather more as what they think and dream than what they do, are ‘invisible’.
Joyce Carol Oates
I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.
Kay Redfield Jamison
Oh, girl! He's got a big one,” the fortune teller exclaimed, her dark eyes briefly flickering up to Violet's face before returning back to the cards spread out in front of her. She paused for a moment as she studied them, her pointer finger tapping against her jaw. Finally, she added, “Just like a summer sausage, and I'm not talking about the snack-sized ones. And it's attached to a body that could put Dwayne Johnson to shame. What women could resist a package like that? I'd say the future is definitely going to be bright... at least for you.
Rose Wynters
One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.""Meaning you?""What else?
Cassandra Clare
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Laurence Clark Powell
I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.
Stephanie Perkins
Yeah, yeah, success is a ladder, a marathon instead of a sprint and all that crap. Everyone can TELL you stuff like that, but you really have to understand advice in relation to YOURSELF, or it's all just nice intellectual theory.
Felicia Day
My dear, here is lesson number one for using opportunity; waste no time on false humility. Tell the world about your achievements don't wait for someone else to do it.
Kate Alcott
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H.L. Mencken
Peace is not the absence of poverty But the presence of love for beauty
Debasish Mridha
The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side. What happened to the girls who dreamed of being mermaids?
Anita Johnston
Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.
Ted Bundy
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball
Believing in negative thoughts is one of the greatest obstructions to success.
Charles F. Glassman
Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.
Bryant McGill
I believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us.Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.
David Eagleman
Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.
Maria V. Snyder
Even now, every job I get, I worry that it will be my last. I think becoming a washed-up hag is sort of my destiny. So if you see a wrinkled old bitch wearing a tattered fur and chain-smoking in an off-Broadway back alley...that’s just me. Starting four years from now.
Anna Kendrick
There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nations. But if the concept of exploitation is to be applied to these relations, it is rather an exploitation of the investing by the receiving nations. These loans and investments were not intended as gifts. The loans were made upon solemn stipulation of payment of principal and interest. The investments were made in the expectation that property rights would be respected. With the exception of the bulk of the investments made in the United States, in some of the British dominions, and in some smaller countries, these expectations have been disappointed. Bonds have been defaulted or will be in the next few years. Direct investments have been confiscated or soon will be. The capital-exporting countries can do nothing but wipe off their balances.
Ludwig von Mises
The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.
Veronica Roth
Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?
Jacqueline Novogratz
The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.
Francis Mont
Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.
Allan Lokos
That puke was the most wonderful thing I'd ever seen. It was green and a little red. Technicolor, really, the color puke is supposed to be. It definitely wasn't black, and it didn't smell like toasty poop. This was a good sign.
Carrie Harris
Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.
Allison Winn Scotch
No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again
Thanhha Lai
A vision flashed across Nick’s mind. It was the image of a lipstick kiss his wife left for him on the mirror that morning. It hung there like the single digit sum to the chalkboard-crammed equation of his life.
Gary Ponzo
I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.
Nastia Liukin
Instead he felt only love. And that was the miracle. The surge in hatred since the war began had created more love around it. It was indomitable, mad, and everlasting, scattered through the rich and the poor, deep and calm in the Quakers, hot and fierce in the mothers, faithful in the warriors, wistful in the pets, seeping its way into mercy and atrocity, destroying things, rebuilding them.
Kathy Hepinstall
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion, that every globe in the remotest heaven; every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life; every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf, to the tropical forest and antediluvian coal-mine; every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong, and echo the Ten Commandments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving if you are friendly if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
I look into your eyes and I’m sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both.
Cristen Rodgers
Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!
Todd M. Fink
She fixed me and broke me all at once.
Claire Contreras
Find me, my thief.
Jessica Khoury
Numbered are the daysof hunger stricken straysa woman's curving tastea paper police state.
Virginia Petrucci
Although there are several 'schools of thought' relating to why God allows mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, it essentially remains a mystery"~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
Edgar Allan Poe