Quotes by American Authors - Page 1238

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
Sherman Alexie
I withdrew a small card from the pouch. The front of it was filled with lines of elegant, hand-lettered script. "What does it say?" Dad asked, leaning forward. "The Four Remembers of Life," I read. "Number one: Remember, you are unique. Number two: Remember, there is purpose to your life. Number three: Remember you are free to choose what you are and what you become. And number four: Remember, you are not alone.
Gerald N. Lund
They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner or later got noisy and violent and there was no handling them. Accordingly, the universities imposed a quota system on Irishman, and decreed that those admitted must be scattered around among non-compatriots: exclusively Irish halls of residence were banned.
Emily Hahn
People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.
Dennis Prager
Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.
S. Kelley Harrell
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
Anastasia Bolinder
Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.
Gayle Forman
Love is the essence of life,Love is the universal language of all creation,Love is the eternal desire,Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share,So feel the longing for love and being beloved.
Debasish Mridha
You look beautiful sitting there spitting at me like a she-cat. All I have to do is look at you, and I lust. I'm going to take you back to the hotel and take off that delectable dress and make love to you until you don't have the energy to be mad at me anymore." Ian Connelly, Marquis of Derne
Karen Robards
Violence never can wipe out violence, only a caring heart with love can do that.
Debasish Mridha
I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.
Joseph F. Girzone
I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.
Tim Fargo
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
Thomas W. Dewing
And if I asked for the moon on a string?" - Sorsha
Sarah J Maas
There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.
E. Lockhart
When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people.
Albert Borris
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
Jennifer Crusie
I love you more than piranhas love chicken wings.
Dana Marton
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.
Keith Haring
I’m sure I’d remember if we’d met. It doesn’t happen every day to witness perfection on Earth.
Monica La Porta
Imagine in vibrant, wonderful detail your heart’s desire—a reality only you can envision, an adventure only you can direct.Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life.And when your precious treasure grows so grand as to steal your breath away, set it free for all the world to experience. For that is how you live your dreams.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the dependency.
Chris Prentiss
He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you always experiment on women? He didn't care to admit that the inference had any validity. She just happened to be the first one he's come across, that was all. What about the man in the living room, though? For God's sake! he flared back. I'm not going to rape the woman!Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood?He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.Makes a good excuse, doesn't it, Neville? Oh, shut up.
Richard Matheson
From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.
Dean Koontz
When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.
Bethany Brand
Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love.
Debasish Mridha
I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.
R.C. Sproul
The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio
The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.
Rob Thurman
All plots are cliche.
Jincy Willett
Art never comes from happiness.
Chuck Palahniuk
Isn’t it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.
Debasish Mridha
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.
Sarah Kay
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
David McCullough
Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.
Criss Jami
Truth is felt in the heart. This is why your heart should always be your ultimate temple. Sitting inside on a blue towering altar, is you’re where you find your conscience. This is where all conversations with God stream.
Suzy Kassem
We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant.
Lionel Suggs
Time to dance with the devil....
Devon McKay
A year ago, she'd have opened her arms to him and bonded with him before falling in love. A year ago she'd been so secure in who she was an her place in the world, that she'd have known that the love would eventually come with the mating -that nature would work itself out. A year ago, she'd been stupid and naive.
Savannah Stuart
It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...
Frank O'Hara
Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.
Kurt Cobain
Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
Michael Cunningham
As I pulled aside the linen curtain to the back room, I heard the front door open again. If it was Christina returning to make a second effort at my leggings, I was going to be forced to get loud, and I didn't like getting loud.But it wasn't Christina I heard at the front of the store.Instead, a very familiar voice said, "No, no, I'm looking for something very particular. Oh, wait, I just saw it."I turned around.Cole St. Clair smiled lazily at me.I gave so many damns at once that it actually hurt.
Maggie Stiefvater
It shows damn near everything. I's been hiding my breasts for so long, I half forgot I had 'em.
Erin Bowman
We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.
Jeff Jarvis
The capacity for suffering – or more strictly, for suffering and/or enjoyment or happiness – is not just another characteristic like the capacity for language or for higher mathematics. Bentham is not saying that those who try to mark ‘the insuperable line’ that determines whether the interests of a being should be considered happen to have selected the wrong characteristic. The capacity for suffering and enjoying things is a prerequisite for having interests at all, a condition that must be satisfied before we can speak of interests in any meaningful way. It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road by a child. A stone does not have interests because it cannot suffer. Nothing that we can do to it could possibly make any difference to its welfare. A mouse, on the other hand, does have an interest in not being tormented, because mice will suffer if they are treated in this way.
Peter Singer
My nerves did a jitter dance, stuck between two wolves.
Jazz Feylynn
So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
Sarah Dessen
Oft when the white still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
Edwin Markham
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
Wernher von Braun
Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over beautiful muscles.
Rena Marks
The library serves as a gathering place for friends whoshare the love of books. It further serves as a resource for those who escape the pressure of everydaylife, doing it by losing themselves in the written word.
Kristen Ashley
The Bible is a love story. Time and time again it illustrates how much God loves the world in spite of its sinful disobedience...The last book of the Bible, the Revelation of St John the Divine, creates a beautiful and yet terrifying picture of those last days when God will reveal Himself in judgment and in grace to all creation.
Jerry Falwell
No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.
Anthony Marra
History repeats, but science reverberates.
Siddhartha Mukherjee