Quotes by American Authors - Page 124

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...
Milton H. Erickson
Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig
I go back to Oberlin in the dead of winter to give a "convocation speech" in Finney Chapel, the largest and most historic of campus structures. In a subconscious nod to my college experience I forget to pack both tights and underwear and have to spend the weekend going commando in a wool skirt and knee socks. I am toured around the school like a stranger by a girl who didn't even go here. We stop at a glossy new cafe for tea and scones. She asks if I want a tour of the dormitories- no, I just want to wander around alone and maybe cry.
Lena Dunham
Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.
R.L. LaFevers
I love the smell of my mother’s hair after she washes it.I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my father’s face before he shaves.But I’ve never been able to tell them.
Sharon M. Draper
Virtually every literary piece written about Adolf Hitler in more than half a century since 1945 has been based on anti
Russel H.S. Stolfi
Ever since Apple's first brochure proclaimed "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. "It takes a lot of hard word," he said, "to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.
Walter Isaacson
To find inner bliss and happiness through yoga, learn to accept things as they are by changing your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyleatop some crumbling building,spring to lifea resuscitated angel.
Saul Williams
Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.
Tess Gerritsen
You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.
Herbert M. Shelton
Be young at heart. Remember back when you were young and what made you happiest then. Recapture the simplicity and wonder of youth and make it a state of mind.
Susan Stovall
Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Something I could only find elsewhere. But just when I started to find it at home, I outfoxed myself and lost it forever.
Jane Avrich
You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always be tenuous. There is always the possibility the peregrine will rediscover the strength of his heart.
Rebecca K. O'Connor
I inhaled the musty, leathery, old-papery scent and a shiver passed over me. If I had any idea of heaven, it was this: shelves and shelves of books, ten times as many as were upstairs, each with stories or pictures more exciting and beautiful than the next, and two overstuffed chairs big enough for me to sleep in.
Clay Carmichael
I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;
Mark Twain
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
Joyce Carol Oates
Thank you," she said against his neck.tFor what?"tFor putting up with me."tHe chuckled against the top of her head. "As if I could live without you.
Savannah Stuart
You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!
Jerry Spinelli
That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
Seth Godin
Money will make a leader turn a blind eye to injustice.
DeAnthony Thompson
I'm starting to think you like prisons," "And that you have the worst taste in men.
Victoria Aveyard
This is what fun is like," said Rain, almost to herself.
Gregory Maguire
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living, or because the terrorists themselves came to realize that free men cannot be frightened by threats, and that aggression would meet its own response. And it is in the light of that history that every nation today should know, be he friend or foe, that the United States has both the will and the weapons to join free men in standing up to their responsibilities.
John F Kennedy
...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)
J D ROBB
Blake smiled radiantly. ʺMay I call you Vasilisa?ʺʺYou can call me Lissa.ʺʺYou can also,ʺ added Christian, ʺlet go of her hand now.
Richelle Mead
Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heart.
Cassandra Clare
When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
Jodi Picoult
... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.
JoAnn Ross
The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses
Ian Somerhalder
Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice" an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you.
Oliver Gaspirtz
The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.
Alan Cohen
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
We have all made mistakes, each and every one of us. The trick is to not keep making them over and over.” “I don’t,” I said, not modestly but truthfully. “I keep finding new mistakes to make. I suspect that I have a genius for it.
Sara Poole
It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague.
Heidi Cullinan
Stop thinking. Start Dreaming.
Toni Sorenson
Just in front of her lay the Congaree Swamp National Forest. To prove it, a mosquito the size of a kitten landed on her arm and prepared to drill.
Sela Carsen
Cultivate a passion for truth.Pursue a life of charity.Enjoy the beauty found in every day.
Lisa Shea
The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You're just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won't. Once the initial high wears off, you'll just be you, except with twice as much laundry. Because ultimately, marriage is not about getting something -- it's about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession -- a free-agent penis -- and for us, it's the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland.
Tracy McMillan
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.
Gelett Burgess
How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
Alfie Kohn
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Biz Stone
What if at school you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to pain a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it...Of course this sounds ridiculous, but this is how math is taught.
Edward Frenkel
Two gorgeous guys slaving in the kitchen. Doesn't get any better than this.''You have low standards,' Chait grinned over his shoulder and dropped bread into the toaster. 'If I had two hot girls in my kitchen, I'd want them naked.' I stood immobile, seeing Chait and Hayden in my minds eye. Naked, cooking for me.Hayden glanced my way and chuckled as I dashed away.
Veronica Blade
Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and are drawn to other bearers of light. We are not alone.
Bell Hooks
One down, forever to go,” I whispered back.
Jamie McGuire
We attract what we are prepared to receive.
Charles F. Glassman
There's something in everyone only they know.
Ben Harper
When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.
Tim Fargo
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
Gary Oldman
Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.
Marsha Norman
Do not lose your heart," she said. What she did not tell me was that the surest way to lose it was to hold it tight.
Ashlee Willis
How to care for intimate apparel? Treat your bras like you’d want a partner to handle your breasts: with kindness and a gentle touch.
Elisabeth Dale
He’s barely finished himself inside me when my release hits. My thighs tense. The breath stalls in my lungs, and then I kick back my head and let out the loudest, throatiest, and most breathless moan in the history of all history, going boneless in a blissful rush.t“Gods, I missed you,” Griffin rasps, holding me as I throb around him.The high-impact tremors fade into sweet, lingering aftershocks. I look up at him with heavy-lidded eyes. My lips part, but no words come out. Even the drag of frosty air over my kiss-swollen lips is almost too sensual to bear.Griffin quirks a dark eyebrow, looking smug. “That was easy.”tI grin, falling in love with him all over again. “Then do it again.
Amanda Bouchet
Why, 'inspire?' As y'all can see I love things with the word, 'inspire!' Well, let me remind you that all inspiration comes from God, and my prayer, is that He will lead me, to inspire you to find the true inspiration that He will freely give to you!
Mary Kate
Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.
George K. Simon Jr.
I love you just the way you arebut you don't see you like I do.You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect.Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
Bo Burnham
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Frederick Buechner