Quotes by American Authors - Page 1252

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.
M. C. Mcintosh
Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9
Michael Ben Zehabe
Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it could be correct?'. That's a very different question. One of my prevailing doctrines about Darwinian theory is 'Man, that thing is just a mess. It's like looking into a room full of smoke.' Nothing in the theory is precisely, clearly, carefully defined or delineated. It lacks all of the rigor one expects from mathematical physics, and mathematical physics lacks all the rigor one expects from mathematics. So we're talking about a gradual descent down the level of intelligibility until we reach evolutionary biology.
David Berlinski
Just be yourself to change everything.
Debasish Mridha
You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.
Colin Wright
The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out — a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.
Parker J. Palmer
He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.
Richard Kadrey
Regardless of type, however, the mechanism of a religion works like this: children, from the time they can communicate, are taught to see reality in a certain way. They are indoctrinated with a pre-defined belief structure and value set. Naive, open to such teaching, given only the religious viewpoint and perhaps punished or ostracized if they don’t accept it, most ultimately absorb and mimic the religion outright.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
Elizabeth Hawes
I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I shouldn’t expect words to substitute for experience. That’s not their job, although words certainly can be misused in that way. The job of words is to direct us toward experience, to round out experience, to facilitate experience, and to give us ways to share at least pale shadows of that experience with those we love. And the job of words is to help us learn to be — and act — human.
Derrick Jensen
Right and wrong are superstitions; your desires, however, are real. Those who cannot achieve their desires, or who despair of doing so, often compensate by constructing imaginary frameworks. For example, if you wish to live in a world in which no one exploits animals, it is moralism to judge those who eat meat immoral instead of setting about disabling the animal exploitation industry. People retreat into moralism as a sort of consolation prize, for it is easier to rule in the realm of good and evil, fictitious as it may be, than to come to terms with our limited leverage upon this world and yet persist in endeavoring to change it.
CrimethInc.
Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others.
Bryant McGill
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing after all.
Eugene Field
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
Ray Bradbury
Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.
Will Durant
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.
R.A. Salvatore
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
Woody Allen
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
Frank Herbert
Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.
Billy Graham
If you are going to start, don't quit. But if you are going to quit, don't even start!
Hannah Sulfridge
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
Carl Sagan
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us.
Ray Bradbury
The problem with movements is that, all too often, they are associated only with the most visible figures, the people with the biggest platforms and the loudest, most provocative voices. But feminism is not whatever philosophy is being spouted by the popular media feminist flavor of the week, at least not entirely.
Roxane Gay
Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistakenme for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you’re so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.
Rick Riordan
Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.
Allan Lokos
Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.
Barack Obama
First they burned her - that was last month. Actually just two weeks ago. Now they're starvng him. When he's dead, they'll burn him too.Oh, how jolly. All this burning of family members in the summertime.
Lydia Davis
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
Adrian Rogers
When i move through my pain, it clears the path for a new dawn, a new day. It is in these moments, i feel the sun rising on the horizon of hope, in my soul.
Jaeda DeWalt
Rafael possessed unfathomable strength. His speed defied the laws of nature...and his bite, good God, his bite. How could something so macabre feel so pleasurable?
Brooklyn Ann
Make it your ultimate habit of life to be kind.
Debasish Mridha
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
America's libraries are the fruits of a great democracy. They exist because we believe that memory and truth are important. They exists because we believe that information an knowledge are not the exclusive domain of a certain type or class of person but rather the province of all who seek to learn. A democratic society holds these institutions in high regard.
Robert S Martin
Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.
Matt Chandler
The ferocity of her passion was what he'd been waiting for night after torturous night. He wanted her to hunger the way he hungered. To need like he needed.
Melissa Cutler
When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are 'desperate' for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal Who He is and show you the way out...
Seraphim Rose
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.
Mandy Hale
Each one of us is a creator. And together, we are The Creator.
Jim Gilliam
When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle you can do incredible things.
Norman Vincent Peale
It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.
Jodi Picoult
Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.
Stephanie Hemphill
The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.
Renata Adler
I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
Charles Bukowski
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles...by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain
That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
Dave Grohl
If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.
Anne Lamott
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
William Goldman
There is a field of unconditional love that surrounds all of us.
Catherine Carrigan
(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of monks and spending the rest of your life in a glass monastery - removed from the world of human affairs even as it continued to whirl around you on all sides. To be a journalist meant you could never be the person who tossed the brick through the window that started the revolution. You could only watch the man toss the brick, you could try to understand why he had tossed the brick, you could explain to others what significance the brick had in starting the revolution, but you yourself could never toss the brick or even stand in the mob that was urging the man to throw it.
Paul Auster
Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.
Christopher Bram
Balance is the key to a long and happy life.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
You can't make the right decision, but you can always make the dicision right.
Thomas Murdock
Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn’t just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant’s DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt.
Kenneth Eade
You won’t ever have everyone love you, just as you won’t have everyone hate you. find the right people to love you and return the hatred of others with ambivalence or hatred of your own.
Elise Kova
I am skin, but underneath livesfire and stars and wild!
Melody Lee
There is no art without contemplation.
Robert Henri
I had a party to plan, reminders to send, some positive PR to get out, L.A. travel plans to take care of and now a bit of a conspiracy to start unraveling.For starters.Just another average Sunday with the M10.
Lola Dodge