Quotes by American Authors - Page 1254

But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away, that when you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of leaving, even if they never do.
Sarah Addison Allen
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.
Ally Condie
One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.
Stephen King
George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.
Margaret Cho
I fought a killer and didn’t even smudge my makeup.
Rose Pressey
Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.
Jason Evert
To have a good business, always have a caring heart.
Debasish Mridha
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
Dick Gregory
Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.
Carew Papritz
Service to the humanity is the source of joy and happiness. It is the rent you pay for living on this beautiful planet.
Debasish Mridha
The three-part whats to winning: 1. What you have. 2. What you need.3. What you believe.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.
Kenneth Eade
Fairness isn’t getting what everyone else gets. Fairness is getting what you need.
Liliana Shelbrook
We’re only five years apart,” I said defiantly. “If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we’re near normal.
Heather Heffner
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
Dan Greenberg
When you touch a man’s heart, he will remember it forever.
Dixie Waters
It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.
Barry Eysman
Even the fiercest of anarchists lose their teeth to age.
Cari Luna
Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.
Clayton Lessor MA
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
Flannery O'Connor
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence -- on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.
John F Kennedy
A society has no chance of success if it's women are uneducated.
Khaled Hosseini
Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.
Jaime Reed
Love, it is timeless. It can transcend the very limits of time and space, as long as it stays forever true in our hearts.
Imania Margria
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Aldo Leopold
Humility is recognizing we can't give anything to God that He hasn't already given to us.
Benjamin Lotter
How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding ... are simply inauthentic... But there are folks who know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth or the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas.
Tom Robbins
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster— tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone?
Herman Melville
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
You're such a pain in the ass. (Butch) Said the SIG to the Glock. (V)
J.R. Ward
Faith is ... knowing with your heart.
N. Richard Nash
We can do something else,” Paul offered casually, taking another long drink of Danny’s beer, enjoying the game in a way he probably shouldn’t. Seduction was always a challenge, and he had an unfair advantage with knowing Danny as well as he did. It almost felt like cheating. “You may not be a sadist, but you are absolutely a Dom. No question, being in control gets you off. I know it does.
Kele Moon
She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.
Frank Lentricchia
You are a winner when you have the courage to face the adversity and endure the difficulties.
Debasish Mridha
There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
Peter S Beagle
You gotta fish or cut bait,man.This has gone on long enough. You're playing with fire, every damn time you walk in this bar.
Karen Rose
Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels...
Dean Koontz
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
Max Brooks
I want my girls to know who they are and have strong family connections. I want them to be educated. I want them to travel the world. I want them to be able to support themselves, and if they choose to be in a long-term relationship, it will be based on their strengths, not their weaknesses.And I know that in order for them to get there, it is important that I take more than a surface glance at how I ended up in my unhealthy and unsafe relationship with their father. Only then will I ever have any hope of keeping my history from repeating itself in their future.
Lizbeth Meredith
They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression. There have been strict rules about sex since the beginning of written rules, and even before, if we can believe myth. I think that's because it's in sex that men feel most vulnerable. In war they can hype themselves up, or they have a weapon. Sex means being literally naked and exposing your feelings. And that's more terrifying to most men than the risk of dying while fighting a bear or a soldier.
Marilyn French
Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart.
Marie Lu
Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors.
Herbert Agar
As you express joy you draw it out of those you meet creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent
If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.
Peter Kreeft
Surrender is Serenity & a Bridge to Bliss.
Julieanne O'Connor
She'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more.
Kevin Hearne
Look for the why behind your feelings of hurt and pain because they signal where we should make some changes.
Nanette Mathews
Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.
John McPhee
The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have a way of returning every conversation to the scripture.
Will Potter
Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.
Pearl Zhu
Maybe it would feel nice. Maybe it wouldn't feel like a betrayal. Besides, who was I betraying, anyway? Just myself.
Stephenie Meyer
Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. They’re us with hats on. The zombies in George Romero’s movies are us. They’re hungry. Monsters are us, the dangerous parts of us. The part that wants to destroy. The part of us with the reptile brain. The part of us that’s vicious and cruel. We express these in our stories as these monsters out there.
John Carpenter
All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.
Marie Lu
We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.
Napoleon Hill
PoetTo mask the fiery thought,in simple words succeeds.For still the craft of genius is,To mask a king in weeds
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm trying to say that I think doing what you feel can't always be easy, but at least you're being true to yourself.
Erin Bowman
This isn't my last brush with catastrophe while making Destination Truth. Rather, it's merely the opening act in a cabaret of close calls, all in the name of exploration. I'm not saying that making D.T. is dangerous; it's not, per se. It's just that when you go out of your way to find adventure, sometimes adventure bites you on the ass. The key is figuring out how to walk away in one piece.
Josh Gates
Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack and I kiss, it’s as if we’re flipping off the jerks who destroyed our planet, as if we’re screaming at the top of our lungs… We know your secret.And we won’t be made invisible.
Caroline George