Quotes by American Authors - Page 1255

And as if the professor could read Henry's mind, he said, "It's a curious thing, change. You never get used to it, and you're never sure where it comes from, but you better learn to expect it." "I don't recognize the quotation." Henry frowned, trying to place it. "That's because it isn't one. It is simply advice, and advice you'd be well advised to take, especially now.
Violet Haberdasher
Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton
Hope with deep driving desires is an order of the most delicious delicacy in a restaurant we call the universe.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?"She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan."Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I realize the simple truth is that power isn’t control at all- power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
Beth Revis
When Rip Torn dies - heaven forbid - but when he dies, you'll only have to write RIP Torn.
Gregor Collins
I really don’t want to win. I just want to improve and be better than I was.
Debasish Mridha
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.
Cassandra Clare
No one says: when my family treated me as a stranger, I preferred the company of strangers, and I walked among strangers and what did I find but God in every one of their faces.
Joanna Brooks
Colors are vibrating light energies, each “color ray” produces a sound that affects matter.
Jacqueline Ripstein
Want to know a secret?""Yeah!" His smile grew big and broad."I don't know how to saddle a horse either. And I've never even ridden on one before." His eyes grew wide as the moon. "Jase!" he bellowed, spinning toward his brother."She's never ridden a horse before!" Well, there went my secret.
J. Lynn
The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.
Avi
A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the city Leesh-boa. 'But before that, meus neto, my tribe was in the mountains where there are only old things, like the trees and the rocks and the streams. There are truths to be learned from the old things -' She hesitated, and her brown, shrunken claw closed over Pete's hand. 'Do you know the truth, Pedrinho?'("Before I Wake...")
Henry Kuttner
In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.
Dan Ariely
I couldn't pick just one.The moment I'd touched the sugar packet, a thousand thoughts cascaded through my
Lisa Mangum
Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.
Rebecca Scherm
The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.
Billy Graham
But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
Sarah Vowell
I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.
Nicholas Sparks
The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.
Richard Rohr
This is where we go our seperate ways.Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes."I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to."The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it."I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come.His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.
Alyson Noel
I want to rip the rest of those buttons open and climb him like a monkey in a banana tree. Oh God, what I would do with his banana...
Heather M. Orgeron
The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You have to dig deep in yourself to dream. You have to close your eyes to see.
Debasish Mridha
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
Criss Jami
How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?
Sarah J Maas
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job
Laura Dave
WHEN WE GIVE FROM A PLACE OF LOVE,RATHER THAN FROM A PLACE OF EXPECTATION, MORE USUALLY COMES BACK TO US THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.
Susan Jeffers
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
Wallace Stegner
You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.
Vendela Vida
We need more worship wars, not fewer. What if the war looked like this in your congregation--the young singles petitioning the church to play more of the old classics for the sake of the elderly people, and the elderly people calling on the leadership to contemporize for the sake of the young new believers? This would signal a counting of others more important than ourselves (Phil 2:3), which comes from the spirit of the humiliated, exalted King, Christ (Phil 2:5-11).
Russell D. Moore
An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else.
Tullian Tchividjian
I sunk to my knees in the spot he had left me. I felt a part of me had just been lost. I was fraught with so many emotions, confused by them all; however, I was hurt more than anything. Hurt to hear him call himself a monster. A monster? Of all the things I thought he was, a monster was not one of them.
Charlotte Munro
Running away can also be running to.
Deb Caletti
There's a funny thing about light and darkness--like hope, you can never blot out either one completely. They always exist, side by side, bright light making shadows darker, darkness making the light more beautiful, a tempting siren call. I can't hate the dark parts of myself. They are the things that showed me how special and rare the bright flames of trust, loyalty, friendship, and love were. My darkness showed me how to love Rob. But now I choose light and fire and love. No I choose freedom.
A.C. Gaughen
…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how wonderfully Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessing.
Louisa May Alcott
Ctrl+Alt+Believe: Reboot System is for associations that are courageous and want to emerge from unconscious thoughts and become conscious about choice—associations that have a deep conviction to meet the visions and mission of their members in spite of changes in the business climate, globalism, technology, generational changes, and all that is yet to come.
Holly Duckworth
It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality.
Lionel Suggs
Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.
DaShanne Stokes
What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.
Stephen King
Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
Richard Devos
It is the truth which is always the hardest to believe.
Debasish Mridha
What does matter is that you understand this one great truth I have learned in my life: having knowledge, even at the expense of leaving the Garden, has been worth it. For it is through this great gift of knowledge that I have understood something of the Creator's power - yes, even the Creator's love. Out of what seemed punishment, came a great good; out of physical pain, all of you have emerged. The pain has been forgotten while the pleasure of your presence endures. Adam and I have known joy - how would we have tasted it had we not known its opposite, sorrow? And we have seen how darkness is dispelled when light arrives, night and day, after night and day. We never tire of it.
Katerina Whitley
If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
Holly Black
Love is not dependent on someone or something outside of you. One chooses to be Love in each moment as the moment unfolds, regardless of what happened in that moment.
Cardwell C. Nuckols
How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.
Debasish Mridha
I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.
Kara Lee Corthron
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David M. Friedman
Self-mastery involves a studious account of all aspects of human life and developing a comprehensive philosophy for living without fear or anxiety throughout the remaining years of a person’s life. A person must live within the limits of the human condition, which does not justify giving into all of our destructive impulses or living a pleasurable and guiltless life. Self-mastery does not require a person to live a life without passion; rather, it entails channeling vibrant personal passions into living in a virtuous manner of created beings.
Kilroy J. Oldster
And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.
John Elder Robison
Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes the hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.
Mychal Denzel Smith
Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.
Richelle E. Goodrich
People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.
Brandon Sanderson
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business.
Tommy Henrich
My friend, doubt is the opposite of faith and the two cannot exist together in the same time and place. Either you believe or you don’t. To build your faith and to absolutely hammer home the incredible importance of embracing the reality that success is a choice.
Clay Clark
It is the uncertainty of life that fills life with magnificence and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
Lila!" he said cheerfully. "So you aren't a figment of my brothers imagination after all.
V.E. Schwab
They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
Isabel Allende