Quotes by American Authors - Page 131

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.
Marc Allen
What are all these?" Clary asked."Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-""Jesus," said Clary"I doubt he'd fit.""Jace." Clary was appalled.
Cassandra Clare
...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.
Emily M. Danforth
You are the soul of the universe, the eyes of the world, and the feelings of nature.
Debasish Mridha
...You know, one good apple can spoil the rest,” Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
Joseph Heller
She caught you. Therefore she gets your treasure.
Kathy Bryson
You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't.
Richelle Mead
if you eat menand still feel like you’re starving, you’re craving something that they cannot give.
K.Y. Robinson
He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire course of world history (Rev. 1:5) while simultaneously preparing the rest of the universe for our future role in it (John 14:2). He always has the best information on everything and certainly also on the things that matter most in human life. Let us now hear his teachings on who has the good life, on who is among the truly blessed.
Dallas Willard
Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.
Lori Foster
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
Everett M. Dirksen
Yet despite all these things we know to be true- despite the preponderance of evidence showing the mental and emotional distress people demonstrate in violent and harassing environments- we still have no name for what happens to women living in a culture that hates them.
Jessica Valenti
Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood
Alexia Purdy
People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way--at least initially.
Paula Heller Garland
At that moment, in the temple of her lovers’ tangled limbs, Lea felt the presence of the Divine close by, immanent and imminent — everywhere and everywhen — and it was a sublime feeling, one that made her feel infinitely powerful and infinitely small, both at the same time.A good fuck can make even an agnostic see God — a fact that explained Lea’s parents’ fascination with Tantra, something about which Lea thought as little as possible.
K.D. West
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.
A.W. Tozer
What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.
Jane Caputi
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.
Brian Tracy
You can’t stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple!
John Di Lemme
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
Stephen King
The angels will help get you where you need to go.
Eileen Anglin
The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
A.W. Tozer
You know what is beautiful? A real conversation with a real person.
Jonathan Harnisch
It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
Ludwig von Mises
Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.
Criss Jami
These guys we're meeting? They're dead. Saji has had things done to people who crossed him or whom he has perceived as crossing him. Ugly things. These guys we're meeting? They think they're tough. They run book, own strip clubs, dabble in petty theft and probably sell dope for all I know and they're comfortable in that world, thinking they own it. That arrogance? That feeling that they can just push people around and do anything they want? It has left them with one foot in the grave and they don't even know it.
Michael Prelee
that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.
Okey Ndibe
Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.
Laura Fitzgerald
How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.
Marilyn Suttle
Being 100 percent in the moment and focusing on the person you’re with is one of the finest compliments you can offer. One of the most respectful and considerate things you can do for another is to truly be with them in the here and now.
Susan C.Young
I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me,
Charlotte Shane
Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.
Donna Lynn Hope
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.
Aberjhani
Even the boy who cried wolf as right about the wolf once.
Sherry Thomas
Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.
Timothy J. Keller
They’d welcomed him aboard their ship. Nico had never allowed himself the luxury of friends, but the crew of the Argo II was as close as he’d ever come. The idea of any of them dying made him feel empty – like he was back in the giants’ bronze jar, alone in the dark, subsisting only on sour pomegranate seeds.
Rick Riordan
If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.
Eric Greitens
My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You called out another man’s name.
Julio Alexi Genao
readers are saying;“A great story about a fan's love for 'all things sport' ...”" Great read. Must buy as a stocking stuffer."“A great piece of work
Keith Guernsey
Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger."~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel
M.T. Bass
So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.Now, he is free.
Marie Lu
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
Chuck Klosterman
All I want is a peaceful place where flowers can bloom, birds can sing, and the mind can fly with joy.
Debasish Mridha
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.
Gillian Marchenko
The hatred of hatred is still hate.
Ralph Dominic Castro
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
Dr. Seuss
Don't hide your emptiness. Fill it with love and give it away to fill your life with joy.
Debasish Mridha
To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.
Criss Jami
You have games on there?" he asks."Yeah," I answer for her. "She's become a checkers fanatic. Shelley, show him how it works."While Shelley slowly taps the screen with her knuckles, Alex watches, seemingly fascinated.When the checkers screen comes up, Shelley nudges Alex's hand."You go first," he says.She shakes her head."She wants you to go first," I tell him."Cool." He taps the screen.I watch, getting all mushy inside, as this tough guy plays quietly with my big sister."Do you mind if I make a snack for her?" I say, desperate to leave the room."Nah, go ahead," he says, his concentration on the game."You don't have to let her win," I say before leaving. "She can hold her own in checkers.""Uh, thanks for the vote of confidence, but I am tryin' to win," Alex says. He has a genuine grin on his face, without trying to act cocky or cool.
Simone Elkeles
Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
E B White
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.
Sylvia Plath
God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.
Melissa Coleman
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
Michael tousled my hair and said, "Remember, no more skateboards, right?" And then this gem: "If you ever break your arm skateboarding again..." He paused, flashing me a dimpled Charles Ingalls grin, which then suddenly disappeared. "I'll break the other one.
Alison Arngrim
Love Me Even More when I Seem Least Deserving... For That is the Very Moment That I Am Most in Need of Your Love.
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
You cannot get before you give. Wood cannot give you warmth before you start the fires.
Debasish Mridha