Quotes by American Authors - Page 1344

Technology won’t protect you from being attacked for fresh water. A badass blade will. Back in Eden where I grew up, the closest thing to knifework I’d experienced was cutting up a loaf of warm bread. Last night, I’d gutted a wild prairie chicken after scaling a rock face to find its nest and slit its throat. What a difference a year makes.
Georgia Clark
Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it’s just too late for me. And that this book isn’t working, nothing’s working, everything feels like it’s made of spiders.
Jessica Abel
I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly and language became an obstacle. It became clear that it would be necessary to invent a new language... I would pause at every sentence, and start over and over again. I would conjure up other verbs, other images, other silent cries. It still was not right. But what exactly was “it”? “It” was something elusive, darkly shrouded for fear of being usurped, profaned. All the dictionary had to offer seemed meager, pale, lifeless.
Elie Wiesel
Nothing is more important to me than keeping you safe." - Nathan
Markelle Grabo
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.
Gayle Forman
Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.
Coco J. Ginger
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.
Dale Carnegie
He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.
Kelly Moran
She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
...I've never really had a party before.""Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him talking.He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come.
Lauren Oliver
On the night before Jesus died, he said to his Heavenly Father, "I have accomplished the work which you gave me to do."He didn't heal every sick person on earth. When he ascended to heaven, there was still sickness and heartache and pain. But Jesus knew that he had accomplished what his father had called him to do, and that was enough.
Lisa Brenninkmeyer
If I cannot fix your broken heart can I put mine in its place, because these stars are not enough, and all the money in the world does not equal your worth.
Delano Johnson
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
Joseph Campbell
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.
Bryant McGill
Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious evidence of their huge influence?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Politics is motion." John Sears
Rick Perlstein
You restored me to the concept of home.
Lionel Shriver
There is a difference between what is wrong and what is evil. Evil is committed when clarity is taken away from what is clearly wrong, allowing wrong to be seen as less wrong, excusable, right, or an obligatory commandment of the Lord God Almighty.Evil is bad sold as good, wrong sold as right, injustice sold as justice. Like the coat of a virus, a thin veil of right can disguise enormous wrong and confer an ability to infect others.
John Hartung
Remember that you are never alone—you are always with yourself.
Debasish Mridha
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.
Stephen King
Sometimes I think the greatest things God teaches us are only found when we realize that we were never in control in the first place. I think your need to control things is just your fear of the unknown. Don’t miss out on the blessings He has for you just because you’re scared.
Erynn Mangum
Storytelling still matters in the digital age, because commencing in adolescences and continuing through adulthood, people receive training in using stories to describe the human contestants, organize the facts, communicate the moral message behind the messy human conflict, evaluate competing ethical issues, and render a final value judgment.
Kilroy J. Oldster
What you believe, that is your truth, that you will attract and, for sure, that will manifest in your life.
Debasish Mridha
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. There’s no better way to learn a language than by immersing yourself in a culture where it’s spoken, and there’s no better way to immerse yourself in a culture than by learning to speak the local language.
Wendy Werneth
Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say ‘these are my things, nobody else can touch them.’
Benjamin R. Smith
My writings are the mirror of my soul and the dance of my mind.
Debasish Mridha
She looked up into Wharick's ethereal face, her eyes drifting across his features. Close your mouth, Keirah. Her brain finally caught up with her face's reaction.
Madison Thorne Grey
Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.
Anthony Marra
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
Stephen King
A stethoscope hears not the beating of a heart’s desire.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.
Zack Love
Meditation has also been proven scientifically to untangle and rewire the neurological pathways in the brain that make up the conditioned personality. Buddhist monks, for example, have had their brains scanned by scientists as they sat still in deep altered states of consciousness invoked by transcendental meditation and the scientists were amazed at what they beheld. The frontal lobes of the monks lit up as bright as the sun! They were in states of peace and happiness the scientists had never seen before. Meditation invokes that which is known in neuroscience as neuroplasticity; which is the loosening of the old nerve cells or hardwiring in the brain, to make space for the new to emerge. Meditation, in this sense, is a fire that burns away the old or conditioned self, in the Bhagavad Gita, this is known as the Yajna;“All karma or effects of actions are completely burned away from the liberated being who, free from attachment, with his physical mind enveloped in wisdom (the higher self), performs the true spiritual fire rite.
Craig Krishna
God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.
Billy Graham
I have never, since the dawn of mankind, been adorable.
Lisa Kessler
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
Douglas Malloch
The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common subject of entertainments and moralizing stories, but if everyone were to consider all the possible consequences of all one’s possible choices, no one would move a millimeter, or even dare to breathe for fear of the ultimate results.
Ann Leckie
He craved sex and chocolate. Chocolate was his heroin. Men were his needle.
Tom Cardamone
I want to earn more money but my body says "I'm tired," and my spirit says "I have no desire," whoever said "I'm not a trinity" is a complete liar!
Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
Mabel Hale
Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving
Mira Grant
Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.
Pearl Zhu
What do you love more?” she teased. “My hair or my heart?” “Why give me only two choices? Don’t leave out your legs, your laugh, the way you bite your lip when you’re thinking, the feel of your breath on my face, the sound of your voice in the morning, the way you taste, the three freckles on your nose, the fan of your eyelashes, the caring spirit, the determined soul — so why stop at your hair and your heart? How do you expect me to choose? When what I love the most about you — is you.
Rachel Van Dyken
Life is about execution rather than purpose.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding.I looked up at the cross again and wondered if I was supposed to hear this particular sermon at this particular moment for a reason. I decided that the people who had said God didn’t love me, who said I didn’t have a place on Earth—they were wrong. God wanted me to live, and this was the only way I knew how to survive, so this was what God wanted. This was what I wanted. I had chosen to live, and it seemed like, finally, I was doing just that.
Meredith Russo
I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
George Washington
Your real name is a mortal name. Now you need one that is immortal, the one that takes the high stage and plays above the rest. You can't be immortal and mortal at the same time.
Keith Buckley
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas Higginson
We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
Jim Butcher
The world we made together is gone now. Silk and cinnamon do not bring it back to me as clearly as the smell of potatoes frying with onions, or the purr of a cat, or the feel of a knot beneath my fingers. And that in itself is proof of how the voyage changed me, who set out only wanting to see anything new and different.
Susan Palwick
Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?
Robin Hobb
Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
Elisabeth Bronfen
For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.
Greg Rucka