Quotes by American Authors - Page 1353

Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?
Barbara Kingsolver
The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers, the eerie mix of sounds and smells and glimpses neither natural nor crafted- all of it is free for the taking, for the taking in. Take it, take it in, take in more every weekend, every day, and quickly it becomes the theater that intrigues, relaxes, fascinates, seduces, and above all expands any mind focused on it. Outside lies utterly ordinary space open to any casual explorer willing to find the extraordinary. Outside lies unprogrammed awareness that at times becomes directed serendipity. Outside lies magic.
John R. Stilgoe
Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.
Vivian Vande Velde
I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.
Cristina García
The problem is that stepping away from Brian, leaving him standing under that pergola on Wednesday, is no longer enough to leave behind how he made me feel in that hour. I could leave him there, we could part as strangers, but God, I know that I would look for him. He would live in my peripheral vision, a ghost nudging me to turn and look behind me, only to find a spot that is emptier than empty
Mary Ann Rivers
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
Paul Tillich
There is a need to evaluate the performance of employees in a more objective and continuous way.
Pearl Zhu
The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.
J.R. Rim
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. What matters is you can look in the mirror, and love who you see.
B. Dave Walters
Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.
Charles Eisenstein
One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.
Marty Rubin
Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.
Neal A Maxwell
Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future.
Mary Mihalic
A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades.
Leslie Parrott
Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you.
Ricky Maye
Know that EVERYTHING in Life has purpose. There are no accidents, no coincidences, EVERY moment is a blessing given for our Spiritual benefit and learning.
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind.
Debasish Mridha
People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Besides, if one little kiss makes her a slut, I'd hate to know what that makes you.
Kelly Oram
Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.
Barbara W. Tuchman
She would talk to him in the car, ask him something, then turn on the radio and find her question answered by the lyrics of a song; pick up a book and turn to a random page, to find the words that were exactly what she needed to hear. There is no such thing as coincidence, she would think, blowing a kiss of thanks to the heavens.
Jane Green
Hippos are the very definition of Disney cute. There is no way you could look at a big, fat, squishy, huggable hippo and not think, "Id she could talk like a human, she would sound just like Jada Pinkett Smith and be oh so sassy." You would totally name her Sassy-baskets, and she would be your tutu-wearing, ballet-dancing, strut-walking pal for life. Just you and Sassy-baskets against the world!
Cracked.com
The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
Scott Westerfeld
Layla smiled through her tears, "If I'd known that all it would take to get us talking is a romantic getaway to a bombed-out part of Eastern Europe, I would have gotten Kendra to set it up a long time ago."t"Romantic, huh?" He smiled. "I like romantic.
Paige Tyler
Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver.” She makes sure I don’t speak.“Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the loudertheir voice, the deeper the echoes. But your wife served her purpose.
Pierce Brown
I sense love, beauty and power and know I am supported by unseen beings of light.
Lynne Cockrum-Murphy
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.
Robert A. Heinlein
I'll always choose you." Yes that was the word. "Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.
Lauren Kate
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.
Henry Rollins
It's a blip, not a catastrophe.
Donald J. Trump
What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.
Elizabeth Benedict
He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?As if an enlarged paper clipcould be a piece of sculpture.(And it could.)
Anne Sexton
Socialism is politicized envy.
Rousas John Rushdoony
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Brené Brown
Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest like a hurricane, with the force to topple trees.
Tessa Dare
An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible through a kind of looking glass made of hard-board and cloth. The author’s voice resonated in the reader’s head with the same words that had resonated in his own as he wrote them. He spoke to the reader from the past. What he had witnessed, experienced, learned, and discovered would live forever. You only had to turn a page to travel in time.
Stephen Parrish
When people mentioned it to me, they thought they were talking about some casual relative of mine. For most people that's what an uncle was. They had no idea how I felt about Finn. No idea that hearing them talk about AIDS, like that was the important part of the story--more important than who Finn was, or how much I loved him, or how much he was still breaking my heart every single hour of every single day--made me want to scream.
Carol Rifka Brunt
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
Peter F Drucker
If you can’t forgive and move on, then your feelings will grow and fester and they will eat you alive.
T.M. Gaouette
Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half of a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess.
Howard Mittelmark
If you read the novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really
Philip Roth
Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and damn the course of youth groping among the obstacles erected, dutifully, by its own hands earlier, along the way of that sublime delusion known as the pursuit of happiness. Not to be confused with the state of political bigotry, mental obstinacy, financial security, sensual atrophy, emotional penury, and spiritual collapse which, under the name “maturity”, animated lives around him, it might be said that Reverend Gwyon had reached maturity.
William Gaddis
But I get it; it's a way to mark time. When your life's too busy, it forces you to check in with yourself. Or when it feels all the same all the time, maybe it can make you feel special.
Jami Attenberg
The only way to get truly great intuitive information is to show up and get out of your own way.
Catherine Carrigan
The Order of the Titans had agreed with his assessment. This generation, the Order would be successful where previous generations had failed, because this time they would steal mankind's inspiration. They would kill the muses for the greater good....tFor the good of mankind.
Lisa Kessler
I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that they hated all unicorns now and tried to kill them when they saw them. But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else-what do they look like to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?
Peter S Beagle
God is well able to turn your tragedies into triumphs.
Jim George
A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.
Jayne Ann Krentz
Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom
Louis Menand
The tree is a mediator between the living and dead. Where a limb is malformed, where her branches twist and wave into one another, or where a wound on bark remains unhealed, all these imperfections are sacred pathways between the realms.
Brunonia Barry
But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1.
Susane Colasanti
Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.
Dillon Burroughs
Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.
Doug Dillon
I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.
L.J. Smith
To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.
Emily P. Freeman
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
Joyce Carol Oates
God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.
John Eldredge
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
Vladimir Nabokov
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
Geraldine Brooks