Quotes by American Authors - Page 1419

Quick! What aisle are the douches in? I've got three bitches at the beach cottage and they all stick to high heaven."...t"You do carry Massengill, don't you? That's the best brand, according to my research."t"Ah..." What kind of man researches douches? A man who goes to bed with three women...t"Would you mind checking your inventory in the back? I'll need more."t"I'm not allowed to leave the register, but I'll be happy to page our stock boy."tDouche-man grunted and flipped the package around. "It's gonna take at least two boxes for Loa. She's big. Got wide hips. Skinny legs, though. Kinda like a twenty-gallon tank on toothpicks.
Vonnie Davis
Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
Philip Yancey
And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you—the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.
Sara Zarr
Tonight I attend my thirty-fifth high school reunion with some trepidation.I have not seen most of these former classmates for thirty-some years. I am not the same young girl they knew in high school. What they cannot know, what I am just realizing myself, is that I am not even the same person I was two years ago.
Mary Potter Kenyon
Every person has a season for knowledge.
Elana Johnson
Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond a couple together. Sex connects and fuses people together.
Craig Groeschel
Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
J.D. Greear
Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they’re not strong enough to do the same.
Matthew Quick
Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.
Lionel Suggs
Guilt is the other side of compassion. Its original purpose was to enable you to empathize on an aware level with yourselves and other members of creaturehood, so that you could consciously control what was previously handled on a biological level alone. Guilt in that respect therefore has a strong natural basis, and when it is perverted, misused or misunderstood, it has that great terrifying energy of any runaway basic phenomenon.
Jane Roberts
I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written.
M.V. Carey
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.
James T. Farrell
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
E.L. Konigsburg
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
Steve Martin
Whether you're delivering a sales presentation to a new client, going on a trip, speaking in front of a thousand people, or handling a customer complaint, when you are prepared, you are more empowered to do your best and perform at a higher level. It feels great!
Susan C.Young
Batching or “bucketing” your tasks is ripping the Band- Aid off whenever you have to deal with ongoing activities.
Amber Hurdle
Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use their sexual superiority to gain economic advantages. So who is the extortionist?
David P. Bryden
I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.
Tina Fey
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Zig Ziglar
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
Stephen King
There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared.
Jodi Picoult
My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.
Ernest Cline
No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
Gerald Jampolsky
With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese.
Ilsa Bick
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.
Sheri Reynolds
When you try to forget, you will never be able to do it. It will only create a stronger memory. You can’t erase an event or memory from your memory box or hippocampus. The memory will only get stronger.
Debasish Mridha
For all the things we do in our lives and the people that surround us, its family and those few loyal friends that God has blessed us with.
Ron Baratono
What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?
Bill Jensen
Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around.
Amy Poehler
Plant in the land of children whatever you wish to see in the life of our times
Lucy Wheelock
Developing your EI will allow you to explore new depths of understanding in yourself and others. It will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas you may wish to improve.
Susan C.Young
When I could hold my eyes open long enough, I did stare up at the rain pelting down on me. I’ve never looked at it like that, straight up into the sky, and while I flinched more than I could actually see, when I could see it was absolutely beautiful. Like each drop rocketing towards me was separate from the thousands of others and for a suspended moment in time, I could glimpse it and see its delicate facets. I saw the gray clouds churning above me and felt the car shake when the wind from the traffic pushed against it. I shivered even though it’s warm enough to swim. But nothing I saw or felt or heard was as warm and fascinating as Andrew’s closeness.
J.A. Redmerski
What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.
Sarah Dessen
Boredom comes from a boring mind.
Metallica
You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
Lynda Barry
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
Patricia Briggs
Appreciation involves being alert to the positive aspects of the current situation and feeling thankful for what one has and for one's circumstances. This requires not only a positive perspective in the present but also conscious awareness of features in the surround. The latter, in fact, is something that may be surprisingly rare. Especially when we are engaging in routine activities, we often do so mindlessly (Langer, 1997) or as though we were on automatic pilot (Cialdini, 1993). If we learn to bring our attention to the current state, we can choose to focus on positive aspects of the situation and to remind ourselves of the potential sources of good feelings that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
Sandra L. Schneider
The more a religion makes a person feel guilty and insecure, the harder the person works for the religion.
Darrel Ray
Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother.
Erica Cameron
Once my grandmother told me I needed to find God and I said, “Why don’t you just tell me where to look and save me the trouble?” I was dead serious. Faith, destiny, all the shit you can’t see, but yet people are so willing to take the leap. Not me.
Renee Carlino
Sin is nothing more than a most extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who were when we were created as a spirit that came forth from the heart of God the Father—as a spirit made in His sinless image.
Praying Medic
Don't forget that your happiness is the most important thing, and that you should never equate your GPA or school with your sense of self-worth. . . . If you're feeling overwhelmed, take a step back and remind yourself that you are not your grades.
Stefanie Weisman
When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens—and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell.
Billy Graham
No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills — every emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.” ― Richard Halliburton
Richard Halliburton
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.
Li-Young Lee
But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—''By time traveli
Dexter Palmer
I've learned all I'm ever going to learn from you.
Orson Scott Card
That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!
Gemma Halliday
You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved.
Robbie Vorhaus
Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
Carol S. Dweck
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
Lauren Kate
I choose to love more and more every day.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Sex isn't what I'm after. Sex is just what I can get.
John Valentine
Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster
I hope for happiness for you.
Debasish Mridha
Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond.
Ace Antonio Hall
Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you.
Bryant McGill
That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.
Ursula Hegi