Quotes by American Authors - Page 1431

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
Darin Strauss
To fill yourself with bliss, today is the best time to start loving yourself deeply.
Debasish Mridha
Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.
Carl Sagan
Actions transform a dream into reality—not hope.
Debasish Mridha
Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their own, but rather they arise together, and are mutually dependent on one another. Everything in the world of form is constantly changing, constantly dying, and constantly being reborn—which is why Buddhists say that there is no-self; no form that has an existence in and of itself.
Joseph P. Kauffman
How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
Eileen Wilks
Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.
Toni Sorenson
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz
Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.
Will Cuppy
To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
Thomas Merton
You really want to see change?Start by donating one dollar to a charity
Charmaine J.Forde
There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.
Billy Graham
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.
John Fountain
Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.
Carl Henegan
And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the neighbor’s puppy, poking your hands through the chain-link fence separating our back yards, and you’ll be laughing so hard you’ll start hiccupping. The puppy will run inside the neighbor’s house, and your laughter will gradually subside, letting you catch your breath. Then the puppy will come back to the fence to lick your fingers again, and you’ll shriek and start laughing again. It will be the most wonderful sound I could ever imagine, a sound that makes me feel like a fountain, or a wellspring.
Ted Chiang
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.
Tony Hoagland
Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both alive.She'd never guessed what she was creating, never imagined the monster she'd spawned. She'd seen the power of Alicia DeVries's mind without recognizing the controls which kept that power in check, and only now had she begun to understand fully what she had done.She had shattered those controls. The compassion and mercy she'd feared no longer existed, only the red, ravening hunger. Yet terrible as that might be, there was worse. She'd found the hole Alicia had gnawed through the wall about her inner rage, and she couldn't close it. Somehow, without even realizing it was possible, Alicia had reached beyond herself. She'd followed Tisiphone's connection to the Fury's own rage, her own destruction, and made that incalculable power hers as well.For the first time in millennia, Tisiphone faced another as powerful as herself, a mortal mind which had stolen the power of the Furies themselves, and that power had driven it mad.
David Weber
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Michael Jackson
Life is a choice. Choose to live and not merely survive.
Debasish Mridha
You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.
Junot Díaz
He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
Kate DiCamillo
She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.
Christopher Moore
Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know.
Flannery O'Connor
There he was, her confidant—strong, solid, and unbending.
Jettie Necole
When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?
Cormac McCarthy
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
Criss Jami
No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet.""Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally.""I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.
Kevin Hearne
The sun stopped shining for me is all.
Nina LaCour
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
Pema Chödrön
The journey of life, creates my art!!!
Michael Judkins
You don’t like to talk to people, do you? I mean, slamming the door in my face was a clue that was hard to miss. I’m perceptive like that.
Susannah Sandlin
it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies
Gloria Furman
No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.
Shannon L. Alder
It's funny how people think that they have "a right to life". Now isn't that the biggest load you ever heard? You don't have a right to shit your pants on Sunday. Let's take it back to the jungle. Where the fuck are your rights there? No layers in the jungle. Civilization has allowed the weak to survive. You can sit back and be an overweight, apathetic piece of shit, smoke your dope and still survive because you have a right to life.
Henry Rollins
Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.
DaShanne Stokes
When you become an actively engaged listener, you will develop the mindful awareness that active listening involves multiple layers and distinct levels.
Susan C.Young
She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.
Thomm Quackenbush
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a lot of praying here as well, that God would deliver us all to prosperity and peace beyond this plot of land.
Deborah L. Parker
Research has shown that different colors represent different character qualities and have a powerful psychological effect. Color portrays different meanings in life and in business. Choose the colors that not only make you look and feel great, but inspire the emotions you hope to evoke.
Susan C.Young
She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.
Kristin Cashore
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
Courtney Love
Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
Ben Carson
I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.
Jessica Fortunato
To keep a warm heart in a cold world is the real victory.
Marty Rubin
People. Products. Profits. In that order.
Ken Goldstein
If you have good sex, you've done a lot right in life.
Rebecca Murphy
Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
Catherynne M. Valente
I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.
Veronica Roth
Confidence is a magnet to success.
E'yen A. Gardner
Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.
Karen Russell
The first time she saw Jag Silvertree she was watering the garden, and her clematis got soaked as she dreamt of melting into his face. The second time she saw Jag she knew she would never feel his angular jaw against her thighs. For Jag Silvertree carried around with him a hurt that she figured would stand out in a field of wounded soldiers.
Marie Wilson
You are human. You love who you love.You fuck who you fuck. That should be enough—no labels.— Connor Cobalt
Krista Ritchie
You want a mate who will follow your dream. You don't want to give up your own ambitions to make someone else's life possible.''I supposed that's true,' Althea admitted reluctantly. An instant later she demanded, 'Why is that so wrong?''It isn't,' Amber assured her, A moment later she added wickedly, 'As long as you're male.
Robin Hobb
Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose.
Jodi Picoult
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
Aldo Leopold
Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic’s private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement.
Eugene Lyons
It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas.
Mark Lawrence
Biology doesn't make anyone a parent," Cassia added as she tucked her Eturian prayer stone beneath her shirt.
Melissa Landers
A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.
E.A. Bucchianeri