Quotes by American Authors - Page 1453

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
Heywood Broun
Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.
Joel Osteen
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.
Grove Karl Gilbert
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
Gerald Raftery
According to the historian William H. McNeil, European churches did not have pews until sometime in the eighteenth century. People stood or milled around, creating a very different dynamic than we find in today's churches, where people are expected to spend most of their time sitting.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.
Crystal Woodman Miller
The heart of compromise is the willingness of all parties to sacrifice reciprocally and equally for the greater good of a relationship. Reconciling conflicting needs for the sake of unity can't work if just one person does it. A coerced compromise, when one partner deceives or overpowers the other without allowing room for shared truths, usually results in an empty agreement that's soon undermined by unilateral acting out.
Alexandra Katehakis
Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet.
Larry McCleary
He grasped her by the wrist , running a thumb along the sensitive skin underneath. "Then let me call you Mine for a dance or two"She grinned but someone was suddenly between them, a tall, powerfully built person. Sam. He ripped the stranger's hand off of her wrist. "She's spoken for," he growled, all too close to the young man's maked face. The stranger's friend was behind him in an instant, his bronze eyes fixed on Sam.Celaena grabbed Sam's elbow. "Enough," she warned him.The masked stranger looked Sam up and down, then held up his hands. "My mistake," he said, but winked at Celaena before disappeared into the crowd, his armed friend close behind.Celaena whirled to face Sam. "What in hell was that for?""You're drunk," he told her, so close her chest brushed his, "And he knew it, too.""So?" Even as she said it, someone dancing wildly crashed into her and set her reeling. Sam caught her around the waist, his hands firm on her as he kept her from falling to the ground."You'll thank me in the morning." "Just because we're working together doesn't mean I'm suddenly incapable of handling myself." His hands were still on her waist."Let me take you home.
Sarah J Maas
I hate to tell things in which I don't belive to impress people who are not on my mind so that they see my false image.
Bryanna Reid
He was tiredof being calleda fag and teasedfor his sexualityby one of the guards,so he tried to hanghimself, twiceThe kid got a littlecloser the secondtime, but I won’t bearound to see athird
Phil Volatile
I’m Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was supposed to love and forgive to be punished forever? If you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante’s Inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to be afraid of, to literally scare people into being Christian.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.
Liza Lugo
Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?
Dorothea Benton Frank
The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.
Francine Rivers
That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.
Stephanie Kuehn
The beauty of life is not a lack of darkness, but it is in the presence of light.
Debasish Mridha
Your moment is now. Claim it!
Toni Sorenson
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it
Ursula K Le Guin
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
William James
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.
Bob Rubin
Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were shelved in the back of the stores alongside books about natural history, dinosaurs, plants, birds, and animals rather than being placed alongside biographies and histories of Americans, Europeans, Asians, Africans, and other great world cultures. Puzzled, Josephy began asking bookstore managers for a justification of this marketing tactic and was informed that Indian books had “just always been placed there.” The longer he pondered booksellers’ indifference toward Indians, the more annoyed Josephy became with the realization that bookstore marketing tactics were simply a reflection of the pervasive thinking throughout the United States in 1961: Americans believed Indians to be a vanished people. “Thinking about it made me angry,” Josephy wrote in his autobiography, “and I vowed that someday, some way, I would do something about this ignorant insult.
Bobby Bridger
Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.
Donald Harington
He moved to her other breast, then lower, lower...tShe rolled her hips insistently when he settled between her open legs, crouched like a predator about to devour his prey.
Katie Reus
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
William Ellery Channing
Now is the time to realize your potential and look beyond disappointment and focus on blessings. They are all around you, if you only take the time to welcome them into your life.
Carlos Wallace
the price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.
Darnell Lamont Walker
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Henry Rollins
An attitude of gratitude brings great things.
Yogi Bhajan
I’d rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for
Katie Kacvinsky
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
Cormac McCarthy
When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity.
Charles F. Glassman
In the natural sciences, some checks exist on the prolonged acceptance of nutty ideas, which do not hold up well under experimental and observational tests and cannot readily be shown to give rise to useful working technologies. But in economics and the other social studies, nutty ideas may hang around for centuries. Today, leading presidential candidates and tens of millions of voters in the USA embrace ideas that might have been drawn from a 17th-century book on the theory and practice of mercantilism, and multitudes of politicians and ordinary people espouse notions that Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and others exploded more than two centuries ago. In these realms, nearly everyone simply believes whatever he feels good about believing.
Robert Higgs
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
Groucho Marx
Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
George R.R. Martin
Brother,” Artemis chided. “You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.
Rick Riordan
Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.
Janine Turner
You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.
Brandon Sanderson
How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?
E.A. Bucchianeri
I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
John Bartlett
To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.
Chuck Palahniuk
I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
William Sloane Coffin
... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.
Richard Preston
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
Bruce D. Perry
Mens videt astra.(The soul sees the stars.)
Merrie Haskell
Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,
E.A. Bucchianeri
Truth is everywhere, and easily seen.Believing one’s eyesIs the difficulty.
Jean Monahan
A path full of potholes must be traveled slowly, but there's no reason you can't finish the journey.
Faydra D. Fields
Rule number one: wear loose clothing. No Problem. Rule number two: no alcohol for the next three days. Slight problem. I'll miss my evening glass of wine but figure I can go for three days without and compensate later.And the last rule: absolutely no coffee or tea or caffeine of any kind.Big problem. This rule hits me like a sucker punch and sure would have knocked me to the floor had I not been sitting there already. I'm eying the exits, plotting my escape. I knew enlightenment came at a price, but i had no idea the price was this steep. A sense of real panic sets in. How am I going to survive for the next seventy-two hours without a single cup of coffee?
Eric Weiner
The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.
Idowu Koyenikan
All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.
Daniel Quinn
Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?
Richard Siken
The third oddity was the surface on which Lawrence was doing his own succussion. It was a huge, black leather-bound King James Bible. Having done three raps on the Bible, his fist clenched around a vial containing a homeopathic remedy made from amethyst, Lawrence looked up. His face said, "I wish you hadn't seen that"."You don't have to use a Bible," he assured me.
Michael Brooks
Let your heart be an infant of hope not an adult of despair.
Debasish Mridha
If we tried to rely entirely on reason and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse – a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.
Thomas Nagel
Love shouldn't come with conditions.
Dannika Dark
Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.
Fredric Jameson
We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.
Billy Graham
Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.
Elizabeth Cohen
When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could put a man on the moon could still have people sleeping on the streets. Part of that problem is political will; we could take a lot of people off the streets tomorrow if we made it a national priority. But I have also come to realize that NASA had it easy. Rockets conform to the unchanging laws of physics. We know where the moon will be at a given time; we know precisely how fast a spacecraft will enter or exist the earth's orbit. If we get the equations right, the rocket will land where it is supposed to--always. Human beings are more complex than that. A recovering drug addict does not behave as predictably as a rocket in orbit. We don't have a formula for persuading a sixteen-year-old not to drop out of school. But we do have a powerful tool: We know that people seek to make themselves better off, however they may define that. Our best hope for improving the human condition is to understand why we act the way we do and then plan accordingly. Programs, organizations, and systems work better when they get the incentives right. It is like rowing downstream.
Charles Wheelan