Quotes by American Authors - Page 1480

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.
David Wong
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
Thomas Harris
The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier
Katherine McIntyre
Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas—than quantum mechanics.
Sean Carroll
Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal.
Diana Pharaoh Francis
my parents Oedipal fakers
Lidia Yuknavitch
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Dorothea Brande
More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading them part of who you are, especially if they are the words of exceptionally promising writers. If there is poison in the words, you are poisoned; if there is nourishment, you are nourished; if there is beauty, you are made a little more beautiful. In Hebrew, the word dabar means both word and also deed. A word doesn’t merely say something, it does something. It brings something into being.
Frederick Buechner
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
To reveal the beauty of life, let your tears wash away the shadows of darkness.
Debasish Mridha
Education and wisdom will define your destination in life-- not wealth.
Debasish Mridha
Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.
J.R. Ward
Kim was, as always, utterly happy while running, in accord with nature, in harmony with the universe, in touch with the truth that was in him, full of love for all creatures even to the lowliest insect.
Susan Trott
Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.
Dallas Willard
Yeah, you bet Romani.' Percy bared his forearm and showed them the brand he'd got at Camp Jupiter- the SPQR mark, with the trident of Neptune. 'You mix Greek and Roman, and you know what you get? You get BAM!' He stomped his foot, and the empousai scrambled back. One fell off the boulder where she'd been perched.
Rick Riordan
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry Brooks Adams
What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In you heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are now just arriving at the place you were always meant to be.
David Levithan
You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.
Daryl Gregory
Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.
E. Lockhart
I'm not one of those people who think that cancer is some kind of jousting match. People live or die based on good medicine, good luck, and the grace of God. The people that die from it did not fail. The people who live will die another day.
Paul Acampora
Passion is not what gives you bliss or makes you happy 24/7, but what you're willing to suffer for, what you genuinely believe to be worth the sacrifice.
Justine Musk
My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself." "What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and proud of it. I write, remember?” She looked down at her hand & laughed. “Berretta doesn’t make lighters.” "Why I was a writer! My life revolved around fiction. I could make something up""She looked down at her hand & laughed. “Berretta doesn’t make lighters.” "So they're not Tolstoy, they're a little shorter...Okay, okay a lot. Go ahead, read my mystery series anyway." "A detective has their boundaries especially me. So mine shifted occasionally...okay a lot" “Beat it, Buster. My temper and this mace have a hair trigger.”“Interference could be lethal.” I got right up in his face, hissing, “Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”I'm not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.
Peggy A. Edelheit
And I held her, this girl who had saved me and continued to save me every day.
A. Meredith Walters
Jesus said, " I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself," knowing that the nature of a forgiving Christ on the cross would compel people to follow Him. As long as the church remains an effective platform for God's light to reveal to the world the sacrifice Jesu samde, the church will be anturally irresistible. Light is inherently inviting-- just think of a porch light left on late into the night. Light communicates comfort, warmth, and healing. It gives direction and hope so we can see better and understand more fully. Most people I meet are looking for light. The problem is that the emphasis is of too many churches has gradually shifted and changed.
Reggie Joiner
some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
Louise Erdrich
It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.
Barbara Marciniak
A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of all, we should not assume that having to yield to the threat of our superior force is good for the child's character. It is never good for anyone's character.
John Holt
My sister, the one who knows everything and pulls out facts out of a bottomless hat, told me people aren't afraid of snakes or water upon birth. It is only once we hear the snake and water stories, she says, once we are exposed to fear, that we deny our primal instincts and make room for the dread to take root and mature.
Tania Aebi
Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.
Julianna Baggott
I wait for what comes and experience the joy and delight of the unexpected.
Diane L. Dunton
Stray voltage/current/frequency is the most serious form of exposure. Electrocution kills very few people per year. Stray voltage/current/frequency exposure is suspected to be making people sick in the millions!
Steven Magee
I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.
Phyllis T. Smith
We are all an instrument with a special notation to our individual identity. When you incorporate many beautiful notes together, you envelop a harmonious orchestra.
Steven Cuoco
Children remind us that we're all children.
Marty Rubin
You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.
Dave Eggers
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
David Byrne
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues but they never make it they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
Cookie Lavagetto
I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.
Anthony Liccione
I just don't see why the past has to matter.
Cassandra Clare
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face life had in store for her and which she feared would be her own mother’s
David Foster Wallace
Kissing her mouth, I plunged deep inside of her. I shivered and it had nothing to do with the cool breeze coming through the windows. Her body was made for me. Perfect. And I wanted this moment to last forever.
Lisa Kessler
Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.
Jenny Lawson
Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It’s amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.
Pierce Brown
Whatever your grade or position if you know how and when to speak and when to remain silent your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
Ralph C. Smedley
Let the power of yes take root in your heart and transform you life.
Bryant McGill
Never spend more time worrying about somebody or some situation (that plays no significant role in your life) more than you do about yourself.
Carlos Wallace
...real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They're still learning, just like you.
Stacey Jay
I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.
Lena Dunham
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
Sarah Addison Allen
Truth is always a turning point.
Sheila Walsh
Beliefs are our foundation and our guiding compass, navigating us through life.
Kim Ha Campbell
True dreams are those which keep you awake at night and drive you nuts during the day.
Debasish Mridha
Everything big, once started little. Most famous people started just where you are at now. Catapult yourself to success. Practice self-discipline. Work to develop excellent skills and abilities. Learn to be polite and diplomatic. Doing this, helps insure you grow big at what you want for success.
Mark F. LaMoure
Never confuse honor with stupidity!
R.A. Salvatore
You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.
Scott Lynch