Quotes by American Authors - Page 1587

So that’s why I say ‘never have anything you can’t walk away from.’ Especially a woman. For them, because this is a dangerous life we lead and you never know if or when it will blow back on those close to you.""And for you, because trust me when I tell you there exists no greater perdition than the guilt of causing the death of someone you love.
G.S. Jennsen
You’re the only you you get in this life! Show a little appreciation!
Dennis Vickers
Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.
Debasish Mridha
With sunglasses, a hat, and half a pack of Band-Aids, Roger could pass as a human.
Nadia Higgins
All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
Byron Katie
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
Mira Bartok
This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.
Maggie Stiefvater
You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.
Donald Miller
I think of the New Testament story of the woman with an issue of blood--specifically of her hand reaching out into the clutter and chaos of a crowd, not sure that she would reach Christ, but nevertheless reaching for him in hope. Her story is sacred to me because she truly believed that by reaching outside of the bounds that her culture had set for her--perhaps even the bounds she had set for herself--she could be made whole.
Ashley Mae Hoiland
And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible.
Jennifer Clarvoe
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.
Stanley Kunitz
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love it
Ransom Riggs
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
Daniel Quinn
Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.
Shannon L. Alder
They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!
Stephanie Perkins
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
Dean Koontz
After a year of therapy my psychiatrist said to me "Maybe life isn't for everyone."
Larry Brown
I lifted my wand, hoping she would see this as a dramatic move, not a threat. “Why once, in my bunker at Charing Cross Station, I stalked thedeadly prey known as Jelly Babies.”Neith’s eyes widened. “They are dangerous?”“Horrible,” I agreed. “Oh, they seem small alone, but they always appear in great numbers. Sticky, fattening—quite deadly. There I was, alonewith only two quid and a Tube pass, beset by Jelly Babies, when…Ah, but never mind. When the Jelly Babies come for you…you will find out onyour own.”She lowered her bow. “Tell me. I must know how to hunt Jelly Babies.”I looked at Walt gravely. “How many months have I trained you, Walt?”“Seven,” he said. “Almost eight.”“And have I ever deemed you worthy of hunting Jelly Babies with me?”“Uh…no.
Rick Riordan
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
Orson Scott Card
You're forgiven."I don't deserve her."But not forgotten," I whisper. She'll never forget what I did. It's not humanly possible. Sometimes I want the impossible. Her expression doesn't change. "My head is undiscriminating with the memories it keeps, but my heart has already forgotten.
Jewel E. Ann
Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people’s expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adult who can stand up for your own choices frees you to accept yourself as you are.
Ellen Bass
Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Howard Tayler
There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.
John Green
Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.
Adam Gidwitz
He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.
Cassandra Clare
I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.
Lewis Tappan
As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the doubtful sources of his information and the seemingly bottomless history and darkness out of which the dishes of New York emerge, the deeper grew my suspicion that his work finally consisted of minting or perpetuating and in any event circulating misconceptions about his subject and in this way adding to the endless perplexity of the world.
Joseph O'Neill
Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
Jodi Picoult
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.
Laura Hillenbrand
I looked around for that welcoming light I'd heard about, but I didn't see it. Instead, everything around me seemed to glow and shimmer in the sunlight. I heard beautiful sounds-not the voices of dead loved ones, but the laughter and singing of my children when they were tiny. I saw James, young and shirtless, chasing them through Mama's garden. Off in the distance I saw Barbara Jean and Clarice, and even myself when we were kids, dancing to music pouring out of my old pink and violet portable record player. Here I was with my fingers brushing up against the frame of the picture I'd been painting for the last fifty-five years, and my beautiful, scarred husband, my happy children, and my laughing friends were right there with me.
Edward Kelsey Moore
He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or how it was. Never in his life had he ever felt that quick response to anyone. Breathless and unable to look away from her, like if he did she would disappear.
P.J. Fiala
From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.
Laurence Overmire
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon
Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.
Pearl Zhu
If you have to repeatedly chase after someone when you have a great opportunity, don't bother, if they aren't responsive, they aren't the type of person who'll succeed at it anyway.
Rob Liano
And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same.
David Foster Wallace
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Richard M. Nixon
We don't need to pray to prove that we're properly pious or really serious. Instead, we pray because we are completely assured, and because the Father hears our prayers because they come to Him through the lips of His dear Son.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Many Christians, including BioLogos, like to throw out the "you can't take the Bible literally" argument. They think it is the ultimate zinger that will end any debate in their favor. But if we shouldn't take the Bible literally, why should we believe God is real in the literal sense? Perhaps God is a metaphor also. Maybe God is really a metaphor for nature or chance. Heaven forbid! However, BioLogos insists on having it both ways: God is literally true but the Bible is not. That's like saying Mother Goose is literally true but her nursery rhymes are not.
G.M. Jackson
When your demon was yourself, there really was no way to fight or get rid of it.
Holly Hood
Healing ultimately comes down to whether or not you have made the decision to do so.
Gary Hopkins
Anxiety and stress derive from fear and self-doubt.
Debasish Mridha
A person who is walking around with the belief I am safe in my body is going toapproach the world from a very different place than someone who doesn't believethat. That person will be more confident in approaching others, as Sonia was insharing her business at the women’s event. They’re going to be much more willing to put themselves out in the world, to be vulnerable in relationships, and to be willing to risk and dare, because they’re operating from a place of safety. Page 60
Nick Ortner
When darkness threatens your world, friends can be beams of sunshine if only you'll let them.
Emily March
Buddy if it was me sitting across the dining room table I would have killed that son of a bitch long before your mom had the chance.-Caesar
Christine Whitmarsh
By erasing any nuance and complexity about porn and sexuality, the virginity movement gives young women only two choices of who they can be sexually: sluts or not sluts. While the first choice doesn't seem attractive, I can guarantee you that most young women are going to go with the option that allows them to have sex. And there's no in-between identity for young women who are making smart, healthy choices in their sexual lives.
Jessica Valenti
We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.
Robert Orben
Or as Gabe had done, to rescue your betrothed from some evil force. That appealed to him. But he'd yet to find a damsel in distress, oppressed by evil and in need of rescue.
Melanie Dickerson
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.
Chuck Klosterman
Faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Arthur M. Ramsey
Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it
Ally Condie
Everything else is nothing.
Lauren Oliver
Jake, anyway, and somehow that seemed far, far worse. The couldn’t
RaeAnne Thayne
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Anger or rage (mênis, thumos, orgê) is an emotion, a mixture of belief and desire. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and giddiness are, though it is usually accompanied by such feelings – trembling and blushing, for example, and the sense of seeing red. It is, in Aristotle’s definition, ‘a desire, accompanied by pain, to take apparent revenge for apparent insult’.
C. D. C. Reeve
Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.
Aleatha Romig
Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
Barbara W. Tuchman
When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.
Debasish Mridha
I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.
Crystal Woods