Quotes by American Authors - Page 1637

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck
Albert Einstein
Ricci created memory palaces in his mind. Each item in the palace represented a series of concepts. The rooms and locations within the palace served as directories and files, similar to computer data storage. Ricci instantaneously learned, retained and retrieved hundreds of new Chinese kanji, to the astonished delight of Chinese nobles.
Janet M. Tavakoli
Your eyes reflect the beauty which no one can see except that special person whose soul is lost in your love.
Debasish Mridha
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.
Brian Celio
The asymmetry of power that cuteness revolves around is another compelling reminder of how aesthetic categories register social conflict. There can be no experience of any person or object as cute that does not somehow call up the subject’s sense of power over those who are less powerful. But, as Lori Merish underscores, the fact that the cute object seems capable of making an affective demand on the subject—a demand for care that the subject is culturally as well as biologically compelled to fulfill—is already a sign that “cute” does not just denote a static power differential, but rather a dynamic and complex power struggle.
Sianne Ngai
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.
Coco J. Ginger
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike Norton
Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself.
Bryant McGill
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking Knowing God's own time is best In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
John Greenleaf Whittier
My reasons to liveWere my reasons to dieBut at least they were mineNow I've freedom unboundCut the laces of life
Emilie Autumn
Well, reading Twitter’s a lot like staring at an ant farm,” Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. “Except without all the productivity.
Wayne Gladstone
I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.
Tess Gerritsen
He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.
H.W. Brands
I do not wish to live in a society where you are stoned for adultery. I prefer to live in a society where we get stoned first, and then commit adultery.
Ibn Warraq
Let it go and live in the moment with joy.
Debasish Mridha
Ugh. You’re being . . . you.”“Was that in English?”“This is all your fault.”“Nope. Definitely not English.”“You’re being all hot and sexy, dammit,” she said. She banged her head on his chest a few times. “And I can’t seem to . . . not notice said hotness and sexiness.
Jill Shalvis
Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.
Paul Russell
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his duty to protect you from the inevitable, I do not know... unless he knows something we do not...
Charlotte Munro
Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.
Pearl Zhu
She whistled when she noticed my back. I assume because of my injuries. I mean, my ass just isn't that spectacular.
Lish McBride
But I suppose it's part of being old to feel that way, half in one world and half in the other, all of it mixed together in my mind. No one's left who even knows my name. Folks call me Auntie, on account of I never could have children of my own, and I guess that suits me fine. Sometime it's like I've got so many people inside of me I'm never alone at all. And when I go, I'll be taking them with me.
Justin Cronin
Life is a journey, not so much to a destination, but a transformation.
Jim Britts
The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.
Caroline George
...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.
Gore Vidal
What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic -- of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever.
Robert Farrar Capon
It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.
Lauren Zimmerman
I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.
Pat Conroy
New technologies, be it the printed encyclopedia or Wikipedia, are not abstract machines that independently render us stupid or smart. As we saw with Enlightenment reading technologies, knowledge emerges out of complex processes of selection, distinction, and judgment—out of the irreducible interactions of humans and technology. We should resist the false promise that the empty box below the Google logo has come to represent—either unmediated access to pure knowledge or a life of distraction and shallow information. It is a ruse. Knowledge is hard won; it is crafted, created, and organized by humans and their technologies. Google’s search algorithms are only the most recent in a long history of technologies that humans have developed to organize, evaluate, and engage their world.
Chad Wellmon
Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.
Joseph Fink
To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that’s not there, takes one who is a visionary.
Wes Adamson
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
Elie Wiesel
What do we free spirits want? We just want to think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. Why should that be a problem for anyone else?
Marty Rubin
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
Tennessee Williams
Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable...
Sue Monk Kidd
Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.
Jim George
I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
My heart only beats as an echo of yours.
Lisa Kleypas
A sweet fruit for a sweet fight.
George R.R. Martin
What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.
Ann Aguirre
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Tom Robbins
Everyone has instances or times in life when they feel alone on their journey.
Ken Poirot
Everything does fall. It must be gravity.
Dan Brown
God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time.
Rebecca Barlow Jordan
Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?Lestat: Of courseDavid: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a...a most impressive piece of young male flesh.Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to..David: You've been with a woman, haven't you?Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you?David: A woman you loved.Lestat: I have always loved both men and women.David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love.
Anne Rice
At a trade show, someone said, "You'll get in trouble for that." I replied,"Are they going to call the trade show police?
Tim Fargo
Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
Anne McCaffrey
What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.
Vivian Amis
Nothing is so powerful as love and simple kindness.
Debasish Mridha
Prayer is a jouney, a path that is created only by walking it. It creates and reveals oneself in the process.
Edward Farrell
We are going to have that thing that everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...here's to endless stargazing.
Ella Harper
I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.
Michael Dell
They were our enemies. Yet in those young men of Italy I'd seen something centuries old. An American is only as old as his years. A long line of something was hidden behind the bright eyes of those Italians. And then and there I decided to learn something of the modern world. There was something abroad which we Americans couldn't or wouldn't understand. But unless we made some attempt to realize that everyone in the world isn't American, and that not everything American is good, we'll all perish together, and in this twentieth century....
John Horne Burns
Love is a song, written in your heart.The moon is a poem in a starry night.
Debasish Mridha
Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean she can't be tough and practical and have adventures. That's the way most girls are-until they get around guys. Then guys make them act all stupid.
Candace Bushnell
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Education unlocks the greatest potential of the human mind.
Debasish Mridha M.D.