Quotes by American Authors - Page 1652

Her eyes fluttered open and she found Matt to be impossibly close – so close she could see the flecks of gold in his green eyes, could almost count his incredibly long lashes. Vivienne swallowed hard.tThis was it.tThere was no going back.tAnd she really didn’t want to.
Samantha Chase
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
Charles Bukowski
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
Timothy Leary
I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.
Steve Goodier
Isabelle! he called again. Let down your raven hair. Oh, my God, Clary muttered. There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him. He's already dead, Simon observed. He's undead. Obviously he can still die, you know, again. I'll re-kill him.
Cassandra Clare
Why? Why did you kill them?”He laughed, recognizing it bore a frightening coldness. “Because you walked through the wrong door, and they paid you to do it. You will be a testament to the terror that arrives the moment you or anyone else crosses the invisible line you didn’t know existed until tonight. Spread the word.
G.S. Jennsen
Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.~Anna Percy
Zoey Dean
Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.
Saul Bellow
Leo,” Jason said, “you’re weird.”“Yeah, you tell me that a lot.” Leo grinned. “But if you don’t remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...!
Rick Riordan
I couldn't be certain whether their eagerness to leave was fueled by their desire to see more fire or to get away from my mother. I wouldn't have blamed them at all if it was the latter - most people went to great lengths to avoid her on a regular basis, myself and my father included.
Heather James
The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?""Tell me.""Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.
Louis L'Amour
And I was cooking for three, and teaching, and taking care of a man who’d just collapsed in my house; learning to cook like June Cleaver didn’t exactly seem an option.
Mark Doty
What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?
Dinty W. Moore
Where are you?’‘I am between the light and the waves.
Laurie Nadel
Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature — human or not human.
Suzy Kassem
Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
Ethan Hawke
Dying wasn't so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer's evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip.
Megan Shepherd
It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.
Harper Lee
It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course
Orson Scott Card
The initial confrontation of the root is the most critical part of this journey.
Bruce Lengeman
If you want to do something healthy for yourself - focus on your internal relationship. A diet, external, or materialistic fix WON'T work.
Brittany Burgunder
Why would you come to Italy to see Spanish steps? That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?
Rick Riordan
It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don't know where I was, but I didn't care. I didn't care because the only person who mattered was there with me.
Sarah Addison Allen
To say prayers in a decent delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened till the mountains of obstacles are removed till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work but it is God's work and man's best labor.
E.M.Bounds
Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock."— Michelle Tea, "Paris: A
Clint Catalyst
Praying, we usually ask too much. I know I do. Sometimes we even demand. I think I am learning to ask enough for the moment--not for the whole year, utterly veiled in mystery; not even for the week, the month ahead; but just for today.Jesus said it all when He told us to pray: 'Give us this day our daily bread.'That bread is not only material, it is spiritual; in asking for it, we ask for a sufficiency of strength, courage, hope and light. Enough courage for the step ahead--not for the further miles. Enough strength for the immediate task or ordeal. Enough material gain to enable us to meet our daily obligations. Enough light to see the path--right before our feet.
Faith Baldwin
Don’t desire kindness but desire courage so that you may persist on the right path.
Debasish Mridha
Character is what a man is in the dark
Dwight L. Moody
... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.
Anna Staniszewski
No matter where you are along life’s path, your next step is your first step.
Toni Sorenson
The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.
R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)
This was an urban legend that didn't make it on to Snopes.com
Jackie Sonnenberg
You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?""Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of—""Someone you used to know?" Alec interjected skepti
Lynn Flewelling
My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can i do?""The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked."That's right," he reaffirmed. "And we have three children we're really concerned about. What do you suggest?""love her," I replied."I told you, the feeling just isn't there anymore.""Love her.""You don't understand. the feeling of love just isn't there.""Then love her. If the feeling isn't there, that's a good reason to love her.""But how do you love when you don't love?" "My friend , love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?
Stephen R. Covey
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...
Poul Anderson
Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.
Sarah Ockler
Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
John F Kennedy
Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.
Suzy Kassem
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
Earl Wilson
We live in a world where people are so busy trying to find someone that's "good enough" for them, that they have failed to stop and ask themselves if they are in fact good enough for other people! This is the result of a feeling of false entitlement that has been instilled in the minds of people today. "Everyone" deserves "the best" from the "Universe" however, nobody is teaching anybody to stop and try to become the best for their own selves and for other people. When everybody thinks they are the best, everybody falls short of the best that they can actually be.
C. JoyBell C.
Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.
Lidia Yuknavitch
black identities are diverse and complex…
Bell Hooks
Happiness is bliss.
J.R. Rim
My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.
Penelope Douglas
Of the 2,639,857 faggots in the New York city area, 2,639,857 think primarily with their cocks.You didn't know that the cock was a thinking organ?Well, by this time, you should know that it is.
Larry Kramer
When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.
Bryant McGill
Now is the perfect time to start making those changes you know you need to make.
Scott Stabile
Free drinks have no carbs.
Nicki Elson
Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.
Wally Lamb
If there is a ‘this world,’ there must be a ‘that world!’ There must be another world!
Van Harden
Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in a new river every day, every hour. All my life I'd felt like a lake. A lake where everyhting was contained, forever. All my experiences, all the different people I'd been, everything I'd had, everything I'd lost...I carried them around with me, all the time
Cate Tiernan
Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.
Noel DeJesus
Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.
Susan Meddaugh
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
The last slaveholder has been dead for a very long time. The last soldier to endure Valley Forge has been dead much longer. To proudly claim the veteran and disown the slaveholder is patriotism à la carte.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
There is a way to be good again...
Khaled Hosseini
There is no fun or glory living a dull life. You have take chance and tackle challenges to make it interesting.
Evan Smith
You Never Have To Worry About Anything, If You Just Tell The Truth.
Chris Mentillo