Quotes by American Authors - Page 1674

Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake.' Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.
Rachel Hawkins
1620Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality’s particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously, everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.~ David Zindell
David Zindell
Heaven would never be heaven without you.
Richard Matheson
Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey
Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.
Zack Love
Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.
Jonathan Carroll
Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.
Kathy Reichs
See what love does? It makes you weak. Kills you."Warm breath feathered over her scalp as Remy pressed a gentle kiss to the top of her head. "It also gives people something to live for," he whispered.
Sydney Croft
Look how we have made our broken hearts soar.
Maria Testa
Business is fluid and you can always improve and progress as your time and financial resources allow, and as your learningcurve shortens.
Amber Hurdle
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.
Craig Ferguson
It's about damned time," he said in a husky voice. "If I had to wait five more minutes to kiss you, I think I probably would have turned into a dragon myself.
Deborah Blake
If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
Taylor Caldwell
He could not shake the feeling - reportedly common among ghosts - that it was not he but those he haunted whose lives were devoid of matter, sense, future.
Michael Chabon
A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
Sylvia Plath
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
Frederick Buechner
Food is a creative, personal journey
Michael Treanor
And stop with the playboy title. I simply enjoy the company of beautiful women and ( . )( . ) and (_Y_) That’s tits & ass to the untrained eye. :D
Ella Dominguez
But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.
John M. Keller
Advertising expresses a power relationship . . . One person, the advertiser, invades; millions absorb. And to what end? So that people will buy something! A deep, profound and disturbing act by the few against the many for a trivial purpose.
Jerry Mander
Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good and evil; they may self-proclaim a keen knowledge of subjective morality through religion or science. But that is only if they are acknowledging the work of evil as a cartoon-like, petty little rain cloud in the sky that merely wants to dampen one's spirits. On the contrary, a man could be without a doubt lit with the strength, the peace, and the knowledge of the gods, his gods, but when or if the devils grow weary in unsuccessful attempts to torment him, they begin tormenting his loved ones, or, if not his loved ones, anyone who may attempt to grasp his philosophies. No matter how godly he may become, God is, in the end, his only hope and his only grace for the pressures built around him - it is left up to a higher authority and a more solid peace and a wider love to eclipse not just one's own evils but all evils for goodness to ultimately matter. If all men were gods, each being would dwell in a separate prison cell, hopeless, before finally imploding into nothingness.
Criss Jami
Life itself is an art form.
Tyree Guyton
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.
Jodi Picoult
What kind of lifehave you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dreams grow bigger and bolder every time you nourish them.
Toni Sorenson
Dante Alighieri wrote his first book in the prosimetrum genre – La Vita Nuova – in 14th century Florence. Since I’m compiling this collection – my first indie publication – in Florence, just blocks from Dante’s house, and since his book involves a lost love, and ‘A New Life,’ I thought it fitting to emulate this style in my own casual, intuitive fashion. My hope is that the juxtaposition of poems, journal entries, essays and prose will create a story; a memoir in anarchistic vignettes.
Jalina Mhyana
Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The way I saw it, one of the single greatest advantages of being in a relationship was that you got to eat off the other person's plate.
Nicole Peeler
I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.
Stephen Chbosky
It's a silly argument, and unnecessary. Creativity doesn't happen "in here" or "out there" but in the spaces in between. Creativity is a relationship, one that unfolds at the intersection of person and place.
Eric Weiner
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
Mark Twain
The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.
Quinn Loftis
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
LeBron James
… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.
Hermann Broch
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true
Robert Frost
There are subtle truths buried in every make-believe. You never know where you might find one.
Shari Arnold
That just seems to be the way we’re built.
IRVIN D.YALOM
that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)
Charles Bukowski
There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.
C.J. Cherryh
It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?
Neal Stephenson
This is the generation that thinks of itself as global citizens but knows little about the world and acts locally. It is the most diverse generation in collegiate history with the strongest relationships between races but they have limited interest in talking about race or reaching across political or generational divides.
Arthur Levine
Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.
Sharon Salzberg
I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.
David Levithan
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It's who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.
Laini Taylor
The thought is just as strong as the consequence.
Anthony Liccione
Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
Christina Greer
The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.
Kresley Cole
In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.
A. Edward Newton
We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
Rich Mullins
You're the little spoon, aren't you?
Rob Thurman
I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?
Elin Hilderbrand
...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.
Gillian Flynn
Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.
Billy Graham
He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.
David Halberstam
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe
One must always account for the vagaries of truth.
Betsy Cornwell
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not.
Joaquin Miller
The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.
Anthony Liccione