Quotes by American Authors - Page 1702

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.
H. Beam Piper
What a shame it would be, if upon death, one who lived his life following his religion, were to find out that there is no Heaven and no Hell and that all souls just go out and back to the places where they came from, finally free from the monsters that hung onto their backs while they were in this world! And what a shame it would be, if upon death, one who lived life with no thought of her own soul, were to find out that some souls go to some place wonderful and some souls go to some place horrible! But what a shame it would be, for anyone, to live a life here on this Earth full of fear, void of freedom and happiness, meaningless and empty, due to either the probability of Heaven and Hell or the absence thereof! So what is really true, is that you and I have bones in our bodies and have flesh under our skin and we ought to live this life right here in such a way that creates Heaven on Earth and puts Hell far away.
C. JoyBell C.
Eyes aren't good liars.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.
Emily Giffin
In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.
Geraldine Brooks
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
Orson Scott Card
Thinking harder is more important than working harder.
Debasish Mridha
Life and death played out before my very eyes. You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.
Joan Bauer
I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.
Chris Brown
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney
What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959
Ted Dekker
I am not going to let him win, Guillaume. Not this time. I could not keep him from making my mother pay the price for our failed rebellion. Fifteen years she has been his prisoner, fifteen years! And she is his prisoner, for all that she no longer wants for a queen’s comforts. I have had to submit to his demands and subject myself to his whims and endure the indignity of having him brandish the crown before me as he would tease a dog with a bone. But no more. I will not let him rob me of my birthright, and I will not let him keep me from honoring my vow to defend the Holy Land. I do think he is behind that very opportune rebellion in my duchy, and I would not put it past him to be conniving with the Count of Toulouse, either. And if by chance he did not, it is only because he did not think of it. No, a reckoning is long overdue, and we will have it at Bonsmoulins.
Sharon Kay Penman
God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.
Criss Jami
... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ...
Alice Fulton
The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.
Ben Marcus
She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.
Philip Zaleski
It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought:
Kate DiCamillo
Jonathan took her hand. “Christiana.”“Yes?” Her rosebud lips parted on an involuntary sigh, and his imagination got the better of his intellect. It took every ounce of control to not crush her . . . take her right then and there.“I shouldn’t have . . . .” He had no right to her. She had not given herself to him. He had yet to even ask, and he shouldn’t. Washington was unforgiving in many matters and getting involved with a nineteen year-old would prove fatal. He already tested the boundaries with his sexual proclivities.“No, please. Do it again.
Elizabeth SaFleur
I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.
Jodi Picoult
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
Khaled Hosseini
What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.
Randy Alcorn
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
Stephen R. Covey
The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
Tom Robbins
Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.
Rick Barnett
Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.
Stever Robbins
Decisions Determine the directions of your destiny
Bobby Sullivan
Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.
Louis L'Amour
Trust is developed under pressure and over time; just as with God by us." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)
Theodore Roethke
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
Tom Robbins
A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.
Mary Karr
Once you have walked down the grief path, what you have gained on your journey may turn into invaluable advice for someone else.
Elizabeth Berrien
Did you know we carry perfume around?It’s a special fragrance that cannot be bought at any store.It is more precious than any fragrance ever.We carry the fragrance of Christ wherever we go.The Holy Spirit has it’s own distinct scent.We are God’s Special Bottle of Perfume.And both believers and unbelievers can ‘smell’ it!
Diana Rasmussen of Prayers and Promises
When you serve the humanity with compassion and kindness,You express your spontaneous love and inner greatness.
Debasish Mridha
You know you've done enoughWhen every bone is sore,You know you've prayed enoughWhen you don't ask any more,You know you're coming to some kind of understandingWhen every dream you've dreamed has passedAnd your still standing.
Patty Griffin
Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I wish we could go to the mo
Rachel Hawkins
Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.
Calvin Trillin
I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
Stephen Chbosky
He had to pause for his usual misgivings.
Paul C. Nagel
The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.
David Halberstam
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
Nicholas Sparks
The words kept coming and he could not stop them, not while Callie was standing there so indecipherably, and so he was going to keep talking until he used up all the words there were and then no one would be able to talk to anyone else anymore and then all anyone would have left were one another's unintelligible faces, and maybe some weird gesturing, too, and it would be all Oscar's fault.
Anne Ursu
God will never lead contrary to His word—so get acquainted with the Word of God, the Bible. Pray. He leads through the illumination of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Use whatever you have and be faithful. We are called to serve Christ in our sphere of influence.
Billy Graham
I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from my own
Carrie Brownstein
In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
Kristina McMorris
The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
George R.R. Martin
I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.
Amy Tintera
Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.
Marjorie Garber
They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.
Dean Koontz
You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.
Jude Watson
Velva’s face glowed in the streetlight. “Sir Sun, don’t you see? I am your violent violet. And you are mine.
Mav Skye
You don't have to protect yourself from anything! In fact, an attitude of protection will surely bring you to the vibration of the thing from which you're protecting yourself. Because you can't look at something and say, "Oh no, I'm saying a prayer to protect myself from you," Without achieving vibrational harmony with "you", whatever you are.
Abraham-Hicks
Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
Hannah Hart
For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.
H.P. Lovecraft
I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.
Brian Spellman
You have more power than you know, Samantha. You just have to be brave enough to realize it.
Adriana Mather