Quotes by American Authors - Page 1704

I'm not saying I'm not bad. I'm not saying I'm special. But I'm not like the Allport Street girls, who stand in doorways and go with men into alleys.All I know is I didn't want it like that. Not against the bricks or hunkering in somebody's car. I wanted it come undone like gold thread, like a tent full of birds.
Sandra Cisneros
When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it.
Debasish Mridha
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
Elbert Hubbard
I've never felt a connection like this with anyone else... I don't even know how to explain it. I feel like I already knew you before I met you, and the first time I saw you, the first time I talked to you, was incidental, because the connection was already there --.
M. Molly Backes
I drifted off after a while, staring at the only star visible through the thick covering of leaves. Hope seemed a futile wish, but I troubled the lonely star to grant it anyway.
Richelle E. Goodrich
This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
Patricia Briggs
It seems that the young woman made some indelicate suggestion of a threesome...When I got there, Miss Nash was standing by the hot tub in a small bikini, pointing the business end of a SIG-Sauer P-226 at her fella and concerned members of the hotel staff, while dunking the scantily clad female's head under the water and asking, "Who's diving for clams now, bitch?
Ilona Andrews
My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul is to be killed, in an act of true love, by the one who loves me most..
Bree Despain
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
William Faulkner
The universe doesn't waste anything. Sometimes, we just don't have standing to see how events or experiences are important.
Adrián Lamo
It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
Oliver Gaspirtz
I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.
Debasish Mridha
It is very interesting how humanity has linked love to the lack of freedom. I think that when you find love, it is because you have become so free that you were able to truly find it. Love is a wild and running thing. Only the free can find what is wild and running. You become so free, that you are able to truly love. A life of bondage is a life lived without love.
C. JoyBell C.
Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, you’re spreading like vapor up through people’s floors, you’re moving en masse under the cracks of our doors and grabbing our children to work in your stores, feeding the needy to make them your whores, but you need to remember the grave you’re digging is yours.
Trevor D. Richardson
But when we are willing to walk in the way of Love, to embody the light of Christ to everyone we encounter, we open ourselves to see and understand the journeys of so many other people…we not only honour the perspective and experience of our brother or sister, but we…learn and have our eyes opened to a new way of being. Because our big, wild and diverse God is at work in millions of systems, philosophies, cultures, religions and people beyond our own.
Brandan Roberston
The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a pure heart.
C. JoyBell C.
So yes, black mages often can be evil. But black as a color is not inherently evil. Being influenced by black’s philosophies does not necessarily mean that one will commit an evil act. That being the case, we cannot say that black represents evil. More closely aligned with evil than the other colors? Fine. More ripe with potential for evil? Sure. Evil? No. And that's a very important distinction
Mark Rosewater
Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face.
C. JoyBell C.
When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.
Steve Maraboli
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Mortimer J. Adler
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.t
Daniel Webster
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
Glenn Beck
When we make the decisions to be and stay in love, we should also make a decision and commitment to be supportive.
Cathy Burnham Martin
She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.
Sarah Addison Allen
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Michael J. Marx
Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.
Roy Underhill
Humility is the most undervalued godly virtue.
Emily R. King
And when one loves kills another, can you still love the one who's left?
Alessandra Torre
He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.
Stephen L. Carter
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.
Flannery O'Connor
It is unreasonable to expect all children to develop correctly in unnatural man-made electromagnetic radiation fields.
Steven Magee
Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.
Dawn Gluskin
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fisher
This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.
Louis Zukofsky
Are you going to be nice to me now?""I'm always nice to you." Sure. Law ground his chin into Tom's groin, makingTom jump."Why would I suddenly start being nice to you?" Law said. "You put out for an asshole. That guy is still here.
Jez Morrow
Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness... focusing the consciousness... aortal dilation... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness... to be conscious by choice... blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions... one does not obtain food-safety freedom by instinct alone... animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct... the animal destroys and does not produce... animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual... the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe... focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid... bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs... all things/cells/beings are impermanent... strive for flow-permanence within...
Frank Herbert
It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.
John Scalzi
Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were venture backed” -“62.4 percent of VC investments were completely lost while 3.1 percent of the investments accounted for 53 percent of the profits for roughly 600 investments
Mahendra Ramsinghani
The shows she’d watch on the Discovery Channel hadn’t prepared her for a kidnapping. Terrorist attack? Yes. Defending her home? Yes. Kidnapped by a police officer? No. She’d have to write to the network about that.
Nichole Severn
You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic.
Debasish Mridha
In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.
Maureen Brady
There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.
Kate DiCamillo
Every leader is different. Every bench is different. Every business is different. So while the complexities change, the work of coaching stays the same keep your clients at the center of the work, push them to use their strengths more and to temper their weaknesses, and illuminate blind spots because these are what really get in the way.
Stacy Feiner
I should never do anything pre-coffee. 'It was only a teeny fire,' I told my uncle over the phone.
Cindy Brown
Do you want me because you love me or because I provide you normality drag?
Thomm Quackenbush
I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.
John Green
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Frank Herbert
There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.
Frances Mayes
Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.
Cecily von Ziegesar
What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, “Lord, You are going to be my authority”? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority.
Billy Graham
It had been a long time since i dared call anyone a friend. The concept was only theoretical to me now.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.
Randy Alcorn
While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
H.E. Davey
There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
Alice Sebold
Tate and Marty exchanged indignant looks. Tate pointed to the kitchen door behind Marty, then hooked a thumb at the back door and gave Marty a nod. Before Mel could figure out what they were up to, they were both lying on the floor of the kitchen, blocking the exits.t“What is this? Occupy Fairy Tale Cupcakes?!” Angie asked. “What do you think you’re doing?”t“We’re in protest mode.” Tate said. “We’re going to limp and we’re going to lie here until you agree to let us come along.”t“Are you kidding me?” Mel asked. “What if I don’t give in? Are you going to hold your breath until you turn blue?”tShe watched Tate lift his head and look at Marty. He raised his eyebrows in silent question, and Marty gave him a small nod.t“Thanks for the idea,”tThe kitchen door slammed into his side, and Marty grunted but still held his ground. The kitchen door didn’t budge.t“Hey, the door is stuck,” Oz yelled from the other side.
Jenn McKinlay
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us absorb other people's words, feeling like we have gotten to know the authors personally in our own ways, even if just a tiny bit. True, we may also harbor jealousy or resentment, disbelief or disappointment. We may wish we had written those words ourselves or berate ourselves for knowing we never could or sigh with relief that we didn't, but thank goodness someone else has.
Pamela Paul
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson