Quotes by American Authors - Page 1737

The sooner it's over, the sooner we can go back to bed. Everything good happens in bed.
Erin Kellison
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
Wallace Stegner
Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.
Cassandra Clare
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Kisses are a means to plant on another's lips a smile glossed with happiness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men!
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.
Ned Rorem
The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.
Steven Magee
When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
John Grisham
The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.
Tullian Tchividjian
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.
Jonathan Haidt
Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.
Suzy Kassem
Maybee there is no guile here," Deor suggested. "Perhaps it is just a group of dragons who have come together to raid the hold.""The diffirence? if they pretend to cooperate ... they must cooperate to pretend. It would be worse than a guile.
James Enge
I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye
Maggie Stiefvater
Faith is confident trust in God and the salvation He provides in His Son Jesus Christ.
Jim George
He openned the door that he assumed was the garage only to find himself in the pantry.crap."Um . . . grabbing some Pop-Tarts for the road," Nick said, covering his mistake. Still, they both stared at him as if he'd escaped Arkham Asylum. Offering them a fake smile, he grabbed the pastries, crossed himself, and hoped he got the next door correct.Nope. Bathroom.With a pain-filled groan at his rampant stupidity, Nick pretended to use it before he tried again. At least there were only two more doors to go.Fifty-fifty chance.Thankfully, third time was the charm.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The most important truth we tell is the truth we tell ourselves.
Tehya Sky
While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it’s the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.
Tommy Yune
I’m not sure a real man would smoke something that sounds like a mixed drink ice cream cone.
Elle Lothlorien
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People.
Charles Eames
In both roles, as journalist and as organizer, I'd learn that it's possible to fall in love with a revolution—then doubt it, fight with it, lose faith in it, and return with a sense of humor and a harder, lasting love. I would have to learn the same thing about church when I was much older, and it would be no easier.
Sara Miles
He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take a look at him. Shane?""I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.
Rachel Caine
My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.
Mindy Kaling
For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories. During the season, it was always the most recent game. They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a bond between them.
Paul Auster
We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.
Rasmenia Massoud
As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars.
Gregory Maguire
What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?
Laini Taylor
Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. Because being real is impressive!
Jonathan Harnisch
I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.
Elizabeth Berrien
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.
Debasish Mridha
I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
Marisha Pessl
He was a good boy and ‘projected’ goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.
Edmund White
When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.
Daniel Klein
The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
Shana Alexander
It is proven that the glass in your environment may be able to affect your health.
Steven Magee
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale
Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
Madeleine L'Engle
Be to believe, feel to love, and create to inspire.
Debasish Mridha
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
Bryant McGill
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
Ursula K Le Guin
…I craved to stroke that delicate skin and run my fingers through her tresses as she moaned with hunger. I would grip a thick section of her hair in my hands, wrap it around my fingers, and take her from behind. And she would scream my name.
Kenya Wright
You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss Jami
I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists]
John McCain
I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
Gregory Maguire
I think that a good start at this problem is to enunciate our ethical theory that underlies our moral judgements. According to the version of divine command ethics which I’ve defended, our moral duties are constituted by the commands of a holy and loving God. Since God doesn’t issue commands to Himself, He has no moral duties to fulfill. He is certainly not subject to the same moral obligations and prohibitions that we are. For example, I have no right to take an innocent life. For me to do so would be murder. But God has no such prohibition. He can give and take life as He chooses. We all recognize this when we accuse some authority who presumes to take life as “playing God.” Human authorities arrogate to themselves rights which belong only to God. God is under no obligation whatsoever to extend my life for another second. If He wanted to strike me dead right now, that’s His prerogative.What that implies is that God has the right to take the lives of the Canaanites when He sees fit. How long they live and when they die is up to Him.
William Lane Craig
…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.
Jack Kerouac
The validity of Solomon's message has not changed in the three thousand years since he penned it. It comes down through the corridors of time and echoes today with the authority of God Himself. Solomon tells us that the divine commandments are a "light" that will show us "the way to life." But those who would disregard them, both male and female, will suffer the painful consequences.
James C. Dobson
Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational.
Debasish Mridha
Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.
Herman Wouk
That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
William S Burroughs
Why couldn’t I find one action that would make the need to binge automatically disappear? Because there is no magic action to make that horrible prebinge feeling go away. The cool thing is that we are designed so that the feeling will pass through us on its own—in time. All we have to do is sit there and feel what is going on inside of us. We must experience the feelings. To help us deal with the feelings, we can call someone on our support team. We can also express the feelings by focusing on our breath or even hitting a pillow. The important thing to remember is that no matter how terrible, feelings do pass. It takes patience and trust—not food . . .
Jenni Schaefer
What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain problems and make seek answers in certain directions. Any kind of though, true or false, is motivated by the subjective needs and interests of the person who is thinking. It happens that some interests are furthered by finding the truth, others by destroying it.
Erich Fromm
May my mind be clear and my heart pure.
Joanie Schirm
Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.
Debasish Mridha