Quotes by American Authors - Page 1741

Men canreturn to where they have done evil deeds,but men do not return to where they’ve beenabased. On this point God’s design and ourown feeling of abasement coincideso absolutely that we quit: the night,the rotting beast, the exultant mobs, our homes,our hearthfires, Bacchus in a vacant lotembracing Ariadne in the dark.
Joseph Brodsky
Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.
Pierce Brown
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
John Updike
It doesn't matter what you look like when you see in the mirror, what matters most, is how you feel about yourself.
Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
Well, clearly someone you trust isn’t really someone you should be trusting,” she said without thinking, and regretted it when Terrible glanced at her. He did it fast, just a quick cut of his eyes in her direction and then away again, but she saw it. She felt it. It was starting already. She wished she could say she was surprised, wished she hadn’t been waiting for it, expecting it the way she expected rain from black clouds overhead. Nothing in the world was permanent, especially not happiness. She’d always known that. She just wished life would stop proving her right.
Stacia Kane
Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.
Randy Pausch
Dreams are manifestations of identities.
Kathy Acker
Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.
Pam Houston
Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.
Sondra Kraak
Oh, let me love with all my power all the way.Let me love like stars love the moon rest of my day.
Debasish Mridha
Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.
Karen Hawkins
...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom
Radhanath Swami
But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.
Susane Colasanti
While the club-kid lifestyle might’ve once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn’t dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold.
Katherine McIntyre
But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.
Robin Hobb
The beauty of a loving smile has a timeless freshness.
Debasish Mridha
If everyone, every morning, thought about peace just for a few minutes instead of thinking about what to eat for breakfast we would have peace in the world.
Debasish Mridha
Hiding had been effortless in New York City. Getting lost in a sea of people was as easy as stepping onto a crowded Subway car. Sweet Laurel Cove would be very different. Generations of families filled its church pews, ran its farms, and schooled its children. Anonymity was as rare as lightning bugs in wintertime—as her grandmother would say.
Teresa Tysinger
But how did you know where we were?" Annabeth asked.Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.
Rick Riordan
If you buy an egg thinking it's a goose's egg, and when it hatches it is actually a bird of paradise; no manner of convincing and reproach will turn the bird of paradise into a goose. Even if you make it go to goose church and goose school and eat goose feeds and only hang out with geese! In the end, it will still belong to paradise.
C. JoyBell C.
In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.
Debasish Mridha
Tomorrow is not a promise. Tomorrow is a second chance.
J.R. Rim
Two men. I had just killed two men. A killing machine, I hadn't even hesitated. Fear and rage settled deep in my chest, forming a layer of ice around my heart.
Maria V. Snyder
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
Nicholson Baker
You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.
Edwidge Danticat
Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.
T. Rafael Cimino
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.
Daniel Handler
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton
Where’s Nadine?” “She went out for a walk the other day and didn’t come back.” “Really.” I tried to sound surprised. “No sweat,” he said. “Pussy may well be the only true renewable resource, Leo. I’ve got another one lined up for when I get back.” I had to admire a man with that kind of insight and planning.
G.M. Ford
Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality.
Kilroy J. Oldster
So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!
Rachel Renée Russell
Today's dreams create tomorrow’s hope. So act today and hope for the best.
Debasish Mridha
There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.
J.A. Konrath
I know one thing for certain; it's much harder to tell whether you ARE lost than whether you WERE lost, for, on many occasions where you're going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.
Norton Juster
...I tried to pretend that what we were enacting was nothing more than an intricate kind of handshake." ~Malcolm
Kathleen Maher
What hurts the most?Rejection..
Anna Todd
I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.
John Green
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
Joseph Campbell
Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
John Marks Templeton
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner
The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.
Jim George
A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside."A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.
Susan Fraser King
I’m in awe of the people who manage their difficult lives with little complaint, those who have suffered more than their fair share of pain, and understand things could have been much worse, those who take the time to be grateful for the important things, and who never give up on themselves or their lives. It's no easy feat to stay optimistic when life has shown you too much darkness, yet our world is filled with these steady, strong, resilient warriors of the light. From them, we have so much to learn.
Scott Stabile
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?
Ray Bradbury
There should have been a dark whisper in the wind. Or maybe a deep chill in the bone. Something. An ethereal song only Elizabeth or I could hear. A tightness in the air. Some textbook premonition. There are misfortunes we almost expect in life—what happened to my parents, for example—and then there are other dark moments, moments of sudden violence that alter everything. There was my life before the tragedy. There is my life now. The two have very little in common.
Harlan Coben
My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about, the kind of things we say are, ‘Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he’s cast aside; loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a ‘slut’ on the internet?’ It’s not the same for boys, it just isn’t and that’s a fact.
Taylor Swift
Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.
Karen Witemeyer
The Prayer that is answered is not of many words, but of Oneness.
Vivian Amis
This book was written so that we may take heed and remold our story. I am certain that when enough of us become aware of how we are being exploited by the economic engine that creates an insatiable appetite for the world's resources, and results in systems that foster slavery, we will no longer tolerate it. We will reassess our role in a world where a few swim in riches and the majority drown in poverty, pollution, and violence . We will commit ourselves to navigating a course toward compassion, democracy, and social justice for all.
John Perkins
(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
That smoke you smell is me frying your brains every time we kiss longer than twenty-three seconds.
Cherie Colyer
I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead
Michael Summers
Oh, Alice, you haven’t even had a taste of my romantic streak yet. And when the time’s right I don’t think I’ll have to ‘try’ to have my way with you. I just WILL.
Elle Lothlorien
He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.
Floyd V. Filson
The saucy Miss Tottenham slipped the strawberry into her delectable mouth, all the while looking at Cyrus. His thigh muscles tensed inside the velvet prison of his breeches. Hot pleasure shot through his body at the sight of the red berry slipping through her lips. Adding to his misery, a spurt of juice from the tender morsel painted her bottom lip red. He nearly groaned.tTradition named the apple as the fruit of man's downfall, but tonight he'd argue mightily for the dangers of a ripe strawberry on a certain woman's lips.
Gina Conkle
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
Successful people will tell you that they do not wonder if they are going to succeed. They know they will. It's just a matter of when.
Julieanne O'Connor
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll
Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.
Shannon L. Alder