Quotes by American Authors - Page 1803

When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.
Ralph Fletcher
Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.
Ellen J. Barrier
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made you, into the womb of the Great Mother. You have again become a seed that will form into other lives in other lands.
Thomm Quackenbush
What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.
Billy Graham
The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal.
Charles R. Swindoll
Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.
Tom DeMarco
We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.
Bucky Sinister
You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.
Heather Schuck
Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.
Jim Kjelgaard
No money can buy back the moment that is gone
Debasish Mridha
You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things.
H.L. Burke
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
Ansel Adams
Like nature, we must grow with tranquility, beauty, harmony, and love.
Debasish Mridha
Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.
Mary Jo Putney
When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.
Lisa Kleypas
Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and wife after the Christmas receipts are added up.
Matthew D. Heines
I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.
Robert Jackson Bennett
Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures.
Bob Sutton
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
Richard Bach
The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.
Bryant McGill
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
Criss Jami
The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.
Francine Rivers
I learned that protecting someone by keeping him away from me doesn't shelter either of us. I learned that feeling other people's feelings for them doesn't bring us closer, it only separates me from myself and my needs. I always thought being codependent meant being too emotionally glued to someone; I didn't realize the way I was doing it was setting me adrift.
Lisa Scottoline
The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him.
Billy Graham
A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.
Stephen Lozada
Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.
Dean Koontz
The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
David O. McKay
When your soul whispers listen, when your heart speaks listen. Whenever you know it's real love, don't let it pass you by.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive.
Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?
Anne Rice
Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
Hakim Bey
Why?' He kept asking in his sweetly belling voice, its tone as pure as marbles swirled around a crystal pail. Why him wun up the tree? Why him nest up theah? Why him gadder nuts? Why? Why? Why? And Billy answering every question to the best of his ability, as if anything less would disrespect the deep and maybe even divine force that drove his little nephew toward universal knowledge.
Ben Fountain
Way back in 1831, Michael Faraday, one of the founders of our modern understanding of electromagnetism, was asked by an inquiring politician about the usefulness of this newfangled "electricity" stuff. His apocryphal reply: "I know not, but I wager that one day your government will tax it".
Sean Carroll
We can’t always be as brave as we want or need to be. We don’t always make the harder choice, the one we know we need to make in order to change things for real. Sometimes we give in to our fear. We choose known over unknown, comfort over uncertainty. Even though that’s often not ideal—to create our lives from fear—it’s definitely human. And, it’s okay. Our courage doesn’t suddenly disappear just because we choose to ignore it. It may hide for a bit and make us work a little harder for its attention, but it’s always there within us. We are born courageous, after all. Beautiful and brave. Whenever we get tired of playing at life with fear’s rules, at last determined to change things for real, our courage will be there—ready, able, excited for us to let it do its thing.
Scott Stabile
The concerns and methods vary, but there is to it all, at bottom, a message that is unmistakably Luddistic: beware the technological juggernaut, reckon the terrible costs, understand the worlds being lost in the world being gained, reflect on the price of the machine and its systems on your life, pay attention to the natural world and its increasing destruction, resist the seductive catastrophe of industrialism.
Kirkpatrick Sale
Nothing lasts forever. That is the only truth we are guaranteed in life. When someone says they will love you forever, what does that really mean? Then again, what really is love? I think that’s why we’re here. For each of us to discover what love means to us.
Jewel E. Ann
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.
Susan Cain
As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".
Walter Isaacson
Nope. Too Much,” Marin said, and tossed the little man out of the hospital window. She needed coffee. Either that or a large dose of Thorazine.
Tracey Clark
I had a dream about you last night... in it, I tried to sell a squirrel a deposit box to store his nuts in. He stole my cashews in the complimentary snack basket.
Marshall Ramsay
Be the love that you are always looking for.
Debasish Mridha
If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.
Shannon L. Alder
I need to be a vampire," she said. "and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don't care who turns me. The important thing is that if I change, I'll be a princess."I was wrong. She was really crazy.
Rachel Caine
I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky
Scott Fortino
The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
Cecily von Ziegesar
Bard eyed him like he was manure on her shoes at the same time she did things, like sharpen a wooden stake, something she knew didn't work on him, but that was not her point, even if she was making one.
Kristen Ashley
Love is a practice. It’s up to you to choose it, prioritize it and commit to it.
Tracie Sage
Just when she thought she had it all figured out something happened to test her faith or alter her view of reality.
Deanna Kahler
Until kids find something worth dying for, they don't have anything worth living for.
Tim Kimmel
She’s over the top rebellious,but damn her heart overflowing with insane love.She shakes thing up.Doesn’t play by rules and certainly fitsin nobody’s pretty perfect box.
Melody Lee
Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.
Noah Lukeman
He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.
Michael Cunningham
It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.
Kameron Hurley
Here,” I said, shoving the board into his hands. He started laughing.“WHAT are you laughing at?!” I demanded irritably.“Well, it’s just that… that’s going to hurt a bit, my dear. Go on, bend over. I’ll demonstrate.
Sadey Quinn
I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
Erica Jong
If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.
Brigham Young
We use the mind to create ourselves. Stuck amid the inevitable gaps between the mint of imagination and the postholes of actuality, we stutter step through the stratum of objective and subjective reality. We constantly amend our internal mental maps. Each day we awaken from the nighttime dream world with a revised identity of ourselves.
Kilroy J. Oldster
There had been periods in his twenties when he would look at his friends and feel such a pure, deep contentment that he would wish the world around them would simply cease, that none of them would have to move from that moment, when everything was in equilibrium and his affection for them was perfect. But, of course, that was never to be: a beat later, and everything shifted, and the moment quietly vanished.
Hanya Yanagihara