Quotes by American Authors - Page 181

Writing entails undertaking a spiritual journey, an exploration of the blemished self that is delightfully challenging, painfully arduous, and unfathomably rewarding. Writing allows an admittedly flawed person to artfully confront their inglorious personal history, examine the present, and cogitate upon the future. Thoughtful writing creates a person’s own precursors: it revises a person’s conception of the past into a more detailed, accurate, and comprehensive philosophical context, alters how a person perceives the “now,” and alters the course and outcome person’s future. Writing is the ultimate psychological experience and an immaculate method to examine a person’s thoughts, debunk a person’s delusion, and analyze a person’s values.
Kilroy J. Oldster
My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.
Joe Biden
Someone has opened the flood gates of stupidity...
Anthony Feinman
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
Patti Smith
Hey, beautiful. - Joe Covelli
Martha Sweeney
Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity.
Casey Carter
No one lacked imagination like the English. Yet he could not dismiss the notion that this lass dressed in breeches could be the seer his grandmother foretold. Finding an English lass lying on a Scottish hillside so many miles from the border was strange enough to have a touch of magic about it.
Margaret Mallory
Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel [while] landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!
Billy Graham
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira.
Steven Jay Schneider
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
Mary S. Almanac
Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.
Stuart Dybek
He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he closed his eyes, taking a moment to savor her touch. "Angel.""Luce."He pulled her into his arms as he whispered, "I love you.""I love you, too." Serah said, clinging to him. "When I opened my eyes, I didn't want to be here, because I didn't think you'd be here. I thought you'd be down there again, back in the pit, and I'd take an eternity in your Hell before I took a single second in my Heaven without you.
J.M. Darhower
The dominant in him not liking me turning my back on him but the man in him dying to have me. The fire in his eyes scared and excited me at the same time because I knew in that moment he said fuck the rules.
LaSasha Flame
Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption.
Jennifer Sodini
I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.
Christine Feehan
To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself a mercy, a fatherly expression of love.
Scott Hahn
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr
A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
Marty Rubin
Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
N.D. Wilson
is there any I could get a glass of water?"[waiter]There is no way... I toss and turn many a night trying to think up some way some how I could get glasses of water to costomers but I keep coming up empty..... Legend has it there was a waiter here many years ago... who had figured out a way to do just that but he is long gone and with him the secret. It had something to do with a glass rack and a faucet but no one has been able to put the pieces together so I must say no there is no way. HOW I WISH THERE WAS A WAY!!!
Brian Regan
In those meetings, I learned that even economic diagrams needn’t be linear. Ours was a nest of concentric circles, and an enterprise was measured by its value to each circle, from the individual and family to the community and environment. I realized that Rebecca and her colleagues were trying to do nothing less than transform the System of National Accounts, the statistical framework here and in most countries for measuring economic activity. For instance, the value of a tree depends on its estimated value or sale price, but if it is sold and cut down, there is no accounting on the debit side of the ledger for loss of oxygen, seeding of other trees, or value to the community or the environment. This group was inventing a new way of measuring profit and loss. By the end of our days together, I understood economics in a whole new way. A balance sheet really could be about balance.
Gloria Steinem
As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu."I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter."Then let's do it. That's us in spades.
Orson Scott Card
In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present.
Noam Chomsky
You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.
Shannon L. Alder
In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.
Charles Martin
I can turn every "is" into "ought ".
Kevin DeYoung
I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the markWhen he made Pearl Harbor. I miss you more than that movie missed the pointAnd that's an awful lot, girl. And now, now you've gone awayAnd all I'm trying to say, is: Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you.I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting schoolHe was terrible in that film. I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger partHe's way better than Ben Affleck. And now, all I can think about is your smileand that shitty movie, too. Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you. Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies? I guess Pearl Harbor suckedjust a little bit more than I miss you.
Trey Parker
I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.
Steve Maraboli
Son, if you were any farther from fine you'd be in Nebraska.
Deborah Blake
You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?
Rainbow Rowell
By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?
Brent Weeks
Enough regret can crush any man, living or dead.
Marlo Berliner
…the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.
Yvon Chouinard
Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart.
Karen Marie Moning
I'll never recover if he breaks my heart. ~Brooke
Katy Evans
As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.
A.W. Tozer
Love is rare and hard to find and takes years upon years to develop. Teenagers don't fall in love.
Kody Keplinger
Make enthusiasm a way of life. Make optimism a way of success. Make gratitude a way of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.
Fred Chappell
You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.
John McKay
I had a tumor. But it was great.
David Rakoff
…some leaders don’t want to celebrate with their team because they are afraid—yes, afraid that if they celebrate, people will quit working hard and lower the standards. I say don’t let your fear take you out.
Lee Ellis
O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start;You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.
W.H. Auden
I think believing in something is what matters most.Believe in nature or believe in love or believe that bydoing the right thing you can make some differenceto another human being or an entire generation.
Rachel C. Weingarten
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Starhawk
Ty, my boy, here's what you tell them. Say it quietly, and sincerely, and like it's the most important thing anyone ever uttered. Tell them, 'Jesus loves you. But I'm his favorite.
Robin Reardon
Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.
R.M. ArceJaeger
men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men.
Christina Escamilla
I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.
Frederick Buechner
There was a warm breeze blowing in the car as they passed the mansions in the Garden District and they could smell the sweet aroma of the night-blooming jasmine. Soft light fell on the neutral ground along the streetcar tracks.
Hunter Murphy
I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.
Aprilynne Pike
Invitation to Dance-It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.May I have the pleasure?
Stephen King
Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.
Shannon L. Alder
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
Norman Maclean
When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.
D.E. Navarro
... Let me start with the top mistakes that teachers make. Some of these mistakes are forced on teachers by a badly designed education system, and some are ones that teachers make no matter what they are teaching or which system they are teaching in. Some of these are less than obvious, so let's consider them one-by-one.1. Assuming that there is some kind of learning, other than learning by doing.2. Believing that a teacher's job is assessment.3. Thinking there is something that everyone must know in order to proceed.4. Thinking that students are not worried about the purpose of what they are being taught.5. Thinking that studying can replace repeated practice as a key learning technique.6. Thinking that because students have chosen to take your course, they have an interest in learning what you plan to teach them.7. Correcting a student who is doing something wrong by telling them what to do instead.8. Thinking that a student remembers what you just taught him.
Roger Schank
I looked at whale jawbones in the museum this morning. Then I did some shopping. Whenever I go into the drugstore it seems that many people are buying condoms and motion sickness medicine.
Lydia Davis
She wasn't the type. Her idea of exercise was lifting a fork.
Rose Pressey
I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.
Pat Conroy