Quotes by American Authors - Page 1846

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.” Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.
Matthew Desmond
For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth
Bo Bennett
Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things.
Madam Secretary
Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life.
Emily Giffin
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
William Faulkner
Where were you? When everything was falling apart. All my days staying by the telephone. You never rang and all I needed was a call.
The Fray
One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The brain is a wonderful thing. It will always give you an answer to the questions you ask. The problem comes from the questions you ask yourself. Your brain will only answer exactly what it is asked.
John Patrick Hickey
The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.
William S Burroughs
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius
Things work out the way they're meant to
Danielle Steel
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
Charles Bukowski
Maybe that was why it was almost always the underclasses, the women, the people of color, the gay people, the ones who were already stigmatized as being vulnerable, availble, trapped by the body, who took the risk of the wire.
Melissa Scott
In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong not by number of heads counted at the dinner table but by the rituals you help family members create by the memories you share by the commitment of time caring and love you show to one another and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.
Marge Kennedy
Oh, come on. A vamp marrying a human gets the fanged ones all upset, and Eve made herself look like the ultimate fang-anger to all the humans by putting a ring on one, so what did you expect exactly? Flowers and parades? This is Texas. We're still figuring out how to spell tolerance.
Rachel Caine
When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.
Mercedes Lackey
Don't be scared," Willa Mae said.I looked at her. "Aren't you scared?"Willa Mae looked at me and said, "Shoot. Only thing I'm afraid of is that I'm going to do something I'll regret.""Being scared is just one more thing to turn into what you want it to be," Willa Mae said. "The thing with fear is, it's like anger. You've got to change it into something else. Make it your weapon. Some can just turn it into smarts. The best of 'em can turn fear and anger into love." She looked out toward our neighborhood. "I'm not there yet.
Margaret McMullan
As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' 
David T. Hardy
You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life
Woody Allen
In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!
Ken Kesey
A healthy company culture is a set of norms and behaviors that support high performance and supports the team as they move towards ultimate success. Visit these norms regularly. Everybody visits them regularly, from the CEO to the Truck Drivers.
Beth Ramsay
Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that is entangled with insecurities, fears, and absolute insanity! The art of femininity lies in the molding, pounding, and defeating of that crazy girl on a daily basis! Look at any woman, and you're looking at a woman fighting a daily battle, wielding her weapons in war, every day! I have said it before and I'll say it again: it is never easy being a woman! And if we could only pound that crazy, insecure girl out of ourselves, it would make such the difference!
C. JoyBell C.
In the building of walls to protect ourselves— we have managed to keep ourselves from the best in this life. And so the line is drawn whether to live and to be broken and unbroken or to breathe but not live at all. Perhaps there is no such thing as brokenness, afterall. Perhaps it is all just called "living.
C. JoyBell C.
Who cares if you have a girlfriend, anyway?""I care" Simon said gloomily. "Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor. And he smells like windex.
Cassandra Clare
We are as successful as much we can think of and act on.
Debasish Mridha
Marion: What is all this? What's going on?Clint: The same thing that's always going on. The end of the world.
Rachel Pollack
She waited for him to go on, but he simply gaped at her, lost for words.t"Doc Grey, do you want me?" she asked before she could stop herself.t"Vera, I..." He stopped abruptly. "I..."...t"I asked you a question." The words came out breathier than she'd intended. She stepped closer, until their bodies were less than an inch apart, and stared up into his gorgeous, honey-brown eyes. He met her gaze, and she saw a spark behind his irises that could only be described with one word: desire.
Kait Ballenger
My ethical values prevent me from investing in the stock market.
Steven Magee
The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.
Newton Lee
Cynicism is proof of our intimacy issues with the Divine.
Elisa Romeo
Then again, there’s nothing simple about Will. I think back to what he can do—bend earth, resist shading, his immense strength—and it’s glaringly inaccurate to consider him a human. But then I can’t think of him as a draki either. And this strikes me as sad. Will doesn’t belong anywhere. Not among humans. Not among draki.But he belongs with me. The conviction is still there, as senseless and dangerous as always, seeping into my bones, my heart. A fact I wouldn’t change even if I could.
Sophie Jordan
A real prison breakfast" I said."Yeah, but we are free."And that summed it up.
Patti Smith
Boredom presents a very real, if insidious peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington post:“Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale, insipid, and brooding. Examples abound...Rats kept in comfortable isolation quickly become jumpy, irritable, and aggressive. Their bodies twitch, their tails grow scaly." The backcountry traveler, then, in addition to developing such skills as the use of a map and compass, or the prevention and treatment of blisters, must prepare mentally and materially to cope with boredom, lest his tail grow scaly.
Jon Krakauer
What if we were to subject public servants like politicians to a battery of psychological tests like the MMPI? Maybe we could determine which of them were more likely to become corrupt and save them the trouble of lengthy, expensive campaigns where they are ultimately harassed by greedy corporations.
Aaron B. Powell
Iko held up a hand. "You need a system debug if you're suggesting that I would abandon you know.
Marissa Meyer
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.
Edwin Way Teale
People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
George F. Will
The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Believers in Christ owe nothing to God in payment for salvation . . . but they do owe God a life of undivided devotion and service.
Billy Graham
He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.
G.A. Aiken
I’ve been thinking a lot about legacies lately. Life seems to be a waste without someone to share it with and even more so when there’s no one to benefit from your efforts when you’re gone. Sort of makes you want to throw your hands up in the air and stop working. Luckily, that feeling forces you to focus more on today… even if only to avoid being depressed while thinking about an empty, distant tomorrow. What can I do today to enrich others? What can I share with the people I encounter today?
LaShawnda Jones
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
Aldo Leopold
The theater of God’s redemption is this world. It is to this world that God came in Christ. Christ refused to allow His disciples to hide in an upper room with the doors locked because of fear. No tabernacles were allowed on the Mount of Transfiguration. We are called to be Christ’s witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). Jerusalem is in this world. Judea is in this world. Samaria is in this world. The ends of the earth are still on this earth. So we should not flee this world. But, oh, how many Christians try to do so. And in doing so, they may actually be displeasing the God who wants the world to be redeemed, not escaped.
R.C. Sproul
Often in life the pleasure of the journey is only eclipsed by the ecstasy of the destination.
Ken Poirot
I'm giving you what I can give you, and I'm telling you in advance that you might get hurt. But it's worth it to take the risk. I can damn well promise you that it's worth it.
K.A. Linde
If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone
Rene Denfeld
I remember you from the woods. Where's your sister?""She's busy. Sinning.
Dia Reeves
During those snowy New England winters, besides learning to rise at five to study calculus and trudge two miles through the drifts for breakfast down the road, he had suppressed some tremendous element in himself that took form in a prudish virginity. While his life was impeccable on the surface, he felt he was behind glass: moving through the world in a separate compartment, touching no one else.
Andrew Holleran
In this universe, love is the liberating force from the prison of judgment.
Debasish Mridha
Peace for Israel,” he said.“Is that possible?” I drew closer.“Yes, if we have peace with God first.
Rachelle Ayala
Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again.
Ryan Lilly
Your mind believes what you tell it, so tell it positive things
Jennifer Milius
Who are we without our memories?
Marta Acosta
You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.
Max Lucado
Fucking fixes nothing, but certain feelings are unavoidable.
Kris Kidd
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
Richelle Mead
This is what I chose. This is it." I look over Robert's shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the driver's seat and closes the door behind him. "Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy." "Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?" he says
Veronica Roth