Quotes by American Authors - Page 1859

Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…
Walt Whitman
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
John Green
As we age, we feel less like leaves and more like trees. We have roots that ground us and sturdy trunks that may sway, but don't break, in the wind.
Meg Jay
One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
Anaïs Nin
This FEMINIST Goes Hard.
Stephanie Lahart
All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Erica Jong
Tomorrow belongs to those who are sincerely learning and loving today.
Debasish Mridha
You say be honest, but honestly you don't want honesty
William Joseph Perry
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
Patrick Ness
Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true.
Criss Jami
In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law
John D. MacDonald
The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.
Bryant McGill
How stupid that all I have to dois grow two squishy lumps and suddenlyI'm man's best friend
Christine Heppermann
I wish my nose would blow me for once.
Brian Celio
Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.
Shannon L. Alder
There is that moment when you first wake up and your dreams are still hovering like a fine mist in the air. For a tiny fragment of time you feel as though you could choose to live in either reality. In fact, in those seconds, as the dream replays in your mind, still so fresh, it seems more real, and this world seems unreal and fuzzy. I want to make the choice to go back to the dream, to live there.
Kitty Thomas
Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.
Loren Weisman
When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
Noah Cicero
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
Henry Miller
Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception Not on the situation.
Debasish Mridha
I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I already know sorrow. Today I choose joy.
Lynda Cheldelin Fell
This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even that didn’t matter if, in the end, readers needed something to be there. They could bring their somethings to a text, as co-creators, embedding a needed reality in the story that, if it was flexible enough, would allow new threads to take their place beside the author’s.
L.L. Barkat
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
Whatever you do don't let anybody talk you into doing something about the way you look ever.
John Casablancas
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.
Norman Lock
I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.
Dan Pearce
We cannot change the wind, we can only adjust our sails.
Del Suggs
Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?""I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.
Cassandra Clare
My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations.
Debasish Mridha
In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting him out of his misery—a misery that by sophomore year of college was indistinguishable from everybody else's.
Garth Risk Hallberg
But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?"Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage. "Man, you would be so embarrassed if I said it was something else." Michael looked blank. "I'm a girl, Michael, it could have been all natural, you know. Tampons?
Rachel Caine
Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.
T.F. Hodge
Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.
Rebecca Goldstein
You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)
Joan Reardon
People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
Alfie Kohn
For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
Clare B. Dunkle
Problems are very complicated when you don't know the solutions.
Debasish Mridha
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
Mark Helprin
Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
Brennan Manning
In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
Rex Reed
To divine is to imagine the world rightly, to see past the illusion that we are separate from the entire fabric of reality.
Gwendolyn Womack
The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.
Beverly Engel
Pain is pain, babe. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.
J.A. Redmerski
…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.
Louisa May Alcott
I don't think you can judge every man by one or two who let you down
Mia Sheridan
You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.
Rachel Hollis
Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.
Mike Bond
Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.
Emme Rollins
David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.
R.E. Graswich
Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?
Bryant McGill
Exercise feels best after it is finished.
Toni Sorenson
Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses.
Pearl Zhu
Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
Walter Isaacson
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
Anaïs Nin
The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul.Hats can do the same thing.
Charles Martin
I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’ttrying to be deceitful.
Quinn Loftis
She'll be a fierce woman, that one. It'll take a hell of a man to love her right. Be like living with a thunderstorm. Same as her mother. A fierce woman. Force of nature. The kind of woman you just hand on for the ride. The most exciting and the most heartbreaking woman you could ever meet. They don't know their own minds most of the time, but their hearts are so damn big it hurts em inside.
Brian Doyle