Quotes by American Authors - Page 1865

No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.
Chris Pavesic
Your transformation will be the miracle.
Holly Lynn Payne
Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.
Claire Cook
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities---that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.
Edgar Allan Poe
...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
Rebecca Makkai
All children want to go to space. Earth only offers parents wailing about overdraft notices and evening news playing in an empty den. Dead pets too. Childhood is a rot. And so they look up and see stars shiver, ancient information only just now arriving, because that is the only place left to look, and they yearn.
David Connerley Nahm
Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185
Veronica Roth
Life is an expression of the choices we make.
Laurie Buchanan
Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.
Waylon H. Lewis
I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.
Alexandra Robbins
Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?
Darrel Ray
I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.
Neil LaBute
Believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow shot from His own bow. It is the single universal trait that the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips.Believe as if your life depended on it... for indeed it does.
Richard Paul Evans
Deep sadness is an artist of powers that affects people in different ways. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life. To another, it comes as the blow of a crushing strike.
Ambrose Bierce
We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.
Sheryl Sandberg
You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.
Patrick Rothfuss
We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new...Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.
Anthony M. Esolen
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Mark Twain
I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.
Carl R. Rogers
Accidents are built into the road.
Marty Rubin
Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
Nikki Giovanni
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
Dan Brown
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
David Foster Wallace
Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.
Janet Wallach
It is easy to tie someone with love, but it takes a lifetime to untie the knot of love.
Debasish Mridha
Not everyone who loves music can play the tune.Estelle
Nora Roberts
Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.
Jennifer Niven
In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
Khaled Hosseini
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.
Roger Crawford
She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.
Wendy Wax
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
Stephanie Perkins
So is language change progress or degeneration? It is neither, of course. To assert that language change is for the better or worse requires some measure of what "good" or "bad" language is, and the issue of language change needn't come into question here. But no coherent criterion has ever been given: upon examination, the pronouncements of the self-appointed pundits are always a mix of cultural biases, half-understandings of languages, and an obvious compulsion for telling people what to do.
Charles Yang
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
It never ends, the bruiseof being
Kevin Young
Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.
Craig M. Mullaney
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.You saying God vain? I ast.Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.What it do when it pissed off? I ast.Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Alice Walker
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.
Sandra Lake
This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
Catherynne M. Valente
There’s something inherently majestic about Christmas that seems to have been abandoned by us; something flippantly cast aside, something that was foolishly abandoned and was tragically forgotten in the abandonment.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
He could see himself selling himself as a compelling mutation, a young god, proud to the point of sexy arrogance of his anatomical deviation: ninety percent thriving muscled man-flesh and ten percent glorious blindingly white angel
Michael Cunningham
There is music the moment you start listening.
Marty Rubin
Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one...
Anaïs Nin
The heart sometimes doesn’t care about limits.
Kristen Ashley
You are my heart, my life, my entire existence." -Ash
Julie Kagawa
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.
C.D. Wright
I don't care about anything. But I care about you.
Stephanie Perkins
We live in an upside-down world. People hate when they should love, quarrel when they should be friendly, fight when they should be peaceful, wound when they should heal, steal when they should share,do wrong when they should do right.
Billy Graham
Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Imagine how many new friends you would make, how much new business you could create, and how much fun you could have by simply taking the initiative to be the inviter. Try it today. Welcome new relationships into your life that would never have occurred otherwise.
Susan C.Young
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
Ace Frehley
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
Ally Carter
I wasn't in love with Aidan's wife but I am in love with the idea of caring about someone like that, so you’d alter the pattern of your life and become a better person. ... I want to find someone who will travel this path with me, so that we can discover hidden places together and make each other happy.
Emily Colin
Mastema prefers absolutes. He wants fences on the world and everything in its place, neat and tidy as a churchyard garden. God is not like that. God is boundless. For all his wisdom, Mastema cannot comprehend Yahweh’s need for surprises. An omniscient Being would naturally yearn for things beyond His control, futures He could not see, wills He could influence but not command. Strange, yes. It is odd when the puppeteer desires his wooden slaves to cut their strings, yet that is exactly what He did when he granted humans free will.
Kirby Crow
Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.
Judith Briles
I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.
Deb Caletti
The things men did or felt they had to do.
Erich Maria Remarque
If you lose the power to love, you lose the ability to live.
Debasish Mridha
HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.
Philip Appleman
The beauty of this world is fading all too fast through the cruelty and thoughtlessness of men.
Julie C. Dao
Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself
Erin Morgenstern