Quotes by American Authors - Page 1871

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art
LaMar Boschman
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.
George Washington
You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.
Kelly Braffet
The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.
Megan Chance
If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go.
Germany Kent
What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.
Connie Willis
To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.
Lindsey Rietzsch
some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.
Charles Bukowski
Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.
Gina Greenlee
It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.
Lauren Slater
She'd been mad for him as a girl, but she'd chalked that up to youthful infatuation. She'd tracked the events of his life religiously for a decade, but she'd told herself that was idle curiosity. And now... now she desired him so much she could scarcely stand, but surely that was only lust. Wasn't it?
Tessa Dare
In the darkest sky, stars hang on high; showing us the light of hope and telling us that dreams never die, don’t see the darkness, wait for the morning sun.
Debasish Mridha
Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.
Atul Gawande
Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.
Meridel Le Sueur
In the great green room, there was a telephoneAnd a red balloonAnd a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...
Margaret Wise Brown
I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Robert Frost
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
Michael Gruber
I stepped out and the sun was shining. And the birds were chirping. It was the nicest day we'd had in ages. A couple of bunnies scampering about. It could have been the start of a Disney flick.
Donna Augustine
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded pro
James Madison
If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.
Billy Graham
When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I started to walk the day I was told I was dying of cancer. I believe walking has kept me alive. I live with a constant, pressing awareness of death. Once I start to walk, I am not afraid anymore; all is well.
Edie Littlefield Sundby
Dear God, please take the stains off my heart. If there’s even an ounce of pain I feel that someone caused me in the past, I ask that you wash it away. Give me strength, show me forgiveness is the healthiest option for me, and set me free. I pray you give me peace today and every day, allowing me to totally leave my past behind. In Jesus’s name, I pray, amen.
Ron Baratono
I must confess to generally hating sections entitled “how to read this book” and soon. I feel that, if I bought it, I should be able to read it any way I damn well please!Nevertheless, I feel some guidelines may be useful.
Paul Taylor
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
John Steinbeck
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.
Rebecca Solnit
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right
Albert Einstein
The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.
Michael J. Kannengieser
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
George Foreman
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
Anne Fortier
There are good days and hard days for me. Don't let the hard days win ~Mor ~A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J Maas
I love reading I know it’s very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
All mothers are slightly insane.
J.D. Salinger
Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting. At any rate, how nice to be well dressed and among friends and in a state where poems pop out by themselves.
Carol Emshwiller
He lowered his voice. "You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man's face."I looked at him and did not lower my eyes. "My father was an ealdorman, and his brother ealdorman after him. He taught me that a scar is the badge of honour of the warrior, and this I believe."He regarded me for a long moment. "I think I am glad we did not face your father and his brother in battle," he said, "for they were of better stuff than what we have found here."In saying this, he gave my dead kinsmen much praise. I felt that praise came rarely from the Danes, and took a strange pleasure in hearing him say this. I did not speak, but he lifted his cup to me, and I again took up mine. - Sidroc the Dane to Ceridwen
Octavia Randolph
Sometimes I live in the universe. Sometimes the universe lives in me.
Debasish Mridha
Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.
Bill Bryson
She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?
William Gibson
Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man.
Billy Graham
A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.
Joel McDonald
Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.
Judy Cornish
If she looked into a fractured mirror, she'd see what he saw.
Kristen Heitzmann
Never been more truthful then right now, looking at you fixes everything.
Holly Hood
Whether right or wrong, it is my belief that Christian colleges place their emphasis not on that which divides us, but on the substance that binds us together. That commonality is the gospel of Jesus Christ. He commanded us to love one another—to set aside our differences and to care for “the least of these” among us. It is our unity, not our diversity, that deserves our allegiance.
James C. Dobson
So, do you clean, too?”“Hell, no!.. I’m gay ... not a damn housewife!”Everybody laughed.(The Tin Star)
J.L. Langley
And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
Maria Semple
Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Whatever you do, stay in love.
Debasish Mridha
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.
Susan Griffin
Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.
Robert Cormier
I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.
Shaun David Hutchinson
He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.
Ursula K Le Guin
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.
Turcois Ominek
It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness," she said, "only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous
Amy Tan
Every cent you own and every moment you spend is always an investment.
Natalie Pace
Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy—degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.
Billy Graham