Quotes by American Authors - Page 1873

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.
Richard Rohr
The Bible tells us that the state of the world will grow darker as we near the end of the age.
Billy Graham
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. (p. 84)
Geneen Roth
If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either
James M. Cain
I was surrounded by heaven. The sun, the moon, the earth, and all those living stars. They wen't static like in pictures taken from impossibly far away- they breathed, they glowed. They were future and past, possibility and memory. They were beautiful. "I never knew there were so many," I whispered. We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Out deaths will mean nothing to them."I feel so small." No one replied. I wondered as I watched the stars, really seeing them for the fist time, whether they could see me, too.
Shaun David Hutchinson
Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.
Libba Bray
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
Shannon L. Alder
In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to feed your family, and sometimes even your own liberty, the idea of the mutually supportive poor community is demolished. The poor blame one another for the choices of governments and markets, and we who are not poor are ready to blame the poor just as harshly.
Katherine Boo
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
General Douglas MacArthur
Courage.Hope.Sacrifice.
Rick Riordan
Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. He was Nico's favorite game, Mythomagic, brought to life.Jason saw the moment when Percy returned and told Nico that Bianca was dead. Nico had screamed and called him a liar. He'd felt betrayed, but still... when the skeleton warriors attacked, he couldn't let them harm Percy. Nico had called on the earth to swallow them up, and then he'd run away- terrified of his own powers, and his own emotions.
Rick Riordan
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa
Putting a smile on a child's face can change the world, Maybe not the whole world but at least their world!
Richard M. Knittle Jr.
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
Carl Lotus Becker
I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.
David Sedaris
If Shane had avoided her for years because of a kiss, he might leave the country over a blow and hand job.
Naima Simone
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren
Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one.
Steve Maraboli
Well, if my crime is love, then I am indeed guilty
Elise Kova
He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."- Frank Balenger
David Morrell
The opposite of lust is intentional, purposeful. The opposite of lust is longing for a ‘particular’ person – because while lust is looking to get, the opposite of lust is looking to give. The opposite of lust is choosing a certain person. The same person. Everyday.For the rest of your life.Despite what they have to offer.Now that’s romantic. The opposite of lust is waking up every morning and saying, “out of everyone else in this world, I choose you.” I choose you. Today, and everyday.I choose you not because you’re perfect for me and you meet all of my qualifications and conditions and because you make me feel loved and cared for. No. I choose you, because I know you’re a lot like me, and you’re going to fall short and mess up and you’re not always going to feel like loving me – but you’re going to want someone to stick around with you despite all that. I choose you, because I know Jesus loves you, and He doesn’t love you because He is impressed by you and He gets a warm feeling in His heart when He’s around you and you complete Him. He loves you so that you might become more like Him.This is a love that isn't dependent on us.
Cole Ryan
How people treat you is not very important but how you react to it, is very important.
Debasish Mridha
For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
Orson Scott Card
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
Bret Easton Ellis
Loneliness is a hell of a drug.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were.
James S.A. Corey
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it life just doesn't taste good.
Lucia Capacchione
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
Ernest Hemingway
Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.
Allen Zadoff
Keep eating me up with those eyes, little Goddess, and I’ll be so deep inside that hot little pussy you won’t remember what you came here for.
Setta Jay
I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being
LeVar Burton
The light at the end of the tunnel is for those who believe that there is an existence of light.
Coleen Innis
To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.
Bryant McGill
So you know, i'm thinking that you can either keep yourself safe and not feel anything, or you can the risk of just loving him and letting him love you." she paused. "Is he worth the risk? And if not what is? What are you willing to take risk for, Wren?
Lauren Myracle
The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the hideous summer of ’78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.
Alice James
On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.
Shelby Foote
In the overwhelming demands of daily life, you get bombarded with continuous distractions, expectations and responsibilities. Is it no wonder that you may lose touch with simple pleasures and life lessons which you once knew, but have since forgotten? What do you need to be reminded of to live your life with purpose and passion?
Susan C.Young
My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.
Julie James
Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. “Dammit!” he says again with more feeling. “Why does stuff like this keep happening?”“You say that as if it’s a bad thing,” Rob says, smirking.
Laura Kreitzer
I thought I knew madness, but I didn’t know it before you.
Kitty Thomas
Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.
Jessica Sorensen
At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk
It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
John Green
He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.
Michael Delaware
You don't really love me, or you never would have treated me like you did. You were just afraid of letting me go. There’s a difference, and no one knows that better than I do. We were both afraid of moving on, me of what I really wanted. It brought us together, it bound us, but no longer. I am done with making decisions based on fear. [Nicholas to Grace]
Emily Colin
If I were another person, I go on, I wouldn’t want to deal with me, I don’t want to deal with me, It’s so hopeless, I want out of this life. I really do. I keep thinking that if I could just get a grip of myself, I could be all right again. I keep thinking I’m driving myself crazy, but I swear, I swear to God, I have no control. It’s so awful, It’s like some demons have taken over my mind. And nobody believes me, Everybody thinks I could be better if I wanted to. But I can’t be the old Lizzy anymore, I can’t be myself anymore, I mean, actually, I am being myself right now and it’s horrible.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
When you prepare, regularly work hard, create value, help others get what they want, and persevere... the life of your dreams is INEVITABLE.
Matthew Loop
When we practice a yoga posture designed to challenge our balance, the use of a gazing point or drishti is a most effective way to maintain physical equanimity. The act of gazing without judgment or attachment is easily the most effective way to bring stability and balance to the pose. Likewise, whenthe poses of life rob us of our equanimity, gazing at the situation without attachment—without judgment—is the most effective tool we have to restore the mind to harmony.
Darren Main
I have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christmas miracle.
Alexa Riley
If I was alone I'd find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it'd look like I wanted to be alone.
Julie Anne Peters
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
Edward Albee
I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.
Diamanda Galás
All books are judged by their covers until they are read.
Maryrose Wood
We've got an unbeatable team."- Sauron
Robert Lynn Asprin
The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create.
Jessica Khoury
History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To those of us who study history not merely as a warning reminder of man's follies and crimes, but also as an encouraging remembrance of generative souls, the past ceases to be a depressing chamber of horrors; it becomes a celestial city, a spacious country of the mind, wherein a thousand saints, statesmen, inventors, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, lovers, and philosophers still live and speak, teach and carve and sing.
will and Ariel Durant
Live for God. Live for your mother. Die for you gang.
Coral Russell
Wait, go back to that Southern Baptist part,” Julia said, interrupting, as she does. “Are you a born-again?” articulating her question as if she were asking me if I were really a headhunter or a Martian. “Yes,” I said, “but I'm not an asshole. At least not theologically speaking.
Cathleen Falsani
That's how life is; we grow, we learn, and sometimes we change. And in every man, there is hope.
Kathryn Le Veque
It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.
John Eldredge