Quotes by American Authors - Page 1917

If you can dream it up, you can team it up.
Richie Norton
Option A:Spend your life trying to get others to accept you.Option B:Accept yourself, and spend your life with others who recognize what a beauty you are.
Scott Stabile
I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.
Ally Condie
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.
Phil Cooke
There are two types of people in this world: Those who make it their life's work to rid themselves of all pain and suffering... and Artists.
Gregor Collins
Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.
Maggi Richard
the thing you are mostafraid to writewrite that-- advice to young writers
Nayyirah Waheed
...the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over? Isn't it fairer to look at them both as opportunities, which may be used either stupidly or intelligently, according to the capacity of the user?
Edith Wharton
Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.
Andrew S. Grove
The laws sometimes sleep but never die.
Law Maxim
The days of me being "tolerant" are long gone. The days of me being "intolerant" have just begun.
James D. Sass
I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it "content."
Lauren Bacall
The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.
Anthony M. Esolen
Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.
Whittaker Chambers
Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing
Kiersten White
Wakey wakey eggs and bacey!
Jayson James
Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.
Andy Stanley
It is easy to take a stand about a remote issue, but speciesists, like racists, reveal their true nature when the issue comes nearer home. To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, or the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.
Peter Singer
He'd grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings.
Karen Thompson Walker
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
William Allen
One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.
Meg Cabot
Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.
Orson Scott Card
I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.
Craig Ferguson
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
Alan Lightman
Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.
Lionel Suggs
Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?
Kerrigan Byrne
Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my ass. Writing is the friend who doesn't return my phone calls; the itch I'm unable to scratch; a dinner invitation from a cannibal; elevator music for a narcoleptic. Writing is the hope of lifting all boats by pissing in the ocean. Writing isn't something that makes me happy like a good cup of coffee. It's just something I do because not writing, as I've found, is so much worse.
Quentin R. Bufogle
An artwork could always be restored and sold with no depreciated value―the cracks and tears provide more character, But when it comes to human emotions, how far could you stretch your heart to let go of the pain?
Geraldine Solon
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
Erik Larson
When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.
Debasish Mridha
Frankie scanned her eyes. I don’t ask for things. I take them.
Holly Hood
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi
I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little
John Knowles
Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.
Pearl Zhu
This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!
Kathy Bryson
I once believed that life was a gift. I thought whatever I wanted I would someday possess. Is that greed, or only youth? Is it hope or stupidity? As far as I was concerned the future was a book I could write to suit myself, chapter after chapter of good fortune. All was right with the world, and my place in it was assured, or so I thought then. I had no idea that all stories unfold like white flowers, petal by petal, each in its own time and season, dependant on circumstances and fate. ~ Green Heart, Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman
In a way, losing hope and losing importance are the same thing. It is that youthful vibrance, that eternal longing and believing, that makes youth so important--if you grow old and lose that without finding another way to be important, you will slip away, fall into insignificance, like one sheet of paper. You may be useful, but you will never stand out from the crowd. You cannot look at a piece of paper and say, "I remember you." You never can.
Katherine Ewell
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese—the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Bob says hello," he told the stars.
Rick Riordan
Where our attention goes, our mind and body go, too.
Marty Rubin
One has to look for one's passion. It's not going to come up and smack you on the head.
Charlotte Huang
In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.
Billy Graham
He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
Thomas Harris
When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.
Diana Gabaldon
Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.
Emily Dickinson
Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Passion is the driving element of purpose. When one is possessed with it, labor is not perceived as toil - it is revealed as love.
T.F. Hodge
If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.
Sarah Dessen
Conquering fear didn’t mean not being afraid, it meant being afraid of something and doing it anyway. It meant saying no to fear-no you can’t rule me, no you can’t hold me back, no you can’t keep me from the things I want the most.
Laura Kaye
The Mind The mind is a hotel with a thousand rooms. When I tilt my head a certain way, I think about certain things. When I tilt my head another way, I think about other things. If I sleep on the right side of my face, for example, I’d dream of a pale rose, the future, or a continental diner in Passaic, New Jersey. When I sleep on the left side of my face, I’d dream that a hand is squeezing my heart, that I’m in prison, or that I’m watching hockey at an airport bar, about to miss a flight.
Linh Dinh
As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other nouns in that tongue had always been one of his weak points. In Latin, as in most simple dialects of the region, a construction like servus puer meant about the same thing as puer servus, and even in English slave boy meant boy slave. But there the similarity ended. He had finally learned that house cat did not mean cat house, and that a dative of purpose or possession, as in mihi amicus, was somehow conveyed by dog food or sentry box even without inflection. But what of a triple appositive like fallout survival shelter? Brother Francis shook his head. The Warning on Inner Hatch mentioned food, water, and air; and yet surely these were not necessities for the fiends of Hell. At times, the novice found pre-Deluge English more perplexing than either Intermediate Angelology or Saint Leslie's theological calculus.
Walter M. Miller Jr
Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.
Carter F. Smith
I’m sorry. Oh, what simple words are these!I’m sorry. Lips should breathe them out with ease!But nay, in barring up the way,“I’ll die first” are the words you say.I’m sorry, woe is all pride guarantees.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Censorship is alive and well in America.
Suzy Kassem
If you want to live longer and to be strong, intelligent, loving, and kind--then don’t follow a tiger. Follow an elephant.
Debasish Mridha
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
Sharon Salzberg
Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they’re gone.
Eileen Wilks
Even the most egregious captive state, bound and gagged on her damp bunk, felt eerily familiar to her. With nothing to do but lie there and think of things, she reflected that captivity took many different forms. A woman under the domination of her father or husband was as much a prisoner as a hostage on a boat. She had merely traded one form of servitude for another.
Susan Wiggs
There is nothing mixed up about a woman who loves women, who wants to have sex with them, or who identifies as a lesbian. It is society that is mixed up because it punishes people for not conforming to its gender stereotypes.
Edward Stein
Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely stirring the breeze. It was, if he was completely honest with himself (and he did not want to be), a bit too hot for this new striped blue-and-rose-colored coat, made of taffeta and satin, and the silk faille waistcoat embroidered with a scene of birds and cherubs. The wing collar, and the wig, and the silk breeches, the wonderful new gloves in the most delicate lemon yellow . . . it was all a bit warm.Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.
Cassandra Clare