Quotes by American Authors - Page 1947

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.
Christopher Paolini
When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.
Suzanne Finnamore
None of us is beyond the task of missions...The question is not whether or not we will be working to spread the gospel around the world, but what role we will play in this.
Francis Chan
Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.
Shannon L. Alder
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name.
Bruce R. McConkie
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
Brandon Mull
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...
Orson Scott Card
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
Christopher Moore
People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same.
Kevin Hart
Smile wide to receive many smiles in return. But if you want a good laugh, smirk like a wicked, little imp and watch the range of expressions you're flashed.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.
Debasish Mridha
The reader is the final arbiter.
Sam Reaves
With his revelation,...I shattered into a million shards. I felt each piece as it splintered and separated from the whole like a glass I had broken the day before. Debris flew everywhere. It left me without any option but to pick each broken piece up, analyze it, and find out where it belonged. I had to find out where I belonged. Allison La Crosse - Warriors of the Cross
T.R. Graves
the mind is a treasuretrove, an almanac, a tomb.
Beth Morey
Your true world is your state of consciousness and awareness where your minds dwells and dances.
Debasish Mridha
A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.
Debasish Mridha
I hate writing, I love having written.
Dorothy Parker
Judah knew Noa hadn't said it was good-bye. She'd done it as he would have done it, if he'd had the chance: with just an ordinary moment. Unremarkable moments were the ones you missed the most- the ones you didn't realize were precious at the time, and so later could not remember. The moments you lost, when you lost a sister.
Lauren Bird Horowitz
You can't pray a lie--I found that out.
Mark Twain
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
Niall Ferguson
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx
The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.
Clara E. Laughlin
If you have the chance to achieve, do it. Life is about taking a chance on something incredible.
Anastasia Bolinder
The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
Orrin Woodward
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
David Markson
People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.
Lisa M. Schab
I watched her—the way her shoulders moved with the tilt of her head, how her smile lit up the six people around her, how her hair, tucked behind her ears, framed her face like baby’s breath. I thought about how the sound of her heart beating sounded the rhythm for our dance atop the magnolia floor. I wanted to tell her all this, but didn’t know how. Just because something is broken doesn’t mean it’s no good. Doesn’t mean you throw it away. It just means it’s broken, and broken is okay. I wanted to tell her that broken is still beautiful, still works, still wakes me in the morning, and at the end of every day past and those to come, I can love broken.
Charles Martin
But the healing place is with in you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted to others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is within you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.
Charlene Costanzo
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Dean Koontz
There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.
Rachel Kushner
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.
Joshua Harris
We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson
Gretchen de la O
It seemed as though, being the only two people in this small, closed-in space, we couldn't help but have a relationship, and if we couldn't help but have a relationship, I felt that it was important to be upset now so that he would not shift the blame to me in the future.
Alexandra Kleeman
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
Jennifer Donnelly
All around us, birds woke up the sky.
Lauren Wolk
She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.
David Levithan
You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant.
Suzy Kassem
(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed.
Jared Diamond
It's never too late to get down on your knees and pray.
Delano Johnson
A great story can change the world.
Stewart Stafford
2AM where do i begin,Crying off my face again,The silent sound of lonliness,Wants to follow me to bed
Christina Perri
MAKE SUCCESS HAPPENSuccess is like a camera. Only focus on what is most important. Ignore trivial details. Concentrate on your main goal image for success. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, don't give up. Take more shots at it. Always be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen.
Mark LaMoure
If I do have some success I'd like to enjoy it for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
Leontyne Price
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
Orson Welles
I believe the Universe desires for us to choose to love as much as possible while we are here.
Renae A.Sauter
Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
Beth Revis
It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.
Paul A. Lombardo
We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield
How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going
Rachel Van Dyken
He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.
Lauren Oliver
Developing your voice takes... time and practice.
Darynda Jones
When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.
Arthur Miller
A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?
Bell Hooks
And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.
Edward Abbey
So, what can I do?” I asked.“Annoy?”I gave him a hurt look.Justus pulled the tip of his hoodie over his eye and lowered his voice. “It remains to be seen; sometimes it takes years to uncover abilities.”“Maybe I can’t do anything.”His blue eyes flashed up to mine. “Learner, we are all gifted.
Dannika Dark