Quotes by American Authors - Page 1962

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.
Lady Gaga
This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.
Adele Griffin
When we will learn to be nonjudgmental with ourselves and to others this world will see the peace forever.
Debasish Mridha
If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
Joss Whedon
She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit of him was gorgeous. “Do you mind if I objectify you?”“Please do,” he said over his shoulder. “Particularly my knees, as they are oft-neglected.”“Maybe if you ever got your pants off, they wouldn’t be.”“It hardly matters, sweet; once they’ve come off, the attention isn’t likely to center on my absurdly handsome knees.
Meljean Brook
Most of us will perish before knowing who we are and why we came here.
Debasish Mridha
When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
Seanan McGuire
The honest to God truth is that I'm mad at myself. I should've known better.
Miranda Kenneally
Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know what I’ll do without a job.
Pat Summitt
Yes, Daisy. Feel it,” he murmured against her mouth. “Feel what’s in my heart for you.” His hand slipped under the covers...
Nancy Glynn
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
Thomas Jefferson
Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.
J. Christopher Herold
Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.
Harry Truman
Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well.
Deborah Harkness
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.
John Godfrey Saxe
Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.
C.J. Mahaney
Don't think like a shop girl! Think like a poet!"Veronica, Mary Gatskill
Mary Gatskill
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law
a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E.E. Cummings
Luke, shut up. Yes, he could give me everything material," - she rested her hand over his heart - "but he couldn't give me this." She smiled at him, yet she was still tearful. "It wouldn't matter if you don't make another penny from music. We could be living in a cardboard box and begging, I don't care. I just want you, nothing else.""I love you so much it hurts," Luke whispered.
Kat Green
As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.
Jeff Olson
We live in a culture that celebrates talent more than integrity, but we've got it backward. Talent depreciates over time. So do intellect and appearance. You will eventually lose your strength and lose your looks. You may even lose your mind. But you don't have to lose your integrity. Integrity is the only thing that doesn't depreciate over time. Nothing takes longer to build than a godly reputation. And nothing is destroyed more quickly by one stroke of sin. That's why it must be celebrated and protected above all else.
Mark Batterson
Do you ever get a panicky feeling that nobody cares if you live or die? (A husband will often care decisively, one way or another.)
Sandra Gould
So all night long the storm roared on:The morning broke without a sun;In tiny spherule traced with linesOf Nature’s geometric signs,In starry flake, and pellicle,All day the hoary meteor fell;And, when the second morning shone,We looked upon a world unknown,On nothing we could call our own.Around the glistening wonder bentThe blue walls of the firmament,No cloud above, no earth below,—A universe of sky and snow!
John Greenleaf Whittier
Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.
Mark R. Levin
Believe God for something today. Prayer is the key to connecting with God and allowing Him to speak to your spirit. Open your heart and free your mind.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.
Nathan Hill
Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.
CrimethInc.
Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.
Nora Roberts
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.
Ann Medlock
In some ways, I am able to feel more like a part of my family while I am missing them. It's normal to feel lonely when you are away from your loved ones, but it's queer to feel lonely while surrounded by family.
Rebecca Behrens
Never judge someone by their relatives.
Charles Martin
Dare not surrender to weakness you divine creation!
Bryant McGill
Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?
Barbara Hillary
Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting.
Roman Payne
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.
Sylvia Plath
Manifestation without action is only a wish.
Nanette Mathews
Shouldn't it be atheists, believing they are not being watched, who commit virtually all the crimes and fill up all the prisons, while people who believe in an omnipresent god lead spotless lives out of either respect or fear? But this is far from the world we see.
Guy P. Harrison
The Bible teaches whether we are saved or lost, there is an everlasting existence of the soul.
Billy Graham
To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.
William S Burroughs
The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
Joni Eareckson Tada
We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?
Christine Feehan
The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.
E'yen A. Gardner
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.
Rob Sheffield
God, you’re beautiful,” he growled while his cock throbbed with need.t“Ye keep telling me that and ye’ll have me believing it,” she said with the sexiest, most breathless voice he’d ever heard.tHis fingers sank into her supple flesh. Her breasts were so full, so pliable, he craved to have his mouth on them, craved to suckle her nipples and listen to every soft moan. “You’d best believe me, because whenever you’re near, I feel like a caveman.”t“A wild beast?”tHe nearly roared. “The wildest imaginable.
Amy Jarecki
As prayer warriors, we must remember that no matter how hopeless a situation may appear to us, God gives us power in prayer to do something about it. We may be overwhelmed by it, but God isn’t. We may not see a way out, but God can. Because of Him, we can make a difference!
Stormie Omartian
There's a reason caveman started to develop sophisticated tools before the meteor wiped them all out: It's so they could fucking shave. Do you know how frustrating it must have been to be hunched over all night trying to start a fire only to finally succeed just to have your beard go up in flames? No aloe vera back then.
Ari Gold
Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29
John Paul Warren
Here's what I love about travel: strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep--more tender less jaded--than you were when you woke up.
Tanya Shaffer
You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge
J.R. Ward
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.
Mandy Hale
The family watched It's a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie and all I could think was why didn't they make a movie about uncle Billy?...Because he was a drunk and fat and lost all that money in the first place. I wanted an angel to come down and show us how uncle Billy's life had meaning
Stephen Chbosky
Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.
Anne Taylor
...success is when those who know you best respect you most.
Mark Batterson
I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
Maggie Stiefvater
How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?
Malcolm X
Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?
Alicia Kobishop
. . . for a moment, perhaps an hour, they would wait, wait for something, and when that waiting was over, it was simply dismissed, goodbyes stated, reading materials closed, a momentary pause in the day that did not hold up to whatever came next.Waiting was often a resented gift, imparted to those who accepted it grudgingly in the hopes that something better would come along when the gift was tossed aside, boxed away for the next recipient.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.
Bill Watterson