Quotes by American Authors - Page 1978

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.
Robin Hobb
If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.
Tiffany Madison
No one can fall in your love without your acceptance.
Debasish Mridha
If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.
David McGee
Recordings aren't time sensitive. You can hear the music you want whether it's morning, noon, or the middle of the night. You can "get into" clubs virtually, "sit" in concert halls you can't afford to visit, go to places that are too far away, or hear people sing about things you don't understand, about lives that are alien, sad, or wonderful. Recorded music can be ripped free from its context, for better and worse. It becomes its own context.
David Byrne
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there’s no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
Les Claypool
Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.
Lemony Snicket
People are inherently wary and fearful. What is a person more afraid of, the paucity of their dreams or the satanic magnitude of their nightmares? Poetic inventions containing elements of truth comprise all of our nighttime dreams and ephemeral daydreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
Henry R. Luce
We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn’t even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we’d been making fireworks of our own.
Meg Cabot
I know you kids are angry, because the world isn't fair. Well, get over it, because it's never going to be fair. The white boys have all the money and all the power and that's the way it is. And they aren't going to give it up - to you or to me. And you can't blame them for it because if you had it, you wouldn't give it to them, either. But fighting each other isn't going to fix anything. All it's going to do is let everybody go on insisting that black and Hispanic kids are ignorant and violent. That's perfect. It's easy. If you're ignorant and violent, people who don't like you can kick you out of school or put you in jail. And it's you own fault.
LouAnne Johnson
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)
Bessel A. van der Kolk
Come on, Seregil, let's show him how it's done.""I'm busy," replied Seregil, working on a tricky bit of fingering.Moving to stand over him, Micum groweled, "Put away that twopenny toy, you tit-sucking coistril, and show me the length of your blade!"Seregil laid his harp aside with a sigh. "Dear me, that sounds rather like a challenge-"Lunging swiftly past Micum, he sprang to his feet and drew his sword, then swung a flat-bladed attack at Micum's forearm.
Lynn Flewelling
When a man truly loves a woman he will always try to make her life easier.
Ron Baratono
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
Paul Terry
Get on your knees. I want you to feel me so deep that the belt is of little consequence when it comes to breathing.
Alaska Angelini
While it's true that I am guided in life by my feelings and emotions, that certainly does NOT mean that I trust them.Emotions are reactions to things based on all of a person's prior experiences and we forget sometimes just how limited those are.
Ashly Lorenzana
To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.
Matt Chandler
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
Robert G. Ingersoll
My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind
Andy Andrews
She serves me a piece of it a few minutesout of the oven. A little steam risesfrom the slits on top. Sugar and spice -cinnamon - burned into the crust.But she's wearing these dark glassesin the kitchen at ten o'clockin the morning - everything nice -as she watches me break offa piece, bring it to my mouth,and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen,in winter. I fork the pie inand tell myself to stay out of it.She says she loves him. No waycould it be worse.
Raymond Carver
Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other.
Al Ritter
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Cassia Leo
We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.
Ravi Zacharias
You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
Robert Frost
Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.
Suzanne Collins
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones sat at a bank of machines: the blind and the illiterate force-fed with ‘opportunities’ by soothing machine voices. On the far wall, in large print, a poster declared: BEGGARS CANNOT BE CHOOSERS.
Mark Cantrell
Ten minutes ago, Frank though he was going to prison. Now he knows he’s not, and part of him thinks he should just be glad he’s getting out of this at all, but he’s not. He’s not glad. He’s furious. He’s known the world is broken for a long time, he’s known that, but sometimes he’s amazed at how broken; even now, at this point in his life, nearing fifty years old, he can stumble across something that makes him realize all over again that the world is not only broken, but beyond fixing. No amount of glue can ever make it right. And yet, you have to focus on your little part of it, don’t you? You have to focus on your little corner of the world and glue what cracks you can. Otherwise there’s no hope at all.
Ryan David Jahn
Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.
Debasish Mridha
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
Tom Robbins
How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?
Rick Yancey
A man is wise not because of his intelligence, but because of his understanding and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
Once one is convinced of the idea of eternal life or death, the person may do almost anything to achieve the reward or avoid punishment. He may fly an airplane into a building or become a missionary to another county. She may become a celibate nun or vow to raise a quiver full of children and homeschool them according to her religion. At the very least, the person will attend church regularly, give money, pray and do other things to ensure good standing with the deity. The root of this action is the hope for a reward and avoidance of punishment.
Darrel Ray
Fate will unwind as it must!
Burton Raffel
[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.
Emma Goldman
Only God can tell a truly plausible lie.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James McNeill Whistler
Find a way to change your attitude for the better and your life will change for the better with little effort from you.
Dan Pearce
You can't get rich sitting on the bench.
Phil Linz
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.
Henry B. Wilson
Come on in. The water’s fine.
Jason Medina
Life is not worth living if you forget to love.
Debasish Mridha
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
Ambrose Bierce
That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.
Michael Thomas Ford
A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry—even if he is at a convenient height for it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Spiritual growth and creativity are two sides of the same coin.
Lada Ray
We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.
A.W. Tozer
You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you.
C. JoyBell C.
My desire to self-destruct is a one-night standon Groundhog Day.Fucking repetitive. Repetitively fucking.
Kris Kidd
Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
There is a reason that the words natural, wholesome, and organic resonate throughout our culture today. Aim to be natural and truly who you are one-hundred percent of the time.
Susan C.Young
Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.
Richard Brookhiser
Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!
Jerry Lee Lewis
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.
Joseph Campbell
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
My innocence is wearin' thinBut my heart is growing strong.
Fifth Harmony
An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.
Shannon L. Alder