Quotes by American Authors - Page 2010

Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind.
Ursula K Le Guin
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.
Louis L'Amour
What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.
Steven Pressfield
It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan Shepard
What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
Tim Kreider
Parents do overindulge their children, giving them a profusion of material things . . . without the stabilizing effects of earning one’s way, of making decisions, of sweating hard to attain some kind of goal, young people are grievously handicapped.
Billy Graham
Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.
Kirby Wright
Just this once, be the stubborn bastard I know. Don't die.
Zoe Forward
Books are the most tolerant of friends.
Richard Paul Evans
The skyScorched by the sun,WeepsFecund tears.
James Clavell
How a woman thinks is often how she lives.
Lysa TerKeurst
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
Henry David Thoreau
Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility," she murmured.
Gary Inbinder
Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.
Debasish Mridha
You build a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned. Be the best. Raise yourself to excellence, by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success.
Mark F. LaMoure
I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.
Sherwood Anderson
Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott
Carol Queen
If it is the will of God for man to be sick, no one in history violated the will of God more than Jesus. Just as God desires all men to be saved, He also desires all men to be healed.
Praying Medic
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Charles Bukowski
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye
Jason Letts
It’s hard to go. It’s scary and lonely…and half the time you’ll be wondering why the hell you’re in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires.But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful… It will open up your life.
Cheryl Strayed
not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.
J.D. Jordan
Do you want your faith to grow? Then let the Bible begin to saturate your mind and soul.
Billy Graham
Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.
Martha Wells
...she doesn't have to choose between being gentle or being fierce. Both exist in nature and both exist in her. That's ok. She'll know to nourish them both and when applicable, use each unapologetically.
Steve Maraboli
Did you once have a grand plan which has become obsolete and no longer serves you? If there are areas in your life which must change to help you create better results, a redesign may be in order. Consider going back to the ‘drawing board’ to deconstruct what isn’t working and start anew.
Susan C.Young
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood.
Rudolfo Anaya
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Edward R. Murrow
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
Ray Bradbury
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The most effective way of learning is by observation and emulation.
Debasish Mridha
How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat
Dr. Seuss
Stop making excuses of why you can’t or how hard it is and start making your life matter.
John Patrick Hickey
We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.
William Kent Krueger
I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.
Hubert Selby Jr.
Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.
Marty Rubin
One thing we have learned is this: bringing compassionate, unflinching awareness to gender dynamics in groups and communities is a remarkably powerful place to begin. As in all spiritual practice, deepening awareness is itself transformative.
William Keepin
It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue.
Adam Ross
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?
Cassandra Clare
We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.
John Eldredge
He did look like an Italian of the worse type, though Vic didn't think he was, and it was an insult to the Italian race to assume that he was. He resembled no particular race, only an amalgamation of the worst elements of various Latin peoples. He looked as if he had spent all his life dodging blows that were probably aimed at him for good reason.
Patricia Highsmith
Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.
Martina Boone
One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.
Sara Levine
Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.
Paul Bowles
The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.
Suzy Kassem
I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.
Alan Cohen
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.
Bill Ayers
...emotions fly humans toward art
Rachel Hartman
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Frank Herbert
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
Steven Pressfield
What we learn in childhood is carved in stone. What we learn as adults is carved in ice.
David Kherdian
The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.
Thomm Quackenbush
some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.
Harry Truman