Quotes by American Authors - Page 2014

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
Theodore Roosevelt
The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there
Stanley Victor Paskavich
He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark.
Anne Bishop
the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.
Namsoon Kang
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one.
Christopher Hitchens
Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up.
Jim Rohn
There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to talk to. You can walk. One foot the other foot. Breathe in breathe out. Drink from the stream. Piss. Eat the venison strips. And. You can’t metabolize the loss. It is in the cells of your face, your chest, behind the eyes, in the twists of the gut. Muscles, sinew, bone. It is all of you. When you walk you propel it forward. When you let the sled and sit on a fallen log and. You imagine him curling in the one patch of sun maybe lying over your feet. Then it sits with you, the Pain puts its arm over your shoulders. It is your closest friend. Steadfast. And at night you can’t bear to hear your own breath unaccompanied by another and underneath the big stillness like a score is the roaring of the cataract of everything being and being torn away. Then. The Pain is lying beside your side, close. Does not bother you with sound even of breathing.
Peter Heller
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran
When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow.
Ken Poirot
Anger and resentment are problems for our understanding and vision. They happen when we are away from our real purpose and mission.
Debasish Mridha
Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
Scott Snyder
The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
Hunter S. Thompson
Dennis faced him. They glared at each other again. Neither said a word until Dennis set the glasses down, leaned back against the counter, and folded his arms over his chest. "You're an idiot." "Seems to be a common conclusion. You're not my favourite person right now either.
Sloan Parker
Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of their superior intelligence were able to compete successfully in adulthood with the smaller-brained offspring of mothers with smaller pelvises.
Carl Sagan
There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had him. If I had someone like him, it would prove that I'm stable, and then I wouldn't have to do the work to get there. I am constantly looking for ways to cede control of my worries to someone, anyone.
Emma Forrest
What they saw was a hero baby. That's what you are. A survivor. A strong woman. Beautiful... Funny as hell... Sexy... Sweet...
Lucian Bane
The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
Gene Brown
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington
Success can eliminate as many options as failure
Tom Robbins
i have had my ups and downsbut wotthehell wotthehellyesterday sceptres and crownsfried oysters and velvet gownsand today i herd with bumsbut wotthehell wotthehelli wake the world from sleepas i caper and sing and leapwhen i sing my wild free tunewotthehell wotthehellunder the blear eyed mooni am pelted with cast off shoonbut wotthehell wotthehell
Don Marquis
One is born with a unique set of talents and abilities. One must choose which of those talents to nurture, which to ignore completely.Sometimes the choice is obvious. Other times, the hints and proddings are more obscure. Then, one may need to undergo several regiments of training and sample several different professions before determining where one's strongest talents lie. This is the driving force behind many life-path alterations,There are few sets of skills that match only one specific job. More often they are are adaptable to many different professions. Sometimes, one can plan such a change. Other times, the change appears without warning. In both instances, one must be alert and carefully consider all options. Not very change is a step forward.
Timothy Zahn
To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.
Brian Christian
This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.
Gabrielle Hamilton
If you want to know the Correct term for me, I'm a Dark-Hunter."Nick digested that word slowly. "Which means what? You hunt darkness?""Yes, Nick. That's exactly what I do. There's just not enough of it." Now, there was some sarcasm you could cut with a knife.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.
Billy Graham
The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God’s love.
Stormie Omartian
What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time.
Hunter S. Thompson
Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life.
Debasish Mridha
the Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent."Chain Reaction, 23
Thomas B. Edsall
Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
Bell Hooks
Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker
Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.
I.W. Gregorio
If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.
Joshua Becker
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.
Harriet B. Braiker
Victoria's got her secrets. Hey, so do I!
Si Robertson
One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.
Richard Carlson
But I find something compelling in the game's choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against bombardment from all sides, able only to temporarily dodge disaster by moving one step in any direction.
Jennifer duBois
I wanted someone to want me in all ways and someone who I wanted the same in return, And I'd found him.
Shelly Crane
Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.
T. Scott McLeod
A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
Chuck Palahniuk
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Brené Brown
What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.
David Foster Wallace
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
Glenn Greenwald
His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.
Dean Koontz
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.
Maria Augusta von Trapp
Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?
Samuel Park
I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
Anne Lamott
You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
She surveyed the undergrowth and focused on a cluster of fern fronds curled tightly against the new life they had been given. She often wondered why the fern’s new existence was so firmly wound up. But she questioned their response no longer. Oaklee felt every muscle in her body want to curl up in self-protection, to comfort the pain, anger, and fear.
Jesikah Sundin
Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.
Alexandra Katehakis
My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.
Emily Henry
Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field.
Vinnie Tortorich
I am emotionally fluid and safe.
Amy Leigh Mercree
You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.
Rainbow Rowell
Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away.
Jill Bolte Taylor
I don’t want to be my limitations. I don’t want to be my pain. I don’t want to be my embarrassment.
Kim Holden
My senses are alive with pleasure and joy.
Amy Leigh Mercree