Quotes by American Authors - Page 2042

If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.
Jessica Brody
It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
Orson Scott Card
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
(Ezekial saw the wheel(Way up in the middle of the air --(O Ezekial saw the wheel(Way in the middle of the air!(Now the big wheel runs by faith(And the little wheel runs by the grace of God --(The above made up by professional hope experts, you might say, because willful, voluntary, intentional hope was the only kind they had in anything like long supply. Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet; it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, that old Eternal Now. So that you end up living not in the future ((in your intentional "act of faith")) but in the present. After all. hope.)
Joanna Russ
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan
Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people "no darn good any way". People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn't hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again.
Henry Cloud
A.Coward," he repeated, and I briefly considered picking up the vase in the center of the island and throwing it at him."Not making a choice is the coward's way out. You love both of them. I get that. But you don't feel the same kind of love for both of them, and the sooner you accept that the better.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world.
Amy Leigh Mercree
The heart has a deeper intelligence than the mind ever will.
Eileen Anglin
I had a dream about you last night.We moved into a cabin in the countryside.I couldn't handle the spiders.You couldn't handle my drama.I moved back to the city.
Michael Summers
An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62
Jennifer Lee Carrell
Feel free to check out the hotel and talk to the staff," he said slipping out of bed. "And I'm happy to give you an up-close look at what we're doing." When she didn't answer, he glanced over his shoulder. Then cleared his throat.Her attention jumped from his ass to his face. "Sorry, what did you say/""I said---"She sat up, letting the sheet fall to her waist. And damn if she wasn't the most gorgeous thing with her creamy skin, pert breasts, and mussed hair.He moaned like a guy totally whipped and stalked back to the bed where he climbed on top of her."Connor." She giggled and wiggled beneath him. Her arms went around his neck. "What are you doing?""Forgetting the time." He kissed her and didn't leave until they'd both had their fill.
Robin Bielman
The First wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need a backbone, not a wishbone.
Joyce Meyer
There's a whole generation growing up thinking...the government exists to care for them.
Dave Ramsey
We are always fascinated with the past, but the future is always brighter.
Debasish Mridha
But it's the science of the stars!""She thinks it's Satanic. You gave her daughter a pentagram.""It's a natal chart, duh. You can't let ignorance trump science here, Miss Mary!
Felicia Day
Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.
Robert Jensen
In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.
Dean Koontz
My tongue ran over my lower lip and I could taste the sin. It was thick and heavy in the air, and it made my head swim as I gazed into Abel's ocean-colored eyes. I wondered whether he tasted it too, whether his heart was pounding in his chest. I wondered most of all if it was artificial - a haze of adoration brought on by the pills. It had been so long since I'd wanted that; I didn't trust my own thoughts, but if felt too good to care.
Teresa Mummert
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire
When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.
Lois P. Frankel
To get lost, all you need is poetry.
Debasish Mridha
I’ve got something so lovely to think about that I’d like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.
Annie Fellows Johnston
Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.
Robert Goolrick
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Bruce Lee
Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.
DaShanne Stokes
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
Michael Cunningham
Ember was mine. The other half of me. And I would fight Talon, St George, and the entire d world to keep her safe.
Julie Kagawa
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.
Craig Groeschel
As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.
Penn Jillette
With love, accept everything that life has to offer you. Life will be easy, kind, magnificent, and magical to you.
Debasish Mridha
Being like them doesn’t help them. Being like them just encourages them to continue being the way they are.
Marc Marcel
As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he’d promised her, making the father angry?” (p.3)
Augusten Burroughs
I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!
Marko Stout
What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born. Her face, at once innocent and feral, soft and wild! Her mouth voluptuous. Eyes deep as oceans, her eyes as wide as planets. I likened her to the slender Psyché and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: the dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened soles of her tiny bare feet, the coal-stained balcony bricks upon which she sat, and that dusty wrought-ironwork that framed her perch. All this and the pungent air!—almost foul, with so many odors. Ô, that and the spicy night! …Pungency, spice, filth and night, dust and light; all things dark did blossom in sight; flower and bloom, the night has its pearl too—the moon! And once a month it will make the face of this tender girl bloom.
Roman Payne
I don't know about you, but sometimes I need to remind myself to breathe. I have to close my eyes and concentrate, even force myself to take a few deep breaths. In and out. In and out. In and out.I know that breathing just happens, without us needing to work at it. But so does stress, and distress, and discomfort. That's when a few deep, conscious breaths can make a world of difference.Can I get an inhale?
Scott Stabile
...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.
Mira Grant
Life is for living not achieving.
Debasish Mridha
When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
Flannery O'Connor
It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his emotional capacity.When one is given an anesthetic in preparation for surgery, it is not merely the capacity to experience pain that is suspended; the capacity to experience pleasure goes also - because what is blocked is the capacity to experience *feeling*. The same principle applies to the repression of emotions."Chapter 1: Discovering the Unknown Self, pg. 9, Bantam Edition, 1984
Nathaniel Branden
Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.
Thomas C. Foster
In God's plan, our quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find our meaning and purpose in him.When we live out a sense of who we are IN CHRIST we live our lives based on all we have been given by Christ. This keeps us from seeking to get those things from the people and situations around us. Much of the disappointments and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.
Timothy S. Lane
My heart is an endless well of love and gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
Successful commitment occurs when your stated intentions are stronger than your hidden intentions, or when you consciously reconcile the conflict.
Brian P. Moran
It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.
Veronica Roth
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.
Jesse Owens
The secret to a happy life is your attitude. If you think positively, positive things will happen. If you think negatively... well where is the happiness?
Gloria Tesch
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
Casper didn't give me direction for what to do if somebody I used to really like-like, somebody who would be somebody good to love, somebody right, somebody who understood about me, turned out to not have the same ideas about me.
Kathleen Glasgow
As a working professional in the entertainment industry, I have come to truly cherish both my creative freedom and my independence. Because I, for one, know how precious and priceless they are.
Cat Ellington
It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
Mary Parker Follett
cannot come to Christ unless the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin.
Billy Graham
And I wondered how it would feel to be in Heaven and not have my face matter anymore. Just like how it never, ever mattered to Daisy.
R.J. Palacio
And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.
Catherine Anderson
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Henry David Thoreau
Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful.
Marie Lu
If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster.
Stephanie Lawton
It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.
Kristin Hunter