Quotes by American Authors - Page 2050

HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.
Arthur Bloch
If you don't accept and respect your suffering, it isn't going anywhere.
Bryant McGill
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.
Thomas Paine
in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.
Todd Stocker
It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.
Lily Blake
The guy snarled out a string of profanity describing his night with Conn's mother."Sounds about right," Conn said, but Matt didn't miss the glint in Conn's eye. "She's been dead for twenty years, but dead's probably the only way you get laid.
Anne Calhoun
You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.
Claire M. Banschbach
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.
Mark Batterson
Best way to learn is by reflecting and emulating.
Debasish Mridha
I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.
Carl Hiaasen
Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.
Joe Haldeman
As the leaves randomly fell, she contemplated how they sacrificially gave up their essence to sustain new life. Or was it the tree’s sacrifice? Each leaf was a part of Gaia’s play. Their final act: to decompose so a new level of soil could be made, an earthen writing tablet for the next layer of history to be recorded. One generation became the groundwork for the next. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Nothing was exempt, not even the leaves.
Jesikah Sundin
He who chooses to be his own god will have no God to save him." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio
Dr. MaryAnn Diorio
The power of the Blood of Jesus, the Word of God & the name of Jesus are the believers weapons of defense against the Devil.
Pazaria Smith
Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.
Patricia Gaffney
Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.
Lili St. Crow
The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Rachelle Doorley
A true friend finds a way to celebrate—even in the worst moments of life—and forces it upon you.
Rionna Morgan
All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.
James Curcio
Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.
Gloria Steinem
Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.
Josh Groban
I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph.
Gloria Steinem
What people resist is not change per se, but loss.
Ronald A. Heifetz
Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural neatness which the housewife sees somehow shadowing her familiar furniture, it was largely possible to disregard, or not-quite-hear, Sally, but in the car I was entirely what I believe is called a captive audience.
Shirley Jackson
Art is literacy of the heart.
Elliot Eisner
But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man’s journey towards his future.
Madeline Claire Franklin
When I sleep tonight I dream of what I will imagine tomorrow.
T.A. Uner
It’s almost as if we don’t need to live our lives or feel our feelings at all, because someone already told us what the ending was going to be.
Josephine Angelini
Whenever new knowledge causes you to question your previous assumptions, the stage is set for creative transformation.
Cathy Wild
MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!
Tanya Masse
The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
Thomas Jefferson
Just for today, smile a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just for today, remember, while some may have it better than you do, there are others whom definitely have it worse than you! Just for today, just let go, just for today….
James A. Murphy
In a heartbeat, he scarcely could take a breath.tWearing not a stitch of clothing, Eva stood in thigh-deep water with her back to him.tBefore he blinked, his gaze slid from coppery tresses brushing feminine shoulders to a tiny waist which fanned into glorious heart-shaped buttocks. Heaven's stars, her flawless skin had to be as pure white as fresh cream.tGod on the cross, save me.tChrist, he was only a flesh and blood man. Who on earth could resist such a temptation? He clenched his teeth and growled. Frigid water or nay, he lengthened like a stallion catching scent of a filly in heat. God's teeth, even his ballocks turned to balls of tight molten steel.
Amy Jarecki
The wounded recognized the wounded.
Nora Roberts
It’s you,” she murmured, staring at his eyes, a fine, dove gray.He smiled. “Of course, it’s me. Let’s get you back to your boat.
Cheryl Sterling
The next time you feel a sense of dissatisfaction, of something being missing or not quite right, turn inward as an experiment. See if you can capture the energy of that very moment. Instead of picking up a magazine or going to the movies, calling a friend or looking for something to eat or acting up in one way or another, make a place for yourself. Sit down and enter into your breathing, if only for a few minutes. Don't look for anything - neither flowers not light nor a beautiful view. Don't extol the virtues of anything or condemn the inadequacy of anything. Don't even think to yourself, "I am going inward now." Just sit. Reside at the center of the world. Let things be as they are.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.
Kristine K. Stevens
Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal
American Pregnancy Association
Courage emerges as you climb over the circumstances that threaten to bury you! But you must be willing to climb to find courage.
Jeff Dixon-Terror in the Kingdom
I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on
Jack Weyland
Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it.
BOB
It is a great mistake to give a man who has not been convicted of sin, certain passages that were never meant for him. The Law is what he needs. Do not offer the consolation of the gospel until he sees and knows he is guilty before God. We must give enough of the Law to take away all self-righteousness. I pity the man who preaches only one side of the truth, always the gospel and never the Law.
D L Moody
It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
Forget it, Jake -- it's Chinatown.
Robert Towne
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
Chuck Palahniuk
The thing about the old is that we never change so much as the young. We slip in degrees, adding rings like trees--a new wrinkle here, a shade less color there, but the young transform like caterpillars into butterflies. They become whole new people as if overnight.
Michael J. Sullivan
Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course [.....], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David had often left her feeling frustrated, and furious, and disgusted, yes - but he had also made her feel beautiful, and protected, and loved. And oh, what she would give to feel loved right now.
Laura Brodie
I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.
Ellen Schreiber
There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language.
Ava Dellaira
Open your wings, fly toward the sky To live in your dream, even if it is high
Debasish Mridha
Bug? You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now.
Kim Harrison
No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.
Airicka Phoenix
A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.
Patricia A. McKillip
Adaptability enforces creativity, and creativity is adaptability.
Pearl Zhu
Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it's unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your view of the world will ever make sense.
Diane Chamberlain
When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.
Debasish Mridha
A study led by the Harvard researcher Nicholas Christakis asked the doctors of almost five hundred terminally ill patients to estimate how long they thought their patient would survive, and then followed the patients. Sixty-three per cent of doctors overestimated survival time. Just seventeen per cent underestimated it. The average estimate was five hundred and thirty per cent too high. And, the better the doctors knew their patients, the more likely they were to err.
Atul Gawande
...but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.
Jennifer Lopez
Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy
Tupac Shakur