Quotes by American Authors - Page 2089

It's this place. Whatever darkness came to the island, it's here to stay. Stick around long enough and it gets inside your skin, into your cells, like an infection.
Hunter Shea
Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.
C. Robert Cargill
America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.
Claudia Pemberton
Only the ones who run are worth catching.
Josephine Angelini
Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.
Phyllis McGinley
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.
Robert Penn Warren
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
Richard M. Rorty
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Richard Paul Evans
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.
David Jeremiah
Underneath my imagination there didn't seem to be anything solid except for the space where I shoved my pain and sadness. Besides that, there were only twisted steel threads of axiety, woven through my body and brain, wired into me like a constant warning. Watch out, stay still, move away, stay silent, fight back, run and hide. Even when I was dreaming, but more so when I was awake, there was the constant fear of being caught off-guard, or by the wrong person at the wrong time.
Jane Devin
Love with your whole heart, and never be sorry you did.--tdf
Tonya D. Floyd
Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.
Cindy Woodsmall
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
Mark Slouka
Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.
Ellen DeGeneres
Reality is a perceptual illusion we have accepted as truth.
Debasish Mridha
Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.
Robin McKinley
The Bible is the most important part of your faith.
Elizabeth George
Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.
Tim Kreider
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Well, I guess I picked wrong then. Jesse doesn't like girls.
Holly Hood
Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
Suzy Kassem
Never send a Man in to do a Donkey's job
Josh Stern
He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.
Stephenie Meyer
Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God.
Anne Lamott
Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." BlancheSomethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive." Kate
Neil Simon
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can’t change the past, but the future isn’t set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.
Daniel H. Pink
Love is simple. You fall and that's it. You'll work the other stuff out. You just gotta let yourself fall and have faith that someone will be there to catch you."I didn't want to do any falling. Falling usually led to meeting a hard surface in an unpleasant way.
Chelsea M. Cameron
...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.
Terrence Real
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost
You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
Does he know you’re with me? Does he know about me? Does he know we fuck each other in our dreams every night? ~ Ripp Collins
Yvonne Nicolas
My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!”) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there’d be real hell to pay.
Ed Lynskey
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Participate in your own dreams, don’t just say what you want or complain about what you don’t have.
Steve Maraboli
The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.
Angela Y. Davis
You're going to see a lot of it. People getting ahead unfairly because of the category into which they were born: male or white or straight or rich. I'm in a few of those categories myself, which is why I make it a point to reach out and help those who aren't, those who might not necessarily be seen if I didn't make the effort. We need to shake this field up, you know? We need more people with different points of view and experiences and thought processes so we can keep innovating and moving ahead.
Sandhya Menon
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..
Stephen King
Constraint inspires creativity
Biz Stone
As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice.
Billy Graham
You were born with love and hope. Why do you feel that you have no power to win in life?
Debasish Mridha
We note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we've lost.
Paul Simon
The most creative approach is often the simple approach.
Phil Cooke
Welcome to the Information Jungle.
Tad Williams
Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.
Shannon L. Alder
This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste.
Nicole Jordan
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
Thomas Jefferson
If it doesn't challenge you, it will not change you.
Tamika L. Sims
She killed her sons first. Hammering a long fence nail through each of their hearts. Then, taking an ax, she methodically beheaded each one of her brothers-in-law. Going out to the pens, she drove the livestock into the barn, bolting it shut, and while the goat kids and spring lambs panicked and brayed, she put all the buildings to flame.
Toby Barlow
I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.
Cornell Woolrich
There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered.
Mandy Hale
You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing.
Debasish Mridha
Don’t Die™ Waiting to Be Brave is about the synchronistic nature of life, love, trust, gratitude, forgiveness and the crooked road of success.
andrea T Goeglein
They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead.
Thomm Quackenbush
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Warren W. Wiersbe
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.
Madeleine L'Engle
...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
Steve Martin