Quotes by American Authors - Page 2114

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Alison Bechdel
In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.
Rick Riordan
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Robert Bloch
Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.
Trent Zelazny
Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strength, courage, integrity, and character as a man. Be impressed by his ability to be honest, faithful, loving, and respectful to you. Be impressed because he can communicate and openly express his feelings. Be impressed because he’s got confidence, direction, and purpose in his life. Be impressed because he’s a quality man, NOT a fine man. Real Talk!
Stephanie Lahart
People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold.
V.E. Schwab
Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.
Veronica Roth
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
Siri Hustvedt
I like to love you as the moon loves the night. I only like to exist and feel my presence when you are with me.
Debasish Mridha
Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.
Stacey Lee
[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.
Maya Corrigan
I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.
Amy Engel
The other thing about moments that are given to us? They’re limited. We don’t get an endless amount. If you miss them, they’re gone. Time machines don’t exist; you can’t go back and fix what’s been broken.
Rachel Van Dyken
Did you wish upon a star and take the time to try to make your wish come true?Did you try to paint the sunrise and find the gift of life within?Did you write a song just for the joy of it?Or write a poem just to feel the pain?Did you find a reason to ignore the petty injustices, the spoken barbs, or the envies, jealousies and greed that crossed your path?Did you wake up this morning and whisper inside, “Today, I’ll find every reason to smile, and ignore the excuses to frown.”Today will be the day I’ll whisper nothing snide, I’ll say nothing cruel. I’ll be kind to my enemy, I’ll embrace my friends, and for thisone day, I’ll forget the slights of the past.Today will be the day I’ll live for the joy of it, laugh for the fun of it, and today, I’ll love whether it’s returned, forsaken, or simplyignored.And if you did, then your heart has joined the others who have as well, uniting, strengthening, and in a single heartbeat you’ve createda world of hope.
Lora Leigh
Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along.
Bryant McGill
It is very easy to fall in the ocean of love and feel great,but it's difficult to get out of the river of love and forget.
Debasish Mridha
If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?
Cassandra Clare
Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
Bill Watterson
You are a beautiful, timeless, strong, eternal, blessed soul.
Catherine Carrigan
if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do something else.
Charles Bukowski
I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.
Kimberly Novosel
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
Madeleine L'Engle
My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, “God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how ‘tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same today.
John Alexander Dowie
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
Sherman Alexie
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Orison Swett Marden
It is hard to say YES when you cannot say NO. Say NO a lot more. Mean it. Watch how saying YES then becomes easier.
Gary K. Smith
It is always better to fail than not to participate.
Debasish Mridha
So we have twenty-four hours to keep out of trouble,’ he says to me.I slide a glance in his direction. Judging from the way he’s now grimacing at the sidewalk and the fact that I met him in a police station where he was being booked for stealing a car, I’m guessing that staying out of trouble is not his forte.
Sarah Alderson
Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.
James D. Beers
Amoebas at the start were not complex -They tore themselves apart and started sex.
Arthur Guiterman
If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.
Dan Groat
I'm not one of these people who are disheartened that the universe is expanding. But as news and data breed and the crowded channels grow ever noisier, I do feel that the space is ever increasing between me and it, whatever it might be.
Rivka Galchen
Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.
Paul Bowles
What God wants for us is always what's best for us - we just need to trust Him.
Lindsey Rietzsch
'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.' 'You consider that unjust, Serenity?' 'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.'
Katherine Addison
No matter what, I would never let the people who wanted me to break see how much damage they had inflicted.
Rachel L. Schade
I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.
Philip A. Fisher
If you put fences around people, you get sheep.
William L. McKnight
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
Sharon Salzberg
Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid.
Jon Steele
She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-ass underneath. She could ogle, but she would not fall until she knew he deserved her.
Kimberly Kinrade
All great art is a form of complaint
John Cage
Cherish forever what makes you unique 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
Bette Midler
Marriage brings together not just a man and his wife but their children and their struggles. To suddenly drop the partner who has carried that load with you along life's journey for all these years for someone with no strings or worries attached is cruel. Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one.
Ravi Zacharias
One of the classier features of this home was the padded toilet seat. It was high-mileage puffy brown vinyl-colored foam and made that weird sigh when you sat down on it. I'm not a germaphobe or anything like that, but it is weird to think about all the ass time this seat had seen before we moved in. This is a horrible invention. What's the plan? You want to create a toilet seat so comfortable that you can fall asleep while you're taking a shit? You're going to show up late for work or end up like Elvis.
Adam Carolla
We’re concerned that people are trading security for convenience…People are doing things on free Wi-Fi that are really alarming
Doug Shadel
Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum.
Michelle Madow
Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unless one was another African American, when Troy Lee came in and said, "She only speaks Cantonese.""She does not. She keeps coming in and saying 'What's up my nigga?'""Oh yeah. She does that to me, too. Did you give her a pound?""No. I didn't give her a pound, motherfucker. She called me a nigga.""Well, she's not going to quit unless you give her a pound. It's just the way she rolls.""That's some bullshit, Troy.""It's her couch.
Christopher Moore
You are incorrigible.” “I know.” She sighed happily. “All the shit we’ve been through—all the shit I’ve been through—and I can still make lascivious jokes with the best of them. That’s impressive, Merit. That’s character.
Chloe Neill
I’d been just like her, a youngster with something to say, a rebel through street art, leaving my mark on public buildings, to taunt the government and humor the public
Kenya Wright
Oh, how an animal that is hurt looks up at you, John! An animal’s actions can inform you if it is in pain. It don’t hop and jump around as usual. No. You find a sad, crouching, cringing, small bunch of fur or hair, whining, and plainly asking you to aid it. It isn't hard to find out what is wrong, John; any man or woman who would pass by such a sight, just isn't worth knowing. I just can’t withstand it! Why, I think that not only animals, but plants can know pain. I carry a drink to many a poor, thirsty growing thing; or, if it is torn up I put it kindly back, and fix its soil up as comfortably as I can. Anything that is living, John, is worthy of Man’s aid.
Ernest Vincent Wright
She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, don’t chew.”“Well, I thought I’d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I’ll swallow them.
Ilona Andrews
John Andrew Holmes, “No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.
Tim Sanders
Failure is always an option
Adam Savage
Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)
Victoria Moran