Quotes by American Authors - Page 2119

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale
To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.
Richelle E. Goodrich
He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.
Tracy Kidder
Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out.""Yes, sir," Andrews said."Well, there's nothing," McDonald said. "You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you — that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else. Then you know you could of had the world, because you're the only one that knows the secret; only then it's too late. You're too old.""No," Andrews said. A vague terror crept from the darkness that surrounded them, and tightened his voice. "That's not the way it is.""You ain't learned, then," McDonald said. "You ain't learned yet. . . .
John Williams
I want us to be more spontaneous. I want the superhero to come home and take me. Nothing to do with being his wife. Everything to do with uncontrollable testosterone.
Cristin Harber
Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.
Eli Pariser
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Frank Herbert
I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy
Gene Wolfe
Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.
Robert H. Schuller
You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.
Abby Fabiaschi
It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindlen
They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.
Maggie Stiefvater
Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.
Suzy Kassem
General Taylor never surrenders.
Thomas L. Crittenden
I believe in love but I don't sit around waiting for it.
Renee Zellweger
When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back
Rodney Dangerfield
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa
Lama Surya Das
The memories: they are the reality.
Stephen King
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
Chin-Ning Chu
Then there are also the quiet deaths. How about the day you realized you weren't going to be an astronaut or the queen of Sheba? Feel the silent distance between yourself and how you felt as a child, between yourself and those feelings of wonder and splendor and trust. Feel the mature fondness for who you once were, and your current need to protect innocence wherever you make might find it. The silence that surrounds the loss of innocence is a most serious death, and yet it is necessary for the onset of maturity.What about the day we began working not for ourselves, but rather with the hope that our kids have a better life? Or the day we realize that, on the whole, adult life is deeply repetitive? As our lives roll into the ordinary, when our ideals sputter and dissipate, as we wash the dishes after yet another meal, we are integrating death, a little part of us is dying so that another part can live.
Matthew Sanford
The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies... in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you.
Steve Maraboli
What you persistently think becomes your reality.
Debasish Mridha
When I leave this earthly home and go up to God to dwell, someone will look on the heaped up grave and whisper, "She tried to do well.
Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
Our witness is only as strong as our freedom is real. We can have the most noble convictions in the world, but if we are snarky and impatient when we don't get our way, those things will interfere with our influence. If we gossip more than we pray, those misspoken words will demolish our influence. If our addictions get in the way of living out our convictions, we'll have mostly a negative influence.
Susie Larson
Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her...
Willa Cather
To move ahead...you must grab the bull by the horns and start living your life. Stop living and doing everything for others and live it for yourself!
Timothy Pina
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T.S Eliot
If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
Eddie Vedder
Eschatology is the dustbin into which we sweep everything we don't want. To believe. We believe that the Lord will manifest Himself to men, but He'll do it tomorrow, or the day after, or the next millennium.
A.W. Tozer
The right path in life will always come with patience. It’s when we reach an understanding that everything happens in God’s time that we walk the right path.
Ron Baratono
Dragons loved treasure, that was not a myth about his kind, and Rhea was the greatest treasure of all.
Katie Reus
My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.
Anne Lamott
The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
George Santayana
The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy's power and camaraderie and purpose.
H.W. Brands
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Richard Feynman
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.
Lorrie Moore
The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions.
Jonathan Lethem
To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change.
Bell Hooks
Love is my religion, love is my destiny.
Debasish Mridha
But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.
Orson Scott Card
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.
Neal A Maxwell
I can't name just one example. Then there's only one.
Brian Spellman
I glance at my boots. They are big and clumsy, the breeches are tucked into them, and standing up one looks well-built and powerful in those great drainpipes. But when we go bathing and strip, suddenly we have slender legs again and slight shoulders. We are no longer soldiers but little more than boys; no one would believe that we could carry packs. It is a strange moment when we stand naked; then we become civilians, and almost feel ourselves to be so. When bathing Franz Kemmerich looked as slight and frail as a child. There he lies now -- buy why? The whole world ought to pass by this bed and say: "That is Franz Kemmerich, nineteen and a half years old, he doesn't want to die. Let him not die!
Erich Maria Remarque
You’re injured.” He flicks his chin at my bleeding leg.“We need to get that cleaned up.”“It’ll be fine,” I wave it off. “My mom will descend upon me with a bottle ofperoxide the second I hit the door.
M.A. George
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.
Charles Bukowski
Where you see and feel wrongdoing, Divine Mind sees opportunity to restore Wholeness.
Deborah Atianne Wilson
Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.
Craig Groeschel
THE THREE BEES by Suzy KassemA young boy once askedA wealthy beekeeper:“What is the secret ofYour success?”The beekeeper simply smiledAnd replied:“To be successful,One has to be one of three bees:The queen bee,The hardest working bee,Or the bee that does not fit in.One success is inherited,And the next one is earned.While the last one isSelf-sought,Self-served,And happens on its ownTerms.”“And which bee are you?”Asked the boy.The beekeeper then wipedThe sweat from his headAnd said:“The last may seem the riskiest,But the glory of achievementIs the most rewarding.Freedom always comes at a high cost,But only when you areYour own boss,Can you trulyAfford it.” (Suzy Kassem Poetry)
Suzy Kassem
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.
Chelsea Handler
Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.
Ryan Lilly
Dammit, why isn’t there a book with the answers in it?
Cherise Sinclair
Two people can be perfect for each other but if the timing's wrong it's never going to work out. Bad timing is the reason that most normal people end up single. Weirdos and creeps are single cause they are weird and creepy but people like us are single because of bad timing.
Adam Levy from Love and Sex movie
I respect the hell out of her for how hard she’s working to be okay. I just wish she’d let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.
Jasinda Wilder
Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff.
Carl Sagan
My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive
D.R. Silva
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Ponder
It comes from looking at the heart of things, from stopping to smell not only the roses but the bushes as well. It is a quality of attention to ordinary life that is so loving and intimate it is almost worship.
Martha N. Beck
If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you.
Susan C.Young
The biggest surprise-- and it came as a great revalation-- was understanding that whatever happens, no matter how catastrophic or wonderful, it's just another patch. There are times when something special happens: a marriage, graduation, or the birth of a child. There's no denying it's a glorious patch. It might even be a red patch-- the one that pulls the whole quilt together. But I couldn't stop repeating, "It's just another patch.
Sue Bender