Quotes by American Authors - Page 2121

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.
CrimethInc.
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”“The way you tell it, it is.
Harper Lee
She ran her hand over his head then gripped his hair. "More licking. Less talking.
Carrie Ann Ryan
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
IRVIN D.YALOM
While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the ultimate balancing act, nothing more, nothing less. And if you're deteremined to fix every situation you deem as bad, or difficult, or somehow unsavory, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it, or even grow from it. Some things, no matter how painful, happen for a reason. A reason you or I may not be able to grasp at first sight, not without knowing a person's entire life story—their cumulative past. And to just barge in and interfere, no matter how well-intentioned, would be akin to robbing them of their journey. Something that's better not done.
Alyson Noel
I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.
D.R. Silva
Righteous indignation calls sin what it is. Bigotry is sin. Racism is sin. Oppression is sin. Control by fear is sin. Violence is sin. The quicker we can all admit that, the quicker the healing will begin.
Andrena Sawyer
Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.
Suzy Kassem
placid, adj.Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
David Levithan
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.
Megan McCafferty
If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
Veronica Roth
Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
Walt Whitman
I was planning on giving them the sun and stars as well. It's kind of a package deal; therefore, the moon is for lovers. The stars are for partners. The sun ... for best friends.
Rachel Van Dyken
I lost myself there — my mind imagining what was under his towel and what I would like to do to him. - Emma
Martha Sweeney
For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His arms went around her, lifting her almost out of her sandals, and then he was kissing her—or she was kissing him, she wasn’t sure, and it didn’t matter. The feel of his mouth on hers was electric; her hands gripped his arms, pulling him hard against her. The feel of his heart pounding through his shirt made her dizzy with joy. No one else’s heart beat like Jace’s did, or ever could.
Cassandra Clare
There is only one passion that can help us control the many other passions that plague us; that is the passion to know and obey God. When we get out of touch with Christ, we begin touching the things of the world, trying to fill the void that human flesh craves.
Billy Graham
Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway...
Taylor Swift
I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.
Corey Ann Haydu
Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger’s heart?
Edmund White
Taking care of yourself doesn't mean me first, it means me too.
L.R. Knost
So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.
Herbert M. Shelton
Missiologists have in recent years begun to think seriously about inculturation, and historians have begun to learn from them. When the Christian message is inserted into a cultural framework, if the messengers are insensitive to the local culture the result can be cultural imperialism. On the other hand, if they grant too much hegemony to the local culture, the result at best is 'syncretism' and at worst 'Christo-paganism.' Things are most wholesome when sensitive interchange takes place leading to 'a truly critical symbiosis.' But for this to happen, there must be a second stage - a time of 'pastoral follow-up work,' of catechizing and life formation enabling the new faith to express its genius in the institutions and reflexes of its new host culture.
Alan Kreider
With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In doing so, we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe in the moment that is becoming. In doing so, we welcome the person we are becoming. We repeat the process. This is meditation. This is renewal. This is life.
Lama Surya Das
The greatest mischief of medicine has occurred because life was not honored. Women have been robbed of the glory of their own bodies with, in recent times, removal and mutilation of reproductive organs and breasts, and the treatment of natural passages of life -- birthing, menstruation, menopause -- as disease.
Jeanne Achterberg
The passion of Jesus is lonely only as all our deaths are lonely. He is with us in the loneliness of death, too. And so, he and we are not alone even there. The same blow that strikes him dead, strikes us all dead, and it strikes us in the same way.
Craig Keen
Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Effective love is rarely efficient.
Kevin DeYoung
I'm familiar with the myth, I'm merely surprised that a femalewould be familiar with the classics.""You must have a very limited experience with my sex," Alexandrasaid, surprised. "My grandfather said most women are every bit asintelligent as men."She saw his eyes take on the sudden gleam of suppressed laughterand assumed, mistakenly, that he was amused by her assessment offemale intelligence rather than her remark about his inexperiencewith women.
Judith McNaught
The pimple is perfect.
Buffy Andrews
Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.
Stephen R. Prothero
Become what you would want to marry ,as in, become like the person that you would want to marry.
Lisa Bedrick
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.
Jon Stewart
To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."-Rayner Unwin
Jeff Shanley
The Church's obsession with sexual restrictions is and always has been wrong wrong wrong. Wrong to be contemptuous of naïve young women like Philomena and me. Wrong to ignore the men involved in creating "illegitimate" children. Wrong to demonize gays while knowing full well how many men and women of the Church are gay. Wrong to excuse and hide criminal priests, transferring them to new, unsuspecting parishes. Wrong to think that forbidding consensual human sexuality is more important than Christ's message of compassion and forgiveness.
Ann Medlock
Life is the most magnificent dance floor of love. Dance with love to feel the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
For every setback, do not get discouraged. Rejoice because you learned more than you expected.
Debasish Mridha
Because she did not look behind, September did not see the smoky-glass casket close itself primly up again. She did not see it bend in half until it cracked, and Death hop up again, quite well, quite awake, and quite small once more. She certainly did not see Death stand on her tiptoes and blow a kiss after her, a kiss that rushed through all the frosted leaves of the autumnal forest, but could not quite catch a child running as fast as she could. As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.
Catherynne M. Valente
I am not going to pretend to write a love letter to another man.
Julianne Donaldson
The boys on the front had magazines with pinups, and they talked about how one day they would score women like that, but they’re kids. They don’t know what love is. Here they learn what hate is, and I am so sad that they might never know love because hate came first. Maybe they will miss out on having a woman like you, and I feel sorry for them.
A.S. King
I find it surreal, then perfectly normal. I'm struck by how fast the surreal becomes the norm. I marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous, how mundane famous people are. They're confused, uncertain, insecure, and often hate what they do. It's something we always hear - like that old adage that money can't buy happiness-but we never believe it until we see it ourselves. Seeing it in 1992 brings me a new measure of confidence.
Andre Agassi
Is the diameter of your index finger equal to or greater than the diameter of a super absorbency tampon?
Julie Cross
When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have, and I could order this environment in the way that I couldn't in my actual life. Then, when I learned to write, I learned that I could do this not only for myself, but for other people. I could create whole things that were believable, at least to myself, at that point. And in this way, I began to wield an authority and a power that I had not had before. In other words, every child goes through this. Some pick football and some pick the library. I picked the library.
Donald Richie
Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
Zena Wynn
He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
Raymond E. Feist
Never give up.This applies to more than goals and dreams, it is a maxim for basic daily struggles. It shapes one's life, including the will to continue to live. It supports love and committed relationships; it bolsters hope, faith, and charity; it is power in every area of existence. Never give up on anything or anyone of any worth, especially yourself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
A cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies.
Dowling Bartholomew
Like the morning sun, raise the brightness of your love to include everyone.
Debasish Mridha
He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will.
Shayla Black
There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.
Nina LaCour
Only when your inner life is right will your outer life be right as well.
Jim George
I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.
Lita Burke
An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
Criss Jami
How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?
Katie McGarry
By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
Ruth Ozeki
I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.
Tracy Guzeman
Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.
Colson Whitehead
Ego is like a street urchin, born of fear and wanting and left to its own devices....
Kathleen Dowling Singh
Something soft turn to stone within her. She had no choice. She had to fight. She had to win. She would learn. And then she'd free them.Or join them.
Amber Argyle
and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended
Stephen King
An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means.
Kathy Dunnehoff