Quotes by American Authors - Page 2129

I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement, questions, criticism. Daniel’s response was particularly inspiring to me and deserves to be shared. The resistance of Israeli Jewish people to the occupation and the enormous risk taken by those refusing to serve in the Israeli military offers an example, especially for those of us living in the United States, of how to behave when you discover that atrocities are being commited in your name. Thank you.
Rachel Corrie
Krissa, tough Lady Krissa, who had stood by impassively while Areau vomited out ten years of bitter addiction, wiped her eyes and offered Areau Mrs. Wrinkle’s pie in comfort, and it suddenly occurred to Areau in the strangest, most dreamlike of ways, that his pain was not the only pain on the planet.
Amy Lane
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein
The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.
Greg Iles
It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.
Christine Feehan
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
Stephen King
A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.
Dr. Joseph Collins
Awareness is the fuel that powers change
Theresa French
Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.
Ann Benjamin
You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
Sara Humphreys
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
Alan W. Watts
Be selfless to be helpful.
Debasish Mridha
Hope was other people, no matter what the philosophers said. And this was a time that needed hope.
Tiffany Reisz
She began sobbing again. “I’m not ready to die.
T.C. Avey
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
The transformation of the world takes place in your heart.
Bryant McGill
Another method of handling a perceived negative energy is to temporarily remove yourself emotionally and physically, from the situation.
Kim Ha Campbell
But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.
Matt de la Pena
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
Henry David Thoreau
Connection is life; disconnection, death.
Deborah Day
Life is a magnificent sacred journey of the soul.
Debasish Mridha
The power of a man is like a bull’s charge, while the power of a woman moves aslant, like a serpent seeking its prey. Know the particular properties of your power. Unless you use it correctly, it won’t get you what you want.” His words perplexed me. Wasn’t power singular and simple? In the world that I knew, men just happened to have more of it. (I hoped to change this.)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.
Elizabeth Brundage
Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips.
Gretchen de la O
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
Jodi Picoult
I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.
John Steinbeck
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
Tom Schulman
Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.
Building 429
We need to encourage each other to do what we want and not let it totally define us. You know? The things that people think define them aren’t valid either. You could see a girl who’s completely covered head-to-toe and who looks like the sweetest little thing in the world, and she could be the most horrendous human being on the planet inside.
Ariana Grande
If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes.
Monty Roberts
Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being.
Debasish Mridha
The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few.
Ludwig von Mises
And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes. And so it goes goes goes goes goes tick tock tick tock tick tock and one day we no longer let time serve us, we serve time and we are slaves of the schedule, worshipers of the sun's passing, bound into a life predicated on restrictions because the system will not function if we don't keep the schedule tight.
Harlan Ellison
A good attitude, a positive perspective, a smiling face, a strong laugh are all highly contagious. Why not start spreading them?
Charles F. Glassman
I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.
Melissa de la Cruz
Doing, in a life of balance, should be driven from who you have decided to be.
Patrick Rhone
Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
Rick Riordan
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
The amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very good story. For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous - and it is also essential.
Daniel Kahneman
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.
Matthew Quick
Never confuse Motion with Action.
Benjamin Franklin
Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I have to acknowledge that (a) I have an obvious selfish interest in this belief, since I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it, and (b) I haven't succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient.
David Foster Wallace
Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.
Christopher Babson
Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.
Laura Busche
I had asked him many times why he stayed, and he always said the same thing: “Because I love you, and I wanted to, and I knew you were in there.” No matter how damaged I had been, he had loved me enough to still see me somewhere inside.
Susannah Cahalan
Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.
Eric Hoffer
Life is like a bud, it always dreams to bloom like a flower.
Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
Oprah Winfrey
If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume. I went there nearly every day for the Cézannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago. I was learning something from the painting of Cézanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides it was a secret. But if the light was gone in the Luxembourg I would walk up through the gardens and stop in at the studio apartment where Gertrude Stein lived at 27 rue de Fleurus.
Ernest Hemingway
Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos.
Debasish Mridha
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.
Helen Keller
When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.
Sally Kempton
I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
Crystal Woods
Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like water.
Peter Heller
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
John Grogan
You’re too focused. Too high-strung. Too…” Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi’s blue eyes. “Too caught up with being in love.
Shanora Williams
Know this. If you're here to hurt my ship, or my crew, I will make sure you truly do know sufferi
Kiersten Fay
When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
Craig Groeschel
He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.
Virginia Euwer Wolff