Quotes by American Authors - Page 2140

Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules."You can't really believe that!"I do believe it. That man's misfortune is that he cannot accept his caste, his fate."I know that the Indians wear their caste as a mark upon their foreheads for all to see. I know that in England, we have our own unacknowledged caste system. A laborer will never hold a seat in Parliament. Neither will a woman. I don't think I've ever questioned such things until this moment. But what about will and desire? What if someone wants to change things."Kartik keeps his eyes on the room "You cannot change your caste. You cannot go against fate." That means there is no hope of a better life. It is a trap."That is how you see it," he says softly.What do you mean?"It can be a relief to follow the path that has been laid oud for you, to know your course and play your part in it."But how can you be sure that you are following the right course? What if there is no such thing as destiny, only choice?" Then I do not choose to live without destiny," he says with a slight smile.
Libba Bray
Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?
Cole Gibsen
AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language
Jack Spicer
She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,
Ransom Riggs
Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.
Mark Batterson
When you have no real power, go public -- really public. The public is where the real power is.
Elizabeth Warren
I can't lie. This—me and you—scares the shit out of me."I'd be worried if she weren't frightened. "Me too, but wouldn't you rather be scared together thanbe miserable apart? Because I know that's what I'd be without you.
Georgia Cates
You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.
Jack Kilborn
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
Edward Frenkel
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
Suzanne Collins
Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize.
Debasish Mridha
Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.
Mandy Hale
Rigorously comb through the pages of your life until you can even speak its broken dialects fluently.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written.
J.E.B. Spredemann
To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
Jerry Mander
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
Daniel H. Wilson
As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Cruelty, whether physical or emotional, isn't normal. It may signal what psychologists call the dark triad of psychopathic, narcissistic and Machiavellian personality disorders. One out of about every 25 individuals has an antisocial personality disorder. Their prognosis for recovery is zero, their potential for hurting you about 100 percent. So don't assume that a vicious person just had a difficult childhood or a terrible day; most people with awful childhoods end up being empathetic, and most people, even on their worst days, don't seek satisfaction by inflicting pain. When you witness evil, if only the tawdry evil of a conversational stiletto twist, use your ninjutsu, wait for a distraction, then disappear.
Martha N. Beck
It’s Not About How Much Money You Make, Instead It’s About What You Do With The Money That You Do Make.
Chris Mentillo
You may need to change your dreams.
Jean Kwok
The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.
Thomas Harris
Owr brave little shank!
James Dashner
Design a life! Don't maintain it.
Shannon L. Alder
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Robert McKee
A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.
Daniel James Brown
Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.
Butch Walker
Against The Stream is more than just another book about meditation. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines of the revolution. It is the culmination of almost two decades of meditative dissonance from the next generation of Buddhists in the West, It is a call to awakening for the sleeping masses.
Noah Levine
But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.
Kelly Cutrone
When your novel first peeks its head into the world, it will look pretty much like every newborn: blotchy, hairless, and utterly confused.
Chris Baty
And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority without compulsion; its absence turns every contest into a test of strength.
Henry Kissinger
This isn't a place for lies or pretending everything's all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn't be here. Now. Where did you go?
Seanan McGuire
Sleeping is terrifying.When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself—voluntarily—and you're trustingly assuming you'll find yourself back out of the labyrinth again.Usually you do.But sometimes you don't.It's that uncertainty, more than anything, which kills me. That I might not wake up, and wouldn't know it.That I could be dead, dreaming I'm alive.
Nenia Campbell
I mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible. Duality ceases to exist; there is no ego, no 'I,' and yet it's not at all like those horrid comparisons one sometimes hears in Eastern religions, the self being a drop of water swallowed by the ocean of the universe. It's more as if the universe expands to fill the boundaries of the self. You have no idea how pallid the workday boundaries of ordinary existence seem, after such an ecstasy.
Donna Tartt
We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called "imperfect" female body with absolute pleasure -- say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier when it's made of flesh instead of soil?
Kim Brittingham
No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.
Sandy Brewer
What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.
Cornelius Elmore Addison
Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie
H.W. Brands
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.
Kate DiCamillo
Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it’s just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to.
Jhonen Vásquez
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. Even though you grew up and found you could never quite bring back the magic feeling of this night, the melody would stay in your heart always - a song for all the years.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
I am convinced that hundreds of religious leaders throughout the world today are servants not of God, but of the Antichrist. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing; they are tares instead of wheat.
Billy Graham
My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.
Rinker Buck
The Getsmart PrayerI do my laundry and you do yours,I am not in this life to listen to your ceaseless yammering,And you are not in this world for any discernable reason at all.You are you, and I am I, and I got the better deal.And if by chance we find each other, it will be unspeakably tedious.Fuck off.
Jon Carroll
I blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they’re interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees.
Ellen Hopkins
Trust in families and in neighborhoods and individuals to make sense of the important question, 'What is education for?' If some of them answer differently from what you might prefer, that's really not your business, and it shouldn't be your problem. Our type of schooling has deliberately concealed the fact that such a question must be framed and not taken for granted if anything beyond a mockery of democracy is to be nurtured. It is illegitimate to have an expert answer that question for you.
John Taylor Gatto
LIFE IS LIKE ELECTRICITY, ANYONE CAN SHOCK YOU
Genereux Philip
Glinda waved dismissively. Then she tucked her hand against her mouth and bit her knuckles. It was hard to tell if her pretty ways were studied or innate. "Oh, oh," she managed, "I don't know that I'll see you again- and you remind me so of her.
Gregory Maguire
I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.
Hollace M. Metzger
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
Frank Herbert
Why help make big companies bigger when you can get the same thing from the little guy and actually help someone accomplish their dream?
Trevor D. Richardson
You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence.
Bryant McGill
Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.
Maggie Stiefvater
Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.
Eugene H. Peterson
Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.
Michael Chabon
you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either hate them or love them, but that’s not how people are.
Trevor Noah
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.
Charles Finch
as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on asaturday.
Charles Bukowski
The continuum of infinite, immortal Life is occasionally interrupted by a brief stroll into a body of highly limiting thought. Jim Young, Author of 'Aware in a World Asleep' and more!
Jim Young