Quotes by American Authors - Page 2159

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
Chris Bohjalian
Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.
Candace Bushnell
The return of the rain, beating out time on London's rooftops and pavements. Early morning Zombies sheltering beneath copies of the Standard whilst others ran screaming for cover in doorways because water from the heavens is holy and melts the undead.
Stephen J. Day
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd.
John Updike
Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature.
Pearl Zhu
Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.
Anne Bishop
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
Will Durant
When it comes to being famous, you’re usually the last to know, and the first to deny it. Unless you were already famous in your head. In which case, party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!
Carroll Bryant
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
His heart expanded until he was nothing but a heart. A giant pounding heart on two shaking legs walking over to her.
Suanne Laqueur
I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
Junot Díaz
I meet his eyes. They are deep and almost mesmerizing. Did I say deep before? Yeah, right. That’s not it. They have a pull to them, like currents, like Velcro or something, totally captivating, like when you see a convertible flipped over on the highway and there are body bags and you don’t want to look but you look because you can’t look, because you can’t not look, because you are just riveted and . . .Stop. Just stop.
Carrie Jones
I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be.
Alexandra Bracken
Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure.
Ellen J. Barrier
There is no 'secret' to success.There is a BEHAVIOR to success.Decide what you want and act accordingly.Dream. Plan. Execute.
Steve Maraboli
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.
Gary Hopkins
It's a house. No more and no less. There isn't a structure on earth that could last forever. But a family goes on."-Leo
Lisa Kleypas
Her face crumpled and he felt her pain as if it was his own. He wanted to take it back, but just like that memory, it was always going to be there.tShe worked to get control over her features, then said, “I’m sorry I didn’t defend you. I’m sorry I didn’t tell them you were my guest.”tJem hadn’t thought he cared anymore, not really, but her words were tugging loose the hard, painful knot in his chest. “It’s okay.”tShe shook her head. “It’s not. It wasn’t.”tHe reached out and cupped her cheek in his hand. He didn’t know what else to say and all he wanted was to touch her skin, let her know that he wasn’t that boy anymore and that she wasn’t that girl.
Mary Jane Hathaway
The Lion banner sways and falls in the horror-haunted gloom;A scarlet Dragon rustles by, borne on winds of doom.In heaps the shining horsemen lie, where the thrusting lances break,And deep in the haunted mountains, the lost, black gods awake.Dead hands grope in the shadows, the stars turn pale with fright,For this is the Dragon's Hour, the triumph of Fear and Night.
Robert E. Howard
Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.
Jack Gilbert
Wisdom of the Ages "News People" Always joking around and happy. I guess that proves that ignorance really is bliss.
Matthew Heines
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
Henry Miller
With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot. 
Eric Liu
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.
Brennan Manning
Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.
George F. Will
We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Jemma Simmons- I like to think about the first law of thermodynamics, that no energy in the universe is created...Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz- And none is destroyedJemma Simmons- That means that every bit of energy inside us, every particle, will go on to be a part of something else. Maybe live as a dragonfish, a microbe, maybe burn in a supernova ten billion years from now. And every part of us now was once a part of some other thing- a moon, a storm cloud, a mammoth.Leo Fitz- A monkey.Jemma Simmons- A monkey. Thousands and thousands of other beautiful things that were just as terrified to die as we are. We gave them new life. Good one, I hope.
Jed Whedon
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.
Kathy McClary
Do you ever read the scriptures?""Every day," I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel."She smiled, amused. "What a barbarian you are!
Bernard Cornwell
Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside
Thomas Nagel
The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.
John Verdon
I guess there's always a price to pay when you cheat fate.
Sheena Hutchinson
No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.
Joanie Connell
Some trees love an ax, a drunk old-timer mumbled one night at the Tap, back when she still went there, and something in what he said rang true, but when she later remembered what he'd said, she disagreed and though instead that the tree gets used to the ax, which has nothing to do with love. It settles into being chipped away at, bit by bit, blade by blade, until it doesn't feel anything anymore, and then, because nothing else can happen, what's left crumbles to dust.
Bill Clegg
All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love.
Justin Cronin
Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation He will descend in His wild pursuit of men.
Frederick Buechner
Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.
Eugene V. Debs
Clara smoked in the shallow pool as Lana del Rey poured from her phone. She shaded her eyes. She liked the shallow pool because she could lay out, half in the sun, half in the water, and not get her hair wet. She had black eyeliner smeared under her eyes from who-knows-when, and while she never bothered to fix it, she did apply more, so she looked permanently hung over. She liked that.
Lisa Martens
As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.
Stephen Chbosky
Curiosity is my great vice. I fear you have seen through to the heart of me, and now seek to exploit my weakness
George R.R. Martin
...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?
Paul Simon
The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths.
Elizabeth George
He could lose himself in the copper warmth of her eyes. Except, no, this wasn't losing himself. This was finding something precious.
Melissa Tagg
Thing is," Grial said in a conspiratorial voice, "let me tell you a little secret, girlie. That road- those roads, all roads and paths in fact- they never end. You might think they do. You might think they just narrow and fade and disappear in the hoary depths of the forest? Not so, not at all! They merely go into hiding, and you just have to search a bit harder to see them.
Vera Nazarian
Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.
Billy Graham
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead
Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.
Susane Colasanti
I want to know if we are the same, in the moments when we’re stripped bare.
Corey Ann Haydu
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
Stephen King
If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.
Urie Bromfenbrennner
If we don't cherish those who stay near, what do we have? Only longing.
Janice Clark
...I am uncontrollable and dangerous. But of course I do not say this to Jake, mostly because he has never been locked up and doesn't understand what it feels like to lose control, and he only wants to watch the football game now, and none of this means anything to him, because he has never been married and he has never lost someone like Nikki and he is not trying to improve his life at all, because he doesn't ever feel the war that goes on in my chest every single fucking day--the chemical explosions that light up my skull like the Fourth of July and the awful needs and impulses and...
Matthew Quick
Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.
Rachel Caine
I’m not trying to start an argument with you,” William assured him. “I suppose I don’t know what it’s like to be a true revolutionary, though I think I’ve held some…similar…ideals. At times. Thought I could change things, if I fought hard enough.”“What did you try to change?”“Myself, in hopes that it would change others’ opinions of me.”“That is a bit more selfish than what we aspire to,” Luis clarified.William shrugged. “If it makes you feel better, I pressed others to change as well. Guess I just didn’t fight hard enough for any of it.
T.L. Walker
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.
Philip Zaleski