Quotes by American Authors - Page 2162

Men did not touch each other as Karadur touched this man unless they were lovers. But there was more between them, a connection, a feeling that was present even when they sat apart.
Elizabeth A. Lynn
You Can't Change Your Life... Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can't Change Your Heart... Until You Change Your Mind!
Latif Mercado
His eyes meet mine, and for a moment everything seems like it'll be okay. More than okay, actually.
Collette West
If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true...We may have defined ourselves in a limiting way based on our history and the opinion of others...and we stay stuck there because we fail to recognize there is a door right in front of us providing another opportunity to redefine who we are today.
Dennis Merritt Jones
She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten.
Johnny Worthen
If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!
Janet Evanovich
Giving someone a piece of your soul is better than giving a piece of your heart. Because souls are eternal.
Helen Boswell
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
Lawrence M. Krauss
One should dance while one still can.
Marty Rubin
Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
Ronald A. Heifetz
Malevolence takes a bite out off your spirit. Just sitting with it, just talking with people who consciously and deliberately exploit others, feels like being beaten. Over the years, l have seen many therapists burn out and leave the field entirely. [Refers to treating sex offenders, p6]
Anna C. Salter
Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?
Francesca Woodman
Love has no monetary value, but it enhances the value of life.
Debasish Mridha
Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.
Sharon Weil
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.
Anne Sexton
Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!
Chris Colfer
Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.
Nicholas Sparks
I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.
Ralph Ellison
Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of yourbeing, you have to become that.
Dr Wayne Dyer
Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!
Stephen King
We start to create enduring happiness when we cease to complain about anything and try to find the remedies for everything.
Debasish Mridha
To air one's views gratuitously, however, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk, which may not be the case, and which, in any event, may not be relevant to the discussion.
Strunk Jr.
People don’t choose dreams, dreams choose them. So the question I’m getting to is, do you have the courage to grab the dream that picked you?
Prince Ea
Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
Brené Brown
Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God he will have his idols.
Theodore Parker
He looked at the sky once more. Men had gone out there, he thought in wonder, and couldn't think why. Singly and in small groups they had gone into strange lands, across wide seas, had climbed mountains where no human foot had ever trod. And he couldn't think why they had done these things. What impulse had driven them from their own kind to perish alone, or among strangers.
Kate Wilhelm
A great teacher not only teaches, but they also encourage and appreciate improvement.
Debasish Mridha
He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.
Flannery O'Connor
‎There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hopes and dreams with.
Mary Lydon Simonsen
She is doing that on purpose, he thought as he tried to force his own smile away from his wide, damp jaws. She is being adorable as some sort of hideous ruse, to spite me. What a mean baby!...Do not fall in love with that baby...
Kelly Barnhill
Strive to be daring and brave rather than reluctant or afraid.
Susan C.Young
Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.
Billy Graham
Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean naivete and my faith.This morning, men deliver wounds and death.They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.
Bryant McGill
Some dreams matter, illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition that's trying to push its way to the surface. Other, though, are detritus, the residue of the day reassembling itself in some disjointed and chaotic way ... Frantic dreams, they left me tired, and I woke grouchy to another rainy day, the sky so densely gray and the rain so thick that I couldn't that I couldn't see the opposite shore [p, 166]
Kim Edwards
I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put whatever I handed him in his mouth. He would try to eat anything. I fed him Tabasco sauce and he yelled. Having a little brother helped me learn to relate to other people. Being a little brother, Snort learned to watch what he put in his mouth.
John Elder Robison
Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.
Rob Liano
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.” (161)
Thomas Cahill
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
Gary Shteyngart
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.
Rob Lowe
Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.
Suzy Kassem
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
Adlai E. Stevenson II
I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.
George Burns
Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.
Toni Sorenson
What a schmuck!
Lemony Snicket
Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.
Richard Matheson
I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.
Christopher Paolini
It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
We are one.
Thomas Sweeney
The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.
Charlene Costanzo
Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.
Gabrielle Zevin
You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.
George Watsky
Understand your power. Live dangerously. Live fearlessly. Cower before no earthly master. Know yourself. Live truthfully. Live freely. Be yourself. Love yourself.
Bryant McGill
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
You've maddened me for you...have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.
Kresley Cole
The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.
Tullian Tchividjian
It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
William Faulkner