Quotes by American Authors - Page 2169

Her gaze met his, her blue eyes filled with confusion and terror – and love. If Julian hadn’t already been in love with her, that would have done it.
Pamela Clare
Life is a one-way journey to be enjoyed, so enjoy the beauty of the present moment with all your heart.
Debasish Mridha
You don't have to have sex to find a feeling of closeness and understanding. Lord knows I feel that way about you. Use that to shackle your hunger. Isn't that what love is?
Kim Harrison
Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.
Ken Norton
Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter
Carla Olson Gade
Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(“A Dream of Fear”)
George Sterling
Any idea what the pattern is?” Dex asked“I’m not sure.” Something felt familiar, a shadow of an idea, not formed enough to make sense. She poured through her memories, scrounging for the clue she was missing. The pieces clicked. “Elementine.”“What’s the pattern?”“I don’t know, but I know Elementine is right.
Shannon Messenger
Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.
Todd Stocker
Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.
Don Roff
The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
Brennan Manning
Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness.
Toni Sorenson
She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.
Jacqueline Winspear
Start with a two-line summary of your background, and then say what you’re looking for, being as specific as possible. It could go something like this: “I just graduated with a degree in economics, and I worked at a hospital for my past two summers. I’d love a job at a health-related website. I know you once worked for WebMD, and I’d really welcome a personal introduction.
Kate White
When a person understands the problem that vexes them, and comprehends the choices that created them, they begin a journey of the mind seeking personal liberation from suffering.
Kilroy J. Oldster
For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.
Susan Cooper
It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.
Shonda Rhimes
We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.
Rick Riordan
Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.
Sarah Dessen
Stories require faith, not facts.
T.A. Barron
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
Edith Wharton
Organization takes the fun out of everything.
Kelly Moran
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
André Aciman
Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
Men are like beer. Some are bold and some are smooth. But every damn one of 'em has a big-ass head full of air.
Lois Greiman
Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
The human body, like the human mind, is best at versatility and adaptability. This is our greatest skill and our greatest chance to unlock natural potential. What that means in terms of physical movement is that a fairly equal amount of time and effort should be allocated to the widest possible range of activity. That includes strength, flexibility, precision and endurance, but it certainly doesn’t stop there.
Darrell Calkins
Life is all about Peace and LOVE
Timothy Pina
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
J. K. Galbraith
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.
C. JoyBell C.
It was everything I hoped it would be. I want you to know I would have waited another sixteen years to be able to feel that with you again.
Jessica Ingro
Morality is often very immoral.
Debasish Mridha
I think about you every second of every day and I don’t know how to get over you,” she says.“Don’t,” I beg her. “Please don’t get over me.
Colleen Hoover
We might have coupledIn the bed-ridden monopoly of a momentOr broken flesh with one anotherAt the profane communion tableWhere wine is spill'd on promiscuous lipsWe might have given birth to a butterflyWith the daily-newsPrinted in blood on its wings
Mina Loy
In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other times when I wanted to wear a sign on my body that read "Be nice to me, I'm grieving," or "Don't tick me off; I've already got the world on my shoulders," or maybe even "BEWARE - don't upset the widow!" I needed a variety of signs that I could switch out depending on my daily mood.
Elizabeth Berrien
You are a unique and beautiful expression of the mysterious gift of life and creation.
Bryant McGill
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T.S Eliot
Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.
James Rozoff
‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
Charles Finch
Derailed. In exile. Deeply ashamed, despised. Yet she had so little pride, she was grateful most days simply to be alive.There is Minimalist art; there are minimalist lives.
Joyce Carol Oates
I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
John Green
We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.
David Levithan
The Bible stands as the supreme Constitution for all mankind, its laws applying equally to all who live under its domain, without exception or special interpretation.
Billy Graham
For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.
Joe Navarro
I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.
N.D. Wilson
Locals. They’ll eventually get out. They’re annoyed. Like when Americans go to the lake. And it’s closed. ‘Cause some kid pooped in the water.
Elle Lothlorien
He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.
Hanya Yanagihara
...in response to whatever Alice was struggling with, whatever had caused her to withdraw from him, he had chosen the arms of another woman instead of relying on his own fortitude, as if he'd somehow deserved more comfort than Alice herself had been able to give, or not. Which was part of marriage, after all, part of the vows: enduring those times. And this sense of entitlement seemed to him an even greater sin than infidelity.
Adam Ross
Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval . . .There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God’s voice to the inner man.
Billy Graham
Who you are is shaping your so-called reality. When you change — the world changes with you.
Bryant McGill
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
Paul Auster
Do not try to be the best, but never forget to try your best.
Debasish Mridha
This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.
Laura Nowlin
Speaking of my things, you weren't actually using that darling little study were you?" sheasked sweetly.Her mate's eyes narrowed. "Why?""Because I am commandeering it for my closet.""Closet? My study is over three hundred square feet." His shocked expression was adorable."Good point. Do you use the library as well?"He stared unblinking. "Yes, actually I do.""Oh well. I'll need to call in a contractor to remodel the study into functional wardrobe.
Alanea Alder
An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.
Arthur Mellen Wellington
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Albert Einstein
The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.
Shannon Ables
Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.
Suzy Kassem
Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs -- don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.
Charity Shumway