Quotes by American Authors - Page 2178

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.
Jennifer Elisabeth
Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from his forehead. God made this money - the fresh air, too - for his children's use. He never made the difference between poor and rich.
Rebecca Harding Davis
The champion wins first, then walks into the arena. Everybody else walks into the arena and then tries to figure out what to do.
Jim Fannin
Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.
Ariel Gore
He couldn’t be the type of guy she probably deserved—someone her own age without baggage or complications. But he could be the man she needed.
Shelly Bell
Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity of malicious myths about hellfire and damnation. Fear and feeblemindedness cannot be credibly pressed into service to support fantastic claims about the cosmos and our ultimate destiny.Whether one would even consider turning to religion in advanced years has much to do with upbringing, which makes all the more important standing up to the presumptions of the religious in front of children. One would regard the Biblical events – a spontaneously igniting bush, a sea’s parting, human parthenogenesis, a resurrected prophet and so on – that supposedly heralded God’s intervention in our affairs as the stuff of fairy tales were it not for the credibility we unwittingly lend them by keeping quiet out of mistaken notions of propriety.
Jeffrey Tayler
They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.
Goldy Moldavsky
Happiness is an inner perception, not a defined destination.
Debasish Mridha
The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart, that like Hamlet, or like Arjuna, one may refuse to go on with it. On the other hand, like most of the rest of us, one may invent a false finally unjustified image of oneself as an exceptional phenomenon in the world--not guilty as others are, but justified in one's inevitable sinning, because one represents the good. Such self-righteousness leads to a misunderstanding, not only of oneself, but of the nature of both Man and the Cosmos. The goal of the myth is to dispel the need for such life-ignorance by affecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will, and this is affected through a realization of the true relationship of the passing phenomena of time to the imperishable life that lives and dies in all.
Joseph Campbell
Like the New Orleans tradition that preceded it, and the Swing Era offerings that followed it, Chicago jazz was not just the music of a time and place, but also a timeless style of performance - and for its exponents, very much a way of life - one that continues to reverberate to this day in the works of countless Dixieland and traditional jazz bands around the world. For many listeners, the Chicago style remains nothing less than the quintessential sound of jazz.
Ted Gioia
Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.
Carson McCullers
She pats my knee. I’m going to tell you something my grandmother told me when I was fifteen years old. `Eliza, you won’t ever be content with someone if you can’t learn how to be content by yourself first.
Erynn Mangum
Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.
Anaïs Nin
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.
Bill Hicks
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
William James
It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.
Richie Norton
Write at the edges of the day.
Toni Morrison
To attract all the beauty of life, spread the fragrance of happiness like a dancing flower of peace.
Debasish Mridha
To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.
James Ellroy
I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?
R.L. LaFevers
Excited my little whore? Yes, that's what you are, letting me fuck you the way I do. You know that's not good. Letting me punish you. My cock wants to be down your throat, inside your pussy and…In your ass. You tease me with it every fucking day.
K.I. Lynn
Forgive me,' Poe repeated earnestly.I nodded coldly. I was not above acting like a child; I was hardly more tha
Norman Lock
Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me.
Maureen Corrigan
Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.
Anne Firor Scott
Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.
Harry Harrison
I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage.
Cassandra Clare
lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!
Rick Riordan
He's the beating pulse of every cause dear to me.
Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece — you.
Bryant McGill
Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.
Cassandra Clare
People say hate is like a poison — but they're wrong. It's like a drug. You never forget your first hit, how it seduces you with its strength and power, and takes you completely by storm. It colors your world in light and meaning, until you wonder how you ever managed to get by without it. And then, eventually, you get to a point where you can't. It takes over your life, until hating becomes your reason for living.
Nenia Campbell
It was an unfamiliar feeling, waking up with a place to go, a place I was actually beginning to comprehend and face without a sense of terror.More than that, I was even questioning the assumption that I was, in my bones, a scared and anxious and miserable person. It felt like the days were almost supernaturally good, that I could wake up without the usual wave of terror, that the days were admixed with some foreign substance dripping into them, some animating essence, like the dragonborn races of Endoria, dragonborn days. I felt like I'd stumbled on one of the open secrets of the world. Why hadn't I realized before that being a grown-up could be anything you wanted it to be?
Austin Grossman
One good thing about love, when it touches you, time stands still.
Debasish Mridha
I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.
Gloria Steinem
You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.
Anne Fortier
Like a rose bud, my heart always desires to bloom and spread the fragrance of love, beauty, and kindness of mankind.
Debasish Mridha
When you can't solve the problem manage it.
Dr. Robert H. Schuller
Darlin', you are all female but not in the least little bit weak.
Avery Flynn
You skin is so soft. Smells like…”She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. “Sheer, unadulterated fear?
Cherry Adair
The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.
Brian K. Vaughan
I think the reward of you is worth the risk.
Jen Frederick
She loved him, and she was going to do everything she could to get him back. She hadn’t come this far just to walk away. He was the love of her life, dammit. The man she wanted to marry. The world had reversed its orbit to bring them back together, for Pete’s sake, and she wasn’t going down without a fight. Fate could only do so much; the rest was up to her.
Andrea Lochen
But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.
Marissa Meyer
Some slight awareness in the back of her mind, beneath the pain, told her she was free.
Kayla Krantz
Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
Elisabeth Elliot
You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.
Richie Norton
Woodward said that he had told no one the name of Deep Throat.Mrs. Graham paused. 'Tell me,' she said.Woodward froze. He said he would give her the name if she wanted. He was praying she wouldn't press it. Mrs. Graham laughed, touched his arm and said she was only kidding, she didn't really want to carry that burden around with her. Woodward took a bite of his eggs, which were cold.-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence.
Harold Camping
De La Salle hung on for the 28-21 victory. Afterward, Ladouceur stood before his exhausted team. It was by far the biggest victory in school history at the time, but the coach noticed that several of his players wore masks of disappointment. "It's OK to feel disappointed if you didn't play your absolute best," he told them. "That's what we're all about.
Neil Hayes
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
Madeleine L'Engle
We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.
John Ortberg
Does your love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyond… why can’t it seem to find me?
Jenny B. Jones
I just came from Bunker Hill,’ I told Sam. ‘Hel offered me a reunion with my mother.’I managed to tell her the story.Samirah reached out as if to touch my arm, then apparently changed her mind. ‘I’m so sorry, Magnus. But Hel lies. You can’t trust her. She’s just like my father, only colder. You made the right choice.’‘Yeah … still. You ever do the right thing, and you know it’s the right thing, but it leaves you feeling horrible?’‘You’ve just described most days of my life.’ Sam pulled up her hood. ‘When I became a Valkyrie … I’m still not sure why I fought that frost giant. The kids at Malcolm X were terrible to me. The usual garbage: they asked me if I was a terrorist. They yanked off my hijab. They slipped disgusting notes and pictures into my locker. When that giant attacked … I could’ve pretended to be just another mortal and got myself to safety. But I didn’t even think about running away. Why did I risk my life for those kids?’I smiled.‘What?’ she demanded.‘Somebody once told me that a hero’s bravery has to be unplanned – a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward.’Sam huffed. ‘That somebody sounds pretty smug.’‘Maybe you didn’t need to come here,’ I decided. ‘Maybe I did. To understand why we’re a good team.
Rick Riordan
He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself
Djuna Barnes
Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.
Barbara W. Tuchman
The realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts, but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life.
Sam Harris
Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.
Gary Hopkins