Quotes by American Authors - Page 218

To me, being appropriatedoes not always mean conforming. Often it means justthe opposite. Sometimes, refusing to conform and even confrontingis not only appropriate but necessary to change theworld for the better.
Donda West
If any has a stone to throw It is not I ever or now.
Elinor Wylie
How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.
Robyn Schneider
You bitch!"Why is it that whenever I draw blood, I'm a bitch?
Rachel Vincent
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder
If you think it’s offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it’s ridiculous to insist that Muhammad flew on a winged horse. Or that the earth was hatched from a cosmic egg? Or that Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy, brought billions of his people to earth 75 million years ago and killed them using hydrogen bombs? These are all religious beliefs of others, but that doesn't mean calling them ridiculous is an insult - it's an objective fact until proven otherwise.
David G. McAfee
You are a painter of success. Paint your life into a masterpiece of excellence.
Mark LaMoure
He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.
David Halberstam
Procuring the house in Ballister was a desperate bid for respect, for recognition, the ultimate gesture (or sacrifice, as it turned out) that would prove him a worthy successor to the Flo and Walter Prices of the world. To my mind, the Culver was Norm’s way home, the only way he knew. It was an ever-evolving means to an ever-evolving end that eventually ended him. Who or what led Norm down that thorny path—devotion, economic pressures, family cynicism, Beth’s insatiable appetite—has been a topic of endless debate. You can believe what you want to believe. Personally, I don’t think any rational argument under the sun would have deterred Beth’s “messiah” from his mission. If the Ballister acquisition was Norm’s cross, as everyone seems to think it was, then it was Norm who chose to bear that cross. And pride that nailed him to it.
Ted Gargiulo
Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature, that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.
Ben Carson
If you intend to heal the breach,” she went on, “as you claim. If you intend to abide by the treaty we have both signed, then I am the Emperor, Annur’s Emperor, and your Emperor, and you will address me properly.”“I’ve always found that those most insistent on their titles,” Moss replied, “are those least deserving of them.
Brian Staveley
A fire needs three things: a dry bed, fuel, and room to breathe.
Alexis M. Smith
I just like the idea of looking back at my life and feeling like I made different choices than everyone else, you know? Most people are inherently boring if you really dig deep. They don't want much, they don't veer from their chosen path, and they're generally scared of change. I don't know, at least that's how my grandfather tells it. I don't want to be like fifty and realize that I was one of those people who didn't bother to think outside the box.
Margaux Froley
As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.
Linda Hogan
A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that iconoclastic lady—was with us when we cleaned. She wore blue jeans, too. Maybe she was what people thought about when you said library, but she didn’t make the library. People made the library. That’s what made a library. Without them, all the sacredness was gone. It was just a building with books.
Scott Douglas
And another thing - don't get too comfortable. Take chances. Don't be afraid to lay it on the line. Even if you're happy. Even if you think life is freaking perfect.
Emma Chase
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Marianne Williamson
I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I’d be in great shape.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, "Write about me sometime." And I typed back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. I just typed. "I will."And I felt good that those were the first two words that I ever typed on my new old typewriter that Sam gave me. We just sat there quiet for a moment, and she smiled. And I moved to the typewriter again, and I wrote something. "I love you too.
Stephen Chbosky
Breaking away from Gideon with some reluctance, Sophie rose to her feet and dusted off her dress. "Please forgive me, my dear Mr. Lightwood- I mean Gideon- but I must go and murder the cook. I shall be directly back.
Cassandra Clare
There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.
Dave Barry
Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.
Alisa Hope Wagner
As long as I have other ideas and projects noted, I feel confident that they'll be alright until I get to them. And my ideas and tastes may have evolved by the time I get to them so that an idea can be discarded or expanded upon in ways that I wouldn't have thought of had I started on that project right away instead of finishing what I was currently on. It's good to give those ideas time to ripen and blossom.
Nicholas Trandahl
Laughter comes from living." I shrug, try to sound indifferent. "I've never really been alive before.
Tahereh Mafi
fans are just friends and family I haven't met... or wrote about yet
Janna Hill
Friends, huh?” She shook Vincent's hand, but lingered with Peter, giving him a sexy smile. She quickly took in his blond-haired good looks. “If I had a friend like you, I'm not sure I would ever leave the house,” she continued, her voice slightly hoarse and extremely sexy.
Rose Wynters
It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool
L. Frank Baum
The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.
Mark Batterson
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
Mark R. Levin
Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides.
Debasish Mridha
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before.
Victoria Alexander
All things human begin with words.
David Rains Wallace
People don't want other people to be people.
Gene Wolfe
Step out the front door like a ghostinto the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white, and in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air, between the rain, through myself and back again where? I don't know.
Counting Crows
The good and bad are indistinguishable in the dark.
Alexandra Sirowy
Fake a smile. No one knows you're broken.
Demi Lovato
Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."-Uncle Charles
Ally Carter
Fitch is on his way. He's coming after he blows up some wizards.
Cinda Williams Chima
It’s not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you’ve given birth to something that will never see things the way you do, despite the fact that it is your living legacy, that it bears your name.
Richard Russo
The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost.
Donalyn Miller
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F Kennedy
Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.
James W. Sire
Ninja mom's understand that training time is never wasted time.
Anna M. Aquino
From loss breeds new beginnings
Bernadette Marie
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler
Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.Or you don't.
Stephen King
A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world?
Carolyn Brown
She'll be apples
April Lurie
If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.
Scott Klusendorf
He laughed. I had made a joke, apparently. "What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.
Roland Merullo
I want to be known as the 23 year-old who is foolishly in love with a Prince she can't see. I want to rejoice while holding the rose of singleness, even when my hands bleed from its thorns. I want to resist the urge to envy the pairs growing in the middle of my neighbors' gardens. I want to be rooted in the simple truth that unripen pairs taste like lies and lingering loneliness. 
I want to put Jesus on my bullet wound and cling to His heart wrenching hope because He was kind enough to be a Band-Aid when He should have stayed a King.
Katie Kiesler
Trust your inner voice.
Lynn A. Robinson
The death of a man is his sins.
Evans Biya
The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.
Henry B. Whipple
God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.
Billy Graham
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
Jonathan Edwards
A junkie spends half his life waiting.
William S Burroughs