Quotes by American Authors - Page 2188

Your differences are what make you unique. They're what make you special. You have nothing in common with these ignorant retches who thrive on superstition and fear. You were meant for greatness.
Ellen Oh
A friend is a bird who can sing along with the songs of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.
Allan Lokos
Either enjoy happiness or enjoy misery. The choice is yours.
Debasish Mridha
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.
Tim O'Brien
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple Black
The train blows through towndelivering reality,slapping my face and screaming,“You are alone”Rose colored memories drown,taking their last breath.
Kellie Elmore
I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.I’m talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That’s the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die.
Paul Auster
It is well known that in exchange for visionary powers, artists often suffer with extreme sensitivity and violent changeability of temperament. A philosophical crisis, or simply boredom of inactivity, could send [Holmes] spinning into a paralysed gloom from which [I] could not retrieve him.
Bonnie MacBird
Sprinkled in with the beauty and joy of life will be storms. These storms will require you to anchor yourself to your faith until your rainbow arrives.
Janet Autherine
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.
John Dufresne
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.
Adlai Stevenson
Success is a way of life with the sense of connection, compassion, and expansion of human life.
Debasish Mridha
Let the love of the moon kiss you good night, let the morning sun wake you up with loving light.
Debasish Mridha
Idealism easily becomes dangerous because it brings with it, almost inevitably, the belief that the ends justify the means. If you are fighting for good or for God, what matters is the outcome, not the path. People have little respect for rules; we respect the moral principles that underlie most rules. But when a moral mission and legal rules are incompatible, we usually care more about the mission.
Jonathan Haidt
We cannot spend our entire week in pursuit of the world and then wonder why our worship on Sunday feels flat.
Joel Balin
But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
When someone is unkind, respond with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.
Alex Flinn
Attachment to the external always suffocates inner peace.
Bryant McGill
The honor a man carries in his heart cannot be explained, lass," he said slowly. "Nor can you measure the courage of a man who will not betray his friends, even though he faces disaster himself. We've no right to question, unless we have known the same dilemma and acquitted ourselves with the same integrity.
Jan Cox Speas
Love not only transform your mental and emotional character/attitude, it also shifts your physical being, which goes thru subtle changes also. Love is POWERFUL! God is love.
Pazaria Smith
True wisdom is found in simplicity and in humility.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.
Lorraine Loria
Legion, cuneum formate!’ Reyna yelled. ‘Advance!’ Another cheer on Jason’s right as Percy and Annabeth reunited with the forces of Camp Half-Blood. ‘Greeks!’ Percy yelled. ‘Let’s, um, fight stuff!’ They yelled like banshees and charged. Jason grinned. He loved the Greeks. They had no organization whatsoever, but they made up for it with enthusiasm.
Rick Riordan
A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it.
James Jean-Pierre
Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Josh Billings
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.
T. Scott McLeod
The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.
William Goldman
Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue - the sky
George Byron Gordon
home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.
William S Burroughs
Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.
Orson Scott Card
Whatever you think you are, that's what you are
John Bellairs
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
Philip K Dick
She smiled and whispered, "I'm kissing you right now."tHe swore softly, frustration evident in the snap of his voice. "I'm kissing you too."tWith that she had to be content enough to walk away.
Thea Harrison
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
Sheila Ballantyne
Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.
Erika Johansen
To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.
Sarah Weeks
in human males, testosterone appears to promote behavior intended to dominate other people. This behavior can be expressed aggressively, even violently, as well as nonaggressively. Testosterone levels, even a single baseline measurement, correlate well with dominance behavior, that is, testosterone not only affects dominance behavior but also responds to it.
Randy J. Nelson
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.
Richard M. Weaver
She didn't mind the sacrifice. It seemed enough for a life, to give yourself to music the way nuns give themselves to God. To vow. To surrender. Only music, after all, made life bearable. Only with music did she feel--what was it? Free? Happy? No, it was something else. Awake.
Carolina De Robertis
theres a heavy silence between usit settles in the creases on your jacketand seeps into the fur on my hood.i know your middle name andi know your birthday and i know you look more like your dadbut you wish you looked like your mom.i watch your back and for the first time in my lifeim genuinely terrified."whats my birthday?" i askand you dont look at me because you never doyou never look me in the eyeyou never say my nameand god its hitting me.its hitting me that maybemaybe it was all for nothingi know you inside and outi know you better than i know myselfand maybe thats all for nothing."it’s in december, right?" you askbut its not a question andif i were anyone else if i werent love-sickif i wasnt absolutelyfucking blinded by youi would punch you in the fucking mouth.my birthday is may fifth.
Ashlyn Roselli
Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.
Francine Prose
You are the grace of my life So tender, so undeserved Hard to believe you're my wife Even harder to put what I feel into words If I need evidence God is good Just looking at you is enough You are the grace of my life For you grace my life with your love
Brian Littrell
Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
Andy Stanley
I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.
Debasish Mridha
The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
Rick Riordan
Motivation is the first step in achieving your dreams!
Craig Mercier
I tried desperately not to think about her eyes, about the way they lit up when she saw me. Or her hands, the way she waved them in the air as she talked, as if she thought she could pull words out of the sky with her fingers. And her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place where I was from.
Kami Garcia
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce
You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works.
Donald McCaig
And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most...they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.
Brad Meltzer
The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.
Colin S. Smith
Never, Never give up, no matter what is you age, magick always is there. Use it!
Bobbie Kinkead
I believe being a ‘gentleman’ goes well beyond holding the door for a girl and letting her go before you. It’s about being vulnerable for her. I think that when it comes to the way we treat women, it’s a good idea to look to the way Jesus treated women. He laid His life down for His bride,He sacrificed for her,He lowered Himself for her,He was vulnerable for her.We must love women vulnerably in the same way that Jesus loved His bride vulnerably. Being a gentleman is far more than being caring and thoughtful, it’s about possessing sacrificial and vulnerable Christ-like characteristics. I don’t know if it’s possible to be a gentleman without knowing and representing the character of Jesus.
Cole Ryan
My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!
Sandy Hall
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.
Ralph Waldo Emerson