Quotes by American Authors - Page 2204

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.
Martina Boone
Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.
Jonah Winter
Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
Elizabeth Fishel
The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.
Lauren DeStefano
To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...
Ken Kesey
Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians,' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of Christ. Instead of being angry with others for not feeling your urgency about an issue, give them time to come around.
Holly Sprink
It is easy to say the word forgiveness but the challenge is to live the word forgiveness.
Karen Todd Scarpulla
Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.
Nemo Nox
All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.
Sylvia Plath
When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.
Suzy Kassem
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
Sherwood Anderson
Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind.
Tiffany Winfree
What's up?" I asked.You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."It was an experiment," I said. "It was part of my therapy."What the hell kind of therapy are you in?
Richelle Mead
He breathes in deep, then lets it go with a shaky gust. “I hate this. I hate it so much.” His grip makes my ribs protest, and his voice goes rough. “I feel like some essential organ is being ripped from me.
Kristen Callihan
You’re different,” he said, touching my face.Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.
Sylvia Day
What?" The dread in her tone told Rob she knew what. "How much longer?""Thirty seconds."She laughed with a panicked urgency. "I just tried to nod. I can't feel my body, but I keep reaching for it, you know?"Rob nodded, feeling guilty he was able to."How about this? I'll just tell you when I'm nodding, or shaking my head, or punching you.""Oh, no," Rob laughed, "are you planning on punching me often?""We'll see."Rob couldn't help glancing at the timer, though he knew it would only make Winter more aware of what was about to happen. Seven seconds."I keep expecting this to get easier, taht it will start to feel as if I'm going to sleep. But it doesn't. Maybe it's not possible to get used to dying."Rob reached out to comfort her, then remembered it was forbidden and drew back. If not for the surveillance, Rob would have reached under the silver cover and taken her hand, cold and stiff as it would have been.
Will McIntosh
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson
It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.
Nelson Algren
I have a swizzle stick shaped like a little monkey,” announced Rose. “Let’s help the dead man with his problem.
Seanan McGuire
When we release all the negativity in our lives and notice the beauty all around us, we'll see what truly matters in life.
Imania Margria
Let your feelings of gratitude dance in your heart and be expressed through your love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.
Catherynne M. Valente
Down through the centuries, the Savior has repeatedly lifted the fallen from the holes they've dug for themselves one shovel scoop at a time. After His grand rescue, the Redeemer does not always seal that hole shut behind us. He does not force us into relationship or bully us into repentance. Instead, He leaves us with a choice: follow Me or fall again.
Jennifer Dukes Lee
...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language........When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversion, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations have been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know they existed...... I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one......So ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it's tempting fate to think to yourself, "The man can't possibly be that stupid!"But yes. Yes, he can.
Jim Butcher
Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.
Florence H. Winterburn
I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul.
Rachel Scott
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Robert Henri
Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances ...
Kellyn Roth
I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.
Thomas Hoving
A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.
Debasish Mridha
First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation.
T.F. Hodge
Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-defense and further called upon all member states 'to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attacks. It added that 'those responsible for aiding, supporting or harboring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of those acts will be held accountable.' In a speech the following month, the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan publicly acknowledged the right of self-defense as a legitimate basis for military action. The SEAL unit dispatched by President Obama to Abbottabad was large enough to allow for the contingency of bin-Laden's capture and detention. The naïve statement that he was 'unarmed' when shot is only loosely compatible with the fact that he was housed in a military garrison town, had a loaded automatic weapon in the room with him, could well have been wearing a suicide vest, had stated repeatedly that he would never be taken alive, was the commander of one of the most violent organizations in history, and had declared himself at war with the United States. It perhaps says something that not even the most casuistic apologist for al-Qaeda has ever even attempted to justify any of its 'operations' in terms that could be covered by any known law, with the possible exception of some sanguinary verses of the Koran.
Christopher Hitchens
We are called to obey Christ. He is the Master of our lives and has washed us in His blood, which cleanses our souls, our minds, and our mouths. The world is watching. What do they see and hear?
Billy Graham
You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said.
Rachel Caine
He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning for more. “I keep having to remind myself that I can do that,” he smirked.
Rebecca Donovan
He was all of those things, of course, but none of those things.
Marie Tillman
Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fiber of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass."--Hannah Horvath's dying grandmother
Lena Dunham
Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.
Nancy E. Turner
Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.
Richelle E. Goodrich
In New York, everything was permissible. No one cared what you wore, how you looked. Only you cared about those things. And if they didn’t worry you, then they didn’t matter.
Georgia Clark
That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
Frank O'Hara
Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation ... the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all her influence of voice and pen against 'Sabbath Laws', the uses of the 'Bible in School', and pre-eminently against an amendment which shall introduce 'God in the Constitution.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
I just want to get away from me.
Kris Kidd
If you go on the road hoping to find it, you might discover you've had it with you all along. That which you seek is yourself.
D.C. Leberknight
subway stations...passengers who token through life
Richard L. Ratliff
Thank you," he says."Thank who?""I don't know.
Dave Eggers
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
Let me ask you one questionIs your money that goodWill it buy you forgivenessDo you think that it couldI think you will findWhen your death takes its tollAll the money you madeWill never buy back your soul
Bob Dylan
Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.
Lundy Bancroft
In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.
Maggie Stiefvater
True creation requires authority and authenticity.
Bryant McGill
Happiness is an indescribable intense ecstasy of life that comes from deep love and kindness for the world and all of its contents.
Debasish Mridha
Don't love just for beauty, love to make her beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
I have never been one to fall when I can jump.
Ally Carter [Writer]
…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone’s benefitting.
Eliot Schrefer
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
In 1991, after fifty years of brutal occupation, the three Baltic countries regained their independence, peacefully and with dignity. They chose hope over hate and showed the world that even through the darkest night, there is light. These three tiny nations have taught us that love is the most powerful army. Whether love of a friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy- love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.
Ruta Sepetys
Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.
Toni Sorenson
Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
Ryan Lilly
Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
Ambrose Bierce