Quotes by American Authors - Page 2244

.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
Mitch Albom
Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well.
John Bruna
For years, I have searched and searched for this God. This feeling of complete love and acceptance. He was always out of reach. But here, where food is scare, money is tight, heat is heavy and tensions should run high, God is everywhere. Just as during the night around the gypsy fire, I am mesmerized by watching people who are truly happy. At peace. Kind. Grateful.
Julie Cantrell
The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.
Basil Wolverton
There's a feat tonight! There'll be dancing.""A feast?" Kachka asked. "Who are we sacrificing?
G.A. Aiken
Rhys gave no warning as he gripped my arm, snarling softly, and tore off my glove. His touch was like a brand, and I flinched, yielding a step, but he held firm until he'd gotten both gloves off. " I heard you begging someone, anyone, to rescue you, to get you out. I heard you say no." "I didn't say anything." He turned my bare hand over, his hold tightening as he examined the eye he'd tattooed. He tapped the pupil. Once. Twice. " I heard it loud and clear.
Sarah J Maas
Multi-tasking is great in the kitchen when you are trying to time the chicken to be ready at the same time as the potatoes. But do not assume it is a great way to manage a workday.
Joanne Tombrakos
Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.
Mandy Hale
No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.
Kenneth Eade
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
Ray Bradbury
If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.
John Muir
Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
T.A. Barron
Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.
Paul C. Nagel
I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.
Shannon A. Thompson
The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.
Jonathan Lethem
For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.
Markham Shaw Pyle
Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Careful. I'm fatal." He needed to remember that warning.He whispered back, holding her hair so she couldn’t squirm away, “Jesus. It’s like you said that directly to my balls.”She laughed so hard at his unexpected reply.
Debra Anastasia
There had always been a little wiggle room in state abortion laws, because doctors were still permitted to perform them for “therapeutic” reasons—to save a woman’s life, for example.7 But what did that mean, exactly? An amicus curiae brief in Roe from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and several other medical groups observed that “a woman suffering from heart disease, diabetes or cancer whose pregnancy worsens the underlying pathology may be denied a medically indicated therapeutic abortion under the statute because death is not certain.
Katha Pollitt
If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.
Clint Eastwood
Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land
Ruta Sepetys
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
Michael Cunningham
You cannot edit your life, and even if I was today offered the chance to never meet her, and so not leave the city I loved, I would decline, for life is a verb, life swerves and lurches no matter how cautious and careful your driving, and I would not be who I am, surrounded by those I love most in this world, had I not left Chicago when I did.
Brian Doyle
I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.
Tony Dungy
What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?
Sam Harris
Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.
Steven Spielberg
When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me.
Melody Lee
From one end of the Bible to the other, God assures us that He will never go back on His promises.
Billy Graham
I don’t want to look. I’ve got to look.” Vance... "Vital Perception
D.L. Given
The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.
Bryant McGill
Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.
Richard Bach
If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.
Stephen King
I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?
Justina Chen
No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?
Rebecca Goldstein
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.
Thomm Quackenbush
Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you?
Lionel Suggs
Being prepared prevents us from getting tripped up by unexpected glitches and surprises.
Susan C.Young
If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
Thomas Paine
Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.
Sarah J Maas
There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.
Martina Arroyo
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
Brandon Mull
One cowboy is never enough.
Vanessa Vale
Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there’s only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.
Georgia Clark
We have to take flight. It's not given to us, served up on a pretty, parsley-bordered platter. We have to take wing. Was I brave enough to do that? Or would I be content to remain earthbound?
Elizabeth J. Church
It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.
Colleen Hoover
Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.
Gary Rohrmayer
Snow harder! Snow more!Snow blizzards galore!I can’t get enoughOf the fluffy white stuff!Snow! Snow! Snow!Snow a ton! Snow a heap!Snow ten feet deep!I wouldn’t cryIf it snowed til July.Snow! Snow! Snow!
Paul F. Kortepeter
Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it.
Rebecca Solnit
One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.
Robin Hobb
With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome. Even in a group, he was slowly perfecting the skill of holding himself separate. It was easier than one might expect; the others allowed him to do it.
Maggie Stiefvater
Now we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
This book appears at a time when public discussion of the common atrocities of sexual and domestic life has been made possible by the women’s movement, and when public discussion of the common atrocities of political life has been made possible by the movement for human rights. I expect the book to be controversial—first, because it is written from a feminist perspective; second, because it challenges established diagnostic concepts; but third and perhaps most importantly, because it speaks about horrible things, things that no one really wants to hear about.
Judith Lewis Herman
There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.
Kahlil Gibran
If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen in love with the second.
Johnny Depp
We sing because we can't speak anymore. Dance is an extension of that - we dance because we can't speak anymore.
Kristin Chenoweth
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.
Patrick Rothfuss
I can do it, yes I can." from "You can do it, yes you can." Think Tank Ink for Scriptwriters.
Lena "Think Tank Ink" Banks