Quotes by American Authors - Page 2257

This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Homo Sapiens almost every niche inhabited by that species.An illustrated encyclopedia of zoology should no more picture Homo Sapiens naked than it should picture Ursus arctus-the black bear- wearing a clown suit and riding a bicycle.
Daniel C. Dennett
To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.
Robert Lane Greene
It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.
Thomas Tryon
We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.
Steve Hagen
The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.
Bethany Brookbank
You want to change? Lose the bitch. Be nicer to people. Stop telling them to "bite you" and threatening to kick them until they're dead.
Jen Lancaster
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
John Green
Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.
Chris Prentiss
You know how powerful it can be when you discover that you can do something you never thought you could? It changes everything… and gets you thinking about what else you can do that you weren’t aware of.
Ashley Graham
When you finally meet the right one for you, it suddenly becomes clear why everyone else was so wrong.
Steve Maraboli
How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
Janny Wurts
Intuition is seeing with the soul.
Dean Koontz
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
Sue Grafton
Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.
Deborah Brodie
The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future we're all afraid is collapsing around us, falling as silent and cold and crushing as snow.
Beth Revis
Nancy Herman, my new gym partner and locker neighbor, puts her hand on my shoulder and whispers, "Don't worry April. I have foot fungus too.
Amy Holder
A demoness is helpless when held by her hair.
Howard Schwartz
I noticed Xander had subtly adjusted his posture. He slouched slightly to the side, let his head hang, and then looked up through his bangs to gaze at something in the middle distance. Uber James Dean. Xander managed to pull it off as if he was looking at nothing, just having deep thoughts about the far away adventures he would be having if he wasn’t stuck waiting for a flowered suitcase at Hopkins International. I casually let my eyes slide across the room. There had to be cute girls somewhere close at hand. Otherwise Xander wouldn’t have broken out his middle distance gazing Tyrone Power eyes.
Adrianne Ambrose
Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.
Oliver Gaspirtz
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.
Mary Pipher
He crushes his lips to mine. My face is already wet from tears, but the kiss isn’t sweet and romantic. At that moment, it feels like a kiss of life or death. It is carnal and harsh. I will never forget this kiss.
Lauren Helms
Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.
Courtney M. Privett
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
Brennan Manning
I wanted to tell her secrets I hadn't even told myself yet.
Molly Beth Griffin
Giving without expectation is the beauty of humanity and its foundation.
Debasish Mridha
A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future.
Marilyn Johnson
Look, are we almost there? Or are you just taking me in circles in order to molest me? I’m tired, I’m pissed, and I really kind of hate you, so could you just take me to my quarters and poof away somewhere?
L.J. Kentowski
I found the best thingI could dowas just to type awayat my own workand let the dyingdieas they always have.
Charles Bukowski
It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.
Carew Papritz
A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.
L. Frank Baum
And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.
Meg Cabot
Never stop pushing for what you want! If something is truly important to you, stay diligent and find a way. Depending on whom you ask, the answer may be different. Never settle for the first answer! Do your own research, ask different people, go above other people’s head if you have to. Sometimes it’s necessary to push the envelope. Some people will purposely give you the wrong answer to try to stop you and/or hold you back. This, unfortunately, is a reality. Some people’s intentions are all wrong. Be mindful that not everyone will have your best interest at heart.
Stephanie Lahart
In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.
Cindy McCormick Martinusen
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna
The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it, sleeps the unborn hourIn darkness, and beyond thy power:Behind its unreturning line,The vanished hour, no longer thine:One hour alone is in thy hands,--The NOW on which the shadow stands.
Henry Van Dyke
Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
Billy Graham
If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?
Billy Graham
Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.
William Saroyan
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
Carl Sagan
Nothing changes and everything does.
Karleen Koen
True education begins after you are done with formal education.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.
Rebecca Traister
... just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do.
Roxane Gay
Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.
Kahlil Gibran
I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and again he comes and walks a little way with us along whatever road we're following. And I believe that through something that happens to us, or something we see, or somebody we know--who can ever guess how or when or where?--he offers us, the way he did at Emmaus, the bread of life, offers us new hope, a new vision of light that not even the dark world can overcome.
Frederick Buechner
Kissing is just another way of talking expect without the words.
Nicola Yoon
It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.
Stanley Milgram
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
I'm not about love, but in this moment, I wish that I were.
Brenna Yovanoff
If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. However, if you can only manipulate probability, you can only create a path to victory. But remember, plans can break down. The future is always a step ahead of you. The key is being able to manipulate probability and plan for uncertainty. This way, you don't have to create a path to victory, but manipulate all options so that all paths lead to a victory.
Lionel Suggs
There's more to stories than it seems at first looking," she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.
Augusta Scattergood
…if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing, so their bodies become more willing too. I believe that medication, while a wonderful thing, has its limits. That there are answers to be found in the unconventional.
Daisy Whitney
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.
Thomas Merton
We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
Theodore Roosevelt
The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in number or magnitude, from the changes advocated by those considered liberal…change, as such, is simply not a controversial issue. Yet a common practice among the anointed is to declare themselves emphatically, piously, and defiantly in favor of 'change.' Thus those who oppose their particular changes are depicted as being against change in general. It is as if opponents of the equation 2+2=7 were depicted as being against mathematics. Such a tactic might, however, be more politically effective than trying to defend the equation on its own merits.
Thomas Sowell
Rejection Is God’s Protection When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.
Pamela Cummins
Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
Stephen King
[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]
Jonathan Franzen
Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag.
David Bentley Hart