Quotes by American Authors - Page 2273

Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves.
Deepak Chopra
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
Suzanne Collins
There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...
James Hurst
Think of the times that others remembered your name and used it kindly. How did it make you feel? When you use someone’s name it makes him or her feel recognized, appreciated, and special.
Susan C.Young
the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.
Erich Maria Remarque
I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.
Rainbow Rowell
I hate those people who say you always find the one when you stop looking for her. It is the advice you least want to hear when what you think you need most is someone to love. At best, it comes off like being asked to not think of a white elephant. The elephant becomes the only thing you can think of.
Thomm Quackenbush
I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.
Stephen Chbosky
You can still make today the day you change yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, respect yourself, honor yourself, cherish yourself, admire yourself, express yourself, be true to yourself... It’s never too late!
Steve Maraboli
It's little got to do with anybody, just the energies we create.
John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
Excuse me if I feel skeptical,' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue?
Carrie Harris
Pay attention… How a person handles poor cell service, traffic, and spotty wifi is a good indicator of how they’ll behave during relationship challenges.
Steve Maraboli
I thought I had everything until I found you.
Turcois Ominek
Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?
Chelsea Cain
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
Anaïs Nin
she lived her life as a dragon and never understood those who didn’t. Why anyone would want to be human was beyond her understanding... And damn it all, she was brilliant!
G.A. Aiken
I wanted it more than enough. I wanted it with every fiber of my being, and I had the power to make it happen - to make it so I was the one Drew wanted, not Lizzie
Michelle Madow
Confidence is the quiet assurance you are enough.
Ruthie Dean
Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California.
Michael Connelly
Success is the best revenge.
Kanye West
I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But then you're a vegan and you don't count.
Julie Powell
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
B.F. Skinner
It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.
Sarah Ockler
What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.
Hanya Yanagihara
God, unlike His creation, is always proactive and never reactive.
Andrena Sawyer
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.
Clara Barton
When we start focusing our energy on the things we love, they come easier and more effortlessly over time.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
The power behind words lies with the person.
Renee Ahdieh
Our hearts are magnets. We attract to our heart the emotions that live within it
Janet G Nestor
Emil on top of me, his breath heavy on my neck. As our eyes met and held, the playfulness turned into something else entirely, something with a lot more heat. Emil leaned in, barely brushing his lips against my own he whispered, “We were good at this then too.”As his soft lips met mine, my entire body felt molten—liquid and hot, moving seamlessly with his.
Angela Corbett
You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.
Ashley Brooke Robbins
My new elf husband wasted no time in carrying me to the bed, then tumbling us both onto the coverlet.
Cristina Rayne
Alema said, 'Are you mad?'Ship thought it probably was, since it was beginning to take liking to her, but that was beside the point. The Emperor-to-Be was trying to break free; all they needed to do was open a hole for him.'Us and what f
Troy Denning
We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through.
Lauren Myracle
Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.
Aneta Cruz
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Henry Ward Beecher
Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming — you simply, are. Go easy.
Bryant McGill
The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.
Alfred Alcorn
He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with a more honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he muttered an oath. All he wanted was for Amelia to be safe and happy, dammit. That and to beat every honorable man in England into the dust.
Tamara Hughes
All you need is a dream to drive you nuts.
Debasish Mridha
I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.
Eddie Albert
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
Robert Anton Wilson
I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-""I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.
Loretta Chase
I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Being In love with Vampires is never out of fashion" (The Angel Vampire: A New Race is Born)
Vianka Van Bokkem
The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.
H.W. Brands
The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.
Ernest Hemingway
If the statue engulfs people in fire, we should send Leo.’ ‘I love you too, man.’ ‘You know what I mean. You’re immune. Or, heck, give me some of those nice water grenades and I’ll go. Ares and I have tangled before.
Rick Riordan
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
John Piper
Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity
Reed Markham
I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)
Thomas Pluck
A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.
Russell D. Moore
The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back. he recovered but he was never the same guy again. He had lost something-innocence of hell. Acid presses a little button in your mind that should never be pressed
Craig Ferguson
A person is not the same as a toaster.
David Walton
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Man Ray
Confidence is sexy!
Tracy Allen
Fate lies down the path for those strong enough to walk it.
Marissa Honeycutt
Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.
Sri Chinmoy
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life and also a personal life complete with noncompetitive leisure has never really taken hold.
Judith Martin