Quotes by American Authors - Page 2279

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx
Genius by birth, Bipolar by design
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Suddenly I began to wonder how to please so many people. do I take the magnesium citrate? What about the coffee enema? Do I do both? Do I do the abdominal message or the colonic? Do I tell the doctors about each other? East meets West in Gilda's body: Western medicine down my throat, Eastern medicine up my butt.
Gilda Radner
Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.
Ann Brashares
Like most other events that change the world, it didn't seem interesting to anyone except the people willing to do the work.
Berkun
What galled him most was the presumption of these writer types, as if there weren’t actual people in the world, with jobs to do, appointments to keep, wives to appease, but only so much material.
Garth Risk Hallberg
You really shouldn’t trust a soul in this game. Not when everyone has something to gain or lose.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T.S Eliot
I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an endless continuation of the wall of trees they see lining the road. And I think they wonder how it could hold anyone's interest for very long, being all so much the same. But in truth I have a list of a hundred places in my own town I haven't been yet. Quaking bogs to walk on; ponds I've never seen in the fall (I've seen them in the summer - but that's a different pond). That list gets longer every year, the more I learn, and doubtless it will grow until the day I die. So many glades; so little time.
Bill McKibben
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
John Irving
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.
Maureen Corrigan
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time then everything is easy.
Thomas A. Buckner
When you're alone, you harbour one hundred percent of all the good things. But this also means that you harbour all the bad things. I learnt my own goals slowed down when I was with others, but having shared the good things, sharing the pain, having that friendship excelled what I alone couldn't do. It doesn't need to be logical, friendships are a part of life, and when is that logical? Life doesn't make sense, but you don't have to live it alone.
Michael Rogers
Do I believe in demonic possession?My thinking is more aligned with 'demonization' in the context of Christianity & Spirit-filled believers, whereas I am quite certain an 'unbeliever' can possibly become 'possessed' by a demonic spirit('s).
R. Alan Woods
We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.
Billy Graham
I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.
Gloria Steinem
She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort make friends everywhere and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Louisa May Alcott
My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.
Collette West
When the beauty and warmth of summer is here,then dancing leaves with colors are not too far.
Debasish Mridha
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
Richard Rohr
He rocked her against him. "No idea what I'm going to do with you."tShe didn't know what he was going to do with her either, but she hoped it was good.
Jill Shalvis
You wanted to live," he says."You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue.""What is it really?"I think about this. "Selfish.""Wanting to live is selfish?""Yes.
Stephanie Kuehn
Life it too short to deal with crazy people.
Karen E. Quinones Miller
As small as a world as large as alone.
E.E. Cummings
If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.
Lemony Snicket
When you find the one, when you share the spark of kismet, then it becomes inconceivable to walk through life with anyone else.
Karpov Kinrade
Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how long the Lord God took to destroy Babylon and Nineveh? Seven minutes. There’s more wickedness in one block in New York City than there was in a square mile in Nineveh, and how long do you think the Lord God of Sabboath will take to destroy New York City and Brooklyn and the Bronx? Seven seconds. Seven Seconds.
John dos Passos
People of the hundred," he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.
Marie Rutkoski
You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.
Carol Anshaw
Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.
Craig Groeschel
Nothing is too big for [God] to handle and nothing is so small that it's unworthy of His attention. There is no such thing as a silly prayer.
Teresa Santoski
We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.
Piper Kerman
Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).
Sariah Wilson
Enya assessed him like a woman would a piece of fine cloth. "Rugged land for a rugged man.
Amy Jarecki
I’m going inside of myself and never coming out.
Jennifer Elisabeth
You know I love you, right?” The urge to kiss her goodbye was so strong that I almost broke our rules.She smiled, beautiful and golden in the late morning light. “Not as much as I love you.”“Oh, man. This is my dream come true: having an ‘I love you more’ debate. Here, I’ll start. I love you more. Your turn.”Sydney laughed and opened the door. “I’ve taken debate classes. You’d lose to my logic.
Richelle Mead
Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.
Grace Murray Hopper
If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?
Lois Greiman
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
Richard Rohr
Consciousness returns to its own dark thoughts and bad memories as reliably as kids to their own scabs, and maybe it's not so difficult to understand why. The mind doesn't like unresolved issues. Except that moods don't get resolved, they get forgotten – but just try forgetting the free-fall through depression's vacuum in a hurry. Worse than that, depression isn't just a memory, it's a state of mind. If you remember it, you're in it.
Mark Crutchfield
This world is the playing ground of our thoughts and imaginations which create our perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence people.” Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.
Sharon Salzberg
There's in my mind a...turbulent moon-ridden girlor old woman, or both,dressed in opals and rags, feathersand torn taffeta,who knows strange songsbut she is not kind.
Denise Levertov
I picked up the back of the shirt, the light breen scales shimmering in the makeshift lighting of the bathroom. Something light swims up inside of me. Something like hope. Maybe I would be able to do it.
K. Weikel
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.
Ernest Hemingway
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen E. Ambrose
I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special.
Julia L. Roberts
Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.
Mark Crispin Miller
I have always been their rock. A mother’s unconditional love is fervent enough to battle against the gates of hell, rise up from her knees and stand gallant, in spite of her gaping war wounds. If only they knew the battle fought and the flood of tearshed without having to endure such agony.
Terry a O'Neal
Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do—but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you.
Billy Graham
I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
I find myself focusing up at the sky — the only roof left — because too many memories are drowning me.
Suzanne Collins
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
Sara Gruen
Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace!
Debasish Mridha
The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.
Elizabeth Gilbert
If I stay much longer, I think I will have fallen in love with you.
Lindsay Chamberlin
You don't even know me," I said."And whose fault is that?""Cinderella's"Two creases formed between Jake's eyebrows."Cinderella's?""Yeah, Cinderella screwed me over." Without any more explanation, I got into my car, pulled the door closed, and fired up the engine.
Cindi Madsen
If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.
James Hillman
For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.
Robin Hobb