Quotes by American Authors - Page 2295

The truth is that the world doesn't have much use or respect for "do nothing" people. Can you really blame them?
Bryant McGill
She knew it wasn’t right, but this was the second time in her life when hurting a man’s feelings trumped assuaging her own.
Riley Murphy
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung
Pearl S. Buck
A city finds its life through the humans who inhabit it. When they go, what is truly left? Just silent stones, witnesses to the history but mute in its telling, remaining thus while slowly turning to rubble. It saddens me that life’s moments are thus lost, that one cannot experience the past in the same rich vibrancy as the present. You live the moments and then relegate them to memory, now just two-dimensional shadows, pictures without depth, stripped of their purest emotion, their tactile connections no longer accessible. You try to recall, but can bring back only a fraction of the event lived. The rest is gone, never to be as full and complete as it was in that one place at that one time. That was what I thought as I studied these stone remains; that all the tangible things experienced here abide somewhere in time, but can never again be wholly re-animated, now just ghosts imbedded in the crumbling walls and in the fading memories of those who once lived here.
Michael Puttonen
I fled Him down the nights and down the daysI fled Him down the arches of the yearsI fled Him down the labyrinthine waysOf my own mind, and in the midst of tearsI hid from him, and under running laughter.
Francis G. Thompson
Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, "I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.
Dale Carnegie
Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.
Michael Pollan
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
Immature citizens in several sizes were massed before a large factorylike structure where advanced techniques transformed them into true-thinking right-acting members of the three social classes, lower, middle, and upper middle.
Donald Barthelme
Guilt is what makes you accountable.
Roshani Chokshi
Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.
Bessel A. van der Kolk
I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you.
Rick Riordan
I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the purely passive, like the racing of light under clouds on a field, the beautiful dream at the moment of being dreamed. The breeze is the merest puff, but you yourself sail headlong and breathless under the gale force of the spirit.
Annie Dillard
Why have we built warships to bring home peace?
Debasish Mridha
I make NO apologies for my creativity.
Jason Medina
Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
He didn't need someone to fix the problem - there was no fixing it. He needed someone to acknowledge his feelings. Accept his pain. Agree that his heart was broken, and that it should be. And that it might stay broken for a long, long time.
Julie Lawson Timmer
To be alive──is Power.
Emily Dickinson
morality is moral only when it is voluntary
Lincoln Steffens
Filtering solar radiation with air pollution is a bad idea.
Steven Magee
People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.
Billy Graham
I want you, Elle," he said, voice low and rough. "It's a goddamn ache, I want you so much.
Jill Shalvis
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time the distinction between work and play dissolves.
Shakti Gawain
Society has pretty much taught us that it's inside the lines, or outside. But there's so much more in between.
Amber L. Johnson
I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.
William Faulkner
When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way.
Susan C.Young
at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.
Lisel Mueller
…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
Kate Bornstein
Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip.... “We don’t have five minutes.
John A. Autero
A real friend sees past the trouble and into your heart
Deborah Wiles
You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously."I'm afraid not," I said."I'm afraid not, sir," he said."Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.
Rick Riordan
I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
Sojourner Truth
When he sees my pain, the old and new, he pushes me to give it to him. To give in to his need to consume all of it and make it his.
Willow Madison
You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.
Amy Jo Cousins
At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, "It was enough to have been a unicorn." What he meant was that he got to do art. It was magic to him that his hands and mind got to make wonderful things, that he didn't have to be just another goat or horse.
Mark Vonnegut
The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.
Billy Graham
I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.
CrimethInc.
It was never just about the money.
Kathy Bryson
I bleed to un-break you,un-mending me.I fall to save you...now who will save me.
Jessica Kristie
It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.
Trevor Noah
Talking is good. It's good to disturb the silence.
Marty Rubin
We can all take pictures but not everyone can capture the beauty that's usually hidden in plain view...We can all open our mouth to sing but not everyone can can melodically touch your soul...We can all pick up a pen to write but not everyone can write words in such a way that they leap off of the page for you...We can all part our lips to speak but not everyone can speak life into you...We can all move our bodies to a beat but not everyone can become one with music, stir emotions and shift energy with dance...Point is: WE CAN all do something but Know your gifts, cultivate them and ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE YOURSELF! Then working together becomes effortless. Copies aren't accepted everywhere...ORIGINALS are eventually required!
Sanjo Jendayi
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.
Abigail Van Buren
One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
Gene Brown
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
Andrew Sean Greer
cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed Physics for Poets and Rocks for Jocks and have remained ignorant of science ever since, despite the obvious importance of scientific literacy to informed choices about personal health and public policy. But saying that you have never heard of James Joyce or that you tried listening to Mozart once but prefer Andrew Lloyd Webber is as shocking as blowing your nose on your sleeve or announcing that you employ children in your sweatshop, despite the obvious unimportance of your tastes in leisure-time activity to just about anything.
Steven Pinker
Great treasures bring out great greed in the hearts of men and great greed has been the downfall of many nations. - from "Opoponax Dreams
Genieve Dawkins
My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.
Suzanne Collins
We are all unique, but we are also a part of the common body of humanity. With harmony, love, kindness, and compassion we can live together in joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering.She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken.
Nenia Campbell
Quit planning your dream and start living it.
Alan Cohen
I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
Isabel Allende
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Muriel Rukeyser
Feelings are fleeting, no matter how eart-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.
Gena Showalter
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing
Cormac McCarthy
Not only are we digital immigrants, we are also media dinosaurs. We enjoy thumbing through glossy magazines, and maybe still subscribe to a daily newspaper. We schedule at least one evening per week around a favorite TV program, created by one of the major television or cable networks. We can name at least one local or national news anchor. And scattered around our homes and offices are veritable graveyards of physical media — old tapes, vinyl records, floppy disks, and magazines — that we insist on keeping, even though we'll probably never use them again.
Ian Lamont
There is a special place in hell for women that will not help one another.
Rae Mariz
I’ve never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don’t let it out. Then there’s a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.
Diane Von Furstenberg