Quotes by American Authors - Page 2327

You know power is the best thing in the world because as soon as you have it, everyone is trying to take it from you.No one is ever trying to take your friends away, so that's how you know they're less important.
David Iserson
I wanna explore your body. I wanna kiss my way up and down it all night long.
Collette West
Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a set of modules, but the modules are not encapsulated boxes or circumscribed swatches on the surface of the brain. The organization of our mental modules comes from our genetic program, but that does not mean that there is a gene for every trait or that learning is less important than we used to think. The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection, but that does not mean that everything we think, feel, and do is biologically adaptive. We evolved from apes, but that does not mean we have the same minds as apes. And the ultimate goal of natural selection is to propagate genes, but that does not mean that the ultimate goal of people is to propagate genes.
Steven Pinker
Love is how you treat someone.
Rick Cormier
In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land land as essentially feminine - that is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification - enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction.
Annette Kolodny
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.
Henry David Thoreau
The lesson of every extinction, says the Smithsonian’s Doug Erwin, is that we can’t predict what the world will be 5 million years later by looking at the survivors."There will be plenty of surprises. Let’s face it: who would’ve predicted the existence of turtles? Who would ever have imagined that an organism would essentially turn itself inside out, pulling its shoulder girdle inside its ribs to form a carapace? If turtles didn’t exist, no vertebrate biologist would’ve suggested that anything would do that: he’d have been laughed out of town. The only real prediction you can make is that life will go on. And that it will be interesting.
Alan Weisman
The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up.
Forrest Curran
Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
T.F. Hodge
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
William Arthur Ward
You are...beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all.
Meredith Duran
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give someone, knowing their stories.
Emily Skrutskie
And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.
Lisa Kleypas
[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.
Don Richard Riso
... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.
Mortimer J. Adler
Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.
Christopher Bram
Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
Time is the great healer. No matter how difficult the circumstances that cross our path, it takes time for our emotions, minds and spirit to process what’s happened. Rushing to make choices too quickly can send us down the wrong fork in the road. It’s normal and natural to feel overwhelmed, out of sorts and confused when a major change knocks on our door. While you may be forced to make some choices quickly, delay as many choices as possible until time has worked its magic. When you feel on solid ground again, you will be ready to make better choices about the future.
Don Shapiro
All at once, she was confronted with the full understanding of it. And if she admitted it to herself, she could only be left with the grotesque truth. She didn’t want to let go of the pain. She didn’t want it to be lessened. She wanted to carry it. And whatever path she took from this point forward would serve to take it away.
Dorothy Gravelle
Well, no one says you can be happy about everything," I said. "I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you're crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this way, I think he's evil. This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
The only thing sadder than hateful people’s willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige.
Steve Maraboli
There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.
Patricia Marx
And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.
Wendell Berry
We loved each other.We hurt each other.We left each other.Now we hate each other.Let’s not stop there.Let’s finally forgive each other.
Scott Stabile
But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.
John Corey Whaley
I'm so stupid," I tell her, tears streaming down my face now, blocking my vision. "You're not stupid. You're just an emotional vampire.
Lily Paradis
Sex has changed drastically over the years due to technology. The World Wide Web has boosted the sex market and made sex ever present. No one has to work hard anymore with sexting, Tango, Skype, and all the other ways you can initiate sex without ever even suckling on my damn nipple!
Sanjo Jendayi
In memorable words of management theorist Chester Barnard, 'To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have bee.
Brian Christian
True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life.
Debasish Mridha
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
Richard Matheson
You should always control the strengths you have available to you, never let them languish or, worse, allow others to control them for you.
Beth Kery
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
Cicely Tyson
The Church is not merely a hospital or a halfway house to check in and out for weekend visits.
DeBorrah K. Ogans
We're all a blemished spirit full of censurable faults
Netiera Danise
When you see things through your heart, there is no right or wrong, true or false, only there is love to share.
Debasish Mridha
The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
Joyce Meyer
We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the
Susan Sontag
You wouldn't think that people would believe that we all got so incredibly beat up—in so many interesting ways—from a bear attack. Especially not when Carmel is sporting a bite mark that is a spot-on match for wounds found at one of the most horrifying crime scenes in recent history. But I never fail to be surprised by what people will believe.
Kendare Blake
But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness is a choice and a state of mind.
Asa Don Brown
Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.
H.L. Mencken
Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.
Eric Jerome Dickey
You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.
Richelle Mead
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
Carl Sagan
At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I'm done, when I die and nature tears me up...
Ryan Holiday
There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn’t say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann.
George Pólya
In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.
Ambrose Bierce
External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds.
Tim Hiller
I am bigger than the box I'm in.
Rachel Cohn
You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.
William J. Bernstein
Nothing will ever be solved if we wallow in the darkness of denial.
Carlos Wallace
It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when conditions are right. Man's curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.
E B White
The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.
George Pólya
Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.
Pearl Zhu
A place is not really a place without a bookstore.
Gabrielle Zevin
In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.
Charles M. Schulz
In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.
Shannon L. Alder
I am taking this in, slowly,Taking it into my body.This grief. How slowThe body is to realizeYou are never coming back.
Donna Masini