Quotes by American Authors - Page 2356

Activists have not been passive. For decades, we have tried every tactic to shift the course of our governments. We have voted, written editorials and manifestos, donated money, held signs, protests in marches, blocked streets, shared links, signed petitions, held workshops, knitted scarves, learn to farm, turned off the television, programmed apps, engaged in direct action, committed vandalism, launched legal challenges against pipelines . . . and occupied the financial districts. All this has been for naught. A new approach to activism and a new kind of protest are desperately needed.
Micah White
We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.
Russell D. Moore
Be careful who you allow into your bed, and more importantly your heart.
Ann Marie Frohoff
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Collective violence has flowed regularly out of the central political processes of western countries... The oppressed have struck in the name of justice, the privileged in the name of order, the in-between in the name of fear.
Charles Tilly
You're better off believing in God they'd warn you, just in case. Because you'd hate to arrive at the gates of heaven a nonbeliever and find out the Christians had been right all along. It was a pretty ingenious line of thinking. It almost made me want to go to church. Not enough to actually go, but still.
Drew Magary
THUMB, I HOPE I WILL NOT BORE YOU WITH HOW TOTALLY, TOTALLY I ADORE YOU. THE FUNNY WAY YOU HAVE OF TALKING, THE CUTE WAY YOU HAVE OF WALKING. PLEASE DO NOT FEEL THAT I AM STALKING YOU. LOVE, HENDERSON
Phoebe Stone
Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥
Susan Branch
And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.
Joe Walker
Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.
Gina Greenlee
She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.
Lauren Kate
Always give away your pure love without expecting any love in return. The universe will fill your heart with an abundance of love, joy and happiness again and again.
Debasish Mridha
No more can this Angel teach her,Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br
Ashley Earley
You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in.The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.
JohnA Passaro
There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).
Nakia R. Laushaul
What I stand for is what I stand on.
Wendell Berry
When I stopped trying to block my sadness and let it move me instead, it led me to a bridge with people on the other side.” … I learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that.
Barbara Brown Taylor
Most successful people are always on vacation.
Debasish Mridha
What will your family think, me showing up on their doorstep with my suitcase in hand?""I'll carry your suitcase," he said.
B.J. Daniels
Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.
Rebecca Solnit
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
Sydney J. Harris
In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.
Upton Sinclair
Sometimes, when you really want to get to know a person but have boundaries that prevent you from doing so, you learn about them as much as you can.
Lauren Lola
They loved their country largely because they controlled it.
Tom Clancy
It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used.
Jess Walter
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
Ace Antonio Hall
Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?
Don DeLillo
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel
The irony of what we define as a mistake can and will sometimes return to you as a redefined destiny that life sends your way without any of your own free will and choice in what happens. It just happens. Something in me changed in that one tell-tale moment. And for some strange reason, I knew there wasn’t a way of going back.
Cyndi Goodgame
Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
Ann Brashares
Harsh justice is still justice.
George R.R. Martin
If a soul is not honoring his or her journey by dimming his or her own light, a Guardian of Light steps forward on behalf of that soul and states, “I am going to honor you, for I know you hold immense value in the eyes of the Universe and I can still see your light.
Molly Friedenfeld
This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat.""It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated.
Daniel Quinn
The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
Rick Riordan
And I chose life and love and happiness and pain
Anna Akana
Your inner messages stand apart because rather than trying to control you, your soul wants to liberate you.
Catherine Carrigan
Throughout my career I’ve lived in constant fear that I wouldn’t be good enough, that I’d have nothing to say, that I’d be laughed at, humiliated—and I’m old enough to know that fear will follow me to the very last word I’ll ever write. As for now, I feel the first itch of the novel I’m supposed to write—the grain of sand that irritates the soft tissues of the oyster. The beginning of the world as I don’t quite know it. But I trust I’ll begin to know it soon.
Pat Conroy
As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, the clouds overhead blushed cotton-candy pink. Their reflections gleamed on the crystalline waters of Lake Lyn. The horses whinnied, the birds chirped, and Simon and Isabelle crunched their peanut brittle and popcorn. This, Simon thought, was the sound of happiness.
Cassandra Clare
Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.
Edward Abbey
The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward
Stephenie Meyer
Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everything’s fine. And it is—until the taste runs out. Then she’ll just spit him out the car window of her life and never look back.
Robert Burton Robinson
There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and mutant slabs of tanned, posthuman beef sip iced steroid lattes and pump iron until their pecs are the size of Volkswagens.
Richard Kadrey
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
Charles Bukowski
That was the moment when I knew I was in real trouble, that I might really be the kind of person you weren’t supposed to be.
Drew Nellins Smith
You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.
Seth Adam Smith
This kiss was different from the first one under the olive tree. That one had been unplanned, she was pretty sure. This kiss had intention and hunger branded all over it. It was like one of those kisses you read about in fairy tales—but Alana had never imagined that such a kiss could cause bone-trembling shivers as well as bliss. She’d never considered the downside of the awakening kiss, of how the princess felt when the hero tore through the thorns or scaled the tower and speared heat and sex and life-changing energy into the princess’s world.
Pamela Aares
Coping with any death is traumatic; suicide compounds the anguish because we are forced to deal with two traumatic events at the same time. According to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the level of stress resulting from the suicide of a loved one is ranked as catastrophic–equivalent to that of a concentration camp experience.
Carla Fine
the more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone’s lifetime.
Shane Kuhn
She wants me. And I am terrified, knowing how much I want her back.
Leah Rooper
We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.
Cassandra Clare
Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
Bill Loguidice
To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.
Donna Freitas
If practice makes you perfectshouldn't good behavior be addedto the curriculum
Cornelia "Connie" DeDona
If the king had given me for my ownParis, his citadel,And I for that must leave aloneHer whom I love so well,I'd say then to the CrownTake back your glittering townMy darling is more fair, I swear.My darling is more fair.
Richard Wilbur
Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way.
Debasish Mridha
We can spend today joyously celebrating potential by acting upon our purpose, or we can spend it mourning the days and opportunities gone by… the first will find you amongst the few who are content and accomplished; the latter will find you with the suffering majority as you exhaustedly swim in the ocean of regret.
Steve Maraboli
Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.
Sanjo Jendayi
I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.
Ann Kidd Taylor
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle