Quotes by American Authors - Page 2374

Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?
Wes Moore
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
I tried to picture a bunch of guys in blue suits running around a beachside neighborhood, knocking on doors and flashing Fed creds. That should cause a stampede of illegal aliens heading south.
Nelson DeMille
Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.
Coco J. Ginger
We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.
Joan Didion
Last month, I didn't even have the prospect of a relationship. Now I've got one cowboy too many," she said.
Carolyn Brown
If men had to have babies there wouldn’t be any sex life left.
Thorne Smith
He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane.Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.
Jordan Castillo Price
A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.
Ken Poirot
This is how I disappear in pieces.This is how I leave while not moving from my seat.This is how I dance away.This is how I'm gone before you wake.
Sarah Kay
The love and hope that we are born with is what keeps us relentlessly moving toward joy. We get the most happiness from the simplicity of being devoid of wants and needs.
Debasish Mridha
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman
Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.
Spencer W. Kimball
I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the daywithout hurting other people, then you are a good person...
Kaje Harper
Jesus of Nazareth told us to say these twelve words when we prayed: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.' ... And for those words alone, he deserves to be called ;the Prince of Peace.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?
Debasish Mridha
Okay, okay, okay … go to your corners, boys. This is a nice Aubusson carpet you’re standing on. You get blood on it and I’ll have Fritz so far up my ass I’ll be coughing on his hankie.
J.R. Ward
I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope we will come to an understanding that the material used is only incidental, that there is artist in every man; and that to him the possibility of development and of expression and the happiness of creation is as much a right and as much a duty to himself, as to any of those who work in the especially ticketed ways.
Robert Henri
If I could tell the world just one thing... We are ALL OK, not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless anyway. We must not be made useless, must not worship the idol of despair... We must gather ourselves in faith for it is Light that the darkness does most fear. We are Eternal and NEVER broken. We must fall upon our knees in prayer, that We might be God's Hands... We are ALL OK.
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
Judith Crist
And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it is. And appreciation of the subtler colors of the sky will come later. In the folk tale, good is good and evil is evil, and the former will triumph and later will fail. This is not the result of the imaginative quest. It is rather its principle and foundation. It is what will enable the child later on to understand Macbeth, or Don Quixote, or David Copperfield.
Anthony M. Esolen
Boldness, confidence, and faith will rise in your heart as you realize that God’s supply is always greater than your need!
Andrew Wommack
Among Romans, crucifixion originated as a deterrence against revolt of slaves, probably as early as 200 B.C.E. By Jesus's time, it was the primary form of punishment for "inciting rebellion" (i.e., treason or sedition) the exact crime which Jesus was charged.[..] The punishment applied solely to non-Roman citizens. Roman citizens could be crucified, however, if the crime was so grave that it essentially forfeited their citizenship.
Reza Aslan
Motherhood:The most exhausting, emotional, rewardingand life-enhancing journey a woman can take.
Charlotte Pearson
You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
Isabel Allende
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
Bruce Catton
Deana Carter sings about it. Lady Antebellum sings about it. Eric Church. Gosh, not just country artists. Katy Perry. Everybody has a song about it because everybody's been through it. You find that person at eighteen and you lose yourself. And the tragedy is, it's the person who's completely opposed to everything you've ever wanted. You bond with that person, and that person breaks your heart. I'm that tragedy for you, and you're mine.
Jennifer Echols
Night had come and eaten everything.
Rebecca Ethington
The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to make room for creation, spiritual energy filled the void. The energy poured into vessels which strained to hold the great power. The vessels shattered, sending countless shards, bits of the glowing matter, into the vastness of the universe.These scattered bits of divine light must be collected. When the task is done the forces of the dark will be vanquished and the world will be healed.
Leonard Nimoy
A slander is like a hornet if you cannot kill it dead the first blow better not strike at it.
H. W. Shaw
Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.
Gary Rohrmayer
The Anselmian call for "faith seeking understanding" may start and gather it's energy not in rational study of past theological points but in the pursuit to make sense of our concrete and lived experiences of Jesus who finds us in a hole, knocks us from our horse, or comes to our daughter in her sleep.
Andrew Root
We met in a school elevator, and he could tell from the way I spoke that we had some sadness in common.
Kenny Porpora
How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.
Lorrie Moore
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself.
Bryant McGill
These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God, yet show not the slightest reverance to His word...Is it any different from a drunkard preaching temperance? A whore preaching modesty?
Seth Grahame-Smith
Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, trimmed bushes, squirreled trees, no one losing, both winning, thus saving their friendship for other times of loss.
Ray Bradbury
Australians are descended from a boatload of English convicts, right? So two hundred years in isolation at the bottom of the planet is plenty of time for the language to evolve into some sort of double-speak prison slang.
Elle Lothlorien
To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.
Sharon Salzberg
You always were the hot head. You got a temper in you that can't be tamed, yet you also got a soft spot for stray dogs, kids in trouble and damsels in distress. See why folks label you a complex conundrum.
Vonnie Davis
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....one friend who always makes her laugh... and one wholets her cry...
Pamela Redmond Satran
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
Brenda Ueland
A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.
Suzanne Finnamore
In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.
Susan Sontag
...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
Washington Irving
Humankind devotes much of its collective energy to managing personal and institutional anxiety and dealing with unsuccessful efforts of its civilians to cope with the tides of shifting social and economic conditions. Every city corridor houses downtrodden citizens whom have given up on life, the dopers, smoke hounds, crack heads, and unrepentant drunkards whom spend their days pushing shopping carts and their nights sleeping in gutters. In marked contrast to these filthy and wretched souls whom inhabit the skid row of every city’s streets, all animals display an admirable state of hygiene and a zest for life. Except for poor critters sentenced to live confined in a zoo and domestic animals held captives in deplorable harvesting pens, all animals live a carefree existence that is preferable to living off stress sandwiches of modern humankind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Charmaine J.Forde
Even if the job you’re assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done.
Cinda Williams Chima
Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.
Julie Anne Peters
Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.
Jon Bloom
It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.
Henry V. O'Neil
Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked as the only standard by which it is deemed acceptable for people to meet across boundaries and create community, then there is little hope. Fortunately, mutuality is a more constructive and positive foundation for the building of ties that allow for differences in status, position, power, and privilege whether determined by race, class, sexuality, religion, or nationality.
Bell Hooks
One of the most compelling things about you is the energy you put forth—whether it is positive, negative, or neutral. And that is only the beginning.
Susan C.Young
They were stuck in a moment that wouldn’t quit.
Cristin Harber
Outside, it feels like there is less standing between the Creator and us. There is a lingering visceral connection we can hear and see and smell, reminders of the bond between Creator and creation, like the mountain sage crushed up in the pocket of the sweatshirt I was wearing on a short, muddy hike the other day. “In
Cathleen Falsani
You will never be lost to me, Selinne.
Emm Cole