Quotes by American Authors - Page 2386

Come on, let’s go meet the guy who thinks he’s my better half . And dear God, I apologize ahead of time if he starts talking to you about how many eight-point bucks he’s planning to hunt this weekend.
J. Lynn
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
Erica Jong
You cannot move things by not moving.
Suzy Kassem
Arin, are you all right?""How?" He managed. "How did her arm break?""She fell of a ladder."He must have visibly relaxed, because his cousin raised her brows and looked ready to scold. "I imagined something worse," he tried to explain.She appeared to understand his relief that pain, if it had to come, came this time without malice. Just and accident. Done by no one. The luck, sometimes of life. A bad slip that ends with bread, and someone to bind you.
Marie Rutkoski
It was in the in-between time when he felt lost.
Mary Morris
Just how good are you?”He kissed her. “I’ll let you be the judge of that.
Kate Douglas
His story is simple, because simple is always best.
Stephen King
my stomach turned and burned with the acid of failure
Heidi L. Ames
MacMillian pinched the bridge of his nose. Conspiracy theories, secret societies... what the hell had he gotten himself into? What was next? Vampires? Werewolves?
Laura Oliva
I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.
Nancy Werlin
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
Wilbur F. Storey
Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming a seventeen-year-old, unarmed kid into a big, scary black guy, while the grown man who stalked him through the neighborhood with a loaded gun becomes a victim.
Jesmyn Ward
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.
James Fixx
Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.
Julia Cameron
Is it not better to live in dreams and realize it than to live in reality and forget to dream?
Debasish Mridha
And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps.
Colleen Hoover
Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.
Charles M. Schulz
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of you noticed this, but the wording of the Oath of Office is written in the Constitution, so you can’t fool around with it-and Bush refused to read it. The Oath of Of­fice says something about, ”I promise to do this, that, and the other thing,” and Bush added the words, ”so help me God.” Well, that’s illegal: he’s not President, if anybody cares.
Noam Chomsky
It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.
Richelle Mead
I know, darling. Your body speaks to me in ways your mouth would never agree to confessing.
Sai Marie Johnson
war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to his head.
Magnus Flyte
Sometimes the ultimate act of self-compassion is turning off your phone and looking someone in the eye.
Amy Leigh Mercree
I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Love should never mean having to live in fear.
DaShanne Stokes
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-
Cassandra Clare
In the sphere of human relations, faith is an indispensable quality of any significant friendship or love. "Having faith" in another person means to be certain of the reliability and unchangeability of his fundamental attitudes, of the core of his personality, of his love. By this I do not mean that a person may not change his opinions, but that his basic motivations remain the same; that, for instance, his respect for life and human dignity is part of himself, not subject to change.
Erich Fromm
Power is a funny thing. Sometimes you can just take it.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
I’m not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother.“Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile.“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.
Gena Showalter
Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Once you know this kind of love, you will never question love again. You’ll know it when you see it. You’ll know it when you feel it. You will never be confused by something that is something else.
Kate McGahan
Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison
Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow, is all you'll be doing. Everything takes time. Nothing blooms overnight. If you want that man to stay in your life you must be the woman in the relationship. Men if you want that woman to stay, you must be the man in the relationship. Nothing just comes to you. If you want it, you have to try and even sacrifice. No pain, no gain. That's life, whether you accept it or not it's going to always stay the same.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess.
Rona Jaffe
When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.
Amy E. Spiegel
Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.
Michael Meade
I tried not to laugh. I thought about how my Southern Baptist friends would respond to the suggestion that their entire denomination was making people gay.
Justin Lee
He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Likea fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart."I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's alwaysunwise to shoot the man you're in love with.
Anne Stuart
You're killing me, little human.
Shelly Crane
Sometimes, most times, when I think back to the people that I loved, the person that I was... I feel like I'm reading the pages of a book written about someone else's life.I can't believe that was me. I can't believe that was you. I can't believe there was an us.It's not that I regret it. It just doesn't feel like it happened to me and yet, I can't forget it. I feel like it's still refracting and reflecting back on me, haunting me.Jesus intercepted my mind, my thoughts, my mistakes, my shame. He's changed me from the inside out. But I'm afraid you still see the stain.Lord, let them see my heart, look at You and Your still-in-progress work of art. Help us all to look beyond our burned bridges, charred reputations, scattered shards of memories, and gaze at the One who took on the weight of all the hate to find the freedom in redemption that we all crave.
Katie Kiesler
Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies.
Debasish Mridha
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.
Billy Graham
...[A]s much as she burned to come, she wanted Olive to know without a doubt that this—that they—were about more than sex. She whispered, “On that note, I haven’t forgotten that I owe you a very fancy, very private dinner date.” Clearly pleased by the comment, Olive caught a lock of her hair and gave it a playful tug. “As much as I appreciate that, right now you’re all I want to eat...Kate groaned at the sensation of yet more wetness seeping from her body, drawn out by Olive’s blunt language and the slight pain of having her hair pulled. She ducked out of Olive’s grip, shooting her a mock dirty look. “Keep doing that and you’ll really have a mess to contend with.” “Promise?” Olive’s eyes flashed with pure, sinful mischief. “Now will you please sit on my face already?
Meghan O'Brien
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it
Herman Cain
Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.
Robert Michael Pyle
Water matted his black hair into spikes and peppered his skin with a fresh sheen. If I shut my eyes I could still see the one who bound me, his smile bright as the white sun as he emerged from our latest dip in the sea. I fought the sudden urge to bury my face in his chest and run my fingers through that hair.
Jennifer Silverwood
There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
Joyce Brothers
Let the waves of ocean teach you how to love and dance.
Debasish Mridha
Many of the Cape employees work 16 to 18 hour shifts a day. The Cape area earns the title of number one in divorces for the whole country.
Martha Lemasters
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
It was a kiss meant to set her ablaze. And as always, it worked.
Donna Grant
Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: "To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.
Ron Hall
It's all mine, it's all sacred.
Coco J. Ginger
But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?
David Graeber
Even small positive shifts in thinking, create huge results if you are consistent in your efforts
Nanette Mathews
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.
John Scalzi