Quotes by American Authors - Page 240

Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.
Caroline George
Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those who try looking for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.
Suzy Kassem
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.Try to commit an act of writingand they will jump overboard to get away.
William Zinnser
People will support that which they help to create.
Mary Kay Ash
Persistent problems, however unpleasant they may seem, contain the unprocessed and unexamined thoughts and feelings that, if left alone, keep you from your greatness. That’s why the pain, emptiness, and longing you feel can be your greatest gift—it can motivate you to examine parts of yourself that have been overlooked, forgotten, or hidden. It’s the irritant of sand in the oyster, which is the impetus for the pearl. In walking the conscious life path, you reveal your deepest Reality, layer by layer. You come home.
Jennifer Howard
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
Anthony Liccione
...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.
Suzette Haden Elgin
... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.
Malcolm X
The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.
Chris Prentiss
Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?”“Yes,” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.
Sage Blackwood
When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—"He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again."You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes."Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.
Cassandra Clare
We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
Lewis Thomas
An eye for an eye.”“That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.”“The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.
J D ROBB
They say that love is finding your soul’s match in another. I found my match. I found him,let him wrestle me to the ground, and then turned around and made him mine. I’m so gladthat I didn’t scare him off, I’m so glad that he didn’t stop chasing.
Alessandra Torre
Put in the time. To position yourself as an expert, practice, apply, experiment, volunteer, and work within your area of knowledge to deepen your own understanding as you build real-life experience.
Susan C.Young
She's my kitten, and no one else's.
Jeaniene Frost
Being PresentYears ago, I attended a conference where the keynote speaker encouraged everyone to BE HERE NOW! It grabbed people's attention and reminded us that living, loving, listening, and laughing all occur in the present moment.
Susan C.Young
Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
Bayard Taylor
Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?
David Mutti Clark
I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.
Miles Anthony Smith
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It was only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.
Allan Rex Sandage
Understanding points Jesus presented to his peers requires exploring how Jews, local Greeks, Romans and other ethnic mixes inhabiting the region perceived reality. Without a clear recognition of the common ancient mindset, regard for precepts presented in the Gospels and Christian tradition becomes distorted by a default – yet highly flawed – impression that people back then thought and acted like people today
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.
Ambrose Bierce
You can be intensely aggravating...” His expression struck me as closer to boredom than aggravation. “And somehow I suspect this isn’t the first time you’ve been told that.”“Nope,” I smiled mischievously. “Nor the last…
M.A. George
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.
Armistead Maupin
If you look into the face of evil, evil's gonna look right back at you
American Horror Story
There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing over me - with love.
Reggie M. Kidd
I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
Which direction?" Robard asked. "Robard," I said exasperated, "we need a boat. I believe boats are kept at or near the ocean.
Michael P. Spradlin
He stood back then stripped off his shirt. She let out a gasp then hesitantly put her hand out before pulling back. He took her hand in his then put her palm over his heart.t"It's okay, you can touch. You can do anything you want.
Carrie Ann Ryan
The Universe said, ‘Let me show your soul something beautiful.
Aberjhani
She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipherable symbols.
Molly Ringwald
Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars to hand down some light. I breathe in the horsy scent of eucalyptus, the thick sugary pine, aware of each breath I take, how each one keeps me in the world a few seconds longer. I taste the sweetness of the summer air on my tongue and want to just gulp and gulp and gulp it into my body--this living, breathing, heart-beating body of mine.
Jandy Nelson
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
Kristin Cast
You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.
Jim Butcher
But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
Betty Smith
When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.
Steven Ramirez
We must be willing to fall flat on our faces. Fearlessly putting ourselves out there is simply a required part of the process. At the very least, it results in the gift of humility and, at best, the triumph of our human spirit.
Jill Badonsky
No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,
Jeaniene Frost
I could have something like an encounter out there – a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didn’t know how to process.
Drew Nellins Smith
The artist's greatest creation beganthe night he washed his memory of his failuresrubbed opium on his lipsdrank the wine that women offered himand lay down and wept.
Roman Payne
Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mean that I allowed it to happen. She knows, as far as unconditional love, I'll pick her up and I'll carry her. I'll try to heal her. I'll cry when she cries. And I'll rejoice when she is well. In all the moments of my life, God has been right there beside me. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be there with us when they do.
Clark Davis
Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.
Jodie Picoult
As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an ear…dipping down and finding the long waves that flowed from the animal’s broad, strong chest.Not that any of that meant he was keeping the the animal, of course.It just felt nice, was all.
J.R. Ward
When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs.
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
The more time I spend with you lot, the more I wonder if you forget to shift your brains from stone," she added with a grin.tGavin laughed. "Not our brains. Our cocks maybe.
Lisa Carlisle
There is a gap between what we know and what we want to experience. Either, fear will keep us tethered to the familiar or plung us into the sea. The bridge is either God or ourselves, and with each big decision we must choose who we trust the most.
Shannon L. Alder
I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
Ann Brashares
There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.
Zoe Cruz
Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.
Danielle Steel
September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself. She could not quite have put it into words, but she felt profoundly, at the bottom of her new, shining heart, that she could find lost things. She could make them un-lost if she were brave enough. After all, if enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren't really lost at all anymore.
Catherynne M. Valente
Now you’re listening to Swedish ?” I asked her. “He thinks I’m the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!
Joel N. Ross
I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan
Oh really I was just thinking about how great a gold filigree necklace and teardrop earrings would look on me, and at seventy five ninety nine plus shipping , its a freaking ,steal. But damn , I missed the deal because , oh that's right.. IM FUCKING FROZEN ..
Larissa Ione
Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.
Matt Chandler
We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that.
Christopher Paolini
And aren't we all just one heartbreak away from complete and total destruction?
B.L. Berry
Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
So much learning," one of my Jesuit teachers has said, "so little wisdom." To put it another way, a civilization does become more technologically skilled and more learned about science, and perhaps even a little smarter as well, when it is permitted to grow for hundreds of years and spread itself from pole to pole; but we also have more tools to turn out as badly as our ancestors said we might.
Charles Pellegrino
Silena, take the Aphrodite crew to the Queens-Midtown Tu
Rick Riordan