Quotes by American Authors - Page 2409

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
Hermann Weyl
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.
Maggie Stiefvater
What did I want? I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out.
Ruta Sepetys
Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management.
Pearl Zhu
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.
Rick Riordan
A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.
Gerard de Marigny
Mother Maybelle, have mercy, we've just been discovered.
Alecia Whitaker
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.
Henry David Thoreau
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.
Orson Scott Card
Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.
Debasish Mridha
Self-analysis is vital in the road to success; being unaware of your own skills, capacity, and attributes may cost you the next great promotion.
John Taskinsoy
Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.
Kevin Hearne
Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.
Stephan Labossiere
God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations. Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only tocome out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music. Modern Jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth, which flow through his instrument.
Dr. Martin Luther King
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith
In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.
Jonathan Stalling
Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying "is He real?
Anthony Liccione
If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.
Jonathan V Last
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
I’m selfish.Selfish enough to want it all.And I know if I don’t have you . . .. . . I don’t have anything.
Katie Klein
Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels,
Cherise Sinclair
At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.
Rajiv Joseph
People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase, maybe because I was told countless times during my growing-up years that I was "just like an animal." I had suffered much of my life because I was considered less than human. Animals were suffering because they were less than human. And it seemed to me that human didn't have much to be proud of, if they treated other living things with such blind cruelty.
Elizabeth Kim
You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s that discovery that makes a marriage work.
Mercedes Lackey
Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings.
Billy Graham
I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)
Margaret Mitchell
We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their deathbed, ‘what was the aim of my life,’ ‘what did I accomplish,’ ‘what did I not accomplish,’ ‘what would I alter if I could live my life all over again’? What we discover on our deathbeds is that material luxuries afford no solace. We cannot purchase, possess, or legally acquire what is pure: love, beauty, truth, goodness, and imagination.
Kilroy J. Oldster
I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, But my heart was full of my new love's glory, My eyes were laughing and unafraid.I met one who had loved me madly And told his love for all to hear -- But we talked of a thousand things together, The past was buried too deep to fear.I met the other, whose love was given With never a kiss and scarcely a word -Oh, it was then the terror took me Of words unuttered that breathed and stirred.Oh, love that lives its life with laughter Or love that lives its life with tears Can die - but love that is never spoken Goes like a ghost through the winding years…I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, My heart was full of my new love's glory, - But my eyes were suddenly afraid.
Sara Teasdale
The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.
Kevin DeYoung
We don't look at the stars in the universe and say how tragic they are, how bruised they are, even though that is what they are. We look at them and speak of the beauty they contain. The inspiration they give us. Even though stars are the scars of the universe we don't see them as these broken pieces of gaseous matter, we see them as these majestic astrological blessings that give hope to billions. What if you saw yourself in that same light, or better yet what if you saw others in a similar way.
Ricky Maye
Being on the moon is about harnessing science and technology. Waveless waterbeds are about harnessing nature and that, by definition, is not natural,” I shot back.“Babe, you’re not lyin’ on a miracle,” he said through a lip twitch.“No, I’m lying under one.
Kristen Ashley
Last day I saw him human, he was sad about the world.
Aimee Bender
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.
P.C. Cast
Let the tent be struck.
Robert E. Lee
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
George R.R. Martin
Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.
Stephen Few
God hears your every thought, whether you dress it up with 'Thee' and 'Thou' or not.
Catherine Richmond
You are a human being, not a human body.
Kate Wicker
A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
John Grogan
Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way.
Raymond Chandler
Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity.
Carlos Wallace
Ninja Mom's have to learn that when they mess up, they get right back up again.
Anna M. Aquino
Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking round the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self?
Donna Tartt
Many patients with cancer are depressed, yet depression is not the cause of cancer.
David S. Bell
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
Barbara Kingsolver
Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.
J. Lynn
My breath catches in my throat as a chill makes me shiver, leaving gooseflesh in its wake. My eyes latch on to his, pleading with him to kiss me.
Heather M. Orgeron
We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
Paul Auster
If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you
Cassandra Clare
For when you look at the ceiling, or down at the floor, when the trouble's before you, you're begging for more.
Brian M. Boyce
Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it’s not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.
Rachel Zucker
If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The whole room said, "Admire without touching anything and then get out.
Kaje Harper
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
John Caldwell Calhoun
The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.
Julie Rivkin
Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
Nicole Richie
It’s easy to be a Christian when you’re living the perfect life. It’s easy to live a perfect life when God seems to be showering you with blessings.
Tessa Emily Hall
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
Dudley Moore
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.
Mark Twain
The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.
Suzan-Lori Parks