Quotes by American Authors - Page 2427

This isn't Dungeon & Dragons, dude. Just because I'm wearing black doesn't mean I have the Find & Remive Traps skill.
John G. Hartness
a book is a box of words until you open it.
Ursula K Le Guin
What was I going to do? The choices seemed basic and slim: Die. Exist. Live. I wanted to die, but with two young children to care for and a husband, that wasn't an option. Exist. I could do that. I was doing that now. but how flat and lifeless. How dreary and endless the long march would be until I met Charlotte again. The only option that resonated with me was to live. But how? I wanted to want to live. That was the best I could do in that moment.
Sukey Forbes
Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being
Trevor Noah
There will be something very wrong with any place we go.
Dean Koontz
Inside each of us is our ideal life: our true north.
Lauren Handel Zander
I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.
John Dean
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham
The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.
Hank Green
You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?
Dave Eggers
We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I’m fifty and I don’t know nothing. What about it? Do I stay with him? I want to, I think. I want… well, I didn’t always… now I want. I want some fat in this life.”“Wake up. Fat or lean, you got just one. This is it.”“You don’t know either, do you?”“I know enough to know how to behave.”“Is that it? Is that all it is?”“Is that all what is?”“Oh shoot! Where the grown people? Is it us?”“Oh, Mama.” Alice Manfred blurted it out and then covered her mouth. Violet had the same thought: Mama. Mama? Is this where you got to and couldn’t do it no more? The place of shade without trees where you know you are not and never again will be loved by anybody who can choose to do it? Where everything is over but the talking? - Violet Trace and Alice Manfred
Toni Morrison
CANDY: I’ll be in a world of pain that no amount of worrying ahead of time will prepare me for. Why suffer in preparation for suffering?
Bijou Hunter
The ability to love is the divine power of human.
Debasish Mridha
And why did he have to call me “quiet”? I hated being called quiet. People always said it like it was some kind of deficiency—like just because I didn’t put everything out there right away, I was unfriendly or arrogant. My mom had understood. You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room
Jenna Evans Welch
It's only life. We all get through it.Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.
Dean Koontz
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
Kim Edwards
It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.
Francesca Lia Block
The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.
Saul Bellow
I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.
Faith Baldwin
When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.
Shannon L. Alder
I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.
Sarah J Maas
Crying is NOT a weakness. Cry as much as you have to. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to let your tears flow. Crying is a natural part of life. We all have feelings, and sometimes crying is all that we can do. Crying can help relieve the pain, hurt, disappointments, and all of the other things that life can throw our way. Know that it’s okay, and know that you’re going to be okay as well. Wishing You: Peace of mind, Comfort, Happiness, Joy within and LOVE.
Stephanie Lahart
I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage?
Donna Lynn Hope
...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.
Jan Louch
A flower is symbol of beauty for eyes, but music is the expression of beauty for ears.
Debasish Mridha
Knock! knock!who's there?me!me who?that's right?what's right?meehoo!that's what I want to know!what's what you want to know?me who?yes, exactly!exactly what?yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain!exactly what on a chain?yes!yes what?no, exactlywatt!that's what I want to know!I told you-exactlywatt!exactly what?yes!yes what?yes it's with me.what's with you?exactlywatt-that's what with me.me who?yes!go away!knock knock...
Shel Silverstein
I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
Harry S. Truman
There was no going back and that was exactly what she craved.Deep breath.“Consent.
Jennifer Kacey
If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...
Jennifer Crusie
Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way?
N. Eldon Tanner
There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.
Lydia Larue
Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
E.A. Bucchianeri
Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.
Francis Mont
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.
Ronnie Coleman
Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.
Jon Gordon
Given the fact that intuition is about receiving information and knowledge, something that every human being frequently experiences, the choice becomes ours as to whether or not we honor the incoming information we receive.
Susan Barbara Apollon
Putting some 'gray in play,' as Chad referred to it, always helped. HE said the act of rationalizing the pros and cons helped to cloud the issues enough to avoid a moral quandary. It allowed us to believe the ends justified the means. Seeing gray helped to remove the black-and-white, right and wrong ethical choices.. . Had I become so jaded in my life that I had actually forgotten the difference between right and wrong? Or had I simply tried to ignore the difference so I could sleep at least two or three hours a night?
Luke Lively
But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be." "What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now. "It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things.
Lisa Ann Sandell
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
Francis Pharcellus Church
...CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.
Felicia Day
Never focus on the end. Only focus on your first step.
Brodi Ashton
blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines without reservation (p. 97)
Barbara Blatner
But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.
Dawn Dais
A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
Angela Flournoy
Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?
Robert Clark
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
Robert Andrews Millikan
If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman," you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin.
Richie Norton
I watch a spider outside my window, how she carefully weaves a dreamcatcher in the corner. Just for me.
Frances Ivy
Okay,” he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around his neck and set her
Cindy Gerard
Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.
Ashley Jeffery
I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.
Ann Charles
Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
Maya Angelou
Women! Whether human or divine, what man can ever truly understand them?
Debra Holland
It's a pretty good little old place after all, and I have little time for the gloomers who are eternally shrieking that this old mud ball is rolling to the bow wows. I am satisfied to take my chances with this one, thank you, and not worry about the next . . . You must carry along with you a lively imagination and plenty of romance in your soul. Some of the most wonderful things in the world will seem dull and drab unless you view them in the proper light.
LeRoy Robert Ripley
Creative energy is sacred and divine. Those who are exploring their creativity in the world are ultimately exploring their relationship with all that is sacred.
Gia Combs-Ramirez
A miracle came in the form of a doctor whom her mother knew. He put her in a roasting pan and placed her above a fire to keep her warm.
Christy Deveaux
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers
Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.
Archie Bunker
When you enter a place of stillness, you awaken the divinity within you.
Peggy Sealfon