Quotes by American Authors - Page 2431

The Dead are a larger army than any ever assembled, and they follow no leader, fear no threat, and accept no bribe or compromise. The Dead are the silent majority, and should they ever decide to say something, it will be the new law of the land.
Isaac Marion
You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went “Poor sod. Here’s a five star review so you don’t hang yourself in the garage.
Ash Gray
She didn't want to be considered a woman yet, wasn't ready to be the recipient of jewelry from men.
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
JOHN C MAXWELL
Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.
Thomas Jay Oord
In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times it drove me crazy - picture reading hundreds of pages that sound like this every week: "All rational knowledge is either material and concerned with some object, or formal and concerned only with the form of understanding and of reason themselves and with the universal rules of thought in general without regard to differences of its objects." Come again, Kant?
Stefanie Weisman
When you have succeeded in letting go of a trivial preoccupation or two, your awareness will begin to expand into the deeper sources of stress in your life, the bigger uncontrollable things that you have been at pains to control.
Linda Bender
If you want to be happy set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy get enthusiastic about something.
Dale Carnegie
Sometimes life just walks up to you, excuses itself and punches you in the face.
Mike Kunda
But in my clutching, it began to slip away. I softened my grasp and the sense of fluidity returned, I rode it like a wave. ...This paradox provoked in me a sense of freedom and relief-relief that what I was always aware of on a faint, subconscious level was a strong and satisfying truth.
Andrew McCarthy
In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
We have never been outnumbered, we have only been out organized.
Linda Sarsour
When you focus on problems, you will have more problems. When you focus on having great opportunities, you will obtain great opportunities.
Steven Cuoco
If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
Tony-Paul de Vissage
By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.
Dashama Konah Gordon
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.
Susan Sontag
I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.
James L. Cambias
...But the heart is not a computer that can be upgraded so quickly and easily with the latest version of love. Love cannot be sealed hermetically inside a tight box like any other on the store shelf; even though the word itself is in public domain, its quality is not. Love cannot promise a full customer satisfaction garanteed or a whole lifetime of dreams shared refunded, with no questions asked. Love cannot be agreed to in terms and conditions as quickly as the "Next" button being clicked. These unspoken terms and conditions grow and develop over time until it gets very messy, and no one remembers how such a mess of accusation and anger was able to overshadow their pure ecstasy of love, the spark between two people turning on a new operation system of togetherness for the first time. Love is always beta; never a golden master.If love were a computer, constant bug reports and subsequent fixes are the name of the game, and there are many unexplained breakdowns. The heart is too stubborn for explanations and too impatient for forgiveness, and there is usually no one at the tech support line. Forgive me stan, if I've crashed so often. It's just to hard to boot up to a whole new future without you. I am an empty monitor in search of a "hello.
Raymond Luczak
and then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic
John Green
Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.
Molly Friedenfeld
A sacrifice ever remembered.Never forgotten.Another day we live.A sacrifice for you. Only for you. And so shall it be,For evermore.Paviamma
Mary E. Pearson
Hearing my story seemed to give him a license he had been longing for someone to give him: the license to believe what he had seen with his own eyes--to KNOW that deep and comforting truth: that our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.
Eben Alexander
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
Ursula K Le Guin
*I don't want the body,* she whimpered. *It hurts.**Not always, sweetheart. Not always. Without the body, how will you hear a bird's song? How will you feel a warm summer rain on your skin? How will you taste nutcakes? How will you walk on a beach at sunset and feel the sand and surf under your... hooves?*
Anne Bishop
The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been answered long, long ago, claimed Moss; man's very essence lay in the fact that he had elected to command. But to Stenham that seemed a shallow reply. To him wisdom consisted in the conscious and joyous obedience to natural laws, yet when he had said that to Moss, Moss had laughed pityingly. 'My dear man, wisdom is a primitive concept,' he had told him. 'What we want now is knowledge.' Only great disillusionment could make a man say such a thing, Stenham believed.
Paul Bowles
Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it’s better. Sometimes it’s worse. And sometimes it’s just different. It’s not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Abby Rosmarin
The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.
Stephen King
This universe belongs to those who know how to see, feel, and love the beauty of life and the universe.
Debasish Mridha
I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses you would have sworn she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
Emo Philips
There were no passing cars to call out to. You couldn’t call for help from a police car, anyway; he didn’t think you could.
Dorothy B. Hughes
Ruexner will pay dearly for this," Valten promised, speaking to no one in particular, but imagining he had the fiend's neck between his hands. If he dared hurt Gisela...
Melanie Dickerson
The Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly said that America is not at war with Islam. And Republicans need to be vocal about condemning anyone, in America or abroad, who seeks to lump all Muslims together as America's enemies. America is not at war with Islam, and Republicans must continue to follow President Bush's example in condemning any expressions of prejudice against Muslims.
Margaret Hoover
In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up
James Redfield
When question ariseHope or not to hopeAlways hope.
Debasish Mridha
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty you will get them no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself in what life will do for you cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
My best advice is to be yourself. Unless you’re psychotic, then you might want to try a different tactic.
Gwen Hayes
I am the waves of the ocean, and I am always in love with the floating white clouds. I sing along with the wind and dance along with your thoughts and imaginations.
Debasish Mridha
Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.
Alan Jacobs
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
Stan Slap
I hurt all the damn time because my stupid heart has decided for one reason or another that it can't survive without being next to yours. -Chase
Rachel Van Dyken
There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.
Richard Paul Evans
This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.
Laini Taylor
May the Force be with you.
George Lucas
Delusions are a vital part of my existence.
Jason Krumbine
Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.
Lauren DeStefano
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.
William Peter Blatty
...grief had no mercy, time limit, or expiration date.
Rebecca Yarros
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
L.M. Elliott
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born.
Joyce Carol Oates
Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.
Billy Graham
...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.
Alice Hoffman
Chris book focuses on the author’s strong belief- America is only one generation away from new heights of greatness.
Chris Salamone
Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!
Jennie Breeden
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
Frederick Buechner
Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
Crocodiles are easy,' Steve said. 'They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
Terri Irwin
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
Ross Macdonald
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can't put your best foot forward.
Miranda Kenneally