Quotes by American Authors - Page 2443

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.
DaShanne Stokes
Stars on the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins.
Jennifer Niven
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
Katherine Dunn
Hope blooms when the time is ready.
Debasish Mridha
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face t
Jared Diamond
What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars. ~Seth
Brandon Mull
Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.
Jodi Picoult
If Jesus was willing to be beaten and tortured to gain the salvation of mankind, the least we can do is tell them about it.
Evan Minton
Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
John Dewey
Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.
Judah Smith
What if, you know—what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn’t always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with metal? That part of him really is immortal. It’s as immortal as anything’s going to get.
Robin Sloan
...he called me whore, slut, bitch…all the beautiful ugly words that secretly thrilled me.
Sommer Marsden
In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.
Suzy Kassem
I think about how Grandpa Z says the sky is blue because it's dusty and octopuses can unscrew the tops off jars and starfish have eyes at the tips of their arms. I think: No matter what happens, no matter how wretched and gloomy everything can get, at least Mrs. Sabo got to feel this.
Anthony Doerr
Charlotte, Will’s beingvexing.''And the sun has come up in the east,'said Jem, to no one in particular.
Cassandra Clare
There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would like to give a few thoughts on what seemed to be the overwhelming question: “WHY?”And here is the best answer I can give: Because.Because sometimes, life is damned unfair.Because sometimes, we lose people we love and it hurts deeply.Because sometimes, as the writer, you have to put your characters in harm’s way and be willing to go there if it is the right thing for your book, even if it grieves you to do it.Because sometimes there aren’t really answers to our questions except for what we discover, the meaning we assign them over time.Because acceptance is yet another of life’s “here’s a side of hurt” lessons and it is never truly acceptance unless it has cost us something to arrive there.Why, you ask? Because, I answer.Inadequate yet true.
Libba Bray
What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.
André Aciman
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
John Piper
Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?” “Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopeful. “Because you’re an arrogant little shit.
Brent Weeks
Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.
J.R. Ward
Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed.
Naomi Jackson
Showing up begins long before you stand at the start. Prove yourself an exception in a world where people talk more than act. Intent without follow-through is hollow. Disappoint yourself enough times and empty is how you feel. Make yourself proud. Fill yourself up. Show up.
Gina Greenlee
How can you use what most excites, angers, or upsets you to achieve what you want to be, do or experience?
Julie Connor
In the living room, the consensus among the guests was that Scotty’s looks favored his father, but the Judge was quick to disagree: ‘He doesn’t look a thing like me. He looks like an hors d'oeuvre.’Hearing this, Joan thought the following, and pledged it to herself, as both prayer and promise: You will be loved, Scotty Ocean.And while the guests laughed at the Judge’s remark, Joan leaned over and softly whispered to her newborn son, 'You will be loved.
Peter Hedges
In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens
When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.
Tiffany Madison
Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...
Lance Morrow
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.
Thomas C. Foster
You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.
Dan Chaon
[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us.[a symbol] also unlocks dimensions and elements of our soul which correspond to the dimensions and elements of reality. A great play gives us not only a new vision of the human scene, but it opens up hidden depths of our own being.
Paul Tillich
From a very early age, the message is drilled into our heads: Failure is bad; failure means you didn’t study or prepare; failure means you slacked off or—worse!—aren’t smart enough to begin with. Thus, failure is something to be ashamed of.
Ed Catmull
Because…” Gabriel closed his eyes to his truth. Because the premise that a child must be threatened with harm to earn God’s blessing is no longer acceptable to me; because that smug face cannot be the face of my God; because a rejecting and shaming God is a God of men created by men to serve the agendas of men; because I couldn’t find any stained glass window maker who is able to capture the face of the God I want to see—the God of hope, of compassion, of acceptance.
Neil Abramson
By the time I'm through sweeping you off your feet, you will be bursting at the seams, begging me to fuck you, never wanting another man inside you again.
T.K. Leigh
There is no better high than discovery.
Edward O. Wilson
One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.
Richard Mitchell
Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.
Scott Westerfeld
Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.
Dennis Prager
Sorry, but when anyone self-applies the label of "patriot" I gag a little.
T.J. Kirk
The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing into their space helmets a scientific mixture of synthetic gases (and polluted at that) are the true pioneers. Their circuitry seems to include no atavistic domestic sentiment, they have suffered empathectomy, their computers hum no ghostly feedback of Home, Sweet Home. How marvelously free they are! How unutterably deprived!
Wallace Stegner
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
Instead of playing Draw Something, fucking draw something
Nick Offerman
If there comes a little thaw Still the air is chill and raw Here and there a patch of snow Dirtier than the ground below Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing "This is Spring."
C. P. Cranch
Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.
Bryn Greenwood
Holistic wisdom is the hallmark of the holistic mindset.
Pearl Zhu
To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehend, and enormous beyond any resource we possess to execute. And to embark upon just such a mission fully knowing that without our death the mission will fall to failure is bravery of the greatest sort imaginable. Yet, that is exactly what Christmas is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I can feel my life changing and I’m not ready.
Jennifer Elisabeth
Instead of being encouraged to feel completely protected, loved, honored, and respected by the Divine Force, you've been taught that you're being judged. Because you've been taught that, you feel guilt and fear. But guilt and fear do not open you connection to the Divine; they only serve to close your heart. The reality is that God's way is love, and you can see this for yourself.
Michael A. Singer
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.
Kate Braverman
There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard.
John M. Frame
We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
Rachel L. Schade
When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said ‘going out of business,’ my heart stopped.
Blake Lewis
Reality was once a dream that took flight.
Shannon L. Alder
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
Henry James
I think we spend more time thinking of things to deal with than just letting them go. When we quiet our minds, that’s true freedom.
Ron Baratono
We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.
John Piper