Quotes by American Authors - Page 2451

Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Love is most powerfulLove is most resourcefulLove is most wonderfulLove is most blissful.
Debasish Mridha
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
Louis L'Amour
Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior.
Billy Graham
The most effective way to do it is to do it.
Toni Cade Bambara
I think I might have something for you today," he says, reaches beneath the counter, and his hand comes back with a book, clothbound cover the color of antique ivory, title and author stamped in faded gold and art deco letters. Best Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood, and she lifts it carefully off the countertop, picks it up the way someone else might lift a diamond necklace or a sick kitten, and opens the book to the frontispiece and title page, black-and-white photo of the author in a dapper suit, sadkind eyes and his bow tie just a little crooked.
Caitlín R. Kiernan
They are friends because they are both beautiful specimens of maledom.""Beautiful specimens of maledom?""That's right. And there are very few of those species in existence presently, so they need to stick together in order to survive.
Krista McGee
Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.
Molly Friedenfeld
And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don’t regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.
Padma Lakshmi
You said to your mind, "I want everyone to like me. I don't want anyone to speak badly of me. I want everything I say and do to be acceptable and pleasing to everyone. I don't want anyone to hurt me. I don't want anything to happen that I don't like. And I want everything to happen that I do like." Then you said, "Now mind, figure out how to make every one of these things a reality, even if you have to think about it day and night." And of course your mind said, "I'm on the job, I will work on it constantly.
Michael Singer
If a tiny bud dares unfold to a wakening new world, if a narrow blade of grass dares to poke its head up from an unlit earth, then surely I can rise and stretch my winter weary bones, surely I can set my face to the spring sun. Surely, I too can be reborn.
Toni Sorenson
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.
Philip K Dick
Beauty is important, but who you are in your heart defines you better.
Debasish Mridha
Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken.
Jenny Han
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.The cyborg is our onthology; it gives us our politics. the cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation.
Donna J. Haraway
Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.
Rick Riordan
She probably had her nose stuck in a book, living in a pretend fantasy world while I was actually out there living in the real fantasy world.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Success is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence.
Debasish Mridha
You deserve your love more than anyone else. First fill your vessel with love and then give it away with joy.
Debasish Mridha
The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences.
Tanya Masse
He liked the way her smile infected him and infused a bit of heat into his cold bones—a warmth missing until he'd opened the door to her flower shop.
Lyz Kelley
My teeth rip skin; my jaws snap bones. I am fast, lightning-fast, snuff— oh-was-that-your-life?—oh-was-that-your-life?— fast.
Eliza Crewe
It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney
He was under the mistaken impression that I didn't have enough tact.The truth was, I had no tact.
Caroline Hanson
You are always guided and protected, loved unconditionally and never alone.
Catherine Carrigan
Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.
Nicholas A. McGirr
If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.
Heinz Kohut
Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said all along that those ceremonies are pagan and we can't do that. Our people insist that they are free in the gospel, free in Christ Jesus, to participate in Indian religious forms and ceremonies. - George Tinker
Jim Wallis (Author)
There is nothing to be lost by experimenting with the sickened human mind and body.
Steven Magee
Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in.
Ryan Henry Ward Artist
I get the feeling you're going to push me to that point and I'm going to have to show you how far I'm willing to go to get what I want." - Theoden from Embraced: Chained in Darkness
Nicholas Bella
Devilment showed in his eyes. “Well, since it is a trial, we should practice so that we can perfect our kisses.”“You need no practice. You are clearly an expert.
Vicky Dreiling
When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.
Rob Bell
I don’t get where he gets off thinking he should be able to have his cake and eat it too because news flash, this cake store is fucking closed.--Lane
Michelle A. Valentine
Sometimes when you hold on too loosely, it's as if you aren't holding on at all.
Layla M. Wier
He made a sound close to a growl before speaking. “Why do you resist my assistance?”She stopped walking and faced him. “Because I don't like you.
Lia Davis
... on May 1, 1855, Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell were married. Before the minister began the ceremony, Henry read the protest which he and Lucy had prepared: "While acknowledging our mutual affection by publicly assuming the relation of husband and wife, yet in justice to ourselves and a great principle, we deem it a duty to declare this act ... implies no sanction of, nor promise of voluntary obedience to, such of the present laws of marriage as refuse to recognize the wife as an independent, rational being, while they confer upon the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority, investing him with legal powers which no honorable man would exercise, and which no man should possess
Miriam Gurko
I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.
Cyrus Ching
It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.
Sloane Crosley
So Basically I'm the Antichrist , and the whole world is fucked because of me" - Jordon Hanson.
Barry James
I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.
Chuck Klosterman
Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it cannot lend itself to these fluctuations, it is useful only while it seems strictly true, and afterwards it is completely out of date.
John Erskine
Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.
Mae West
He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.
Patricia Cori
King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...
S. Nassir Ghaemi
You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP
John Paul Warren
In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.
Derrick Jensen
What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.
May Sarton
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
Gillian Flynn
I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging.
Darynda Jones
I’ve never been one to go to church, but I’ve al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.
Bill Clegg
The number one skill in life is not giving up.
Bryant McGill
You wish you could’ve learned to play piano. You wish you could’ve started drawing when you were young. You wish you could’ve figured out who you wanted to be before you graduated college. You wish you could’ve learned to love yourself sooner. Well you know what? You didn’t. And that’s just something you’re going to have to learn to deal with. But just because you didn’t do it sooner, doesn’t mean you can’t start now.
Daren Colbert
Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.
Lauren DeStefano
Names are the way we humans build relationship, not only with each other but with the living world.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
Jack Kerouac
Falling in love is different for everyone.
Michael R. French
Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
Tessa Dare
At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.
Aaron Lauritsen