Quotes by American Authors - Page 2467

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?
Nicholas Sparks
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.
Amy Harmon
Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.
Walter M. Miller Jr
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
Max Brooks
You have my life,My heart,My soul in your hands
April Nichole
Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.
Kathleen Norris
Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.
Holly Lynn Payne
I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.
Fiona Apple
Meddling is the evil, not indifference.
Marty Rubin
This kid has more mood swings than a toddler's birthday party.
Alexandra Bracken
Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult.Words are powerful. Be careful how you use them because once you have pronounced them, you cannot remove the scar they leave behind.
Vashti Quiroz-Vega
To create an inner peace of mind, be humble, gentle, harmonious, and kind.
Debasish Mridha
The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.
Henry V. O'Neil
The idea that you are not good enough and that people will not like you is something that has been ingrained into your mind over many years. You have hundreds of experiences that you can call up as evidence of the fact that people will not like you -- and that things will not turn out well. These ideas are incredibly convincing. They compel us to hesitate, to shy away, and to avoid the situations -- and people -- that we find frightening. This sets up a reinforcing cycle, where we avoid reaching out, don't get good responses from others as a result, and then gain further evidence that we are not worthy. In order to truly overcome your social anxiety at a deep, gut level, you must repeatedly take bold action. It is only through trying something new, and with a different perspective, that you learn to see the world and the people around you in a different light.
Aziz Gazipura
I decided to start a war, father", I said, cheerfully, "it's so much more interesting than peace.
Bernard Cornwell
You and your ‘potential’,” I lazily rolled my eyes. “According to you, everyone has it…and no one is living up to it.
M.A. George
And now I can’t breathe for wanting you. I woke up, and your eyes were on fire. You haven’t looked at me like that in years. All need. All want.
Cristin Harber
You're safe now.
Jody Hedlund
sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard
Elizabeth Gilbert
If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear—all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.
Max Brooks
Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?
Cora Carmack
As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.
Edgar Saltus
Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.
Jane Addams
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.
Tom Robbins
Now get the fuck up off the ground so I can put you in it... like a coffin. Because you'll be fucking dead after I kill you, you fucking asshole.
Robert Kirkman
The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
Hannah Arendt
XAVIER: No one should be forced to live their life in any way other than how they choose.
Michelle A. Valentine
Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.
Anaïs Nin
I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me
Lori Lesko
Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.
Siri Hustvedt
My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed.I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress—what would be the point? He'd already been watching me fall apart for months now, watching me behave like a madwoman (we both agreed on that word), and I only exhausted him. We both knew there was something wrong with me, and he'd been losing patience with it. We'd been fighting and crying, and we were weary in that way that only a couple whose marriage is collapsing can be weary. We had the eyes of refugees.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe people had no choice but I wonder sometimes what would have happened if everyone without a choice would have made a choice anyway. If we all chose not to participate. Not to be bullied. Not to take up arms. Not to persecute. What would happen then?
Amy Harmon
Believe in true beauty and the power of a loving smile because it can reveal the ultimate magic of life.
Debasish Mridha
A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.
Christine Fonseca
Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.
Lauren DeStefano
You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.
Brian Joyce
More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.
Ludwig von Mises
A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it.A willow tree. Willow.
l.a weatherly
Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?"... Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES!
George Huang
Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.
Alan G. Robinson
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
John Rawls
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
Richard Feynman
Nothing is as powerful as one's beliefs.
Patty Houser
Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
Charles J. Sykes
Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike."What do you mean?"Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.
Jodi Picoult
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
Lady Gaga
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.
David Lynch
Lucy had no complaints about her dinner. Anything was fine with her as long as she didn’t have to cook it.
Leslie Meier
We dragged Linc along. His current honey is working tonight.""Still the intern?""Yeah." Helen sat on the curvy velvet chaise, made herself at home. "I'm starting to think he'sgetting serious about her.""And?""I don't know. She's a nice girl, raised well. Focused, which he could use, and independent,which I appreciate.""But he's your baby.""But he's my baby," Helen agreed. "I miss the little boy sometimes, with the scabbed knees andloose shoelaces. Still see him in that tall, gorgeous lawyer in the three-piece suit that strolls in andout of my life now. And Jesus,
Nora Roberts
The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.
Stewart Stafford
Love has a timeframe all of its own and love never dies. It is eternal. There is no end. There is no rush. There is no hurrying it. It waits patiently. It waits because it knows that there is no end and that like the sea it comes and goes.
Kate McGahan
Neither super strength, nor telepathy, nor flight, nor telekinesis, nor any aberrant ability will ever be as great as the innate ability that a woman has when she is able to control her own mind.
Kenn Bivins
Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective.
Billy Graham
Bucks, doe — thank God everything boils down to money, I always say.""During mating season the doe constructs a bed for herself, and then she urinates all around the outside of it. That's how she gets her mate.""So that's it," murmured Odette. "I was always peeing in the bed.
Lorrie Moore
Remember when being a villain was all about wild nights and brawls in the street?
Drew Hayes
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first some unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Bette Howland
I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.
John Green