Quotes by American Authors - Page 2520

It meant he was a cat and he'd do whatever he pleased, when he pleased, and if I didn't like it, that was just to bad.
Laurie Cass
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
John Green
Stars also symbolize the cycle of life, solitude and gravity. They glow in the dark energy that’s the majority of space, and remind us that even in the pitch black, there’s always something that can shine.
L.J. Shen
How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.“The same way a man does."“Which is?"Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smile. “Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make dowithout it...
Patricia Grasso
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
I leave this as a declaration of intent, so no one will be confused. One: "Si vis pacem, para bellum." Latin. Boot Camp Sergeant made us recite it like a prayer. "Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war." Two: Frank Castle is dead. He died with his family. Three: in certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment.
Jonathan Hensleigh
I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.
Diana Gabaldon
Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.
Nel Noddings
Horses ... horses made me happy, complete. Then and there in the middle of some state, in a wild state of being, I vowed I would own a horse again.
Carly Kade
In my stubborn youth, I believed that I could stand alone, that I was strong enough to conquer my enemies with sword and with principles. Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, Imust admit, for when I look back on those years now, I see quite clearly that rarely did I stand alone and rarely did I have to stand alone. Always there were friends, true and dear, lending me support even when I believed I did not want it, and even when I didnot realize they were doing it.
R.A. Salvatore
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
Henry James
Time investment is the NEW Time Management.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself.""Are you trying to tempt me?""Ha-ha.
Rick Riordan
If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it
Anne Rice
Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.
George F. Will
It's essential you create a fiery will from within--harness that power of decisiveness--and choose to be your strongest self.
Karen Salmansohn
Life lessons cannot be applied topically.
Linda Robinson
Know that when you praise and worship God and appreciate fully all that He is, you open up a channel through which more of His love pours into your heart.
Stormie Omartian
Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Grown men do not need leaders.
Edward Abbey
Dogs speak words, but only poets and children Hear.
Patricia MacLachlan
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
Mason Cooley
If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
Brigham Young
Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.
Ernest Hemingway
Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.
Jacob M. Appel
Yet even so, Jon Snow was not sorry he had come. There were wonders here as well. He had seen sunlight flashing on icy thin waterfalls as they plunged over the lips of sheer stone cliffs, and a mountain meadow full of autumn wildflowers, blue coldsnaps and bright scarlet frostfires and stands of piper's grass in russet and gold. He had peered down ravines so deep and black they seemed certain to end in some hell, and he had ridden his garron over a wind-eaten bridge of natural stone with nothing but sky to either side. Eagles nested in the heights and came down to hunt the valleys, circling effortlessly on great blue-grey wings that seemed almost part of the sky.
George R.R. Martin
Maar als je genoeg kikkers kust, kom je vanzelf wel een prins tegen.
Shanna Swendson
People fail each other all the time, Mo, and they forgive each other, and start again. It's a question of knowing the other person's limitations. Knowing what's fair to expect of them. Knowing what's fair for them to expect of you.
Erica O'Rourke
If you are doing your best you will not have time to worry about failure.
Robert Hillyer
Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.
Gary Rohrmayer
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.
Jean Webster
I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.
Robert Lynn Asprin
the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.
Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Creativity is salve for the soul
Phillip Gary Smith
It's not worth losing your soul to win a guy.
Daniel Nayeri
To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.
Nataly Kelly
Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.
Carolyn Weber
Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
You have to live to really know things, my love
Dan Simmons
Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.
Zora Neale Hurston
Expect stupid. It's everywhere.
Lois Greiman
Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.
Bill Bryson
A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.
Ursula K Le Guin
In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
Herbert M. Shelton
The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)
Robert Silverberg
Reasonably speaking, we can see the cross as entirely possible. But in considering Easter, we see an empty tomb as entirely impossible. And is it possible that God had to do the impossible to finally get our attention?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.
Ray Bradbury
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
Francesca Lia Block
If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own.
Billy Graham
Julian said the world was evil and horrible - remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn't
L.J. Smith
Make success happen by striving and working to be the best. Aim at excellence and hit the target.
Mark LaMoure
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
Natalie Goldberg
There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT!Garfield, the cat.
Jim Davis
When a person consistently hurts others it is because they deeply hurt within theirself. They disconnect from that side of them that is accountable for their actions. They cast empathy to the darkest part of their soul and choose to live life not in God's light, but the superficial light of significance (compliments, achievements, status, personal gain, other people's approval and ego). This dimmed light will never be greater than the one God gives to those that consistently show compassion, mercy and empathy. These light deprived souls are the ones that will be the hardest to rescue from hell.
Shannon L. Alder
You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you."So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?
Carrie Vaughn
And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable. As he told George Mason, he thought it the intent of the speculators, various tribes of money makers and stock jobbers of all denominations, to continue the war for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice and thirst for gain must plunge everything in one common ruin.
Ron Chernow
We're inches apart yet worlds away.
Meagan Spooner
If nostalgia holds you hostage,the ransom is the present.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen