Quotes by American Authors - Page 254

Life is exciting because of uncertainty. Certainty make it very dull and boring.
Debasish Mridha
Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace.
Kilroy J. Oldster
No man returns from Satan’s fire read to dance a reel.
Amy Jarecki
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
Cormac McCarthy
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The right loved one will fill up your life like the final puzzle piece that makes it all complete. You feel it when you meet them. Or sometimes if you aren’t mature enough or wise enough, it can take time to discover that they are the right one. Once your jigsaw puzzle is complete, the rest are often just extra pieces.
Kate McGahan
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious.
Pamela Taeuffer
Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.
Idowu Koyenikan
Perhaps there really is a good that exists; for a century of darkness to be eschewed by a single flame; for a decade of evil done to the heart to be undone by simple and unplanned acts of kindness! There must be a goodness, after all! But we don't find it when we're looking for it; not in church, not in a cathedral, not even in our own homes! We find it when we've fallen down so hard, are downtrodden so low; and there is one true friend who picks us up; or one random person who takes us in! And we realize goodness was never in the places we thought it was! It was all along in the most humble of places: bound up in the heart of a true friend.
C. JoyBell C.
I don't buy junk. When I buy something, it's got to be perfection or I don't want it. You won't find me coming home with five cheap suits, one for each day of the week. I'd rather have one perfect suit or none.
Nancy Horan
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.
Alan W. Watts
Lead by inspiration, not intimidation.
Rebecca Aguilar
The way I’d put it,” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.
Mark Lawrence
I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. Nobu's touch had made a deeper impression on me than most. No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between us. Somewhere in the landscape of my life Nobu would always be present. But could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them?
Arthur Golden
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
Meridel Le Sueur
If God does indeed exist, then He is good, and He is just, and He stands upon the side of right.
Dina L. Sleiman
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
Caroline Myss
Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.
Chila Woychik
I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.
R.A. Salvatore
Death is the end of our ephemeral life and the beginning of an infinite eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis
You have business and pleasure to attend to. As an expert in both, allow me to advise you to put them aside for the next ten minutes. Why? “Because the world is about to transform, and you will want to be able to say you saw it happen. The axes of our little universe are about to flip, and you’ll want to get your magboots set.
G.S. Jennsen
A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.
James MacDonald
What is it about her, Duncan?” he said finally. “She fights me at every turn, then nearly dies defending me. She comes more than willingly to my bed, then runs the very next morning. She wants nothing to do with me, and yet I find her... fascinating.
D.B. Reynolds
Dreams are doorways into other dimensions that you forget how to open once you’re awake.
R.M. ArceJaeger
A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing.
Kemi Sogunle
Creativity isn’t necessarily a paint-by-numbers process, more as a “connect-the-dots” adventure.
Pearl Zhu
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Naomi Wolf
You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul
Renee Carlino
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.
Colson Whitehead
But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.
Cassandra Clare
Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it.
Mark Slouka
I wake upto my catsjudging me.They stareblanklyas if to say,"Is this whatyou had in mindfor your life?If it is, you maywant to considersleeping pills ora tall bridgebecause in our view,you're pathetic."Orthey're hungry.
Pamela August Russell
Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.
Benjamin Hoff
A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel was that the story should be about what the main character wants. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. George Milton wants a farm of his own. Amelia Sedley wants to marry her darling George and live happily ever after. The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gests what he wants or realizes he’s never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn’t actually want what she thought she wanted all along. pg. 324 of Bewitching
Alex Flinn
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food
Erma Bombeck
When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.
Charles Baxter
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.
Ronald Reagan
People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.
Tommy Wallach
And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.
Jodi Picoult
The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.
Maggie Stiefvater
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. Humanity will never move forward, spiritually or morally, to become superior beings.
Suzy Kassem
What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.
Julie Wright
Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?
Alison McGhee
Jesper: “If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”Kaz: “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”Matthias: “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost.
Leigh Bardugo
The SleepingI have imagined all this:In 1940 my parents were in loveAnd living in the loft on West 10thAbove Mark Rothko who painted cabbage rosesOn their bedroom walls the night they got married.I can guess why he did it.My mother’s hair was the color of yellow applesAnd she wore a velvet hat with her pajamas.I was not born yet. I was remote as starlight.It is hard for me to imagine thatMy parents made love in a roomful of rosesAnd I wasn’t there.But now I am. My mother is blushing.This is the wonderful thing about art.It can bring back the dead. It can wake the sleepingAs it might have late that nightWhen my father and mother made love above RothkoWho lay in the dark thinking Roses, Roses, Roses.
Lynn Emanuel
Wouldn't be surprising. Most immortal females behave like they're in heat."Her brows rose. "You are the one who taught me about pleasure." ... "And now in another lifetime, you ridicule me for missing it? Come on, Chase. Take me to where you live. Scared I'll find some footy pajamas? A fleshlight? I want a bath almost as much as you need to watch me take one. I get so much more talkative when I'm clean. Loreans are really fastidious, you know.
Kresley Cole
I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
Cecily von Ziegesar
I'm not sure I'll ever know the meaning of life or what comes for us after death, but I know it's more than the hysteria people make it out to be. It's about freeing your soul when no one else can; turning thirty and still feeling like you're seventeen. It's about taking chances on a whim, embracing the rain during the storm, and smiling so damn much that you start to cry. It's never regretting, never forgetting, and always being.It's kissing underwater and touching in the dark. Loving even when you think it's emotionally impossible and surviving someway and somehow. It's about living life with a full heart and an overflowing glass.I live life on the edge. I dream, I care, and I belong.I know there's a here and now.I know that I want it.
Nadège Richards
Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep.
Ada Calhoun
Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.
Asa Don Brown
But that's the thing with the what-if game-- you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way.
Elizabeth Eulberg
Enough is never enough.
Debasish Mridha
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.
Criss Jami
Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.
Lamont Renzo Bracy
Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.
Mercedes Lackey
Turn your heart into a temple of beauty and kindness.With tears of love, wash the world from hatred and sadness.
Debasish Mridha