Quotes by American Authors - Page 2547

Imagine the clouds drippingDig a hole in your garden to put them in
Yoko Ono
There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.
DaShanne Stokes
How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?
N K Jemisin
He just likes to have fun, Papa.""That's not a quality that gets you far in life.
Adriana Trigiani
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
Carolyn Wells
For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a humanistic education has to do with a consciousness of, and a familiarity with, the limits that you’ll spend the rest of your life talking about and pushing against.
Joshua Rothman
When Scripture talks about the heart, it’s not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It’s talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).
Billy Graham
The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.
Cathie Linz
Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous.
Noam Chomsky
Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.
James Rozoff
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.
Jay Asher
Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.
Lindy West
It never got weird enough for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
My voice of reason is always Lola. "You're a jackass.""You only say that when I'm being your voice of reason.""Out of my head, witch. And don't piss me off, I tell her. "I'll buy you underwear one size too small for Christmas and make you hate life.
Christina Lauren
They looked so familiar that for a moment Claude feared he had doubled back to Mrs. Merritt's city, until a sudden wave of water blinded his wipers and drove him along with everyone else to the curb, where the crackling radio reported an old man had just now been swept from his backyard by a cloudburst, the latest in a series deluging Tulsa. Clinging there to the side of the hill, no hand brake, Claude rode out the storm, stuffing blankets into the cracks under the doors, watching overhead drips as best he could with the babyseat. When the car next in front crept away from the curb, Claude followed as far as a gas station. There he wondered aloud what lay ahead, but the attendant couldn't say, having swum to work just five minutes ago. Now as Claude pulled away the rain suddenly ceased, it seemed from exhaustion, and for the next hundred miles he spun his dial to catch the latest reports: that old man was still missing, he had last been seen floating downhill toward the river, he had been found, he was dead, he was dying, he was still missing... Claude turned off the radio, for he was beyond range of Tulsa, and Joplin had not heard the news yet. He raced in silence toward the night which he knew already had begun not far ahead.
Douglas Woolf
Love is an energy to which we all must tune it. There is no greater power Source.
Ka Chinery
People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.
Julie Johnson
Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.
Nenia Campbell
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass
Change is the law of life.
John F Kennedy
Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Knowledge doesn't exist in matters of the heart.
Willowy Whisper
My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.
Nell Casey
Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.
Megan McCafferty
Why should she have to feel unsafe? Didn't this world belong to her as much as it belonged to any man? Yes it did. McKenna refused to let them make her feel unsafe, either by cornering her, or by making her feel like she needed one to protect her
Marina Gessner
You have your own problems right now, Zenik, said a voice in her head. Stop worrying about saving the world and save your own ass. Sometimes her inner voice could be very wise.
Leigh Bardugo
To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.
William Graham Sumner
In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).
John Scalzi
The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.
Michael Singer
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.
Greta Garbo
No one has ever made me feel like this, no one. So much regret, so much loss, and so much desire all swirled together in my muddled brain. In my muddled heart.
Melissa Brown
One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.
Criss Jami
Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. That’s their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right things and not the wrong things.
Massad Ayoob
It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .
Seré Prince Halverson
As women, we'd be exponentially lighter if we'd sort through some of our emotional clutter... We need to dispose of the crud that we no longer need. Excerpt from essay #3 "What's in my Purse?
Dianne Bright
It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!
Bette Lee Crosby
Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.''Don't think I care for that.
Mindy McGinnis
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.
David Allen
Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there?Should he not seek his own country?His miseries are his ally; they urge him on. Let them grow, if need be. But do not forsake the secret of life; do not despise those kingly desires. We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.
John Eldredge
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named Dr. Pipt before Ozma had forbidden her subjects to work magic. Dr. Pipt had made the Glass Cat to catch mice, but the Cat refused to catch mice and was considered more curious than useful.This astonishing cat was made all of glass and was so clear and transparent that you could see through it as easily as through a window. In the top of its head, however, was a mass of delicate pink balls which looked like jewels but were intended for brains. It had a heart made of a blood-red ruby. The eyes were two large emeralds. But, aside from these colors, all the rest of the animal was of clear glass, and it had a spun-glass tail that was really beautiful.
L. Frank Baum
Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
Rebecca Solnit
Be brave enough to be simple and humble.
Debasish Mridha
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it we have lived by it we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan
Uh…I’ve seen you around here a couple of times,” he said again, staring at the book I held. “‘I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.’”I stared. “What?”His lopsided grin spread into a full one, and it felt like someone had socked me in the chest. “It’s a quote from Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. It’s one of my favorite books.”Hot and smart. And apparently he was a real-life boy.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
It’s the Olympics. If you can’t get up to swim early in the morning, don’t go.
Michael Phelps
Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.
DaShanne Stokes
I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother.
Debasish Mridha
Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.
Robin Hobb
If you fear doing something, don’t discourage others who are doing it.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
-and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.
Michael F. Moore
Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.
Todd Stocker
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)
David McCullough
By holiday time, Buena Vista Street felt like Bedford Falls, with its vintage lights and decorations, and a classic Santa Claus listening to children's holiday wishes at Elias & Co. Cocoa clutching---Guests in scarves and parkas filled the streets and shops.
Leslie Le Mon
In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.
Suzanne Collins
A friend cannot be ownedThat is plain to seeFriendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby
Stephen Cosgrove