Quotes by American Authors - Page 2587

Without the Bible, this world would indeed be a dark and frightening place, without signpost or beacon.
Billy Graham
...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.
Gregory Benford
Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?
Rob Liano
My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.
Taylor Swift
Is being a Republican really about touting "wholesome" conservative values? Or a particular income strata? And when you say you are 'conservative', what are you really 'conserving'?And what does it mean to be a Democrat? To be half of an aristocrat? Or to be half free? Or does it mean you are more liberal? To do or think what exactly?
Suzy Kassem
For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.
Rachele Baker
To love is to give hope to even the darkest atmosphere.
Mark Andrew Poe
The wind is made of haunting souls that moan and groan in whistles and whispers. This ghostly choir chills the breeze and orchestrates a rise of goose bumps on my skin.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Mortals dies." said Catarina. "You've always known that, and yet you've loved them before.""Not," Magnus said, "like this."Catarina inhaled in surprise. "Oh," she said. "Oh..." She picked up her drink. "Magnus," she said tenderly. "you are impossibly stupid."He narrowed his eyes at her. "Am I?""If that's the way you feel, you should be with him," she said. "Think of Tessa. Did you learn nothing from her? About what loves are worth the pain of losing them?
Cassandra Clare
To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.
Joanna T. Steichen
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Carl Van Doren
In matters of love, spread kindness like a flower.
Debasish Mridha
I’ll rid the world of each one of you,” he whispered. “Every single one…
Zoe Cruz
If a man means his writing seriously he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.
John Ciardi
Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card
The angers between women will not kill us if we can articulate them with precision, if we listen to the content of what is said with at least as much intensity as we defend ourselves agains the manner of saying. When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar. I have tried to learn my anger's usefulness to me, as well as its limitations.
Audre Lorde
My life is a reading list.
John Irving
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
Never dwell in resentment, but never forget to learn from the reflection.
Debasish Mridha
The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.
Richard Henry Pratt
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
Sydney J. Harris
Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?
Gerard Way
Happiness depends on our perceptions and thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on.
Holly Hood
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
Francesca Lia Block
Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.
Pema Chödrön
Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.
Simone Elkeles
How does the story really go?Does she ever cross your mind?Does she ever steal your nights?Is she still a part of you?Do you ever wish she were still by your side?And what would you do?If she walked up here tomorrow And told you that she loved you?Would you drop it all and run to her?Would you tell her you love her too?Or would you simply send her home?And tell her you’ve moved on?Tell me, Buddy, what would you do?
Laura Miller
I am not here to entertain straight people.
Sarah Schulman
Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.
Shannon L. Alder
Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.
Corita Kent
This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.
Sam Shepard
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
Dan Simmons
Why? Do you plan to make out with her?"His teeth ground with so much force he feared they would soon be nothing but a fond memory. "I plan to question her.""Ah. So that's what the kids are calling it these days. Well, have fun." with that, a still-grinning Paris strolled from the room.
Gena Showalter
...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
Nicholas Sparks
Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for and imposing constraints on the players.
Frances McCall Rosenbluth
Relationship can end never really began.
James Hew
Hard work increases the probability of serendipity.
Ken Poirot
Her face was a grimace of surprised pain as she slid unconscious down the back of the tub and under the water. I held her under for several minutes after the blow, watching as the water went pink, then red, and finally crimson with blood.
Alistair Cross
Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.
Marsha Sinetar
From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.
Rachel Cohn
I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.
Christopher Pike
First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This one sank deep into her marrow and made her heart soar like the shuttles piercing the stratosphere.
Katherine McIntyre
The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.
Frances Mayes
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.
Dean Koontz
Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.
Diane Duane
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
Chögyam Trungpa
Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.
Neal Shusterman
Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear
Kiersten White
I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver
Phil Harris
If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.
Carl Lewis
We love those to whom we can tell our story.
Marty Rubin
We can't know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we're not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased. Like most things, probably a little of both.
Brian McGreevy
I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.
Veronica Wolff
Moon, that against the lintel of the westYour forehead lean until the gate be swung,Longing to leave the world and be at rest,Being worn with faring and no longer young,Do you recall at all the Carian hillWhere worn with loving, loving late you lay,Halting the sun because you lingered still,While wondering candles lit the Carian day?Ah, if indeed this memory to your mindRecall some sweet employment, pity me,That even now the dawn's dim herald see!I charge you, goddess, in the name of oneYou loved as well: endure, hold off the sun.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. “We are too ego-centered,” Suzuki tells Cage. “The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.”Adolescent love gives us the first chance to break the shell. Sexual love makes the ego lose itself in the object it loves. “When the ego-shell is broken and the ‘other’ is taken into its own body, we can say that the ego has denied itself or that the ego has taken its first steps towards the infinite.…The religious consciousness is now fully awakened, and all the possible ways of escaping from the struggle or bringing it to an end are most earnestly sought in every direction. Books are read, lectures are attended, sermons are greedily taken in, and various religious exercises or disciplines are tried.”Suzuki says that sexual love is a vehicle of liberation? A crack in the ego shell? A path to the infinite?At this point, if I were Cage, I would buy the book and take it home.
Kay Larson
And then it hit me—I don’t have to participate in these toxic conversations. But if I choose to, I can set a different example. I can bring love to the moment,regardless of the response. I can choose to be kind, no matter what.My power lives in my love.
Scott Stabile
Maybe we’re all a how are you away from not feeling so alone in all of this today.
Hannah Brencher
Have a Werebeast free day!" - Lucy Lowell
Bonita Gutierrez