Quotes by American Authors - Page 2599

You can’t get the blood out.
Steven Ramirez
When girls see women in leadership roles speaking out for what they believe in, they see it is possible for them, too. Instead of a faraway dream, their aspirations become real, concrete and achievable. Womanhood starts to look more inviting.
Tabby Biddle
What am I dying for?
Stephenie Meyer
It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.
Darrell Hammond
I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists.
David Silverman
We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.
Paula McLain
[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.
Daniel Quinn
One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.
Ogden Nash
Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. “Christ, how can our family be mankind’s best hope?
Natasha Larry
Don't give yourself a limit and you may discover you don't have one.
Veronica Blade
The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.
Ann Lauterbach
I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.
Katherine Hannigan
There it is."And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again."The Happiness Machine," he said. "The Happiness Machine.
Ray Bradbury
The only interesting ideas are heresies
Susan Sontag
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
Tillie Olsen
If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.
Madeleine L'Engle
Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.
Al Stone
The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth.
Eileen Granfors
Pornography is anything that depicts lewdness in such a way as to create impure thoughts and lusts. However, the sewers continue to flow, destroying the moral fabric of our society.
Billy Graham
Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event!
Roberto Hogue
People and events of wonder and magic are the lifeblood of the world.
Jason Mott
...So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!
Solomon Northup
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
Harry G. Frankfurt
Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life.
Debasish Mridha
Stop,” he murmured, or at least that’s what he meant to say. It came out sounding more like “Yes,” which probably wasn’t the same thing at all.
Tawna Fenske
Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Murder was a fascination as always.
Erik Larson
Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.
Shelly Crane
J!m squinted his first hate of the day.
Larry Doyle
What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?''Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you think we'd do, burn them on a pyre?''Forget I asked
Scott Lynch
It was the ghetto. I had seen them before from the high altitude of one who could look down and pity. Now I belonged here and the view was different. A first glance told it all. Here it was pennies and clutter and spittle on the curb... Here was the indefinable stink of despair. Here modesty was the luxury. People struggled for it... Here sensuality was escape, proof of manhood for people who could prove it no other way... Here hips drew the eye and flirted with the eye and caused the eye to lust or laugh. It was better to look at hips than at the ghetto.
John Howard Griffin
By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.
S. Kelley Harrell
When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.
Lois Mowday Rabey
Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.
J.R. Ward
A true friend let’s you know that the door is always open, even when it’s closed.
Charles F. Glassman
What is she doing here? I wondered. Hasn't she had enough green-upping?
Lisa Papademetriou
Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.
Lynn C. Tolson
By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.
Cassandra Clare
Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit.
Toni Sorenson
Soft woman and hard metal...unexpected & sexy as hell. Had she been real?
Mina Khan
Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop.""What?""What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple.""Raisa, this is getting us nowhere.""Say it!
Cinda Williams Chima
Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything stra
Tamora Pierce
Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
Emilie Autumn
Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.
Chieko N. Okazaki
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The passion to teach, to share deeplyexperienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.
Vera B. Williams
When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.
Mark Batterson
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K Le Guin
Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.
Shannon L. Alder
I say, "Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again.""Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would have learned about him in the relationship, you are instead learning in the breakup. You have learned that he has a desperate desire for intimacy and then a desperate desire for the cave. He will get lonely there eventually and come back.""To me?"He doesn't pause. "To someone new.""And I'll have to watch another girl?""You will have to, but you will also know what lies ahead for that poor girl.
Emma Forrest
Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.
Adam Berlin
I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.
Robert James Waller
Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what’s the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you’re not at its mercy. When you don’t understand, you’re lost in the midst of it.
Stephen Levine
But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.
Walter M. Miller Jr
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.
Joseph Campbell
Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.
Diana Peterfreund
There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one and nothing can break you, and the second is that you become so hard that nothing and no one can break you. Either way you go, the path will be very painful. But herein is the great sadness of it all: that anyone must try to become something that cannot be broken (whether the soft or the hard). Why must we be born into a world where we must spend our lives struggling to become unbreakable?
C. JoyBell C.
Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied.
E.A. Bucchianeri
And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.
Dave Pelzer