Quotes by American Authors - Page 2623

I want to empasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.
Janet Bode
You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.
Anthony Liccione
When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God.
Billy Graham
I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.
I.M. Pei
For a hero is someone who is selfless. Think about it, friends. Superman, Luke Skywalker, and Captain America. They are helping others. They aren’t only thinking for themselves. They are reaching out beyond themselves.
Mark Andrew Poe
Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.
Jen Pollock Michel
There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
Jeff Buckley
Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.
Kevin Brockmeier
Let today be the day you finally stop having a conflict between your actions and your goals. When you align your greatest intent with purposeful action, you create a universal symphony serenading your success!
Steve Maraboli
Where there is light, there is a way out of the darkness
Ashley Earley
Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.
Vladimir Nabokov
I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.
Scott Westerfeld
This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink.
Terence Paul Winter
She poured her heart into the song and filled it with everything she felt
Andrew Peterson
Problems are providence in disguise. All things good and bad, problematic and praise worthy are providential-God conceived, sustaining and guiding. With the right perspective, patience, hard work and hindsight, we can push through, beyond our pain, to a place of realization... that our troubles are simply part of the hands of the Potter who molds the very essence of our human spirit. As long as we breathe, we will be shaped by our problems but it’s our response that truly defines us. ~Jason Versey
Jason Versey
Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer his personal salvation and personal Christian graces have their being bloom and fruitage in prayer.
E.M.Bounds
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce
Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not be appreciated. “Mrs. Kaspar” sounded too like a phone solicitor, which would not do after having kissed the circumference of her son's neck.
Thomm Quackenbush
It is not our job to remain whole.We came to lose our leavesLike the trees, and be born again,Drawing up from the great roots.
Robert Bly
Caro: "Bite me."Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.
Kristin Hannah
I have tried to tell him in a dozen different ways that I am only six inches tall. I've told him I am as tall as his heart, that he could hold all of me in his hand, that I am shorter than I appear. Every time, he's acted as though I'm saying something romantic or poetic.
Jennie Bates Bozic
I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children.
Suzy Kassem
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
I know.” He leaned in and brushed his knuckles across her cheek. “And you can try and pretend it’s okay. That you’re strong and tough and you don’t need anyone. That you didn’t need her. But that’s all bullshit. I know it, and you know it.”Savannah stared at Cole.“You’re so pushy. I told you my story. Why can’t you leave it alone?”“Have you ever dealt with it?”She’d spent so many years holding it all inside.“I’m here right now, aren’t I? I obviously dealt with my past.”“I’m not talking about surviving it. Yeah, you survived it. But you haven’t let go of it.” He rubbed her arm. “What she did to you mattered. It wasn’t fair.”He was wrong. She was fine. It didn’t matter. She had always shown everyone how strong she was.“Show me how you feel, Peaches.”Her bottom lip trembled. She got up, walked to the window to look outside, staring at the darkness, not really seeing anything but the years falling away, stripping away the cool, confident woman she was now, revealing the scared little girl she once was. She’d vowed to never go back to that place, to never revisit those feelings again, yet here she stood.Cole wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened.“It’s okay to be vulnerable, Savannah, to let someone see you scared.”“I’m not scared. Not anymore.
Jaci Burton
... Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go." "Not a bad ability.""... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.
Madeleine L'Engle
Ain’t nothing scarier than someone with nothing.
J.D. Jordan
The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.
James D. Sass
Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.
Noam Chomsky
Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.
John Green
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid
Bob Dylan
Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?""Plenty of time," he said softly."Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?""Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.
Maya Banks
Stress is a false perception of fear of the unknown.
Debasish Mridha
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Toni Morrison
There is nothing wrong or right, only our thoughts make it so.
Debasish Mridha
We Were young. He didn't love me. He just thought he did. Simple as that.- Blaire Lynn
Abbi Glines
[Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God.
Billy Graham
In The End, Humans Will Become Humans Own Worst Enemy.
Chris Mentillo
I took to the Kingswood the midsummer after the Dame died. I did not swear a vow, but I kept to myself just as strictly, living like a beast in the forest from one midsummer to the next, without fire or iron or the taste of meat. I lived as prey, and I learned from the dogs how to run, from the hare how to hide in the bracken, and from the deer how to go hungry.In sorrow and pride I exiled myself to Kingswood. I shunned fire for I feared the kingsmen would hunt me down, and so by the way of cold and hunger I came near to refusing life itself. I never thought to anger or please a god by it.
Sarah Micklem
Repentance is a softening of ones heart and a realigning of ones affections.
Gary Rohrmayer
I also got the impression that having a lot of money can turn a decent person into an asshole.
Susane Colasanti
The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.
Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Philosophers have pondered that question for centuries. I'm afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That's it.
Oliver Markus
What I've learned to do is be certain that I am uncertain. To revel in the fuzziness of my understanding of the world. And to look with great anticipation toward the next moment I'll figure out that I'm wrong about something. And that lets you get on this trajectory where you just become more and more and more open.
Mike McHargue
A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains.
Chris Matakas
Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
Kahlil Gibran
History tended to repeat itself. Why should her past be any different?
Kayla Krantz
Be true to your word and your work and your friend.
John Boyle O'Reilly
One day she was going to be found dead mid-hump on a polyurethane phallus
Nicki Elson
I've got a hot shower and an even hotter bed only ten minutes from here."t"Hotter bed?"t"It's got a heater in it."tShe narrowed her eyes. "It does not."t"Hand to heaven," he said.tShe narrowed her eyes. "Does this 'heater' run on electricity?"t"Nope.
Jill Shalvis
You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.
Shannon L. Alder
Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.
Janna Malamud Smith
Those guards are going to be all sorts of pissed when they find out they've been following a bunny rabbit.
H.M. Ward
Pina colada kisses and cocaine nipsnever lie, swear to me that this feeling is real.
Lori Jenessa Nelson
Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
Erwin Raphael McManus
...nightly rolling of Mother Ocean ("It's all right, it's all right; everything is calm; we are just eating every thing that moves in here, dry people")..."p.57
Barry Hannah
A mother's love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mother have lifted cars off of their children, and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother's love is the strongest energy known to man. You must that love, and it's power.
Jamie McGuire
What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise?
William Carlos Williams
The evolutionists, piercing beneath the show of momentary stability, discovered, hidden in rudimentary organs, the discarded rubbish of the past. They detected the reptile under the lifted feathers of the bird, the lost terrestrial limbs dwindling beneath the blubber of the giant cetaceans. They saw life rushing outward from an unknown center, just as today the astronomer senses the galaxies fleeing into the infinity of darkness. As the spinning galactic clouds hurl stars and worlds across the night, so life, equally impelled by the centrifugal powers lurking in the germ cell, scatters the splintered radiance of consciousness and sends it prowling and contending through the thickets of the world.
Loren Eiseley
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
Anne Tyler