Quotes by American Authors - Page 2638

Some wounds never show, not even in the mirror, until we see them in the expressions on the faces of people we love.
Cameron Jace
And in that moment, he knew one thing. If it was possible to slay his dragons, he’d do it. For her.
Miranda Liasson
She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.
Katherine Catmull
Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff of the world, after all, which includes dreams and wishes and fantasies and memory. And it is never really made alone, but from the material between and among us: language.
Siri Hustvedt
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.
Suzy Kassem
One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it’s the opposite.
Brownell Landrum
I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.
Becca Fitzpatrick
You make yourself happy while talking to someone. You will cease to talk when you lose the desire to impress that person.
Debasish Mridha
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
Such polite manners for an armed man who was kidnapping me. Danilo could take a few lessons from him.
Robin Bridges
Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.
Pearl Zhu
Prison is like high school with knives.
Raegan Butcher
Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.
Anthony Liccione
They ignored her because of their headphones, a thousand people marching to fifteen hundred different drummers, effectively secluded but for a very basic instinct not to bump into one another. Those that were unplugged rushed from place to place and were never actually anywhere other than “somewhere else.
Thomm Quackenbush
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Shaycarl Butler
If you let it bother you, it will bother you.
Tanya Masse
The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.
Woodrow Wilson
And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?
Elizabeth Wurtzel
It’s not called ‘falling in love’ for no reason. It’s scary! It’s like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. Or bungee-jumping without your cord attached. Or hang-gliding with only one wing.
Andrea Lochen
The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.
Ronald A. Heifetz
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
Walter Isaacson
But to dream you first must know the sleep of men. You do not smell of sleep, you do not smell of dreams. You smell of an eternity born of unremembered beginning.
Jon Steele
Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.
Jason Myers
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding patient persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle thought by thought fact by fact.
Elihu Burritt
We can’t try to outguess them anymore. Sometimes they do things just to make me do the opposite of what they think I think they think I want to do.”“Huh?” the three of them asked at the same time, confusion transforming their faces.
James Dashner
You know how to shoot?"- Emma"Yes. My dad taught me everything about gun safety. He was an expert." - Heather"What happened to him?" -Shanna"He was...shot." -Heather
Kerrelyn Sparks
We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.
Colleen Houck
Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
Frank Herbert
As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.
Annie Leibovitz
A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.
Nicholas Dawidoff
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?
Anthony Liccione
McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can't punish the military because that would make him weak? It's the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses.
Maureen Dowd
Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.
Emlyn Chand
the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
William James
Those who did know Jesus - those who followed him into Jerusalem as its king and helped him cleanse the Temple in God's name, who were there when he was arrested and who watched him die a lonely death - played a surprisingly small role in defining the movement Jesus left behing.
Reza Aslan
If you can understand and believe that you have made choices that took you to a place you don't like, doesn't it make logical sense thatyou can now make choices that will take you to a place you do like?"..."So now your game becomes one of seeking wisdom and harnessing the power of that wisdom in order to make better choices.
Andy Andrews
Once again, he became outraged that humans—more specifically his dad—would rather invest in something pointless than the people right in front of them. Would Earth still suffer and need movements dedicated to its healing if humankind was rooted in reality?
Jesikah Sundin
The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of conscience growth. We have failed to understand that individual evolution can take place not only in mental but in moral power. The earth tragically today is full of people who remain fixated on a childish level of conscience. What an illusion has blinded the human race: that our conscience is given to us once and for all at birth and we ourselves have to do little or nothing about it…The truth is that our moral capacity is purely potential and needs strenuous training, education and development. It is certainly not an organic power that comes to us at birth, like breathing, which demands little attention from us as long as we live…A revolution has to take place in our thinking about morality. We have to become as sensitive about being moral morons as we are now anxious about being intellectual idiots.
Joshua Loth Liebman
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
Benjamin Franklin
Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
Maya Angelou
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols of the heart.
Yasmin Mogahed
The last good time always comes
Stephen King
I cannot see you anymore. Your ego spans higher than the Himalayas.” Sutara
Eleni Papanou
You have the power to change not only you but also the world.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
How do you even start a book you know is going to be your last?
Scott Stambach
The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!
Latif Mercado
Many of the traditional approaches to interfaith dialogue have assumed that it can be successful only if agreements are reached about amorphous concepts and themes that various traditions may have in common. These approaches have also assumed that participants have to "weaken" or "compromise" elements of their own faith... this is not necessarily constructive for engaging in interfaith understanding and dialogue. It is only when participants have a deep understanding of their own religious traditions and are willing to learn and recognize the richness of other religious traditions that constructive cooperation can take place between groups from different faiths. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 57-58)
David R. Smock
The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal.
Anna M. Aquino
Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.
Brian Keene
Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management.
Mark Sisson
Pegasus's dad was poseidon, the god of the sea, and his mom was Medusa, and evil Gorgon who had fangs and lizard skin and living snakes for hair. And you thought your family was weird.
Evan Kuhlman
Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.
James Lee Burke
Merry Christmas!' someone shouted. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. 'Merry Christmas!''Merry Christmas!''C-cookies for ever'body!' Sammy hollered. And looking both ways, they all fled across to the light, and the warmth, and the books, and the mystery.
Jan Karon
It was too early in the morning for this fuckery.
Goldy Moldavsky
Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.
Suzy Kassem
The artist speaks with inspiring tools of creativity. Thinkers challenge with the weapons of choice. These two forces are necessary to move souls beyond limitation.
T.F. Hodge
For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
Kahlil Gibran