Quotes by American Authors - Page 2650

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
Ray Bradbury
Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and with little regard for the people they were expected to serve. Weber famously warned that those who allow themselves to be guided by rules will soon find that those rules have defined their identities and commitments.
Michael Barnett
I continued toward Atlanta with a Merle Haggard C.D. playing on the stereo. They weren't great hosts, but those guys in The Ted Kaczynski Fan Club had great taste in music. It was all classic country music- none of that sissy, boy-band country that they played on the radio all the time. I drove down the road while Merle preferred to just stay where he was and drink.
Ian McClellan
A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else’s.
Kathy McClary
What if the Devil doesn't know he's the Devil?
Cathrine Goldstein
Hell, yes. I love you; that’s not going to change. I want this, I want you, and I think . . . Oh hell, here comes the Dawson’s Creek.” He grimaced and I chuckled in spite of the moment.His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. “I don’t want to put things off, even though we haven’t been together a really long time. I don’t want to wait—you never know what can . . . Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you.
Alice Clayton
The answer to our prayer may be coming, although we may not discern its approach. A seed that is underground during winter, although hidden and seemingly dead and lost, is nevertheless taking root for a later spring and harvest.
Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
Where moments before the bright morning sun flickered through the branches of the huge oak trees surrounding the property, every-thing in a ten yard radius immediately went pitch dark. The air, already a chilly fifty degrees, dropped past freezing in an instant, and the pressure changed to the point where he thought his eardrums might burst.
Joe DeRouen
A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and don’t always state. You know my fury about people is based precisely on the fact that I consider them to be responsible, moral creatures who so often do not act that way. But I am not surprised when they do. I am not that wretched a pessimist, and I wouldn’t sound the way I sound if I did not expect what I expect from human beings, if I didn’t have some ultimate faith and love, faith in them and love for them. You see, I am a human being too, and I have no right to stand in judgment of the world as though I am not a part of it. What I am demanding of other people is what I am demanding of myself.'- James Baldwin
Margaret Mead
bottom of page 33:We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.
Sara Eckel
Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.
Catherynne M. Valente
Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
Rita Rudner
I am a speck of dust in an ocean of time, floating with the waves of change, vanishing with the infinite. I have no time to complain, condemn, or criticize because I am so busy loving, enjoying, appreciating, and being kind.
Debasish Mridha
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
Anna Godbersen
It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you’re thinking, “My life is precious and you’re not allowed to hurt me.
C. JoyBell C.
We huddle tightly together as cowards, protecting the ranks of our false collective identity from "less-human" intruders, when the only obvious and sane truth is that we are all the same human beings.
Bryant McGill
What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.
Truman Capote
All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
Sarah Dessen
Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.'Nice little paraphrase of "An it harm none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself.
Mercedes Lackey
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Be careful with the government, for they befriend a person only for their own needs. They appear to be friends when it is beneficial to them, but they do not stand by a person at the time of his distress.
Yosef Marcus
Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.
Peter Kreeft
I thought all men were the enemy," he said as a tease. I narrowed my eyes. "Well who exactly do you think teaches little girls to see other little girls as the enemy, when in fact it's all just a lie to make sure we never consolidate our talents and rise to power?" I watched Lock's expression brighten and I changed the subject before he said something annoying, like how lovely I looked when I ranted about the patriarchy.
Heather Petty
Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: "I don't understand
Anaïs Nin
Making a wish is fun to do.Dreaming it out is much fun too.Work, and your wish just might come true.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We are creating at this moment what our tomorrow will be
Robert Ghost Wolf
The greatest waste in all of our earth is our waste of the time God has given us each day.
Billy Graham
Faith is a powerful force, but you must believe in order to reap its benefits.
Andrew Wommack
Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.
Wendell Phillips
The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success.
Debasish Mridha
In Nita's experience, the best intelligence officers in any big family were found among the younger siblings. They began their careers while small, nonthreatening, and unobtrusive. By adolescence, they developed formidable powers of observation and recollection, to say nothing of an ability to lurk at keyholes and befriend the servants.
Grace Burrowes
Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.
Franny Billingsley
I've got dreams and goals waiting for me to catch up to them
Teresa Marie Garcia
I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.
Lydia H. Sigourney
The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.
Thomas C. Oden
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
Mercedes Lackey
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
Wallace Stevens
They have to say SOMETHING. Maria Bartiromo can't exactly look into the camera and say that the Dow is down half a percent today because of random Brownian motion.
Philip M. Rosenzweig
Looks like it’s game time,” Shame said. “Beautiful day for some ass kicking, don’t you think?
Devon Monk
What’s the point of doing what you’re told if you have no choice in the matter?
Cassandra Kemper
In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I never lie ― I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked them up. I fall in love quickly, it's a high that rivals drugs for a while. I am monogamous, but I always cheated with depression before the relationship fell apart. Addicts need best friends, healthy people need healthy relationships.
Emma Forrest
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
Terence McKenna
Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing and manipulating the world around us.
Brandon Garic Notch
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Courtney Lynch
DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game, it was a talisman, a touchstone, a symbol of the limitless potential of the human individual. That an Italian immigrant, a fisherman's son, could catch fly balls the way Keats wrote poetry or Beethoven wrote sonatas was more than just a popular marvel. It was proof positive that democracy was real. On the baseball diamond, if nowhere else, America was truly a classless society. DiMaggio's grace embodied the democracy of our dreams.
David Halberstam
I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.
Daniel J. Rice
Serving others prepares you to lead others.
Jim George
I dozed, jolting occasionally at the driver's loud pronouncement of upcoming stops. At this early hour the bus hummed along quietly with few passengers, so the stops were infrequent. In the hazy surrealism of predawn, there really was not much to see--what I could make out was mainly countryside, though not what I would call quaint, and certainly no Shakespearean cottages or fairy folk peeping from the trees.
Carolyn Weber
Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do
Paul Clement
Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.
John Piper
. . . and together you're what, the Super Friends?
Mark Jeffrey
Thank god for Vegas. Seriously.A lobotomy wasn’t as effective as a weekend three hours of Red Bull away (from LA, not Pismo) where I wore the thinnest pinned stilettos, gambled like a sweaty degenerate mobster in black loafers, drank like Amy Winehouse and Charles Bukowski’s baby, and snorted throat-dripping lines of coke in a Hard Rock Hotel bathroom with four new best friends. I’d giddily rub off any one of those from the to-do list I wrote in eyeliner on my hotel bathroom mirror.
Christy Heron
While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I straddled his lap and sank onto him so slowly I almost lost it. Each inch of him filled my already sensitive body. Nose to nose with him, I whispered. "You come with me.'His mouth curved into a wicked smile. "Happily.
Lisa Kessler
Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn’t dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open
Ellen Hopkins
His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not.
Lauren Groff
The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.
Marty Rubin
Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid.""Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.
Tessa Dare