Quotes by American Authors - Page 2669

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.
Mitch Albom
It’s only when you’re at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.
Gina Barreca
Sorry, Sister. You're not “normal.” You're exceptional. You're a Bombshell. If this was easy, everyone would be a successful business owner.
Amber Hurdle
You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced you to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.
Maria Dahvana Headley
On the other side of that line was freedom—the kind of freedom that can never be taken away from you. It was freedom from our self-imposed limitations. Although through our training we have grown to believe that running 52 consecutive miles was possible, none of us really believed in our heart of hearts that it was probable. As individuals, each of us struggled with their own fear and self-doubt. But the moment we cross that finish line, we have given ourselves the gift of freedom from our fears, our self-doubt, and our self-imposed limitations.
Hal Elrod
As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death," - John Carstairs
Cassandra Clare
I never try to defend religion. Religion has spawned wars. Many so-called religious people have been characterized by prejudice, pride, and bickering . . . I would call you to a simple faith in Jesus, who said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.
Billy Graham
Sometimes the best way out of darkness is into it.
Alena Graedon
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
George Santayana
We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
Edith Hamilton
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
Timothy J. Keller
Oh, how clearly I see your faults! Such distinctly highlighted flaws; it's as if the sun and moon mean to keep them illuminated in my eyes. My mind is quick to spell out a simple remedy for those defects. But alas, poor me! My own faults―which I only assume to have because all do―are blurred and obscured by a mental fog. I've no eyes with which to gaze back at myself. The sun and moon refuse their illumination, and my mind offers no sure elixir but a complex recipe scribbled in foreign words I scarcely comprehend.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help)
Robert A. Schuller
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
Charles Frazier
I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.
Stephenie Meyer
That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.
Yvette Christiansë
The question that naturally occurs is “What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?” Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we would have 4.3 years to watch the light of this magnificent event spreading across the sky, as if tipped from a giant can. What would it be like if we had four years and four months to watch an inescapable doom advancing toward us, knowing that when it finally arrived it would blow the skin right off our bones? Would people still go to work? Would farmers plant crops? Would anyone deliver them to the stores?
Bill Bryson
My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house.
Jennifer L. Holm
The verbal tool of exploring mystery together is not confrontation or preaching but dialogue. We subject ourselves to the same questions we pose to others, and as we traverse them together, we may arrive at surprising conclusions we could never have reached when simply trying to defeat one another's logic. Our questions are open ended, granting the other person the freedom to respond or not to respond. The questions stick with us, even haunt us, long after we ask them, and we await insight together. The process is more important than an immediate decision.
Adam S. McHugh
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
Pema Chödrön
Put out more energy and it will return to you ... multiplied.
Jon Tetsuro Sumida
A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.
Marty Rubin
The message sent by this policy is that if women are to be accepted into the exclusive ranks of men, then they have to look like men: buttoned up, stuffy, and no-nonsense. As if to show a little cleavage, to highlight a curvaceous figure, or to in any way appear feminine would discount, discredit, and disqualify them.I strongly disagree with this idea. I feel that women should wear clothes that suit their bodies rather than forcing themselves into unflattering men's suits and that it is feminist to make a wide range of women's clothes acceptable business attire.
Tim Gunn
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.
Richard Nixon
In the grueling light that passed for day...
Cormac McCarthy
Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?
Kristin Hannah
Never quit on your one and only dream !!!
Raven Kaldera
He smiled. "I bet the paper ran something about you once your hiring was confirmed. A new cop is big news in a small town. People were probably admonished to make you feel at home."tShe shook her head with some amusement. "I would have felt more at home if they shot at me,.
Dana Marton
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
Cassandra Clare
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.
Nicholas Sparks
Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.
Dave Barry
But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve.
Katie McGarry
Sometimes impossible things are true things.
Gina Linko
There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.
James Baldwin
In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.
Charles Baxter
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
Sue Monk Kidd
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
Joel Salatin
Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked.My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile.Really, a smile.'Not in a million years,' he said.
Gary D. Schmidt
Triumph by putting a little soul into it!
Nancy S. Mure
Maybe I naively subscribed to the foolish notion that my love could save him. Whatever the reason, I entered the room and sank to the carpet beside that sad and broken boy.
A. Meredith Walters
...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.
John Williams
Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us.
Jaeda DeWalt
My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.
Thomas Sweeney
If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.
Bill Johnson
Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.
Joel Osteen
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
Donald Miller
I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be changed. I didn't want this life. They're were only so many times I could hear that I should never have been born, before I wished it to be true.
Rebecca Donovan
If someone you love and care for is determined to traverse the path of despair, natural law obliges that they ‘will’ regardless of any and all efforts to redirect their lowly path.
T.F. Hodge
A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.
Teju Cole
Doing your homework and being well prepared for appointments is one of the most powerful ways to set yourself apart from your competition to gain and retain new clients.
Susan C.Young
I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope
I don’t really understand the world anymore. But maybe there’s some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.
Greg Iles
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James Baldwin
The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass.
James Patterson
Charles Tucker had starred in Ella's dreams ever since she was fourteen.
Rachel Harris
Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the grownups I saw, nodding politely to each other without affection, and decided to put my true self in a time capsule for later use.
Aurora Levins Morales
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Chuck Palahniuk
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Marianne Williamson