Quotes by American Authors - Page 2712

Those whodisrespect youwith their mouthdon't deserveyour ear.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
Mary's reading list betrayed her passion for forensics and detective novels. There were so many scientific journals and books randomly strewn around her little one-room apartment that it looked like the Great White Hurracane had struck inside.It's all part of my decorating scheme Mary would quip. This may look like the work of a slob, but if you look closer, you'll realize it's my way of giving color to an awfully drab floor.
Lawrence H. Levy
To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.
Marty Rubin
The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.
Catherynne M. Valente
God loves us so much that he doesn’t let us live forever so we can stop making mistakes
Carl Henegan
If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.
Shilpa Agarwal
A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
Criss Jami
Each of us is the enactor of our personal saga; we create the phantom of the self. We are the principal character in our personal story, as well as witnesses and reactors to the storylines of other persons whom we adore. We are each the composers of our evolving personal story; we are the protagonist of our personal life story.
Kilroy J. Oldster
In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.
Sharon Weil
The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life- as the only meaningful life there is. What could be more reassuring to a white public fearful that marginalized disenfranchised black folks might rise any day now make revolutionary black liberation struggle a reality than a documentary affirming that colonized, victimized, exploited black folks, are all too willing to be complicit in perpetuating the fantasy that ruling-class white culture is the quintessential site of unrestricted joy, freedom, power and pleasure.
Bell Hooks
When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever; of that god who multiplied the agonies of woman, increased the weary toil of man, and in his anger drowned a world—of that god whose altars reeked with human blood, who butchered babes, violated maidens, enslaved men and filled the earth with cruelty and crime; of that god who made heaven for the few, hell for the many, and who will gloat forever and ever upon the writhings of the lost and damned.
Robert G. Ingersoll
How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?
Teresa Medeiros
A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.
Steve Harvey
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting
Alan Dean Foster
The voices belonged to dragons.Five of them lay on or sprawled over or curled around the various rocks and columns that filled the huge cave where Cimorene stood. Each of the males (there were three) had two short, stubby, sharp-looking horns on either side of their heads; the female dragon had three, one on each side and one in the center of her forehead. The last dragon was apparently still too young to have made up its mind which sex it wanted to be; it didn't have any horns at all.
Patricia C. Wrede
It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.
Sumner Davenport
We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
Gregory Maguire
What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?
Stacey Kade
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
John James Audubon
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible.And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.
Anne Rice
You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.
Rick Riordan
That's the thing about love, it secretly attracts and demands your attention.
Debasish Mridha
I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!""You will hate the next place, too," I said. "What you are you will carry with you.
Louis L'Amour
Adam's hot Pheebs! Admit it girl. That body is like some kind of happy experiment. It's like he was manufactured in a nympho scientist's secret laboratory
Daniel Waters
A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location.
Ellen J. Barrier
To be beautiful, love is the best makeup to wear.
Debasish Mridha
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions.
Gregory Maguire
Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado
Matt Chandler
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
John Green
Craft the story now so you'll be proud to tell it later.
Tina Seelig
Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve.
Chris Matakas
What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?
Colson Whitehead
I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.
Andrea Dworkin
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
Rodney Dangerfield
My life is a fairytale stuck at the climax.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others
Alice Duer Miller
Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself.
James Baldwin
Active Hope is not wishful thinking. Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued . . . . by some savior. Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world. The web of life is calling us forth at this time. We’ve come a long way and are here to play our part.With Active Hope we realize that there are adventures in store,strengths to discover, and comrades to link arms with.Active Hope is a readiness to discover the strengthsin ourselves and in others;a readiness to discover the reasons for hopeand the occasions for love.A readiness to discover the size and strength of our hearts,our quickness of mind, our steadiness of purpose,our own authority, our love for life,the liveliness of our curiosity,the unsuspected deep well of patience and diligence,the keenness of our senses, and our capacity to lead.None of these can be discovered in an armchair or without risk.
Joanna Macy
There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.
Teresa Mummert
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Mark Twain
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison
He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.
Dianne Harman
The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that there is plutonium in their drinking water.
Bill Bryson
There are some who say that you should forgive everyone, even the people whohave disappointed you immeasurably. There are others who say you should not forgive anyone, and should stomp off in a huff no matter how many times they apologize. Of these two philosophies, the second one is of course much more fun, but it can also grow exhausting to stomp off in a huff every time someone has disappointed you, as everyone disappoints everyone eventually, and one can’t stomp off in a huff every minute of the day.
Lemony Snicket
The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.
A.W. Tozer
Easy. Peasy
P.C. Cast
When you are 70% sure, act /because the other 30% is reserved for hope /which is doubt turned upside-down.
Dean Young
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone I meet wants to give me directions, but I'm not lost.
Marty Rubin
Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up.
Germany Kent
We trust Sir that God is on our side. "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
Abraham Lincoln
What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked,” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.
Kenneth Eade
They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks.
Travis Luedke
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.
Nathaniel Branden
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.
Shannon Hale
No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.
Gaelen Foley
I’m not really interested in the black and white, the 'goodies and baddies.' I find the complexity of the gray areas more compelling, more intriguing. As I have said before, there are angels and demons in all of us, and I am interested in the relationship between the two within the ‘ordinary’ person.
Jacqueline Winspear
Individuals set boundaries to feel safe, respected, and heard.
Pamela Cummins
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world.
Sheryl Sandberg
I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.
Maya Banks