Quotes by American Authors - Page 2726

Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone- I have no proof for it.Elizabeth: You were alone wit
Arthur Miller
Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
Werner Von Braun
Patience with others is Love Patience with self is Hope Patience with God is Faith.
Adel Bestavros
Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.
Harold Bloom
Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.
Jonathan Carroll
As Christians, we're supposed to be the salt of the earth, not the filler.
Brian Reynolds
No animal could change the character of the land as the presence of the wolf had that day.
Barry Babcock
The moon reminds me that God made it just for us. And that back when Jesus lived on the earth, He went to sleep every night, just like me, and He, too, likely looked up at it---at the same exact moon I see every night---from wherever He laid His head. And where did he lay His head, compared to where we lay ours every night? On the dirt and grass of the earth. He took nothing for Himself, and now He provides me with a bed, and a roof, and all these friends, and meals...and this music class.
Dawn Crandall
Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself.
Bryant McGill
Just because I'm insane doesn't mean I have to act all crazy.
Diana Rowland
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.
Lois McMaster Bujold
A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle.
Vera Nazarian
Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman
You’re beautiful and wild and kind, and I can’t stop thinking about you.” A sunny, foolish smile breaks across his face. “It’s wrong and stupid and wonderful, Zahra. I didn’t mean for it to happen, but here I am. I love you.
Jessica Khoury
And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.
Nicholas Sparks
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
Robert E. Howard
A person who thinks about "why" is a philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a secret society that controls world government, toys with our banking system, and single-handedly keeps the fez industry afloat.
Stephen Colbert
It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.
Michael Chabon
It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.
Ray Bradbury
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.
Zig Ziglar
Save your golden days as time goes byBefore golden years expire
Richard L. Ratliff
I learned a long time ago that you have to be able to laugh no matter what. Otherwise you start weeping and never stop.
Catherine Jones Payne
You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
Alice Sebold
But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continuity? What if you step out? Where do you sit at the reunion? How do you mark time's passage without the fear that you've just frittered away your time on earth without being relevant? You'll need to find another purpose, another measure by which to judge whether or not you have been a successful human being. I love children, but what if I don't have any? What kind of person does that make me?Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where "all is correct." But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course." Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a far more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will also be more perilous.
Elizabeth Gilbert
But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.
Mitch Albom
When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.
Guy Finley
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe
We live in a world where extraterrestrials could be everywhere and you would never know. A world driven by god’s, unexplained structures, countless stories and extraterrestrial occurrences. There is proof that our planet has been and still continues to be visited by extraterrestrial life, but until we are able to capture and study them, the question will remain. Do Aliens Really Exist?
Michael E Emmering
I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you’re alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.
Laura Anderson Kurk
Value your wife by valuing what she says.
Jim George
Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.
Maureen F. McHugh
Don't go looking for worry. It finds you on its own.
Autumn Jordon
Veeva should count her blessings. Three years ago it was cocaine and a year ago it was crack and lemme tell you, that stuff you got to have. You do anything for that high." He laughed again, savoring his memories. "Where do you think the furniture went? Up my nose, that’s where. She finally had me carted out of here screaming like an insane man. Spent some time in Bellevue with little sparkly bugs coming out my orifices. Compared to that being a drunk is practically a sensible existence.
Dan Ahearn
Follow your heart; don’t fear changes. With love, the heart changes its content.
Debasish Mridha
I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be.
Michael Cunningham
Are you brave enough to live your DASH: birth year – death year?
andrea T Goeglein
We're really endless in a way. If time goes on forever, then any way you divide it is also forever. A tenth of infinity is infinity. It's only us that think the time is gone. It isn't. We're still there. Still at our wedding. Still on honeymoon. All the good times are still happening. Even in the middle of the bad times to come, we'll still be together. Forever, in a way.
Jason Dias
When you smile from within good things come to you from without. Just breathe, your music will come.
Lisa Fantino
I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.
Cheryl Drake Harris
I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.
Justin Cronin
Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.
Ryan Lilly
Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...
Cate Tiernan
Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.
Jane Smiley
Why didn't you let me die? You could have finally been free.""I gave up trying to imagine a world without you." - Essallie & Kayden
Alivia Anders
Charles Kindleberger explained the self-perpetuating feeding frenzy that develops when speculators start making money: 'There is nothing so to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich.
Zac Bissonnette
If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.
T.K. Naliaka
Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.
Julia Quinn
Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn't really exist.
Laurie Notaro
I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.
Emily Giffin
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later
Christie Golden
It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.
Kate DiCamillo
When you don’t question something and you know in your heart that it’s true, it’s like love. If you have to ask yourself if you love someone, you probably don’t. You can make it very complicated because even though you know in your heart that it’s true, you don’t always consult with your heart because your head wants you to think that it’s always right, but your head can confuse you. The heart is the one that’s always right.
Kate McGahan
If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.
Sylvester Stallone
The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.
Lisa Shearin
He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.
Stephen King
God save our Gracious King Long live our Noble King God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
Henry Carey