Quotes by American Authors - Page 2727

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
Veronica Roth
He looked at her, amazed with her sudden nerves. “Sweetheart… marrying was never on any list of mine.” He reached for her hand and held it tightly in his. “But marrying you… now that’s something different.
Lucian Bane
As girls, we will do anything for the person whom we love. We will scale buildings in the rain or run through fire if it means saving our love’s life. There is absolutely nothing more life altering that the fire burning inside of our souls for the one we want most…
Jennifer Elisabeth
Love is a longing for giving and receiving.
Debasish Mridha
I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.
Meg Wolitzer
Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety.
Bell Hooks
My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.
Jim Highsmith
There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever.
Susane Colasanti
Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fill a flea’s lung with cannabis. It’s actually impossible to measure how fantastic I feel.
Chris Sullivan
Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander.
Roman Payne
Embrace your past. It's your greatest teacher. When you learn and apply those lessons than it no longer defines your future.
Sarah Centrella
I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.
Daniel Quinn
I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.
K. Webster
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.
Wallace Stegner
They were shiny, shiny people that were bright like light bulbs, but there I stood out like a sore thumb, my dimness flickering self, and they saw it and removed themselves from me, forming their circle of light. Until the night died, they never noticed when the sun broke open its skull of rays, where I laid by the stop sign.
Anthony Liccione
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West
The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.
David Richo
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
Anne Lamott
Be kind to express your love for life. No reason is needed to be kind.
Debasish Mridha
...I have never cared for any men as much as for these who felt the first springs when I did, and saw death ahead, and were reprieved - and who now walk the long stormy summer. It is a generation staunch by inheritance, sophisticated by fact - and rather deeply wise. More than that, what I feel about them is summed up in a line of Willa Cather's: "We possess together the precious, the incommunicable past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oh well," McWatt sang, "what the hell.
Joseph Heller
I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low--or no--expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Marketing is about spreading the love.
Jonah Berger
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier
A brand is a person.
Richie Norton
I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines.
Frank Herbert
Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.
Michelle Hodkin
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
Know that your heart can be deployed to wherever the Lord sends you in prayer
Stormie Omartian
I often wonder if my imagination is one of God’s choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
A story has value whether it's true or not.
Marty Rubin
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
Aberjhani
Who wants a library full of books you've already read?
Harlan Ellison
One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
Pat Conroy
Memories are what makes each person different.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
H. James Harrington
I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
Sherry Thomas
There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or three miles long, and, at that distance, a girl's uterus could fall out.
Gretchen Reynolds
I want the white one
Sarah Dessen
Adversity often defines dignity.
Debasish Mridha
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
Cecil B. DeMille
I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily.
Colleen Hoover
Nothing that remains static is truly ever alive. Nature does not abide idleness. All energy sources of the natural world and the cosmos are in a constant motion, they are in a perpetual state of fluctuation. All forms of living must make allowances for the seasons of change. The Earth itself is twirling through space, spinning on its axis analogous to a child’s top. The unpredictable forces of instability brought about by a combination of motion, change, and flux propels the miraculous dynamism of existence.
Kilroy J. Oldster
A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.
Linda Sue Park
I make wishes, but she says never be afraid to take chances.
Delano Johnson
You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.
Françoise Gilot
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
Mark Vonnegut
Are there any leading men in your life?""Several, but they're all fictional.
Catherine Lowell
The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.
Dinesh D'Souza
I had the strangest feeling -- like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place -- that I wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be. The sensation made me feel hollow down to my bones.
Alexandra Bracken
Right,” Thatcher said, “let’s have a look at her.”Katherine hesitated. The kitten was fast asleep in her arms and she was afraid to wake her. “Something amiss?” Thatcher asked.Katherine giggled at her capricious emotions and shoved the kitten into the surgeon’s arms. The animal woke up as Thatcher examined it. He set the kitten on the deck and watched as she wobbled around on clumsy paws. “Yes,” Thatcher nodded conclusively. “This is indeed a cat.
Matt Tomerlin
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound
Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later, sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do; sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or the same ideal, and change comes upon us like a change of weather. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope.
Rebecca Solnit
collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.
Gregory F. Treverton
I want you. I need you. For as many hours as possible, I don't want to think about anything but you.
Amanda Bouchet
Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great
James C. Collins