Quotes by American Authors - Page 2737

The moment you feel joy, the moment you laugh and change your perception, you change your immunity, your body chemistry, and your whole well-being.
Debasish Mridha
Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a sadist. You've brought me to my knees. You've dominated me. You've told me who I am and then challenged me to be it. If you made me strong enough to stand up to the world, let me stand by you. If you completed the woman I am, let me be that woman in your honor. Every part of my body is dedicated to you. Every note I sing. Every breath in my lungs. My pleasure and pain. Take me. Let me serve you. Let me be yours.
C.D.Reiss
You need to acquire a lover, Madam President.
Lynn Raye Harris
Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.
Geraldine Brooks
I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Stephen King
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.
Patricia J. Williams
You are either born a writer or you are not.
Cormac McCarthy
I give him a smile I don't really own.
Alyson Noel
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
William S Burroughs
You cannot escape God's call on your life. He will pursue you to the ends of the earth!
Jim George
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James Carswell
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Robert A. Heinlein
Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.
Andrea Seigel
The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To Be Loner, You Can Be More Alone and if You Want to Connect , It Makes Easier to Connect.
Esther Dyson
Eat Chew Live' is not like other diet or weight loss books. There are no programs to follow, menus to cook, or products to buy, this book is about respecting how your body works.
John M. Poothullil
It’s so easy and convenient to buy our children gifts, but I encourage and challenge you to give them gifts that TRULY matter! The gift of unconditional love. The gift of encouragement. The gift of support. The gift of friendship. The gift of communication, understanding, and patience. The gift of guidance and support. The gift of quality time. And the gift of loving them for who THEY are. Material things are nice, but NOTHING compares to genuine love! Parenting should be taking seriously.
Stephanie Lahart
We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.""Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?""Poor grammar skills.
Lita Burke
The Lord will provide.
Francine Rivers
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner
Each city in the southeastern part of the United States has its own unique type of specialty food that can be only found in that city, and it all happens to be called 'barbecue'.
Jim Gaffigan
I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.
Justice Potter Stewart
When you believe in your beauty, only then can everyone see it.
Debasish Mridha
When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.
Stephen King
Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.
Sarah Dessen
you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
Ilona Andrews
Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.
Gladys Taber
Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.
Sarah Dessen
Okay, guys. Stop it. Are you going to start peeing on me to mark your territory?
Maegan Lynn Moores
i love purple and blue!!!!!
Alyson Noel
Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?
Russell Hoban
It may be that actual tears have stained the tile floors or soaked into the carpets of such places. It may be that these tears can never be removed. And everywhere the odor of melancholy, that is the very odor of memory.
Joyce Carol Oates
Reform must come from within not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
James Cardinal Gibbons
You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind.
Debasish Mridha
It occurred to him, for the first time, that it did unflattering things to a person when affection was taken away from them. For there had been a time when she had seemed gorgeous, and fun, and all of her naughtiness had had for him a kind of irresistible pull. It was only after he decided he didn't want her anymore that she became a shrew, and obliterated his memory of the girl she used to be.
Anna Godbersen
It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.
Jenny Lawson
Harold's Bow and FoodBowl bowl bowl bowlFood food food foodThe miracle of the heavenly restaurantI mouth thisgreat dark sad eveningSuddenly they come for me in a limousineHow could I have believed I was vanquishedI never lay slain Iam the victor this parade is for meNow they have led me to the doors of GodLong ago and foreverI was in this placeon the other side of eatingwhere I am full and the emptybowl is beautiful-- from Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
Denis Johnson
I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her handfrom his face, kissed her palm, then pressed it flat against his chest. "Beatings, battles, fights. No matter how bleak the circumstance, no matter how my soul despaired ... this heart never once gave up." His voice deepened, went thick with emotion. "I've a theory as to why. Do you want to hear it?"She nodded."This heart is yours. It's yours," he said. "It always will be.
Tessa Dare
We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.
Gillian Flynn
You can dance. You can make me laugh.You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got one thing. You always know just what to say And when to go, But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark, But I've got one thing: I loved you better. Last night I woke up,Saw this angel. He flew in my window. And he said, Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh?" And I looked around and said, Who me?" And he said, "The higher you fly, the faster you fall."He said, "Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's rainbow. Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's Angel.
Laurie Anderson
It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.
Clayton M. Christensen
The Potomac had taken away Linda and the boys.tThe Rio Negro had given him Daniela.tOne river had swallowed his heart; another river, halfway around the world, had gifted it back. A different heart, beaten up, scarred, but a beating heart at least.
Dana Marton
Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza.
Suzanne Collins
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
Philip K Dick
The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter... With citizen-soldiers, with the certainty of a vigorous political debate over the use of a military subject to politicians' control, the idea was for us to feel it- uncomfortably- every second we were at war. But after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war that they left us... war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.
Rachel Maddow
I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I’m doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.
Wendy Ely
It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.
Robin Hobb
Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.
L. Frank Baum
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole
Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about.
Charlie Huston
Mathematics is one of the major modern mysteries. Perhaps it is the leading one, occupying a place in our society similar to the religious mysteries of another age. If we want to know something about what our age is all about, we should have some understanding of what mathematics is, and of how the mathematician operates and thinks.
Mortimer J. Adler
There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.
Theresa Smith
I don't see how being handsome can possibly harm a man. It's just another cheap privilege that took zero effort to attain.
Jamie Le Fay
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
Criss Jami
Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.
Lloyd Alexander
...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even sometimes hear that we went to HLS (Hogwarts Law School).
J.D. Vance
In what is now known as Bodh Gaya…a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or “enlightenment tree,” and I watched the rising of the morning star and came away no wiser than before. But later I wondered if the Tibetan monks were aware that the Bodhi tree was murmuring with gusts of birds, while another large pipal, so close by that it touched the holy tree with many branches, was without life. I make no claim for the event: I simply declare what I saw at Bodh Gaya.
Peter Matthiessen
You may run from the calling, but, you will find no real peace until you fulfill your destiny.
Madison Thorne Grey
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Stephen King