Quotes by American Authors - Page 2777

The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride . . . It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer . . . and read the Scriptures . . .the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
Billy Graham
This is why I stayed away," he growled against my mouth as his hands started to rove over me with knowing, ruthless passion. "Can't be near you without wanting you. Can't stop myself anymore--
Jeaniene Frost
Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.
Gayle Forman
Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life.
Debasish Mridha
Be calm. Keep reading.
Tom Cardamone
If love is a form of substance abuse, I hope to die high.
Crystal Woods
The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.
Neal Shusterman
Today, it felt like time should be measured by how much of the future she had left, and needed to be counted forward. She felt proud listening, as if somehow Jonathan Parish's speech reflected on her, as if she could take credit for some part of it, for him.
Michael Stein
...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
Jonathan Tropper
Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.
Peter Singer
We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.
DaShanne Stokes
Live in love to live in abundance.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
We don’t know how to feel with conscience. Ideas like integrity or devotion remain abstract, theoretically correct and good, but lacking the ability to produce immediately fulfilling emotions or sensations. What I mean by learning to think emotionally and physiologically is rediscovering the visceral joy of investing in what we already love, the kind of unquestioned spiritual relentlessness we had as kids. As adults, that demands an internal dialogue through which we transpose the search for pleasure onto a platform that is in harmony with our conscience and real responsibilities. We find the pleasure in applied conscience. That’s a lot easier than it sounds. Basically, it’s about recognizing and feeling passion for what we really want to do in our lives.
Darrell Calkins
While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.
John Woolman
A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.
Henrietta C. Mears
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
Henry Miller
A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.
Debasish Mridha
Why does a heart wear its eyesinto helllike slivers of false sunshine
Fanny Howe
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
He slid his fingers over her jaw and tilted her face up to his. "You're smarter than hell, sexier than hell, and I like you way more than I should," he said.
Jill Shalvis
Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.
Robert Townsend
At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.
Rebecca Wells
They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
Stephen King
I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths.
Stephanie Perkins
The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.
M. Scott Peck
The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discovered.
Chris Prentiss
I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
Naomi Novik
Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.
Gina McKnight
The attractive power of love is intensified proportional to the intensity of thoughts, perception of duration, and the perceived distance.
Debasish Mridha
BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.
Jim Butcher
Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five.
Natasha Friend
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
Krista Tippett
Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall.
Jim George
In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go as far as to just stick it in your pocket and walk off. Now, if it was a good thing, they wouldn’t do that. I mean, would somebody drop something beautiful in my pocket and just walk off? But I don’t want to have anything to do with any of that. I mean, as corny as it sounds, but this is how I really believe: Natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. Who wants to take something and just sit around for the rest of the day after you take it (drugs), and don’t know who you are, what you’re doing, where you are? Take in something that’s gonna inspire you to do greater things in the world.
Michael Jackson
Take away all the moral beauty and sweetness in the Word, and the Bible is left wholly a dead letter, a dry, lifeless, tasteless thing. By this is seen the true foundation of our duty, the worthiness of God to be so esteemed, honoured, loved, submitted to, and served, as He requires of us, and the amiableness of the duties themselves that are required of us. And by this is seen the true evil of sin; for he who sees the beauty of holiness must necessarily see the hatefulness of sin, its contrary. By this men understand the true glory of heaven, which consists in the beauty and happiness that is in holiness. By this is seen the amiableness and happiness of both saints and angels. He that sees beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world, which is the fulness of all things, without which all the world is empty, no better than nothing, yea, worse than nothing. Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth the seeing; for there is no other true excellency or beauty. Unless this be understood, nothing is understood that is worthy of the exercise of the noble faculty of understanding. This is the beauty of the Godhead, and the divinity of Divinity (if I may so speak), the good of the infinite Fountain of good; without which, God Himself (if that were possible) would be an infinite evil; without which we ourselves had better never have been; and without which there had better have been no being.
Jonathan Edwards
Goodbye worry, fear, doubt, and guilt. Hello grace.
Tamara L. Chilver
Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don't know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges.
Jane Smiley
So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!
David Saltzman
the shooting and killing weren’t as black-and-white as most people think. The actions live in that hazy area of blown-apart stone walls and hesitations. Sometimes I shot when I shouldn’t have; other times I didn’t shoot when I should have. There was no way to explain why I did either. Everything happened so fast. Decisions had to be made. After I got home I began to see things in slow motion, see the actions that might’ve been mistakes.
Clint Van Winkle
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
Vladimir Nabokov
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.
Criss Jami
I don't get it, guys, I continued. I'd want to date me. Why is it so hard for me? I'm wicked fun, I dress nicely, I'm friendly... I'd love to date me. Wouldn't you?
Kristan Higgins
That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.
Tana French
Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice.
Carew Papritz
My wife Ruth once said, “If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakeable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.
Billy Graham
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
Brent Weeks
The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.
Mario Puzo
You can't force feed a fool. They are blind to their need.
E'yen A. Gardner
The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
Criss Jami
While reading, we can leave our own consciousness, and pass over into the consciousness of another person, another age, another culture. "Passing over," a term used by the theologian John Dunne, describes the process through which reading enables us to try on, identify with, and ultimately enter for a brief time the wholly different perspective of another person's consciousness. When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a slave feels, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes we're inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are always enriched. Through this exposure we learn both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own thoughts -- that we are individuals, but not alone.
Maryanne Wolf
Sometimes people outside of your people act more like your people than your people.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
they have seen the likes of you before, they may be intrigued by the looks of you, but they know that you-like everyone else-will leave them in the end.
Terra Elan McVoy
No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.
Julia Quinn
There’s no standard career path to becoming a deconstructor of wrongness,
David H. Freedman
that's what i mean about cats. they're always trying to make fools of us humans.
Lilian Jackson Braun
One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
Charles Baxter