Quotes by American Authors - Page 2833

People with a style of denial and blaming are definitely on the list of unsafe people to avoid. 10.
Henry Cloud
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
John Green
It's called publishing. It's how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains.
Steven Magee
You're too young to decide to live forever.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Faith is courage.
Lance Conrad
How can it not exist? What does that—” A tiny grey body shot in front of the Land Rover. “Squirrel!”Mad Rogan swerved to the side, trying to avoid the suicidal beast. The SUV hit a curb and jumped. For a terrifying second, we almost flew, weightless. My heart leaped into my throat. The heavy vehicle landed back on the pavement with a thud. The squirrel leapt into the grass on the other side.I remembered to breathe. “Thank you for not killing the squirrel.”“You’re welcome, although now I want to go back and strangle it.
Ilona Andrews
Don't stop," she pleaded with swollen lips. "Please, Guy, don't stop."The same hunger that ran through him had taken her as well. What kind of man would he be to leave her with such need?
Donna Grant
To enhance and expand your vision, get an education.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Of course, thousands of years of traditional masculinity weren't going away without a fight. They lingered in the vestigial memories of men, occasionally challenging a decision to read the directions or wear argyle, hoping for a day when a hurtling piece of space rock will send the world back to a time before the advent of styling gels.
Matt K. Turner
Go beyond the boundary of conformity to find the true joy of life.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior."- Hun, A. T.
Robert Lynn Asprin
Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shacking up with a German assassin. She felt tears again in her eyes, boiling. For all I have committed. Wrecked. 'Let's go,' she said, rising to her feet. 'The hairdresser.
Philip K Dick
People are going to be upset in life no matter what we do, Bexley. Might as well go big or go home. (Jude)
Frankie Love
One sister for sale,One sister for sale,One crying and spying young sister for saleI'm really not kidding so who'll start the biddingDo I hear a dollar?A nickle?A penny?Oh isnt there isnt there isnt there anyOne person who will buy this sister for saleThis crying spying old young sister for sale.
Shel Silverstein
We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.
Lemony Snicket
Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it can't be done.
Jeaniene Frost
Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.
Amy Leach
Some stories aren't meant to be told. The more they get told, the more they change from what they once were, worn down and smooth like pieces of sea glass too beautiful to have ever been broken bottles.
Caren Gussoff
Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies of the life that – born at a time and place where women could and did lay claim to all kinds of ambitions – she should elevate the role of wife to a high art. […] Traditionally, a man changes his name and braces himself for fame; a woman changes hers and passes into oblivion. This was not to be Véra’s case, although she did gather her married name around her like a cloak, which she occasionally opened to startling effect. She would never be forced to make a woman’s historic choice between love and work. Nor would Verochka, as Vladimir called her, squander any of her professional training, though as it happened her husband would be the direct (and sole) beneficiary of that expertise.
Stacy Schiff
Love is my love, power, strength, wealth, and purpose.
Debasish Mridha
Violet Lynn Parker, you’d better spill or I’ll start bellowing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.
Ann Charles
Those who fear darkness have never seen what the light can do.
Magic The Gathering
Mr. Pettifor, I’ve brought you lunch, Sir.” “Leave it on my desk,” he grouses. “It’s your favorite, Sir, a Reuben with au jus,” I say softly.
Ella Dominguez
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
One can approach the Bible with a cold, rationalistic attitude, or one can do so with reverence and the desire to hear God speak.
Billy Graham
We are taught to fear anything that can bring us closer to death — to keep us from taking huge leaps that involve risk. The only thing you should fear in this lifetime is not taking risks while you are living. I do not mean to go jump off a bridge. I mean, to go all out to reach your dreams, to dare to do things you typically would not do out of fear. Pain has a threshold and so does death. Fear neither, and never fear what has no right to be feared.
Suzy Kassem
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
Budd Schulberg
The moon has been loving us with her dreamy smile for billions of years, but still she is not tired.
Debasish Mridha
The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.
Larry Winget
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
He had seen many criminals in his years in Division. Dangerous men and even more dangerous women. Small-time hucksters and savvy crime lords. Spies, gangsters, assassins, insurgents and wannabe-revolutionaries. True believers and soulless mercs willing to kill children for the right price.
G.S. Jennsen
What is it you want, Savannah?” His voice was so low it was almost a growl.tShe looked up at his face finally as she licked her lips. He was going to make her say the words – to tell him why she was up here, knocking on his door and ogling him like the world’s greatest treat.t“You,” she said, her voice barely audible.
Samantha Chase
For he had never heard anything like it--did not know such music existed in the world--and it was hard to believe that a man he knew could play it with his own two hands. There were parts of it like birdsong, and parts like rolling thunder and hard rain, and parts that glittered like fresh snow when the sun comes out and it’s so cold the air takes your breath away. And parts were like a dust devil spinning past, or a cyclone on the horizon, and all of it cried out for words that he had only read in books and had never said aloud.
Mary Doria Russell
Her voice is raw. She sings from the deepest cracks of her heart and her soul. When she closes her eyes, I know she has lost herself in the music. - Unrequited
Alisa Mullen
You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
Bob Dylan
Every now and then, we change our minds. It's our prerogative. The big secret is" - I leaned in conspiratorially - "sometimes, even we don't know why. There are times after we pick a fight where we're as confused as you are. But there's no way we're admitting it." I shrugged a shoulder, "That's why we have boobs."Jake's eyebrows shot up."See, after we've acted crazy, and the guy's wondering what he's doing with us, we use them to mesmerize him, so he forgets that we're crazy." I shot Jake my most seductive smile and leaned the assets in question against his arm. "And by the way, if you look at my cleavage right now, even though I'm the one talking about it, I'll accuse you of not caring about what I saw and of just treating me like an object."Jake swallowed hard, keeping eye contact with me, though I could tell he was fighting his impulse to look down. A mischievous glint flickered through his eyes. "And treating you like an object would be bad?
Cindi Madsen
He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.
Sherry Turkle
I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.
Clarence Day
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise
Ted Turner
Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.
Gretchen Rubin
But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have a woman in front of you, my friend. And you are still a man. It’s still two human beings trying to get along, so it’s going to become complicated. And love is always complicated. But still humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
Elizabeth Gilbert
He speaks to the poor, the powerless, and he mocks the rich and powerful. He isn't the Messiah the Pharisees are looking for.
Stephanie Landsem
I jolt up, a scream lodged in my throat. Drops of sweat roll down my forehead and my throat hurts as if I've been screaming for a long time.
Ashley Earley
You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either."Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?
Melissa de la Cruz
Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.
Joseph P. Kauffman
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E.A. Bucchianeri
When we are truly aware of great abundance in our life, feel grateful and express gratitude for those treasures and beauty, then we are fully living.
Debasish Mridha
After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.
Brock Clarke
Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.
Nora Roberts
I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably true than other belief; I hold rather that unless you believe in God you can logically believe in nothing else
Cornelius Van Til
(This is from me: I found this and I'm dying I apologize for any non-Supernatural fans out there but omg the fandom must read this.)Dean: Dad, this is Cas.John: I'm not working with any other hunters, Dean.Dean: He's not a hunter, Dad. He's an angel. John: Well, I knew you were gay but that's no way to introduce me to your boyfriend.Dean: What? No Dad, he's literally an angel. From Heaven.
Dean Winchester Jensen Ackles
Take a moment to reflect on your life. If you are not satisfied with your reflection, then make adjustments. It's never too late to live the life of your dreams. Believe in your ability to make it happen.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Shared beliefs and values form the heart of every successful relationship and ultimately determine its success.
Frank Sonnenberg
I read one psychologist's theory that said "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
Erma Bombeck
I've asked around and haven't found a B.A. yet who doesn't still have nightmares (and I don't speak figuratively) about not being able to find the room where the exam is to be given or about realizing at the last moment that he has not once attended the course.
Elizabeth Savage
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
All women live
Nussbaum
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves.
Thomas Hutchinson
Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine are also only human ourselves. We are distractible, weak, and given to our own concerns. Yet still, to live as a doctor is to live so that one's life is bound up in others' and in science and in the messy, complicated connection between the two It is to live a life of responsibility. The question then, is not whether one accepts the responsibility. Just by doing this work, one has. The question is, having accepted the responsibility, how one does such work well.
Atul Gawande