Quotes by American Authors - Page 2852

Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.
Debasish Mridha
One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.
T.F. Hodge
Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade.
Eric Schlosser
there is you and you.this is a relationship.this is the most important relationship.
Nayyirah Waheed
He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction
Jennifer DeLucy
It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.
Mircea Eliade
Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.
Ann Brashares
You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.
Bryant McGill
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
Edith Wharton
Do I believe that God is right here, ready to be my comfort in every situation?
Erin M. Straza
At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.
Jerry Spinelli
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
Peter Straub
Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
Nicholas Sparks
All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.
Kim Edwards
Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.
S. Kelley Harrell
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
William Faulkner
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
E.L. Konigsburg
Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
Pearl Zhu
An older, inebriated Scot who looked like he'd been sitting on his barstool all day looked me up and down, then smelled the air. "Heh, neebr, goat a deid an'mal in yer bac'pac, or iz it ye tha' bloody stinks?"My brain took a moment to translate. "Actually, yes, there is a dead animal in my backpack, but I probably stink, too.
Steve Alten
I think most people are afraid to love because they want the freedom to suffer alone.
Peter Tieryas
I always splash on the cologne before a blind date because dogs can smell fear
Josh Stern
I’d rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top.
Colleen Hoover
He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.
Edward Lewis Wallant
Please don't trouble yourself with my scars. At least not right now, OK?
Alex Rosa
We are still living in the deep darkness of conformity.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
I have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine three days yore, so that he should be appraised of the many positions in which I am carnal. 'This is sixty-nine,' I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers--two of them--on the action, so that he would not overlook it. 'Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?' he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. 'It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor.' 'What did people do before 1969?' 'Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus.
Jonathan Safran Foer
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
Anya Seton
Suddenly I can’t think of anything except you!
Debasish Mridha
Where God guides, He provides. No matter how things look, God is still in control. Stay in peace and be hopeful. Your blessing is coming soon.
Germany Kent
The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.
Barbara W. Tuchman
I'm going to take a shower," I said and prepared for the comment I knew was coming. "You know what they say, conserve water and shower with a friend.
Chelsea M. Cameron
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
W.J. Cameron
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
Sharon Kay Penman
Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Adams
The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.
Pearl Zhu
There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.
Nicholas Sparks
Life is not a race....Everyone can win, so stop going around in circles.
Nanette Mathews
The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The brain acts like a muscle: The more activity you do, the larger and more complex it can become. Whether that equates to more intelligence is another issue, but one fact is indisputable; What you do in life physically changes what your brain looks like. You can wire and rewire your brain with the simple choice of which musical instrument---or professional sport---you play
John Medina
Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success.
Steve Maraboli
If I do decide to have a Girl's Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner
Natasha Larry
We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream
Cynthia Sue Larson
Our mind can move directly and aggressively on impulse, while our spirit moves gently and calmly on our intuition.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
Too often my solution is to let something die because I can’t keep it alive, when God’s solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.
Karen Joy Fowler
Her voice was perfect, custom-made for my ears. I wanted to hit the record button in my brain and save this all for later. Half of me was listening to her words, but the other half was mesmerized by the melody.
Kathy Hatfield
When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent, and the forces that shaped me, Most of them have grown fainter with time, and whenever I write one down, I give it away: it ceases to have the shadowy life of memory and becomes fixed in letters: it ceases to be mine; it loses that mobile unreliability of the live.
Rebecca Solnit
I was only hit on once at the grocery store. I remember it was early one Saturday morning and I was buying my daily bacon, when I got tapped on the shoulder. I turned around and I saw a rather short and very feeble eighty-year-old lady looking up at me. She said in a weak, scratchy voice, "Excuse me, young man, could you reach up and grab some ketchup for me?" Well I'm no dummy. I know when I'm getting hit on. I smiled politely and reached up for the ketchup, knowing full well that she just wanted to get a gander at my derriere. As I handed her the ketchup, she said, "Thank you," like I was some piece of meat, a boy toy, or something. Finally I just blurted out, "Look, I'm married, lady!" She acted all surprised and confused. "Excuse me? I don't understand!" I shook my head with a smirk, raised my left hand, and showed her my wedding ring. "Married!" I loudly told her. "I'm taken!" A stock boy at the end of the aisle looked at us and inquired, "Is everything okay?" "I'm fine," I assured him. "I know how to deal with predators." Well, suddenly this sex-crazed lady got all angry at me. Like I was out of line. She huffed off. "Well, I never!" "And you ain't gonna with me either, " I yelled after her. I have to admit, it was nice to get the attention.
Jim Gaffigan
In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street.
Charles Bracelen Flood
The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.
Carl Scovel
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
Charles Bukowski
Psychology’s service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a “Faustian bargain.” In this case, the price paid has been the American Psychological Association’s collective silence, ethical “numbing,” and, over time, historical amnesia. 3 Indeed, Lifton emphasizes that “the Nazis were not the only ones to involve doctors in evil”; in defense of this argument, he cites the Cold War “role of …American physicians and psychologists employed by the Central Intelligence Agency…for unethical medical and psychological experiments involving drugs and mind manipulation.” 4
Alfred W. McCoy
Don’t let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.
Lolly Daskal
I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.
Bill Russell
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great".
Cher
If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your own hand. Aloneness was the air in your tires, the wind in your hair. You didn't have to go looking for it with open arms. With open arms, you fell off the bike: I was drinking my wine too quickly.
Lorrie Moore
The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.
Truman Capote
Ask any person trained in sign language and they will confirm the fact that you can talk with your hands. Your hand gestures communicate for you and are an integral part of your language. While some people may come by hand gestures naturally, you can learn to be even more expressive to get your points across—and to be memorable.
Susan C.Young
In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds.
Carl Sagan