Quotes by American Authors - Page 2863

The gossip mill runs on estrogen.
Kim Harrington
I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.
Heather Day Gilbert
We must master many subjects in order to implement our dreams. Our personal journey begins by gathering appropriate learning experiences and awakening our minds to observe, evaluate, and recall what we experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams
If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.
Stephen King
To enjoy life, enjoy the moment.
Debasish Mridha
If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.
Lady Gaga
SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.
Jenny Holzer
Do you, Damon Chroi, sovereign of the Goblin Kingdom, take this woman, Diana Piper, to be your queen and wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, in times of angry gods and rogue goblins, in true name-induced death and in health, because she resurrected you - you lucky bastard - to love and to cherish even when she's more powerful than you and kicking your ass at everything you do, from this day forward until she can no longer stand the smell of rain? - Roman D'Angelo
Heather Killough-Walden
Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'It was the perfect motto for Morganville.
Rachel Caine
Life is full of all sorts of setbacks and twists and turns and disappointments. The character of this team will be how well you will come back from this letdown, this defeat. You could still be a great team and you can still accomplish great things as football players but it's going to take a real resolve to do it." -Coach Ladouceur
Neil Hayes
Don't depend on anyone else to toot your horn. I mean, do you really want their lips on it, anyway?
Faydra D. Fields
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
Dana Carvey
Through the absence of what we think we have to have we can discover our wholeness
Renae A.Sauter
Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time.
Nicola Yoon
There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.
Colleen Hoover
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
Eleanor R. Belmont
The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.
Veronica Roth
Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort
Kim Holden
What if you can't, Austin? You can't help everyone.""At least I'll know I tried.
Megan Bostic
I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney Dangerfield
The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.
George Seldes
Just in case you get any ideas, know that I’ll be sleeping with a can of Mace in one hand and pepper spray in the other.” - KatieJorlan's expression turned mocking. “Just in case you get any ideas, know that I’ll be sleeping with a feather in one hand and massage oil in the other.
Gena Showalter
If I had been shipped off to Dalbreck, there are valuable things I never would have learned.
Mary E. Pearson
Prayer becomes religious when you try use it for something God never intended.
Andrew Wommack
Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.
Carmen DeSousa
What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.
Daniel J. Rice
The cost of independence has dropped.
Jeff Jarvis
...he is constantly reminding me that real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.
Martha N. Beck
In some way, everyone is your son or daughter, so without judging them, love everyone.
Debasish Mridha
I don't have the time, skill level, or experience to date one guy, let alone two. Fortunately, there's more to life than boys. How about we focus on something other than me finding a mate?
D.R. Graham
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014
Jenna Cornell
We live in a largely addictive society that continues to reinforce the defenses we learned as children; this reinforcement comes in the form of a negative social pressure to soothe ourselves, to try to obtain instant gratification. . . Many people who suffered deprivation in childhood continue to accept substitute gratifications in the forms of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, television, video games, overwork, and other activities that distract them from experiencing their real lives.
Lisa Firestone
Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart
Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!
Billy Graham
But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
Madeleine L'Engle
There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.
Carl Sagan
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Everyone can use a little beauty.
Alex Flinn
Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.
Frank Herbert
You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh, of course we understand all about the Little Baby Christ! And the camels! And the wise men! And the frankincense! That's easy! But who is Santa Claus? Unless—unless—?" It was Carol himself who signaled me to go on. "Unless—he's the Baby Christ's grandfather?" I thought Derry Willard looked a little bit startled. Carol's ears turned bright red. "Oh, of course—we meant on his mother's side!" I hastened to assure him.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.
Sanjo Jendayi
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
Jodi Picoult
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)
Andrew Young
[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.
Will Durant
Now, remember: they're not for eating, but for listening, because you'll often be hungry for sounds as well as food. Here are street noises at night, train whistles from a long way off, dry leaves burning, busy department stores, crunching toast, creaking bed springs, and of course, all kinds of laughter. There's a little of each, and in far off, lonely places, I think you will be glad to have them.
Norton Juster
The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
Bryant McGill
Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.
Timothy J. Keller
Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.
Russell Kirk
The Fair Tax Equation: T=I(I(.000001))
Michael A. Wood Jr.
It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.
Melissa Bank
We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die.
W.H. Auden
Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?
A. Manette Ansay
Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.
Roy T. Bennett
...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....
The New York Times
When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves a 'wake' behind in these two areas, task and relationship: what did he accomplish and how did he deal with people?
Henry Cloud
I have, and always will, respect people that keep it real no matter what. Most people say “Just keep it real with me,” but the fact of the matter is this: Most people can’t handle the truth, don’t want to accept the truth, deny the truth, or simply aren’t willing to face THEIR truth. The next time that you tell somebody to be honest with you, make sure that you mean what you say. Have the courage to pay more attention, listen, and observe. But have greater courage to acknowledge “what is” and face YOUR truth with boldness. The truth is better than a lie any day. Be fearless!
Stephanie Lahart
Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco
Katherine Applegate