Quotes by American Authors - Page 2890

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff.Waxilliam: And?Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation.Waxilliam: Comfortable?Wayne: No. Boring.
Brandon Sanderson
When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)
Shannon A. Thompson
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
Flannery O'Connor
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
Meg Rosoff
That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: "Nobody else is going to do this.
Barbara Kingsolver
Start a compassion movement in your community by being a living example of kindness.
Amy Leigh Mercree
You WILL eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time.
Mandy Hale
Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Steve Maraboli
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
His eyes widened. “Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you.
Richelle Mead
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.
Ray Bradbury
Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?
Ken Poirot
This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it.
Chris Matakas
Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
Sherry Turkle
What simple andordinary lives we live,underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists
Phil Volatile
I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...
Sarah Kernochan
I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet.
Tina Reber
Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.
Rick Yancey
You are the light of love in darkness. I am longing for you, oh my love!
Debasish Mridha
Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for control. The act of taking, of breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance. Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive.
V.E. Schwab
The personal eloquence of other people expressing aspects of nature and human condition inspire us, as do persons whom exhibit courage to gain strength when dealing with the hardships and struggles of a mortal life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
Cameron Dokey
There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.
David G. McAfee
I said kiss me again.” A sultry smile curved her lips. “Would that be such a difficult task to perform?”Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.
Monica Burns
Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.
Dr. Seuss
I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls linger…they do. They linger a bit before they turn toward eternity. It could be that no matter how perfect their future will be, the past still tugs for a moment.
Laura Anderson Kurk
Sometimes life itself rewards our early investments.
Dixie Waters
You have always been home for me, and nothing has been the same without you...
Elizabeth Morgan
My formula for success is rise early work late and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in the bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles. Economy uber alles. Let nothing interfere with economic growth, even though that growth is castrating truth, poisoning beauty, turning a continent into a shit-heap and riving an entire civilization insane. Don't spill the Coca-Cola, boys, and keep those monthly payments coming.
Tom Robbins
I strongly feel that it is only when there is a deep understanding of one's own religious beliefs and commitments that progress can be made in achieving true understanding and respect for the religious values and beliefs of others. Engaging in interfaith dialogue does not in any way mean undermining one's own faith or religious tradition. Indeed, interfaith dialogue is constructive only when people become firmly grounded in their own religious traditions and through that process gain a willingness to listen and respect the beliefs of other religions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 48-49)
David R. Smock
Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.
Chris Matakas
...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.
George Saunders
To feel alone is to be alone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.
Francine Rivers
GOD IS MY PROVIDER I BRAG DIFFERENT, THROUGH HIM ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
Genereux Philip
…little people like me have to keep the true story alive. That way, when the revolution ends, and people come looking for the history, we can say, ‘Here it is – we kept it for you.
Mauriel Joslyn
You know what they say,' Suz had texted. 'Once you go geek, you never go back.
Linda Morris
Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.
Kim Harrison
Something had lubricated us. Something had washed us clean. I understood, and at the same minute I understood that that they all understood, too. Hate had passed away, and in its place was the other word that's just as big. ("Golden Baby")
Alice Brown
A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international. When the flag waved it was red all the way back to the throat. You entered on the Boulevard Jules-Ferry and came out at the Porte de la Villette. You droppedyour sweetbreads into the tumbrils – red tumbrils with two wheels, naturally. At the confluence of the Ourcq and Marne, where the water sluices through the dikes and lies like glass under thebridges.
Henry Miller
I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time. I like the feeling of dicovery.
David Lynch
It was possible, I saw now, to be a grotesque, to be huge and free, to wander the streets in utter freedom despite your atrocity, as long as you did it when everybody else was sealed inside their little lit boxes.Now it made sense – why monsters came out at night.
Joshua Gaylord
Do you care for any contemporary authors?” Matthew inquired. “I adore Jane Austen.” Matthew nodded. “I find her portrait of British society so accurate and yet so dreadful.” “I agree. It must be awful to be so bound by what society expects,” Lisbeth answered. “I am so glad to have been born in America, where one has freedom.
Laila Ibrahim
I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.
Jan Valtin
Stop doing stuff that doesn’t help you reach your goals. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? It’s a shame almost no one does it. The most common way we work more and do less is by working on the wrong stuff. We spend our time doing, doing, doing, even if the doing has nothing to do with our goals, business, or life.
Stever Robbins
The only way to wrest yourself from Bad Luck's grip is to act. Not randomly, but with logical purpose. And if you were wrong, you backed up and re- A person can't sit on their ass and wait for Good Luck to walk by.reasoned. Chance still overrode your efforts, but what other way did you have to combat chaos?
Lily Gardner
When we give with love and joy, and accept with an open heart and deep gratitude, abundance fills our emptiness.
Debasish Mridha
The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you’ll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside.
Tom Robbins
I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.
Oprah Winfrey
If I had a daughter, here's what I'd tell her: One day, when you've worked hard for what you want, when people see that you are confident and intelligent and that you recognize your own self-worth, when you take care of yourself, support yourself, and stand up for yourself, that is the day that the world will call you "a cruel and selfish bitch." It's a tough title to earn and you should be and proud of it.
Patricia V. Davis
Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.
Eric Ludy
Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.
Emery Lord
If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.
Katie Kacvinsky
Together the magicks swirled and danced around us, invisible but tangible, like an breeze. This wasn't defensive or offensive magic. It wasn't used to gather information, for strategy or diplomacy, or to fight a war against supernatural enemy. It simply was. It was fundamental, inexorable. It was nothing and everything, infinity and oblivion, from the magnificent furnace of a star to the electrons that hummed in an atom. It was life and death and everything in between, the urge to fight and grow and swim and fly. It was a cascade of water across boulders, the slow-moving advance of mountain glaciers, the march of time.
Chloe Neill
Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic.
Rick Riordan
You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.
Brené Brown
Open your mind to fill it with everything that is beautiful. Ignore the rest.
Debasish Mridha
(…) maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing.
Kate Ellison