Quotes by American Authors - Page 2925

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.
Stan Slap
So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.
Edgar Allan Poe
I doona need my future read. I know it involves you, and that's enough for me.
Donna Grant
Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.
Crystal Woods
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez
So pervasively has Enlightenment culture’s anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.
Craig S. Keener
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
Abraham Lincoln
Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen.
Debasish Mridha
As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.
Terrence Real
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.
John Taylor Gatto
His action of joining them, which would have been rude in a restaurant that was not moving at three hundred kilometers an hour, was perfectly acceptable on a train, which mimicked the entirely random joinings of life but revealed their true nature by making them last only hours or days, rather than years and decades. People on a train form an alliance, as if the world that surrounded the parallel rails were hostile and and they refugees from it. The dining car, humming and rocking gently in the night, annihilated past and future and made all associations outside of itself seem vaguely unreal. So they welcomed him at their table, for he was one of them, a traveler, not one of those wraiths through whose night-lit cities they passed.
Alexander Jablokov
If you are expecting something in return for your love, you are not loving truly.
Debasish Mridha
Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
Patrick Rothfuss
Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.
David Kinnaman
This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for ourselves. We must rely upon the words of others. Those who were there in the olden days, they told stories to the children so that the children would know, so that the children could tell stories to their children. And so on, and so on.
Yaa Gyasi
I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.
David Eagleman
Go find your own hiding spot!” I hissed. “The seat is not wide enough to hold me and that whale you call a nightgown.” Also, we were better off if whoever was coming caught one of us – and by one of us, I meant Rose.
Erica Sehyun Song
Sorry," she said. "I have a psychological disorder that prevents me from keeping thoughts inside my head where they belong.
Jeri Smith-Ready
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
Ursula K Le Guin
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
Orison Swett Marden
Don’t look for a reason to be kind. Be a little more loving and kind.
Debasish Mridha
I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
Pete Wentz
Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened
Ashley Gardner
Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?
Shannon L. Alder
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.
Pat Conroy
Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.
Jessica Park
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
Gene Wolfe
And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce
Barbara T. Cerny
For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.
John Scalzi
There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive.
Bryan Hall
But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it’s nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.
Clementine von Radics
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
Li-Young Lee
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
Michael Crichton
In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.
Frances FitzGerald
Every journey has a starting point . . . and it has an end. God meant for [life] to be filled with joy and purpose. He invites us to . . . take the rest of our journey with Him.
Billy Graham
I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptised.
Lance Armstrong
Imagine that you traveled all over the world, looking for happiness, looking for thrills to pass the time. Imagine seeing everything there is to see and still not finding happiness. Well, that would give you a very bleak outlook on life, would it not?
Tricia Levenseller
During these years in the small-talk wilderness, I also wondered why Americans valued friendliness with commerce so much. Was handing over cash the sacred rite of American capitalism—and of American life? On a day that I don’t spend money in America, I feel oddly depressed. It’s my main form of social interaction—as it is for millions of Americans who live alone or away from their families.
Karan Mahajan
His tongue fucks my mouth the way his cock fills my pussy. Deeply, urgently, and completely unrestrained.
Pam Godwin
Pain is a predator when we run from it, it will inevitably chase us down and catch us in its clutches. The goal isn't to wallow in the pain or to avoid it, but rather, to move through it. Pain only holds us hostage when we get stuck in it or try to repress it. Pain is a part of the human experience. Life is a bittersweet journey. Developing the ability to learn from our pain and to cope with it, effectively, is one of the most empowering gifts we can give ourselves.
Jaeda DeWalt
They looked at me, and were so full of delight in the pleasure they were giving me that some final thread of resistance gave way and I understood not only how entirely generous they were but also that generosity might be the greatest pleasure there is.
William Maxwell
That's the funny thing about doubt." "What do you mean?" "It makes you feel rotten as hell. But if anyone bothered to think about it, it's a symptom of love. It means it matters to you. It's the brain questioning the wisdom of the heart. It doesn't mean the heart doesn't know better all along, it only means the brain doesn't understand how.
Suzanne Rindell
I inherited curiosity from my Dad.
Tom Clancy
The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.
Kathryn Michaels
It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness.
Debasish Mridha
Life and death issues are a universal concern. A person can learn about life by investigating the psychological and social aspects related to dying.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.
Alan Willett
you've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.
Charles Bukowski
It’s hard to see what’s good, what’s right, when you’re in the middle of it
Elizabeth Brundage
I felt a hand on my back, movement behind me, my guys making room, someone squeezing into our circle, and then one last hand joined the pile: my Korean aide. I guess it made sense. We were her real family. The closest thing she’d ever had to a real family, at least. All year she said maybe five words a day. 'Now kick some ass,' she said.
Tucker Elliot
Then go get dressed for your Master,"Danny said with a slow,dark smile."The snake and Eve worked together,you and I will too. We'll make sure our Adam enjoys Eden before he leaves. We'll give himstrawberry so sweet it will sustain him through a whole, miserable lifetime of bland vanilla.
Kele Moon
Everyone burns, as the Buddha says, in their own way. Some burn with anger, some with lust, some with a desire for vengeance, some with fear. But inside us burn many fires, not just one. We are legion, we contain a multitude.
John Dolan
Much more. We're joined at the heart.""Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky.""Too much boozing."His eyes twinkled, and he drew me close. "Not enough kissling.
Diane Ackerman
There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.
Nicholas Sparks
Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more.
Dan Pearce
We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.
Lauren Oliver
It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.
Deborah Day
Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist.
C. JoyBell C.
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower