Quotes by American Authors - Page 2962

Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.
Richard N. Bolles
Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.
Richard Carlson
Everything yields to diligence
Thomas Jefferson
Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.
Laurie R. King
Lions are born knowing they are predators. Antelopes understand they are the prey.Humans are one of the few creatures on Earth given the choice.
Patrick H.T. Doyle
When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.
Eugene H. Peterson
I suppose it does come with a certain responsibility.”“What does?” asked Annie.“The magnificence of my person.”“Gah.
Caleb Crain
Nothing to do but work Nothing to eat but food Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude.
Ben King
Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rushed for time, toward what end no one asked. Their cupidity and self-love were no worse than anyone else's, but their many experiences' having taught them so little irked Lou. One hated tourists, another southerners; another despised immigrants. Even dying, they still held themselves in highest regard. Lou would have to watch herself. For this way of thinking began to look like human nature--as if each person of two or three billion would spend his last vital drop to sustain his self-importance.
Annie Dillard
If you're a champion you have to have it in your heart.
Chris Evert
I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive.
Toni Morrison
On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.
Joanna Shupe
I must have a screw loose," she muttered under her breath. Satisfied the counter was clean, she squatted down and put the cleaning supplies away in the cabinet beneath the register. "Yup. There's definitely something wrong with me."t"Are you looking for confirmation on that?" Jordan's heart hitched in her chest as Gavin's familiar baritone filled the shop. "Or am I supposed to argue with you?
Sara Humphreys
Be proactive. Passivity is a poison. Avoid it like the plague. Actively participate in life. You are not a bystander standing on the sidelines of life. Get in the game and go for the goal. Choose what you will do with your life. Choose what you will do with your time. What will you do? What will you watch, read, accomplish, and become? Accomplishment is a result of action. Act the part. Don’t pretend or put on a façade. Don’t wait. Don’t pause. Don’t hesitate. Go. Be. Do. Accomplish. Get it done. ACT. ACT NOW!
Jerald Simon
You’re the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.
Jay Crownover
Wesley went everywhere with me from then on. I even wrapped him in baby blankets and held him in my arms while grocery shopping, to keep him warm during the first cold winter. Occasionally someone would ask to see "the baby," and when I opened the blanket, would leap back shrieking, "What is that?! A dinosaur?" Apparently, the world is full of educated adults with mortgages and stock portfolios who think people are walking around grocery stores with dinosaurs in their arms.
Stacey O'Brien
The voice of the Soul can be heard within the silence of the unaffected mind. Listen.
Ka Chinery
Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.
Terryl L. Givens
Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...
Dean Koontz
I don't have any tan lines because I sunbathe in the nude.
Robin Bielman
Most of our life we pass by waiting for tomorrow, but not living for today.
Debasish Mridha
I called up to Mama, "Is this a miracle?" She raised and lowered her shoulders. Her voice drifted down, "Maybe. Or maybe this is just what's supposed to be.
Edward Kelsey Moore
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
Harper Lee
Puzzles are sort of like life because you can mess up and rebuild later, and you're likely smarter the next time around.
Adam Silvera
I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.
Jason Christopher Hartley
How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
Steve Maraboli
Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Social media is your platform to build a unique fan base while you express yourself exactly how you see yourself. Build wisely.
Germany Kent
For our last shall be the recorder of eternity.
Cory Hair
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.
Mark Galli
I’m not for you,” I say desperately. “We are so different. Our lives are a thousand and one worlds apart. It wouldn’t work. And it’s dangerous.”But his face only brightens. “Then you do feel the same.”“We are not the same—and that is the whole point! I am not human, Aladdin. Everything that was once human in me was destroyed, and I was forged into something entirely different. I’m not here to help you—I was never here to help you, or any of my masters.”He shakes his head. “I don’t believe that.”“It doesn’t matter what you believe,” I say bitterly. “It is what it is, and it has nothing to do with what you want.”He walks around me, forcing me to face him. “You helped me get away from Darian in the desert. You got me into the palace when you could have let them find out who I really was. You taught me to dance, for sky’s sake! You’ve had a hundred opportunities to trick me and betray me, but you don’t. You’ve helped me when I didn’t wish for it.”“A chicken doesn’t fly like other birds, but it is still a bird.”“Zahra!” He spreads his hands, the wind ruffling his hair. “You do care. I see it when you think I’m not looking.
Jessica Khoury
The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.
David Wong
Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Credinta, oricat de pasionata, de pura, de arzatoare, nu spune absolut nimic despre realitatea existentei lui Dumnezeu
IRVIN D.YALOM
Ethan: "You think I'm a hero?"Beth: "Yes."Ethan: "But lousy husband material?" Like that really mattered to him.Beth: "Don't sweat it. So was Superman.
Lucy Monroe
I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen
David Platt
When negative thinking changes, everything changes.
Toni Sorenson
Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.
Katy Perry
It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how the shame web works. We have very few realistic options that allow us to meet any of these expectations. Most of the options that we do have feel like a "double bind." When Marilyn Frye describes a double bind as "a situation in which options are very limited and all of them expose us to penalty, censure or deprivation.
Brené Brown
Our fantasies are our realities in an excuse-free world.
Jen Sincero
...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.
Mark Batterson
it will make sense the moment you come Home. I could see it all so clearly. I could see what it is that we are waiting for. I knew in one solitary moment why I had learned obedience and why I valued nothing on the earth but love. It’s all that matters. It is all there is.
Kate McGahan
He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.
Jack London
What you're experiencing isn't a dry spell. It's a dust bowl. Tell me, do you find cob webs in there every time you get yourself off?
Parker S. Huntington
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.
Bryan Stevenson
she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
Christopher Poindexter
Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In thewater, I am safe and pulled in where Ican’t get out. Everything slows down—the noise and the racing of my thoughts.
Jennifer Niven
Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.
Richard Connell
Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Lovingyou made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take risks I never would haveotherwise. Loving you made me give it up to you. Loving you made me neglect my parents and Amy.Loving you made me not care that my grandma just died. Loving you made me turn out bitter andhopeless like her. Loving you made me hate myself for being dumped by you. Loving you made medeluded, irrational, inconsiderate, and a liar. And because I love you, you’re always going to haunt me.
Daria Snadowsky
Talented person is talented everywhere.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Being a good person has nothing to do with allowing people to destroy you.
Bryant McGill
The long term health effects from utility company smart meters present a far greater risk to the general population than terrorism in the USA.
Steven Magee
The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.
Donald Miller
I am constantly searching for places that rekindle my sense of wonder.
Gillian Anderson & Jeff Rovin
We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.
James S. Kunen
Did you know in the sea you can find a fish called, SWEETLIPS?"Ted and Raymond's Sea Adventure
Rhonda Patton
If you have WANNA, you can do ANYTHING!! - The Caterpillar That Wouldn't Change
Nancy S. Mure
The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.
Thomm Quackenbush
Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.
Bryant McGill