Quotes by American Authors - Page 30

This guy.This fucking guy.
Matt Fraction
Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.
Mark Lawrence
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
Aimee Mann
There are two rules for success...1. Never reveal everything you know.
Ylond Miles-Davis
Songs can be like photos - they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside.
Judy Moore
The line from Pulp Fiction—the one Samuel L. Jackson shouts at John Travolta as they’re trying to wash blood off their hands—pops into my head: 'I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin’ maxi-pad!' I almost—almost—share this most quotable of cinematic quotes with him, when I remember it contains The Word. You know: 'maxi-pad.
Elle Lothlorien
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
David Bentley Hart
The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
Neal Shusterman
Life is full of surprises but you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Start there.
Julieanne O'Connor
He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you.
Debasish Mridha
Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.
Daniel J. Rice
Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.
Gregory Maguire
As a child of the Goddess, I know that when a being dies, the soul lives on. That dying is only a way of forgetting pain and suffering--that it is a pathway to travel back to the Goddess to be renewed and made strong-- to rest and to one day be ready to return to this realm, for it is spoken by the High Priestess...
P.C. Cast
If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.
Sharon Delarose
Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness.
John Howard Griffin
And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.
Herman Melville
When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.
Renee Swope
But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?
Kiran Desai
The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.
John Muir
I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.
Sarah MacLean
Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn.
Stewart Stafford
I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
Annie Dillard
Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part of the planetary _we_. The cosmopolitan _we_ is not grounded in a monolithic sameness but in a constant alterity and _ethical singularity_ of each individual human person regardless of one's national origin and belonging, religious affiliation, gender, race and ethnicity, class ability, or sexuality.
Namsoon Kang
I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.
Catherine Lacey
End your journey well. Don’t waste your life, and don’t be satisfied with anything less than God’s plan.
Billy Graham
You rented the apartment with a dead guy in the corner?” I shrugged. “I wanted the apartment, and I figured I could cover him up with a bookcase or something.
Darynda Jones
George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her father? For she, too, had been harmed by a man who had meant to show his utmost love for her.It made George wonder why love was suppose to be such a wonderful thing. As far as he could tell, love was just another excuse for causing pain.
Mette Ivie Harrison
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.
John Steinbeck
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say, "The children are the hope of the future." And they are right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food. Adults are the death of hope.
Peter David
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I can’t walk away from someone I love without saying ‘I love you’ one last time. I’ve known how verymuch I’ve loved you for a long time. You think I’m a child and I know nothing about the world or aboutlove. But I know about love. I know about loss. And I know about loneliness, and goodbyes, and aboutnever being able to voice those feelings again.“Perhaps you’ve said those words, Richard, and don’t mean them. But I never have.
Jill Barnett
All our contemporaries...had some big ideology to live for. Everybody thought he had to either fight in Spain or die for something else, and most of us had to be in prison for one reason or another. And then at the end it turns out that none of these great ideologies was worth your sacrificing anything for. Even doing personal good is very difficult to be absolutely sure about. It's very difficult to know exactly whether to live for an ideology or even to live for doing good. But there cannot be anything wrong in making a pot, I'll tell you. When making a pot you can't bring any evil into the world. - Eva Zeisel, ceramist.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The question must be asked: have we been the beneficiaries or the victims of our education?
Marty Rubin
Wherever you go, be the thunder of joy and the wind of optimism.
Debasish Mridha
Blindly believing something often comes from societal conformity which is a sign of a lack of deep knowledge and imaginative consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.
Samuel Woodworth
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll have to test me out." "You have my info," she says. "I'll think about it." "Rain," I say. "That's not your real name." "Does it matter?" "Well, it makes me wonder what else isn't real." "That's because you're a writer," she says. "That's because you make things up for a living." "And?" "And"-- she shrugs--"I've noticed that writers tend to worry about things like that.
Bret Easton Ellis
The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.
Stephen King
We have local churches where we meet together as believers. We no longer go to Mount Sinai to meet God. Why not? Because the place of the tabernacle and the temple is now replaced by the body—your body and mine—in which God meets with us and God dwells with us, and where we have communion with Him. When we come to the church now, we don’t come to the sanctuary; we bring our sanctuaries with us. This individual entity is the locus of appointment between God and me. There He meets. There He dwells. Will the God who went to such pains to physically decorate the tabernacle and the temple not also take great care in physically designing the human body?
Ravi Zacharias
Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation.
Audre Lorde
True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
Francis Chan
Will the time ever come when I am not so completely dependent on thoughts I first had in childhood to furnish the feedstock for my comparisons and analogies and sense of the parallel rhythms of microhistory? Will I reach a point where there will be a good chance, I mean a more than fifty-fifty chance, that any random idea popping back into the foreground of my consciousness will be an idea that first came to me when I was an adult, rather than one I had repeatedly as a child?
Nicholson Baker
Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
Eric Hoffer
We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are.
Francis Chan
Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.
Richard Paul Evans
He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears.
Erin McCarthy
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
Bill Watterson
[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.
Daniel Quinn
Welcome to Ruler’s purgatory. It’s the special club you love to hate.
Scarlett Dawn
Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it.
Debasish Mridha
We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.
Robert Charles Wilson
Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.
Darcey Steinke
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
Jacqueline Briskin
Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
Hunter S. Thompson
The voice of jealousy strikes from those who aim to hurt you, not those who love you!
Dee Waldeck
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
Jen Knox