Quotes by American Authors - Page 3007

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.
Werner Erhard
Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.
Alice Hoffman
The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.
Chuck Klosterman
So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer.""Me? How?""The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But I don't believe everything I read.""Oh, you think I accounted for Geiger - or Brody-or both of them."She didn't say anything. "I didn't have to," I said. "I might have. I suppose, and got away with it. Neither of them would have hesitated to throw lead at.""That makes you a killer at heart, like all cops.""Oh, nuts.
Raymond Chandler
The trap had a ghastly perfection
Stephen King
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.
Kate Chopin
No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed.
Judith Spencer
An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.
Jeffrey Stepakoff
It seems rather prophetic. We were just joking about this the other day.""I know. Fate has annoying timing.
Kate Noble
True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.
Jewel
Somehow, I think God will forgive her. If not, eh, Hell has better parties anyway.
C.T. Phipps
In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down
Pierce Brown
Any male who uses brutality on a weaker female who has no chance of defense is a coward.
Laurann Dohner
I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life—like one hundred percent blissful—is when we’re little kids.""Because there’s less to worry about?""Because we’re too stupid to know how worried we should be.
Brian K. Vaughan
God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than united. God prefers the man who loves than the one who hates. The devil prefers the man who hates than the one who loves.
Suzy Kassem
I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.
Barbara Kingsolver
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
Jonah Lehrer
Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Anna Wintour
He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.
Anne Frasier
Sometimes losing everything is the only way to begin.
T.K. Kiser
If in some radical miracle, the Abrahamic God revealed his existence to the world, I’d accept the belief in the deity — but I still wouldn't worship it. The jealous and angry God that justified the killings of millions, sent plagues upon first borns, and abhorred homosexuals would not be worthy of my worship.
David G. McAfee
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
Michael Pollan
It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.
Criss Jami
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.
Edmund White
That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.
Matthew Quick
Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.
Matt Chandler
Love is the language of the heart. It can feel the movements of every atom and understand every language spoken or unspoken.
Debasish Mridha
It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention the vast numbers of Europeans also enslaved in centuries past in the Islamic world and within Europe itself. At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North African pirates alone from 1500 to 1800, and some Europeans slaves were still being sold on the auction blocks in the Egypt, years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks in the United States.
Thomas Sowell
He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.
John Martel
...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.
Kathleen Glasgow
Let us love and let it be the purpose of our life.
Debasish Mridha
Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.
Julieanne O'Connor
I understand that you want “normal” by what you define it, but normal is what you make it. You could spend a lifetime in the house you grew up in and never once feel normal.
Cyndi Goodgame
The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?
Jeff Garvin
Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.
T. Harv Eker
...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism.
Sarah Vowell
Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.
Robert Buettner
But, I still can't totally forgive Dave for blowing my world apart. DO YOU HEAR THAT, DAVE?!
K.M. Shea
I don't want to tiptoe around her or him or you anymore. The only thing that's doing us making it harder for me to remember her. Sometimes i try to concentrate on her voice just so i can hear her again-The way she always said 'Hey there' when she was in a good mood,An 'Vi-o-let' when she was annoyed.For some reason, these are the easiest ones.I concentrate on them, and when i have them. I hold on to them because i don't ever want to forget how she sounded.Like it or not,She was here and now she's gone.But she doesn't have to be completely gone.
Jennifer Niven
Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.
Maureen Chiquet
If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can
Mia Sheridan
What we're now starting to see, as online retailers begin to capitalize on their extraordinary economic efficiences, is the shape of a massive mountain of choice emerging where before there was just a peak.... By necessity, the conomics of traditional, hit-driven retail limit choice. When you dramatically lower the costs of connecting supply and demand, it changes not just the numbers, but the entire nature of the market. This is not just a quantiative change, but a qualitative one, too. Bringing niches within reach reveals latent demand for noncommercial content. Then, as demand shifts toward the niches, the economics of provided them improve further, and so on, creating a positive feedback loop that will transform entire industries - and the culture - for decades to come.
Chris Anderson
Megan stepping back let her glance switch from Alma to Isabel and return to Alma. No doubt about it, thought Megan. Created as much alike as any sisters ever had been, their resemblance started with their matching red-and-white polka dot blouses. Since she was a young girl, she had matched their eye colors to their different personalities.
Ed Lynskey
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
For me, the most interesting people seem to have the bumpiest pasts. I prefer to connect with someone who has experienced the struggles, battles, and casualties of life’s journey. There is beauty, wisdom, and truth to be found in the scars.
Steve Maraboli
Sex has to do with your physical body, while gender has to do with your social expression of a range of masculinities and/or femininities (and/or neutralities).
Chauntelle Tibbals
What’s gotten into you?” he wondered, blinking in sudden frustration.“Not you, that’s for a certainty.
Matt Tomerlin
Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up.
Ellen Hopkins
You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
Eminem
There are times i hate you cause i cant erase the times you hurt me and put tears on my face
Beyoncé Knowles
Loo, life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black and white! You don't see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin! You're going to grow up to be no good if you keep on that way. It's impractical. I only have one child, and I won't have her growing up to be impractical. I can't think of a worse thing to be than impractical!
C. JoyBell C.
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Henry Ford
Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, "I went to college with every person I ever met.
Chris Gardner
Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
Ellen Hopkins
I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,Children dying in the road,Crawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her hair.
Roman Payne
Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.
Helen Varney
Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?
Daniel Clowes
If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.
J.S.B. Morse
Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.
Josh Dun