Quotes by American Authors - Page 3023

I wonder how you will feel if I hug you with great love and care
Debasish Mridha
Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming they won't be cowed. Leaders who really have strengthened the voice of freedom don't don't need to reassure there electorates that they're committed to doing so.
William Kristol
Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.
Louis Sachar
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
Kathleen Winsor
I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.
Joseph Grenny
Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up."You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched toge
Rick Riordan
There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense.
John Steinbeck
She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?
Sherwood Anderson
It is psychotic to draw a line between two places.It is psychotic to go.It is psychotic to look.Psychotic to live in a different country forever.Psychotic to lose something forever.The compelling conviction that something has been lost is psychotic.Even the aeroplane's dotted line on the monitor as it descends to Heathrow is purely weird ambient energy.It is psychotic to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave that home or country, the place where you submitted again and again, forever. Indeed, it makes the subsequent involuntary arrival a stressor for psychosis.
Bhanu Kapil
The birth of a better world is not ultimately up to you, though I know, each day, there are grown men and women who tell you otherwise. The world needs saving precisely because of the actions of these same men and women. I am not a cynic. I love you, and I love the world, and I love it more with every new inch I discover. But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful—the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements. And this is not reducible to just you—the women around you must be responsible for their bodies in a way that you never will know. You have to make your peace with the chaos, but you cannot lie.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
Jonathan Nolan
Displaced workers, along with others who fear for their livelihood, are fertile ground in which to sow anti-immigrant sentiment, since angry and frustrated people often seek some target on which to blame their problems. The right wing has organized and manipulated such anger and resentment, turned it away from corporations, and directed it against the government, decrying high taxes and the inability of the state to solve problems such as social deterioration, homelessness, crime, and violence. In addition to the target of “failed liberal policies,” immigrants make a convenient and tangible target for people’s anger. Racial prejudice is often an encoded part of the message…Right-wing populist themes are particularly effective at attracting working people disenchanted with the system.
Robert Wald Sussman
Truth is immortal error is mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
Do you have any idea who Erin was kissing?""Yeah, so we'll brush out teeth really, really thoroughly afterwards," I said, bumping her nose with mine gently. I wasn't going to let anyone spoil this moment.
Stacey Kade
The night skyline was stunning. I could see the Monas and Istiqlal Mosque bathed in brilliant white lights and a dozen other places of cultural and historical significance. It’s an amazing, beautiful world we live in … despite Uncle Google’s abysmal view of American schools, the security checkpoints and vehicle inspections that seem to be everywhere, and the need to be vigilant because of the things we do to each other.
Tucker Elliot
Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.
William S Burroughs
History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase
Rebecca Makkai
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
Orson Scott Card
Learning the truth has become my life's love.
Dan Brown
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells
Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.
Steve Maraboli
I love my job when I'm not there.
Paul R. Linde
The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up--ever--trusting our fellow citizens to join with us in our determined pursuit of a living democracy?
Terry Tempest Williams
When Learning to "LOVE YOURSELF", you attract two types of energies: Lovers & Haters. Lovers should take you higher, haters should inspire. Both should give you fire to illuminate your environment.
Ace Antonio Hall
I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.
Linda Robinson
To this day, I remain awestruck by the fact that human beings are capable of this type of metamorphosis. We don’t have to stay stuck displaying the same personality traits over the course of our lifetime but are free to transform into higher expressions of ourselves. Today I can honestly say that I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that human beings are capable of making radical and lasting change. After a decade of coaching individuals and leading groups, I have discovered that if I don’t buy into people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of, I can bypass their public personas and see who they are in their highest expression. With a little effort, I can see their magnificence and their potential no matter what they look like or what condition their emotional, spiritual, or financial world is in. I can see through their acts, their personas, their fears and insecurities. I can see who they are apart from the baggage they carry around. The undeniable fact is that underneath all of our public personas, we already are that which we desire to be. Our only job is to see past our own limitations so that we can return to that which we already are.
Debbie Ford
Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..
Nick Santino
Trust and believe, and you will achieve.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
It’s like we have the bones of animals and the hearts of angels.
Baxter Clare Trautman
Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.
Richard F. Lovelace
This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
Henry David Thoreau
It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.
Mariah Carey
When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say "blessed be" and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I can rattle on about magma cooling, abiogenesis, and natural selection.
Thomm Quackenbush
If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you're not a hard worker, it's about how smart you work but times two from the brain.
Criss Jami
God does give times of peace in our Christian lives, but it is not all of the time.
Dillon Burroughs
Home is everything you can walk to.
Jerry Spinelli
Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.
Billy Graham
- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.
Veronica Roth
Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the familiar. Mary and Joseph sought in Bethlehem- the home of their familial ancestry- a place to start their own family; the three kings from the East journeyed beneath the sentinel star to find the King of Kings; and the shepherds sought a child in a place most familiar to them: a manger.
Richard Paul Evans
Practice is the golden bullet for hitting the target of excellence.
Mark F. LaMoure
He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
Craig Ferguson
He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.
Jack Campbell
Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pain’s disguise.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.
Flynn Meaney
Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.
Eilis O'Neal
For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.
Doug McAdam
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
Brian Selznick
Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.
Nancy McKenzie
If you watch how nature deals with adversity continually renewing itself you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel
Fuck, Christina.”“Yes, fuck Christina. I think she'd like that.
Nenia Campbell
I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.
Louis Chunovic
Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.
Rob Brezsny
Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?
Catherine Lacey
We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect.
Alex Rosa
A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.
Marty Rubin
What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name
Cassandra Clare
The planet is littered with irresponsible gods.
T.F. Hodge
The most meaningful prayer is kindness.
Debasish Mridha