Quotes by American Authors - Page 3026

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.
Amanda Beard
It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top.
Bill Bryson
she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away
Saul Williams
My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
Gilly had decided that this was a dream. The Witches' Carnival didn't exist in the real world. And the Gilly who existed in the real world was not brave or cunning enough to have done everything that she'd done in the past day. The real Gilly was not beautiful enough to be lying in bed beside a woman like Maggie. Gilly had decided this was a dream, and also that she'd let that real Gilly, deep asleep somewhere in the outskirts of Birmingham, wither away and never wake up.Already, Gilly could see herself arcing across the earth bright as a comet, moving too fast for the Ashleys and Tracyes, the thousand tiny insults and humiliations of the waking world, to ever catch.
Kristopher Reisz
If you try to sleep on the floor I'll just get down there with you. Which will make you feel guilty and then you'll end up in the bed anyway. So just give in now and save yourself -- and me -- a headache.
Katie Reus
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
Shauna Niequist
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.
Colson Whitehead
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
Dennis Kucinich
Politics is but the common pulse beat.
Wendell Phillips
Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.
Stephen King
Do you always travel with such cumbersome books?''I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.
Doug Dorst
Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.
Jandy Nelson
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.
Brian Ingalls
Real friends, are really hard to come by.
Anthony Liccione
A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.
Lady Gaga
At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each other in a while, but as they all gathered around hugging, kissing, and well-wishing each other, I found myself feeling for the first time in my life like maybe I'd missed out on something.
Dito Montiel
When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn't over yet. Our story may have come to a close, but your story is still yet to be told. Make it a story worthy of you
Renee Ahdieh
And if I ever see you or your fake ass Chanel earrings around here again, I will shove my very real, very pointy Jimmy Choos up your prissy little ass. Do I make myself clear?
Magan Vernon
Some of us see endless darkness and get scared. Some of us see the joyful moon and dancing stars.
Debasish Mridha
Show Us, Don’t Tell Us
Miles Anthony Smith
I think timing is better left up to God to decide then religious leaders. I once met a man that brought his wife flowers in the hospital. They held hands, kissed and were as affectionate as any cute couple could be. They were both in their eighties. I asked them how long they were married. I expected them to tell me fifty years or longer. To my surprise, they said only five years. He then began to explain to me that he was married thirty years to someone that didn’t love him, and then he remarried a second time only to have his second wife die of cancer, two years later. I looked at my patient (his wife) sitting in the wheelchair next to him smiling. She added that she had been widowed two times. Both of her marriages lasted fifteen years. I was curious, so I asked them why they would even bother pursuing love again at their age. He looked at me with astonishment and said, “Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing the end of my life? No, he left the best for last. I have lived through hell, but if I only get five years of happiness with this woman then it was worth the years of struggle I have been through.
Shannon L. Alder
As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.
Matt Chandler
He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.
Chris Matakas
If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
John Grisham
Everyone has a story - find yours!
Shannon Wiersbitzky
Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.
Tim O'Brien
Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural world.
Kilroy J. Oldster
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?
Elizabeth Gilbert
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Michael Connelly
I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to taste life and blood.
Francis Marion Crawford
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
John Malkovich
When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light.
Anne Spollen
The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life…labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION.
Deepak Chopra
Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.
Evan Meekins
Nothing ever goes back on the vine.
Steve Weddle
Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.
Suzy Kassem
Forever is a really long time.
Nely Cab
I think,' Hoa says slowly, 'that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back.
N K Jemisin
You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.
Richie Norton
I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season
R.S. Gompertz
Failure is a signpost on the trail to success
Phillip Gary Smith
Consider this simple thought. The Lord could have made everything brown. Brown grass, brown flowers, brown sky, brown sea. But He didn't. There is much for us to enjoy in the variety and the beauty of His creation. These things illustrate His essential goodness. God is good. His goodness is seen in all His works.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
A lazy smile reached his lips. “The mere sight of me shirtless takes your mind there? Good to know. I’d rather a solid fuck than getting my kumbayas out.
Katherine McIntyre
If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time.
Debasish Mridha
Everything changed, and eleven months later, here I was in the middle of the night with a gungho major, playing secret agent, hoping some Frenchie didn't put a bullet in my skull before I gave the Germans and Italians their chance.
James R. Benn
If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.
Craig Groeschel
I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.
Frank O'Hara
Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.
T.A. Uner
Chances are like criticism; few like to take it, some love to give it, yet most never see it.
Carl Henegan
Use the water of encouragement on someone else's flowers - especially the flowers that are wilted, trampled on, and taken for granted. But don't nourish the weeds.
Hannah Garrison
How terrible," said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."
Christopher Paolini
Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.
Sarah J Maas
I was afraid that I had made a profound, irrevocable mistake, and that, as in a fantastic tale, if I did not find something firm and magical to grab a hold of right that moment we would both be swallowed up by a noisome gang of black shapes and evil black birds.
Michael Chabon
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
Orson Scott Card
Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
William Goldman
Without St. George, that balance would tip. Without the Order, there would be nothing to stop Talon and the Elder Wyrm from achieving what they wanted from the start: complete and utter dominion.
Julie Kagawa
The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow with its head in the clouds eating air and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.
Clarence C. Manion
Do not expect me to fall in with the evil customs and ways of the world. I am in Rome, but I will not do as Rome does. I am an alien, a stranger, and a foreigner. My citizenship is in heaven.
Billy Graham