Quotes by American Authors - Page 3119

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
Glenn Greenwald
Don't analyze her love. Just turn the green light on and move into her soul.
Melody Lee
Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.
Marty Rubin
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
Anthony Bourdain
You are your passion. Life is your ultimate mission so never forget to enjoy the adventure.
Debasish Mridha
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
Mary Oliver
At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx.
P.C. Cast
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear
Roger Ebert
Now in the thriving season of lovewhen the bud relents into flower,your love turned absence has turned once more,and if my comforts fall soft as rainon her flutters, it is becauselove grows by what it remembers of love
Lisel Mueller
He waited at her side, staring... hovering. She had the distinct impression this man wasn't used to being disobeyed. My, but he was an irritating sea captain.
Madison Thorne Grey
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
Sharon Salzberg
...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?
Katherine Hannigan
The technological revolution seems to have no higher purpose than to render humanity obsolete.
Marty Rubin
belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. To even call somebody "a creative person" is almost laughably redundant; creativity is the hallmark of our species. We have the sense for it; we have the curiosity for it; we have the opposable thumbs for it; we have the rhythm for it; we have the language and the excitement and the innate connection to divinity for it.If you're alive, you're a creative person. You and I and everyone you know are descended from tens of thousands of years of makers. Decorators, tinkerers, storytellers, dancers, explorers, fiddlers, drummers, builders, growers, problem-solvers, and embellishers--these are our common ancestors.
Elizabeth Gilbert
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.
Jane Hirshfield
He pulled her toward him and gathered her in his arms as his hand lovingly cradled the back of her neck. She stopped breathing as he leaned down—ohmigod, the Adonis was about to kiss her—and planted the softest, most sensual kiss on her lips.Time stood still on the busy Chicago street.
Jennifer Lane
According to research, people who live with animals have decreased anxiety and lower blood pressure. They have lower cholesterol. They are more relaxed and less stressed and are, overall, in better health. Unless of course you have a dog who pees uncontrollably wherever it wishes or eats your furniture to shreds.
Mary Kubica
At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
Germany Kent
Today I AM grateful for wealth. There are many seeds planted inside me that are growing and pouring endless financial prosperity onto my life.
Ron Barrow
The arbitrary character of patriarchal ascriptions of temperament and role has little effect upon their power over us. Nor do the mutually exclusive, contradictory, and polar qualities of the categories “masculine” and “feminine” imposed upon human personality give rise to sufficiently serious question among us. Under their aegis each personality becomes little more, and often less than half, of its human potential. Politically, the fact that each group exhibits a circumscribed but complementary personality and range of activity is of secondary importance to the fact that each represents a status or power division. In the matter of conformity patriarchy is a governing ideology without peer; it is probably that no other system has ever exercised such a complete control over its subjects.
Kate Millett
Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
Paul Fussell
Clear skin, a manicure, a couple dead zombies, and then fame!
Faith McKay
The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing.
J.R. Ward
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herbert Gardner
...He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darkness, till all was reversed, day was night, and the blackness glittered with all the desert's sands, each a tiny flame beyond the bounds of time.
Mike Bond
Then you go ahead and cry," Will said. That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would have not been able to stop, but his permission somehow quite my tears.
Kathleen Grissom
I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect." His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. "The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have? Their beauty is only passing. It's just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
With the wings of love, flyin the imaginative and joyful blue sky.
Debasish Mridha
Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.
Orrin Woodward
Dreams aren't of the mind,but of the heart.
Lindsay Lock
He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.
Lee Child
Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
With true light comes instruments of peace. It's best when such peace begins in an American home and spread out throughout the many homes, villages and societies in the world.
Erwin K. Thomas
Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature.
Criss Jami
Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world.Morning arrives and that's it.Sunlight darkens the earth.
Charles Wright
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.
Jacob Braude
How clumsily we love this world:looking into that vast darkness,waiting for the telescopeto send down unseen colors of light.
Julia B. Levine
We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.
Bryant McGill
Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.
Jen Calonita
The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal outside of the law.
Emma Goldman
Cecelia, as with every look and gesture she let us know, was entirely at ease only in the company of her equals – a company that included, besides herself, only her sister. And of course Cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can’t dislike nearly everybody and be quite certain that you have exempted yourself.
Wendell Berry
I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
Clarence Darrow
The more independent you are of him, the more interested he will be.
Sherry Argov
Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.
Roy T. Bennett
After the launch phase, your product is old news. Take advantage of the opportunity to generate interest when your product is new.
Brian Lawley
I spent a great deal of my ilfe trying to be quiet and nice and not piss anyone off. I was misereable. It served no purpose. And they still came for me. It made me even easier to dismiss, to overlook, to assume I was just somebody else everybody could roll over and spout off ridiculously sexist, racist crap without dissent.But nodding and smiling gets old. It makes it easier for people to box you up and ship you off, I'm only really alive when I'm pissing people off anyway
Kameron Hurley
Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
Dale Carnegie
Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.
Henry David Thoreau
He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it made him sound smarter, thought it made him sound like them, those code jockeys, standing by the coffee machine, talking faster than he could think, talking not so much in sentences as in data structures, dense clumps of logic with the occasional inside joke. He liked to stand near them, pretending to stir sugar into his coffee, listening in on them as if they were speaking a different language. A language of knowing something, a language of being an expert at something. A language of being something more than an hourly unit.
Charles Yu
She's your partner in all things. Remember how Ma and Pa used to act?'Simon nodded as he sat beside him. 'Every decision, every action taken together.'James raised his brows as he leaned against the wall. 'That's a tall order. Based on some of the married folks I've seen in town, not every marriage is such a joyful union.
Regina Scott
At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most.
Anthony Liccione
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing
Glenn Greenwald
The money is too good to say no.
Ali Parker
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Louisa May Alcott
As you think about the future . . . give thanks and trust God . . . Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us—which we do not deserve.
Billy Graham
Every day I make a choice to bring my own sunshine.
Sandra M. Michelle
Is China a drug? Like any drug, it depends entirely on the user’s own state of mind. If we’re making metaphors, for old China hands I’d imagine their time here draws parallels with the soaring euphoria and bleak depths of smoking opium, while China for the uninitiated is probably a bit like bath salts: the constantly convulsing nervous system, the paranoia, the god-complex, the rage. I’d liken my own China experience to a decade-long acid trip. It began with liberating my mind from the restraints of Western society. Then I departed on an odyssey that took me tens of thousands of miles across China, experiencing various metaphysical and spiritual states as my journey progressed, punctuated by periods of intense creativity due to my heightened sensory perceptions. To a background score of warped erhu and guzheng, and the looped calls of sidewalk vendors echoing into the void, the kaleidoscopic chaos of this culture surged around me like the Yangtze river – in outer space. Now I’m one with China’s cosmic consciousness. I want to reeducate the communists with love. Or maybe I’m not even here. Maybe I really did perish during my kora around Mount Kailash and none of this ever happened...
Tom Carter
To be successful you have to be dumb enough to think you can change the world and smart enough to know how.
Clint Borgen