Quotes by American Authors - Page 3123

In my opinion, not all famous people are loaded with tons of money.
Chris Mentillo
The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.
Brandon Sanderson
But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it's the definition of madness to believe I'm right and everyone else if wrong, to find my thoughts rational and reasonable when almost the entire world finds them damaged and flawed.
Stacey Jay
When they go low, we go high.
Michelle Obama
Yaicha is named after a songby some group from the last century called thePousette-Dart Band.Something about a girl, a candle in the falling rain shining amidst the pain.I kind of surprise myselfwhen I can picture Yaicha as that candle.My father named Yaicha after the "haunting melody."I wonder if he ever listenedto the lyrics.
Thalia Chaltas
We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Will Durant
A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection.
Debasish Mridha
Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.
Pearl Zhu
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.
Richard J. Foster
Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness by the use of plants or substances is somehow wrong, onanistic, and perversely antisocial. I will argue that suppression of shamanic gnosis, with its reliance and insistence on ecstatic dissolution of the ego, has robbed us of life’s meaning and made us enemies of the planet, of ourselves, and our grandchildren. We are killing the planet in order to keep intact the wrongheaded assumptions of the ego-dominator cultural style.
Terence McKenna
Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.And now Dad wants me to be the ambassador of hope for his foundation. How can I be the ambassador of hope, when hope doesn't change anything? When unrealized hopes only bring pain and despair?
Clara Kensie
Dreams are woven with threads of truth.
Toni Sorenson
I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you will continue to hurt anyone that reminds you of those moments when you let your guard down and were fooled. Sadly, it sends a clear message to the observant that you are still hurt. If only women would realize that "we all" have moments of stupidity then they would stop comparing themselves to the masses.
Shannon L. Alder
The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
All success comes down to this . . . action
Rob Liano
A flower just blooms without knowing who will enjoy and appreciate her beauty.
Debasish Mridha
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling
I am lost to him. I never want to be found.
Danielle Pearl
There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.
Noah Hawley
When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.
Maggie Stiefvater
Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.
Loren Eiseley
The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.
Lauren Oliver
Then an odd thing happened. Britney put her finger on the ridge of the painted glass and rubbed it. It made a perfect noise. The kind of noise that goes on and on as a beautiful noise does once it has wrung the ear. It was the chord of the wild sea.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.
Amy Hill Hearth
Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.
Karen Marie Moning
If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will know. And when it’s not – it’s time to go.
Mandy Hale
From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.
Billy Graham
Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.
Lee Ellis
Today is the most important day of your life. Enjoy it with all of your heart. Don’t worry about tomorrow, leave it for tomorrow.
Debasish Mridha
I hope suffering don't exist.
David Levithan
A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.
Ned Sublette
The cops will break down your door to save you. God will break down your constitution. Brokenness is not the opposite of wholeness. It's how He gets in.
Kate McGahan
I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.
Philip K Dick
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
To him, freedom was greater than love. She hated that. tBecause she had always thought that love was freedom.
Tessa Shaffer
What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?" "Probably Dasani," Thomas replies.
Kendare Blake
To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it.
Mark Galli
The wonderful thing about books--and the thing that made them such a refuge for the islanders during the Occupation--is that they take us out of our time and place and understanding, and transport us not just into the world of the story, but into the world of our fellow readers, who have stories of their own.
Annie Barrows
Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't be late."I brushed some hair out of my eyes. Is that a movie quote? Or is it an actual date? I don't remember destiny asking me. I never even gave destiny my phone number.
James Patterson
Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.
Os Guinness
You can either be the victim of your own life, or the victor".
Catie Hartsfield
Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.
Debbie Tosun Kilday
In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.
Edmund White
Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.
Linda Sue Park
Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
Keith Ablow
home is the structure/ you build when nowhere else will have you
Ann Tweedy
They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.
David Wong
Love never could be overdone or go out of style.
Debasish Mridha
People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.
Michael Lewis
Gilbert?"Some days I hate all those who know my name.
Peter Hedges
Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong
Richard G. Scott
The beauty of problem-solving is that, unlike punishment, it offers endless possibilities. If you're committed to punishment and your child continues to misbehave, all you can do is punish more severely. You might hit him harder or take away more privileges, but chances are you won't get any closer to your goal of having a cooperative child. And you'll create a lot of ill will in the process. With problem-solving, you can always go back and brainstorm some more. When you put your heads together, you're bound to come up with something that will work for both of you.
Joanna Faber
The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in others, people will take it and carry it with them.
Ken Poirot
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
Michael Curtiz
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.
John Piper