Quotes by American Authors - Page 3133

Success comes from patience and passion.
Debasish Mridha
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.
Seth Godin
THE MOMENT YOU WANT SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE IS THE MOMENT YOU SPIRITUALLY KILL YOURSELF
Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier
I was shut off from my body; I had barely thought about sexuality or longing. Up until this point, my sexual experiences had felt business like or even transactional...I hadn't been suppressing urges or denying my needs. I didn't feel like I had any, not corporeal ones. My journal entries from that time speak to depression and feelings of isolation, fears that a friend would leave, a sense that I had been responsible for my mother's departure and would therefore cause anyone I loved or needed to leave. I was still spending most of my time in my head. I was removed from my own feelings.
Carrie Brownstein
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
Annie Dillard
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
Carl Sagan
The best colleague any doctor can have is a more fully informed patient and family.
James J. Rybacki
Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.
Brandon Sanderson
Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Everyone always blames the monster--but no one ever blames the one who created it. Isn't that right?" He sneered at Moira's limp form. "Tell me, who is the monster? The creation or the creator? It has to start somewhere.
Jessica Khoury
If you want to fill your life with abundance, never forget to give away something with love.
Debasish Mridha
Ponder the affirmative.
Loretta Boyer McClellan
Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top.
Destiny Booze
People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice.
Robert M. Pirsig
You are a writer. You just need to write.
Jeff Goins
To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.
Jim Butcher
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Steven Pressfield
You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.
Rebecca Scherm
We may pick and choose to graft different fruits onto our spiritual tree, but regardless of what we call it, others will see a confusing fruit salad.
Matt Kellum
Last night you sat there singing to me 'nothing to hide, believe what I say' and not ten hours later you're standin' in front of me lyin
Kristen Ashley
All you have control over is this moment. Chase it.
Anna Akana
That which is essential for life, can never be bought.
Debasish Mridha
You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
Lynn Sheene
Too weird to live, too rare to die!
Hunter S. Thompson
Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it's against the rules?Clara: Because I love you.
Cynthia Hand
Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.
Jennifer Egan
I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?
Laurell K. Hamilton
Change is loss. I was fully functional prior to the actions you have taken. If you change me, I will cease to be me. If you love me, you wouldn’t want to change me… Love appears to have made you less functional.
Thomm Quackenbush
For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 21, in correctional facilities, 1430 men are so confined.
Mitch Pearlstein
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt
He told her over and over how beautiful she was but, to her, his beauty was beyond any words she would ever be able to speak.
Kathleen Valentine
You’re going to have to do better than that if you want to get into my metaphysical pants.
Allison Pang
Merging like two drops of water.Together in a way that humans could never know.
L.J. Smith
One of the tragedies of current Christianity in America is that we have so few compelling illustrations of this life that Jesus lived and the type of radical community he came to create. Leading pastors and preachers are little more than family-friendly celebrities or game show hosts with all the razzle-dazzle and mass media presence that accompanies the position.
Ronnie McBrayer
Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.
Robin Williams
Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.
Shannon L. Alder
I want you to remember that you can’t feel responsible for everything. We’re your parents, and we will figure us out. All you need to do— any of you”— she looks at my brothers—” is be a kid for now and let us be there for you.”“All of us?” Dusty says. “Even those of us without neurological disorders?” “All of you.
Jennifer Niven
New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.
Ralph Ellison
It is easy to live with someone of value than someone famous.
Debasish Mridha
There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.
T.S Eliot
Nobody speaks smut to my wife and gets away with it.
Sandra Brown
Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life.
Ken Poirot
He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him more pissed, because being less stupid than one's parents is repulsive, like taking a gulp from a glass of milk that you thought was orange juice.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Joss Whedon
I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully, step by step, up the career ladder. The leaders are the ones who took chances and developed unique perspectives.
Damon Horowitz
Praying always means praying through things and not giving up. It means being ever-watchful and persevering in prayer in order to see breakthrough.God wants us to be persistent in our praying. Don’t forget to spend some quiet time praying to your Heavenly Father today.
Stormie Omartian
There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
Linda Leaming
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
Gloria Steinem
Friendship true is a vow of care.A warm embrace when in despair.A loving presence waiting thereto lift a heart, its burdens bear.Friendship true is an earnest prayer.A tongue of praise for one’s welfare.A smile ’mid laughs as light as air,and thoughtfulness most kind and rare.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I know my life's meaningful because"- and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued- "because I'm a good friend. i love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.
Hanya Yanagihara
The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. “How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a chance?”Something dark and scorching flickered behind his eyes. “Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.
Airicka Phoenix
Money almost always ends up disappointing. Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.
Lisa Bedrick
There comes a time when even the thing you love betrays you...you have to know when it's time to give it up, I suppose. Doesn't mean you love it any less, of course. Just means it's time to move on. When you can't agree with the decisions that bind you, then you have to take your talents elsewhere.
Siri Mitchell
There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
Anthony Bourdain
I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
Mark Nepo
A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.
Richelle E. Goodrich
No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.
Gladys M. Hunt
There is nothing perfect...only life.
Sue Monk Kidd
You don't give a gift to shape someone into the person you want him to be. You give a gift because it's something you couldn't bear to be without, but it's even more unthinkable for the other person to be without it.
Will Chancellor