Quotes by American Authors - Page 3157

Our path may be different but our purpose of journey is the same.
Debasish Mridha
Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.
Steven J. Carroll
We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.
V.C. Andrews
Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.
Tamara Rose Blodgett
There is no greater torture than being forced to watch as your love, your reason for living, breathing, and existing, sinks into oblivion. Your heart stops no matter how you try to get to her, she just gets farther and farther away." ~Fane from 'Beyond the Vail'"Attention shoppers, just a brief announcement, crazy ass werewolf on isle three. Those with abundance of testosterone, don't touch their lady merchandise and you might walk out of here intact." ~Jen from 'Fate and Fury'."In the event of some sort of gathering, if one of the bossy, overbearing, possessive fur balls has not flipped his switch and attacked some poor young pup in some misguided attempt to protect his woman's virtue, then the night is not over.
Quinn Loftis
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
James Russell Lowell
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect
Thomas Jefferson
I have a choice. That’s why I’m still here.
Amy Neftzger
But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.
John Northcutt Young
What was it with women and pushing men’s buttons?I get that a woman wants to look attractive. News flash: you already do. We see it. But apparently to women, owning their own beauty isn’t enough. They arm all the weapons in their arsenal to gain the attention of every Y chromosome within a ten-mile radius. Why do they go to all the trouble? Validation.Meanwhile, biology dictates survival of the fittest; battles ensue, wars are fought, and somewhere amid all the carnage, a victor emerges to claim his female. All because said female just wanted to go out and feel pretty that night.
Kat Bastion
Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
Edward Abbey
It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation
Spencer Johnson
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver
Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
Lauren DeStefano
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.
Parker J. Palmer
The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles
Wayne Wignall
Damn, her voice was awfully sexy for being a tree. Coop wasn’t sure he was comfortable with that thought. Probably a good time to head out, before he started trying to hump a knothole or something.
Cindy Spencer Pape
He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.
David Estes
Let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory! Thus the LORD was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and to give us their Land for an Inheritance: Who remembred us in our low Estate, and redeemed us out of our Enemies Hands: Let us therefore praise the LORD for his Goodness and his wonderful Works to the Children of Men!
John Mason
You're taller than I am, but I'm stronger, and meaner right this minute than you could ever imagine" - Lady Madelyne.
Julie Garwood
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
Zora Neale Hurston
Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.
Shannon A. Thompson
If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.
Steve Maraboli
Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.
Gary Chapman
Remember, you are the light of love in the darkness.
Debasish Mridha
A kiss is just a kiss, were words not expressed by a man tied naked to a tree.
Dixie Waters
I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.
Christopher Hitchens
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.
Edith Schaeffer
Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.
T.F. Hodge
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thoughts as thoughts rather than getting caught up in them in reality.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.
Victor LaValle
The Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide. It alone knows the route to that which is remote from experience and understanding. Neither of them is amphibious: reason cannot go beyond the shore, and the sense of the ineffable is out of place where we measure, where we weigh. We do not leave the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions. We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore. Citizens of two realms, we all must sustain a dual allegiance: we sense the ineffable in one realm, we name and exploit reality in another. Between the two we set up a system of references, but we can never fill the gap. They are as far and as close to each other as time and calendar, as violin and melody, as life and what lies beyond the last breath.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is much in this world that hurts us, but if we let pain become our master, we live our lives as slaves.
Hannah Hart
I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.
John Gardner
When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.
Sandra S. Simmons
Truth is the basis of all healing.
Barbara Schmidt
What the hell is that?" I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.
John Green
...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.
Richard Rohr
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons
Milton Friedman
There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
General George S. Patton
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.
James Redfield
Secrets are a responsibility and a painfully taxing one at that.
Jonas Lee
Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.
Stefan Fatsis
I find learning to be the most valuable of all the treasures in the world. It's priceless.
Jody Hedlund
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.
Naomi Wolf
My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the ‘possible,’ while God is inviting me to the forefront of the ‘impossible.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.
Frederik Pohl
Creativity vs. inspiration: inspiration makes a copy, creativity makes something completely new.
Hannah Garrison
This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive.
Roxane Gay
The lily and the poem made it all real for me; now I knew my memories would stay with me forever. I held the lily and the poem to my heart, and concluded that my life was not a series of sand castles. There was meaning to life, and precious memories even amidst the sadness.
Sook Nyul Choi
Don’t wait for opportunity in front of a closed door—wander until you find the open one.
Debasish Mridha
Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadn't bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body.
Beth Fantaskey
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.
Mercedes Lackey
That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
Bob Goff
The Himalayas are the crowning achievement of the Indo-Australian plate. India in the Oligocene crashed head on into Tibet, hit so hard that it not only folded and buckled the plate boundaries but also plowed into the newly created Tibetan plateau and drove the Himalayas five and a half miles into the sky. The mountains are in some trouble. India has not stopped pushing them, and they are still going up. Their height and volume are already so great they are beginning to melt in their own self-generated radioactive heat. When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in a warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as 20,000 feet below the sea floor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat, I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence; this is the one I would choose: the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.
John McPhee
When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon.
Ray Bradbury
I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It's all numbers. It's nothing. It's not what we're about. It's not what this school represents." -Coach Frank Allocco
Neil Hayes
...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.
Kevin Alan Lee
she was polite, charming, and damn pretty. Braith wanted to hate her, but she just couldn’t. The bitch.
G.A. Aiken