Quotes by American Authors - Page 3161

Our greatest hope does not rest in the death of suffering. Neither does our help lie in us having a full and perfect life, with no pain, no brokenness, and no Lyme disease. Instead our hope lies in God and we hope in the fact that this is our temporary home and our forever home with Him in Heaven is perfect. This hope- this beautiful and living hope (I Peter 1:3-4) is for the future but also gives us hope for our present days.
Rebecca VanDeMark
I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.
Andrea Portes
We can't really know what relationships will last or not last in our lives, romantic and otherwise. What we can do is give the best we've got to the relationships we've chosen for ourselves. We can show up with an open heart and mind, be grateful for the exchange of love, and trust in however these relationships evolve. We can also be grateful for the relationships that have ended, trusting that we received from them something important that has helped to move us farther along our paths.
Scott Stabile
How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.
Catherynne M. Valente
Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!
Robin Williams
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.
Arthur K. Watson
Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.
Jessica Khoury
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Steven Wright
What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?
Terry Tempest Williams
Character is fate. Every day is training day.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
Chris Campanioni
But I thought you were home to stay,” she said, exhaustion clear in her voice.“Ellie, you were my home.” He looked down at the sleeping infant. “But I can’t stick around and watch you make the biggest mistake of your life.
Lindsey Brookes
If you were mine, I’d make love to you every chance I got, so whenever we were apart, you’d still feel me inside you.
Shelly Bell
If this is my final moment,” she says, “then I can die happy.”“Is that why you’re saying all this? Because you think we’re going to die?”“I don’t know,” she admits.“Dammit, Summer.” He clings to her waist, grip desperate, eyes heavy with torment. “You’re saying everything I want to hear, but I don’t know if I can trust it.
Laura Kreitzer
But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.
Edgar Allan Poe
As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.
Michael Cunningham
All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.
Spalding Gray
To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.
Bonnie Hunt
The sun's rays have vision and give us vision. However, it is the birds' eyes and the two invisible angels by your side that record everything. Nothing goes unnoticed throughout the universe. Wherever there is a vibration, there are eyes and ears. Some energies don't need ears or vision to see or hear, they can feel what is in your heart and tap into all your sins and fears.
Suzy Kassem
If I have any expertise, it is in the realm of spiritual darkness: fear of the unknown, familiarity with divine absence, mistrust of conventional wisdom, suspicion of religious comforters, keen awareness of the limits of all language about God and at the same time shame over my inability to speak of God without a thousand qualifiers, doubt about the health of my soul, and barely suppressed contempt for those who have no such qualms. These are the areas of my proficiency.
Barbara Brown Taylor
The more I learned the less I felt I knew you and I got lost counting stars, I fell dreaming. Sometimes I’d wander away. Maybe I wasn’t ready or maybe it was just a hard time to love. You always reminded me of home and I could never fathom the reasoning behind your smile. Perhaps one day, if we believe enough, we’ll find our way.
Robert M. Drake
It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
Audrey Niffenegger
Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.
Deborah Day
I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves.
Debasish Mridha
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race
Henry Miller
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
IRVIN D.YALOM
War is nothing more than organized insanity. That's why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don't, we won't live to tell about it.
R.G. Risch
I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.
Teju Cole
Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.
David L. Weimer
The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure and meaningful.
Goldy Moldavsky
At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.
Susan Faludi
Science has the capacity to uplift us to heights of undreamed of sophistication and quality of life or to drag us down into an abyss, from which we may never return. I do not believe science and/or technology are bad. However, I am very concerned with the beliefs the majority of scientists have about the world, which is its overriding view of reality— the mainstream scientific worldview. I believe it is the greatest weakness of science and so the greatest weakness of modern society and poses a serious risk, as we accelerate toward the biggest upheaval in human history, within the context of the enormity of global issues we face.
Jonathan R Banks
Shonda, how do you do it all?The answer is this: I don't.Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life....That is the trade-off.That is the Faustian bargain one makes with the devil that comes with being a powerful working woman who is also a powerful mother. You never feel 100 percent okay, you never get your sea legs, you are always a little nauseous.
Shonda Rhimes
Right. So if the eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If the eyes are not shining, you get to ask a question. And this is the question: who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining? We can do that with our children, too. Who am I being, that my children's eyes are not shining? That's a totally different world.
Benjamin Zander
Science tells me God must exist.My mind tells me I'll never understand God.My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]
Dan Brown
A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.
Peter Singer
An adamant silence overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of an indefinable unknown, unconsciously desired.
Carl Henegan
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.
Criss Jami
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Ursula Vernon
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
Brent Weeks
I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.
Scott Spencer
But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.
Nicholas Sparks
More or Less Love Poems #11:No babeWe'd neverSwing together butthe syncopationwould be something wild
Diane di Prima
Loving someone wasn't about their perfection. It was about coming to accept every part of them, their good qualities at their weaknesses and flaws--looking on everything they were and loving it all.As she looked on everything Jake was, right down to his center, she loved him.
Becky Wade
Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so that we will have the greater blessings he longs to lavish on us.
Bryan Chapell
When he opens the door, I step in and an army of memories comes at me from all sides.
Lisa Schroeder
Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being a sustainable world. They see it as a world to move toward not reluctantly, but joyfully, not with a sense of sacrifice, but a sense of adventure. A sustainable world could be very much better than the one we live in today.
Donella H. Meadows
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
Shirley Jackson
Live your life as if everyone will discover what you do and who you are. If no one holds your secrets, there’s nothing to compel you to male choices that are not your own.
April White
In the last 10 years, we have seen a rise in selfishness: selfies, self-absorbed people, superficiality, self-degradation, apathy, and self-destruction. So I challenge all of you to take initiative to change this programming. Instead of celebrating the ego, let's flip the script and celebrate the heart. Let's put the ego and celebrity culture to sleep, and awaken the conscience. This is the battle we must all fight together to win back our humanity. To save our future and our children.
Suzy Kassem
A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.
Ryan Lilly
Live vertically, not horizontally.
Shannon L. Alder
You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm.
Dan Millman
What are you doing?" Her voice stammered."Taking Your picture.""Why?" She began to reach for the camera, but he took a step back."Because you're beautiful
Bernadette Marie
The more you give, the more you will have the ability to give.
Debasish Mridha
The love you share with yourself pays immediate and lifelong dividends of peace.
Amy Leigh Mercree
I was of course discussing the book of Leviticus. I don't know why your mind is so filthy these days, Bingley.
Marsha Altman
The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.
Michael J. Fox