Quotes by American Authors - Page 3191

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.
Pat Conroy
But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.
Cathy Lamb
What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?
James Frazee
...they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that'. So I would say, they are sick, and I am well. Pardon me.
Charles Bukowski
Blogs are assailed on all sides, by the crushing economics of the business, dishonest sources, inhuman deadlines, pageview quotas, inaccurate information, greedy publishers, poor training, the demands of the audience, and so much more. These incentives are real, whether you're at The Huffington Post or some tiny blog. Taken individually, the resulting output is obvious: bad stories, incomplete stories, wrong stories, unimportant stories.
Ryan Holiday
Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.
Suzy Kassem
When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.
Pat Conroy
Associations are communities that are built on the hearts and minds of people who come together to do good in the world
Holly Duckworth
    The only one in the valley who was working was Mooney Wright.    Harrison leaned over and kneaded his hands roughly. He was wary of Mooney. Mooney was a strong one, not subject to weakness at all. He had done only one grievous act, in Harrison's mind. He had taken Lorry and the boys from him.    For a man to be jealous of his daughter was a damnable thing, Harrison thought, though he realized he had been jealous of Lorry for years. It was to her that he had let his heart go out, yes, back when she was a small thing.
John Ehle
The bad news is that yesterday sucked. The good news is that yesterday is gone. Today’s a new day. Own it! Shape it! Live it!
Steve Maraboli
...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.
Sue Monk Kidd
You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future.
Suzanne Collins
Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.
Rita Rudner
She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.
Jean Nathan
Are you depressed?""What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone?
Madeleine Roux
Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.
Grace Metalious
What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
Francis Chan
People say memories are there to be cherished. I believe memories are there to be created, and if you do something worthwhile today, you will stop living in the past
James Perrin
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.
Roger Zelazny
Happiness is an inside job
William Arthur Ward
I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.
Thomas Paine
In life, every step you take is an adventure. Never fear to venture and never forget to enjoy.
Debasish Mridha
In the legend of Camelot, King Arthur gave consideration as to how his knights might be positioned spatially to impart a message of power and status. He decided they would have their meetings at a round table, which meant that they were all considered equal and there was no “head of the table.” He built a league based on equality and mutual respect to unify and fortify the power of teamwork.
Susan C.Young
Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.
Rick Yancey
The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you.
James Emlund
Education ignites the lights in the darkness of life.
Debasish Mridha
I love the serenity as a tree loves its calmness.
Debasish Mridha
You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.
Margaret Mitchell
Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.
Anthony Liccione
Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.
Billy Graham
When she asked George what way she could best apply it for him, he answered, "Give me an education, Emily; that has always been my heart's desire. Then, I can do all the rest.
Stowe Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
We had each reacted differently in a moment of terror, and yet we both still hurt. Maybe there was no right or wrong, no black or white, only a thousand shades of grey when it came to pain and what we each held ourselves responsible for.
Mia Sheridan
I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.
George R.R. Martin
[T]he craft of science . . . is an oral tradition as much as a written one.
Konstantin Kakaes
Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.
Shannon L. Alder
What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.
Edith Wharton
Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?
L.J. Smith
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
Margaret Mead
It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.
Lara Adrian
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri
So, whose man parts are you setting on fire?" he asked, quirking an eyebrow....t"No one. I was just telling Belle about how I need to lose my virginity."tAaaaand, that did it. He froze, his arm dropping from Belle's shoulders as he took a not very subtle step toward the entryway. "I need to get the door."tShe picked up her tulip-shaped glass, fighting a grin. "I didn't hear the doorbell.
Katie Reus
That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything.
Henry James
See beauty everywhere, and let your heart dance with it.
Debasish Mridha
Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.
Priya Ardis
When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep... "I should have" "If only I'd" "I wish I'd"...grab one of them and turn it into an "I will" and sleep peacefully knowing tomorrow will be a better day.
L.R. Knost
According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.
Cammie McGovern
I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.
Dee-Williams
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
Roy T. Bennett
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
A.W. Tozer
We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.
Martha Stout
As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.
Jim Carrey
I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive.
Richelle E. Goodrich
My mother's deathchanged the alchemy of food.Holidays run together nowlike ungrooved rivers. I forgetwhat they are for. I buy bakery goods.They look deadunder the blue lights.I don't do anything the way she taught mebut I get fat.I don't look like her and I don't soundlike her, but I stand like her.
Florence Weinberger
They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.
Nicola Yoon
Being stuck in your own head not only cheats you of intimate interactions with others, but it also impacts your relationship with God. - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label
Eddie Capparucci
...I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty--guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard--but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us.
Sheri Dew
You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.
Michael J. Fox
If you know yourself and don’t have a belief that other people are better than you, then you simply can’t feel jealous or threatened.
Roberto Hogue