Quotes by American Authors - Page 320

Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. “Oh, no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!”Nothing happ
Rick Riordan
To Donal Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.
Ilana Mercer
There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
Robin Hobb
Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)
Jeaniene Frost
Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.
Jenni Schaefer
Seriously, I’m totally weirded out by the girly nature of this conversation. And yet, it’s kinda like you’re growing up. Do you think Judy Blume made a book about adolescent vampires? Are You There God, It’s Me, Merit?” Mallory snorted, obviously pleased with herself.
Chloe Neill
You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't,it just makes them dead.
Joe Walker
good weatheris likegood women—it doesn’t always happenand when it doesit doesn’talways last.
Charles Bukowski
I've never been drunk but often I've been overserved.
George Gobel
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. I. Newton
Connie Shipley
He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.
Michael Monroe
Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators? Possible that plain men with the humble trait of minding their own business will rank higher in the heavenly hierarchy than all the plumed souls who have shoved their way in among the masses and insisted on savings them?
Sinclair Lewis
Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.
Toni Morrison
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...
Herman Melville
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
John Muir
Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world’s system.
Billy Graham
ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway?RODNEY: Poetry.TYRONE: Poetry?Rodney stops sketching and sentimentally flips through a few dozen pages of sketches and handwritten poems and notes.RODNEY: Poetry and pictures. Snapshots of our lives developed in the darkrooms of our souls."From CENTRAL PARK SONG -- a screenplay
Zack Love
Speed of life is a killer not a healer, so slow down to bloom like a flower.
Debasish Mridha
Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity.
Casey Carter
A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.
Asa Don Brown
During those years he met his seminars,went & lectured & read, talked with human beings,paid insurance & taxes;but his mind was not on it. his mind was elsewheresin an area where the soul not talks but sings& where foes are attacked with axes.
John Berryman
Sometimes I feel that I could stand in the middle of the square and scream and thrash about like a wildling, and no one would notice.
Kerrigan Byrne
If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.
John K. Brown
A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.
Laurie Nadel
Richard, Bill has the socialist disease in its worst form; he thinks the world owes him a living. He told me sincerely - smugly! - that of course everyone was entitled to the best possible medical and hospital service - free of course, unlimited of course, and of course the government should pay for it.
Robert A. Heinlein
You're thinking I'm a changed man. That God has changed me. And that regardless of the fact that my father has left so much damage in his wake, I shouldn't hate him for it. You're telling me to think to the future ... That I shouldn't hold bitterness against the father who left ... And you hope that i can finally forgive him, which is something I've never quite been able to do." "Goodness," Sera beamed back at him. "I thought all that? I'm much wiser than I give myself credit for.
Kristy Cambron
You intend to keep me confined in here with you for three days?" His voice was low and ominous."It doesn't have to take three days," she said, "It just depends how long it takes for you to come to your senses.""My senses?" he shook her so hard she thought her teeth would rattle. "It is you whose mind is disordered if you think you can tame me like some pet! Is that what you think, Vesta? That you can somehow turn a man like me into your little lap dog?""No," she said, as earnest as she had ever been in her life. "I could never imagine you as a lap dog. Ever. You are a Mastiff. Big, powerful, dignified, brave, and yet gentle." She nodded with a look of self satisfaction. "Yes. Most definitely a Mastiff." from THE VIRGIN HUNTRESS
Victoria Vane
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.
Charles Frazier
Strong personal relationships are characterised by an ability and willingness to do each other favors. Strive to put family first, then your social circle, and back off on efforts to be a social media superstar.
Mark Sisson
O, flower! If you bloom with love in spring, will you understand if my soul sings?
Debasish Mridha
Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
Steve Maraboli
It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us. We pray in Christ's name, Amen.
Kate DiCamillo
I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.
Luci Shaw
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
Joan Didion
You were the devil. Dressed in everything. I wanted.
R H Sin
Don’t fear! Take care of revenge and hatred by hitting the haters with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.
Catherynne M. Valente
...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.
Michael Crichton
Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.
Daniel Mackler
The bantering between them only caused their connection to spark that much more. Instead of forcing them to be at odds with each other, arguing did the opposite. It caused the flame to rise on the existing fire which churned inside of them, and they knew it and relished in the burn it created. There was a storm coming. As their desire intensified so did the turbulence of passion grow increasingly wild, demanding nothing less than consumption.
Madison Thorne Grey
You weren't picky about who got hurt. Still aren't. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
Rachel Caine
Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?
Brom
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William James
Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.
Martha Moody
He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times for you.""I'm afraid of loving again. I'm afraid I've lost my faith.""You haven't.""The trapdoor I have in my mind? That can go to those bad places? It's almost gave way again.""You know the ways to keep it nailed shut.
Emma Forrest
This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.”“No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until a century after slavery was abolished.”“Then why the hell are they still complaining about it?
Octavia E. Butler
If the lords of the underworld can't bring me out of this funk, no one can.
Stacey O'Neale
To love is to open the window of your heart for all of the beauty of the world to come in and dance with the joy in your soul.
Debasish Mridha
Next to God, Family is the best thing.
April Floyd
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
Vernor Vinge
Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore
Iverson glanced down at my white-knuckled grip, then at my eyes. A hint of a smile more subtle than a single flick of snow crossed his face, and his eyes nodded approval.
Allen Eskins
Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer
Muhammad Ali
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
Rachel Carson
At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.
Anthony Liccione
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
Criss Jami
The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, more of a ragged slot, dirty yellow. And you'll see that the white of a goat's eye is all black.
Eugene Marten