Quotes by American Authors - Page 3296

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.
Bryant McGill
First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.
Bell Hooks
Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.
Lloyd Alexander
If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your own concern.
Peter S Beagle
I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.
Ariel Schrag
I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?
Ally Carter
In this vast universe when I was getting lost, you made me infinite with infinite love.
Debasish Mridha
Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.
Arthur Miller
Knowledge is the most prized commodity in the entire universe, and it is infinite in its commodity.
Suzy Kassem
Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.
Eileen Anglin
There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.
Idowu Koyenikan
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Jack Woodford
When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.
Brenda Sutton Rose
And I love you, William." Kiss."You can make any changes you wish." Kiss."Thank you, but I love everything exactly as it is." Kiss."You will stay with me each night?" Kiss."Forever, and all day, too, until you are sick of me." Kiss."That will never happen!" Kiss."I can be annoying at times." Kiss."Do you truly think me a baby?" Kiss."Only occasionally, beloved, and in the most endearing way. Now hush and kiss me!"Darcy complied with abundant enthusiasm.
Sharon Lathan
My desperation is deliberate. Despondency's a pheromone.
Kris Kidd
The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
Gail Carriger
Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born.
Cassandra Wilson Run the Voodoo Down
... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers alarm bells for any American academic. The late Edward Said’s Orientalism argued that the word ‘‘oriental’’ is a fundamentally pejorative term for certain parts of the non-Western world, not only indicating that they are inferior but also justifying Western colonization or domination of them.
Peter A. Lorge
What's doneis done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we'rewasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everythingahead, waiting for us."Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough toforget thoughts of revenge.
V.C. Andrews
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
Alice Walker
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur
Fall in love again and again.In life, love is the currency, spend it as much you can for an enormous gain.
Debasish Mridha
You’re stupid. First of all, I need for you to know that.” “Uhhh, thanks?” “That is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard. What could possibly be more romantic than the man of your dreams swooping in like a white knight? This is your fucking fairytale, bitch, and you’re about to let it slip away...” Gina growls in frustration. Add a note
Heather M. Orgeron
Think about it! God is all-knowing but you're not His only child. You're not His end all and be all. Ezra, you're good, but you ain't all that, sweetie.
Love Belvin
Emotions is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside of me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt.
Katie McGarry
HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS
Nicole Krauss
What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
Jodi Picoult
What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.
Stephen King
He always told me to look strong, even if I didn't feel it, because sometimes, that's all you can do.
Jessi Kirby
Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.
Frank Harris
Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.
Tamora Pierce
There is no need for me to worry, I've already been here somany times and each time I have made it throughalive
Michael Dodson Jr.
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
Buckminster Fuller
Rebecca's eyes were like faith,—"the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Under her delicately etched brows they glowed like two stars, their dancing lights half hidden in lustrous darkness. Their glance was eager and full of interest, yet never satisfied; their steadfast gaze was brilliant and mysterious, and had the effect of looking directly through the obvious to something beyond, in the object, in the landscape, in you. They had never been accounted for, Rebecca's eyes. The school teacher and the minister at Temperance had tried and failed; the young artist who came for the summer to sketch the red barn, the ruined mill, and the bridge ended by giving up all these local beauties and devoting herself to the face of a child,—a small, plain face illuminated by a pair of eyes carrying such messages, such suggestions, such hints of sleeping power and insight, that one never tired of looking into their shining depths, nor of fancying that what one saw there was the reflection of one's own thought.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associate with and love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. This distinction can be achieved only by a close walk with Christ, by constant prayer, and by seeking the Holy Spirit’s leadership every hour of the day. We are in the world, but the world is not to be in us.
Billy Graham
The abusive man’s high entitlement leads him to have unfair and unreasonable expectations, so that the relationship revolves around his demands. His attitude is: “You owe me.” For each ounce he gives, he wants a pound in return. He wants his partner to devote herself fully to catering to him, even if it means that her own needs—or her children’s—get neglected. You can pour all your energy into keeping your partner content, but if he has this mind-set, he’ll never be satisfied for long. And he will keep feeling that you are controlling him, because he doesn’t believe that you should set any limits on his conduct or insist that he meet his responsibilities.
Lundy Bancroft
Everyday is a good day, even when things are hard because we are still here, still fighting to live among the latter.
Lisa Kinsella
Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren't built, the books that weren't written, the songs that weren't sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. There is no greater time than now to experience the full power of your potential. Make this the day you take the first step in the beautiful journey of bringing your dreams to life.
Steve Maraboli
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
Jack Kornfield
I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.
Maxwell Perkins
He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.
Frank Herbert
David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
Geraldine Brooks
Tweaky craftily counter-rolled around the tree as I passed, now moving glacially. His wilderness ninja skills were impressive. I decided to stop the truck and just sit there for about five minute, testing his resolve. Tweaky stood his ground, shivering uncontrollably. He wasn't going to budge. He was too good and this was life or death.
Bruce Campbell
I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion.
Debasish Mridha
EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.
Abner Cole
My decision to become a teacher suddenly seemed even more appropriate. Life had just become that much more unpredictably precarious and ill-suited to long-term planning, and it felt that much more necessary to spread love and knowledge to those who would one day have to manage this messy and painful world of ours"Also in Zack Love's "Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
Zack Love
I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a lazy student). I would ride the Greyhound for thirty-six hours down from the Midwest to Leechfield, then spend days dressed in black in the scalding heat of my mother’s front porch reading Homer (or Ovid or Virgil) and waiting for someone to ask me what I was reading. No one ever did. People asked me what I was drinking, how much I weighed, where I was living, and if I had married yet, but no one gave me a chance to deliver my lecture on Great Literature.
Mary Karr
The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.
Anne Fadiman
It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.
Daniel Handler
But those who manage to genuinely place their hopes totally in God will never be disappointed. God will be with them continuously. They will then be able to bear witness to the miraculous way Providence works in their lives, yet without recognizing it. All of us have such experiences if we pay attention.
Kyriacos C. Markides
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven Wright
When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, "If there's anyplace you want to travel to, go now." Don't let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.
Beth Ann Fennelly
Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.
Suzy Kassem
When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.
Flannery O'Connor
Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.
Ellen J. Barrier
Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you
Debra Anastasia
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.
David Lee Roth
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.
Aberjhani
Some of the greatest insights we have ever experienced were those we least expected.
Michael Hyatt