Quotes by American Authors - Page 3334

Don't fight the system, mock the system
Trevor Noah
Passion without purpose leads to frustration.Purpose without passion leads to procrastination.Passion with purpose leads to success.
Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.
Eric Samuel Timm
Those aren’t the rules. She cost us a meal,” Tank said. “You cost the group a meal, you go hungry. That’s the way it’s always been.”I thought Dax was going to let them fight it out but then he spoke up. “I don’t want to feed her right now either but she’s a walking skeleton, and I need her alive. If there was one jerky, she’d get it before any of us.” He reached over and grabbed two dried meat sticks from Lucy and tried to hand me one.“I’m fine. I don’t need it,” I said, looking at Tank.Dax grabbed my hand and shoved the jerky into my palm. “I took you out of that compound for a reason. I will force-feed you that jerky before I let you starve yourself.”“Fine. I’ll eat it. Whatever. You don’t need to get so bent out of shape about it.” I was hungry as hell so it wasn’t actually a concession, but he didn’t know that. I mean hell, I knew I needed the calories and the Cement Giant wasn’t going to blow itself to smithereens.“I took a couple of bites as Dax got up and walked out of the camp.I gnawed on the stuff as I leaned against my rock. “What flavor is this? It’s really good stuff.”Lucy and Tank looked at me kind of oddly. Hey, if I was going to eat it I didn’t see a lot of reason to pretend it sucked. These people were weird.
Donna Augustine
Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.
Billy Graham
Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.
Bart Yates
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.
Gene Sharp
Never lose your sense of common sense.
Debasish Mridha
If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!
T.F. Hodge
You can't make people love you. Love isn't something you earn, or something you deserve. Love just is. Or it isn't. Anyway, there are more important things than love. Like service. Being of service. With love, you're waiting around for someone to give it to you. But service, that's something you give. And you don't have to give it just to people you love. It doesn't matter who you serve. It's the serving that matters.
Elana K. Arnold
Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)
Lois McMaster Bujold
A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.
Courtney Milan
Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
Susan Sontag
I can't see anything" he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. "I'm blind.
L.J. Smith
Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.
Cindy Ann Peterson
You can't live in your mind and expect those dreams to become real, without the work. Reality requires actions that might feel scary, but that is what is required if you want to find true love. Don't expect it to come and rescue you. You have to rescue yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof
Joseph Lallo
So…while we’re sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn’t someone tell me the plan?
Elle Lothlorien
nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.
Paul Bowles
Don't follow blindly; focus on strengths, not weaknesses
Don Norman
Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.
Christina Baker Kline
You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.
Michelle Hodkin
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
Gloria Steinem
Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.
Shannon L. Alder
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working.
Stephen King
I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." Clarence Birdseye
Mark Kurlansky
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
Mario Cuomo
I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
James D. Sass
They sat in silence for a moment. Then Jenna said," The son of a god, huh? That explains a lot."tHe raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"tJenna smirked at him, a mischievous look in her sparkling blue eyes. "You know, the whole super strong, ridiculously gorgeous thing. But obviously you've been told that a lot over the years. I don't expect it means much anymore."tA voice far in the back of head said something faint about bad ideas, but he hit it with a large mental stick until it sputtered and shut up.t"It depends on who says it," he answered, and bent his head down and kissed her.
Deborah Blake
people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,......... a "smile
Anne Stuart
I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.
Jim Butcher
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
You have to throw yourself away when you write.
Maxwell Perkins
The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self and our True Self. We might say that it even watches us when we watch. It is our Consciousness, it is the core experience of our Child Within. It thus cannot be watched—at least by anything or any being that we know of on this earth. It transcends our five senses, our co-dependent self and all other lower, though necessary parts, of us.tAdult children may confuse their observer self with a kind of defense they may have used to avoid their Real Self and all of its feelings. One might call this defense “false observer self” since its awareness is clouded. It is unfocused as it “spaces” or “numbs out.” It denies and distorts our Child Within, and is often judgmental.
Charles L. Whitfield
When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.
Allen Klein
Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas.
Debasish Mridha
When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observation about what a lot of people who were happy with themselves seem to have done, namely:1. Take a careful inventory of their shortcomings and flaws2. Adopt a code of values that treats these things as virtues3. Admire themselves for living up to itBrutal people admire themselves for being manly; compulsive pedants admire themselves for their attention to detail; naturally selfish and mean people admire themselves for their dedication to helping the market reward talent and punish failure, and so on.
John R. Perry
Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.
Cassandra Clare
We can't make up for lost time, but we can make room to share space.
T.F. Hodge
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." -
Michael Altshuler
Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.
James Carlos Blake
All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation.
Marilyn Van Derbur
I held on to the hope that one day I would grow up and have all the answers, just like my parents. As I look over at Arnold and then at Father Mike, I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of life's many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars.
Shaun David Hutchinson
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.
Paul Auster
After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.
Nikki Sixx
There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memory can step Around – across – opon it – As one within a Swoon – Goes safely – where an open eye – Would drop Him – Bone by Bone.
Emily Dickinson
Art is long, and Time is fleeting.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do--then go ahead and do it with ease. Don't maul, don't suffer, don't groan till the first draft is finished. A play is a pheonix and it dies a thousand deaths. Usually at night. In the morning it springs up again from its ashes and crows like a happy rooster. It is never as bad as you think, it is never as good. It is somewhere in between, and success or failure depends on which end of your emotional gamut concerning its value it approaches more closely. But it is much more likely to be good if you think it is wonderful while you are writing the first draft. An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.
Tennessee Williams
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
Lisa Kleypas
I’m putting a temporary hold on the ‘stay away from me’ thing,’” she said. “just for a minute while I yell at you, and then we’re definitely going right back to it.
Jill Shalvis
The future belongs to those who enhance their level of consciousness and awareness everyday.
Debasish Mridha
Before he knew he was immortal. Before life was no longer fragile. Those were the days when life truly meant something.When life was hard but worthwile, and love was valuable because your days were numbered.That was living.
Chelsea Fine
I cannot kill someone, he thought.
Lois Lowry
Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.
Germany Kent
In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris
George F. Will
Don't Fear the Reaper.
Rae Hachton
Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.
Kilroy J. Oldster