Quotes by American Authors - Page 348

Even the most noble of men are capable of committing the most heinous crimes when their souls cry out for help and that cry goes unanswered. If we spent half as much time building others up as we do tearing them down, we'd find the ladder of success is far greater than the rope of doom.
Michael Benningfield
E.L. James. Best damn author of our time, if you ask me. She really nailed it with that tampon scene. Pure enlightenment.
Christina Elle
When they're little, and you go for years without a good night's sleep, you wonder if they'll ever make it through to morning without finding some reason to wake you up. But then one day you look at the clock and it's 7:30 a.m......For a panicked moment, you wonder if your child is---well, I can't even say it. You leap out of bed and run into his room and if you haven't wakened him up with all your commotion by then, you stand there for a minute trying to make sure that he's still breathing. You see the chest rising and falling and you let out a sigh. There's nothing wrong. He's just growing up. He doesn't need you anymore, is all; he doesn't need to wake you up in the night.
Beth J. Harpaz
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
Robert McKee
Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.
Maxwell Maltz
On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.
John Green
If the political left weren't so joyless, humorless, intrusive, taxing, over-taxing, anarchistic, controlling, rudderless, chaos-prone, pedantic, unrealistic, hypocritical, clueless, politically correct, angry, cruel, sanctimonious, retributive, redistributive, intolerant, and if the political left wasn't hell-bent on expansion of said unpleasantness into all aspects of my family's life the truth is: I would not be in your life. If the democratic party were run by Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh, if it had the slightest vestige of JFK and Henry "Scoop" Jackson I wouldn't be on the political map. If the American media were run by biased but not evil Tim Russert and David Brinkley types I wouldn't have joined the fight. You would not know who I am. The left made me do it, I swear, I am a reluctant cultural warrior.
Andrew Breitbart
I'd like to tell you some jokes now but you'd only laugh.
Milton Berle
I was about to run, possibly fight, definitely scream...
Jessica Fortunato
He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.
Gary D. Schmidt
Think about your own life. Are there foods or drinks that “call your name” in your weakest moments—like maybe at night in front of the TV? Are there certain “treats” you can hardly resist when they’re in your presence? Are there “goodies” that you continue to eat even after you’re full?
Josh Bezoni
Meanwhile, Susan looked carefully into each of our faces. She was actually waiting for us to answer, to give reasons why people fall in love and get married. Nobody knows, I wanted to say. Nobody really knows. But that doesn't mean you're allowed to not do it.
Rebecca Lee
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
Warren Buffett
Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.
Carson McCullers
Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
Toni Sorenson
There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.
Elie Wiesel
Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.
Steven Cuoco
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
Barbara Kingsolver
Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: “We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.
Gay Talese
You are in a country that comes and goes, where the people have been mistreated but rarely oppose. Borders have changed by rulers from afar, although sometimes closer than neighbourhoods are. Their religion is sacred and the heavens smile down, but the history they keep will lead you to frown...
Sean F. Hogan
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?
Stephen King
Imagination is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein
Perfection can hide a lot of warts.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.
Peter Benchley
Empty your life from the baggage of the past so you may enjoy the beauty of the present.
Debasish Mridha
Coincidences link us to the unknown and weave us into it.
Doug Dillon
God speaks to those who are prepared in their hearts to listen. Discern the voice from heaven above the noisy din of earth’s confusion.
Billy Graham
but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.
Michelle Zink
Opening/Starters are the inspirational pattern of Transformation.
Gia Combs-Ramirez
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz
Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.
Billy Graham
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors and nothing more.
E.M.Bounds
We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that, we find we can't believe. He can't be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table.
Gene Wolfe
Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.
Ron Paul
Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas's house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem meagre and lifeless -- as, in the same way, the narratives called biographies pale and shrink in the face of the disorderly actuality that is a life. The house also stirred my imagination as a metaphor for the problem of writing. Each person who sits down to write faces not a blank page but his own overfilled mind. The problem is to clear out most of what is in it . . . The goal is to make a space where a few ideas and images and feelings may be so arranged that a reader will want to linger awhile among them, rather than to flee, as I wanted to flee from Thomas's house.
Janet Malcolm
Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.
David Halberstam
Most difficult problems become very easy when we learn how to put things into perspective.
Debasish Mridha
If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together.
Melissa de la Cruz
Life must be enjoyed to be truly lived.
Debasish Mridha
Your choices are where your future begins.
Bill Jensen
Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future.
Debasish Mridha
Etchings endure, But not in SandMeanings Collide To Unresolved FragmentsCodes fizzle to StaticThey are not lostBut UnheardNever lostFading slowly to SilenceBy infinite degrees
Ashim Shanker
God’s Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.
Elizabeth George
Faith literally means “to give up, surrender, or commit.” Faith is complete confidence.
Billy Graham
I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.
Dean Karnazes
It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.
George Washington
There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals.
Roy T. Bennett
I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care.
Charles Manson
The world may not owe you anything but you owe yourself the world!
Kevin Darné
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
Harry Truman
The real Machiavellian genius of the First Amendment is that free speech turns out to be mostly harmless — a lot of P.C. nit-picking, dingbat conspiracy theories, tedious libertarian screeds and name calling. The only “free speech” that has any effect in a stable, well-run plutocracy is the kind protected by Buckley vs. Valeo in the form of campaign contributions.
Tim Kreider
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
William Lowndes
Things can turn out differently Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.
Rick Riordan
I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock