Quotes by American Authors - Page 384

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.
Bryant A. Loney
It was Friday, so the farmers' market was in full autumnal swing, a sea of potted chrysanthemums and bushel after bushel of apples, pears, Fauvist gourds, and pumpkins with erotically fanciful stems. On one table stood galvanized buckets of the year's final roses; on another, skeins of yarn in muted, soulful purples and reds. Walter loved this part of the season- and not just because it was the time of year his restaurant flourished, when people felt the first yearnings to sit by a fire, to eat stew and bread pudding and meatloaf, drink cider and toddies and cocoa. He loved the season's transient intensity, its gaudy colors and tempestuous skies.
Julia Glass
Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.
Maureen Johnson
The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.
Billy Graham
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
Much time is spent on meaning while precious little time wasted has none!
M.B.JONES
Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.
Anthony Liccione
Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer.
Dathan Auerbach
Then you have to be nothing. Want nothing. You can't have them-Kat or Annabel-if you need them. You're not a husband. You're not a father. You're a man with a task. Understand?
Greg Hurwitz
A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were asked how much America should give, the median answers ranged from 5 percent to 10 percent of government spending. In other words, people wanted foreign aid 'cut' to an amount five to ten times greater than the United States actually gives!
Peter Singer
Ultimately amorality is immorality.
Roger M. Keesing
Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.
Jodi Picoult
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
Sidney Sheldon
MEDIOCRITY IS A CHOICE... PROCRASTINATION IS A VIRUS THE FIRST ERROR IS INDECISION
Marsha Wright
All adults should strive to be more like children.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what being a follower of Christ is actually all about.
Brandan Roberston
So often I'm like, No, thanks, to all of that stuff, just give me the room to exist both in the shit and stars . . . We have to fight to be understood as being distinct and incongruent. But I think it is worth fighting for.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.
Billy Graham
It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.
Susan Cain
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
Pema Chödrön
Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.
Tim Fargo
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.
Michael Walzer
I believe in study. I believe that men learn much through study. As a matter of fact, it has been my observationthat they learn little concerning things as they are, as they were, or as they are to come without study. I alsobelieve, however, and know, that learning by study is greatly accelerated by faith.
Marion G. Romney
There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.
Stephen King
He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.
Paul Bowles
He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.”“He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.
Cassandra Clare
A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.
Edwin H. Chapin
Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.
Dennis Cooper
Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
Barbara Kingsolver
In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.
Marcus Sakey
My inner waters are healthy, balanced, and full of bliss for all time.
Amy Leigh Mercree
SEE what you think.
Lois Farfel Stark
Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard
Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!
Billy Graham
I know this world is far from perfect.I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon.I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic.But every ocean has a shorelineand every shoreline has a tidethat is constantly returningto wake the songbirds in our hands,to wake the music in our bones,to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born riverthat has to run through the center of our heartsto find its way home.
Andrea Gibson
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.
General William T. Sherman
If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up
Lauren Oliver
The only time you've been under me is when I've been inside of you and even then, you're never truly under me. I always remain under you.
Kenya Wright
There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful.
Kristin Cashore
Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.
Michael Crichton
The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home.
Billy Graham
Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.
Richie Norton
It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
Ally Condie
For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.
Chris Matakas
Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium.
Whitney Otto
Cultivating daily calm, even for a few minutes, yields a core of centered wellness.
Amy Leigh Mercree
The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.
Diana Rowland
Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together.
Cornelia "Connie" DeDona
As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.
Dexter Palmer
Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.
Gretchen Rubin
So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him.
John Paul Warren
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln
That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.
Jodi Picoult
Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.
Ashlyn Macnamara
My life needs editing.
Mort Sahl