Quotes by American Authors - Page 402

Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.
r.m drake
No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.
Lydia Rodriguez-Clement
Love may be blind, but lust is just damn stupid.
Lois Greiman
... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
E.A. Bucchianeri
It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.
James Clavell
Some battles take more than one ninja to win.
Anna M. Aquino
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life.
Thomas Merton
Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.
Michael Jordan
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
Erma Bombeck
By creating problems for others you will never able solve your own problem. When you will try to solve your enemy’s problem, your problem will disappear.
Debasish Mridha
Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!'Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, 'No, you're a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy!
P.C. Cast
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.
Assata Shakur
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.
Alexander Schmemann
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.
Anita Shreve
Take the side of truth, you'll be right every time.
Katelyne Parker
You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.
Brenna Yovanoff
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
N K Jemisin
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
Natalie Goldberg
Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.
Criss Jami
Every day I’m convinced that I can’t possibly love you more… and every day I’m proven wrong.
Steve Maraboli
Only when life is quiet, Empress," Oli said. "When the battle comes our way or we see a need, we will pick up our swords and fight beside the bravest of men, even knowing we may fall. But once all is well again... that's when the darkness comes. Then we sit in silence and struggle to grasp our peace the best we can.
Jill Williamson
The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn’t in the character, it’s in the underlying truth.
Jed McKenna
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H.L. Mencken
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
Herbert V. Prochnow
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
Brené Brown
Understanding your own anatomy and how it functions is crucial to changing your thinking and changing your life.
Toni Sorenson
Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.
George R.R. Martin
Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.
Bryant McGill
It's not that heroes have no fear; it's just that they understand what it takes, to get the job done!!
Robert Armstrong
A lie, when believed, became the truth.
Michelle M. Pillow
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
Joy Harjo
If you don't believe something can be done, at least don't stand in the way of someone else doing it!
Ed Strachar
That's odd. It looks almost as if Nick is picking a fight with that elephant.""Well, the elephant started it.""That's irrelevant. Fighting with civilians is against the rules. Go break it up."-Admiral Breya Andreyasn & Sergeant Schlock
Howard Tayler
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
Robert J. McCracken
To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.
Zig Ziglar
Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many aver For while we've a whole lot of troubles The most of them never occur.
Nixon Waterman
I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is―a politician.
Toni Morrison
A Blessing on the PoetsPatient earth-digger, impatient fire-maker,Hungry word-taker and roving sound-lover,Sharer and saver, muser and acher,You who are open to hide or uncover,Time-keeper and –hater, wake-sleeper, sleep-waker;May language’s language, the silence that liesUnder each word, move you over and over,Turning you, wondering, back to surprise.
Annie Finch
You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily.'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.'~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan.
Lisa Kleypas
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it...
Zoë Heller
Students didn't much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong link. Recent studies conclude that aggressive behaviors are now often associated with high social status. Psychologists no longer view aggression as a last-resort tactic of social misfits. Now they see aggression as a means toward social success. (This does not, however, mean it is admired.)
Alexandra Robbins
Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage.
Jim George
In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope
Pittacus Lore
But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.
Tim Pratt
When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.
Criss Jami
People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have mixed up ultimate causation (why something evolved by natural selection) with proximate causation (how the entity works here and now). [A] good way to understand the logic of natural selection is to imagine that genes are agents with selfish motives. [T]he genes have metaphorical motives — making copies of themselves — and the organisms they design have real motives. But they are not the same motives. Sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is wire unselfish motives into a human brain — heartfelt, unstinting, deep-in-the-marrow unselfishness. The love of children (who carry one's genes into posterity), a faithful spouse (whose genetic fate is identical to one's own), and friends and allies (who trust you if you're trustworthy) can be bottomless and unimpeachable as far as we humans are concerned (proximate level), even if it is metaphorically self-serving as far as the genes are concerned (ultimate level). Combine this with the common misconception that the genes are a kind of essence or core of the person, and you get a mongrel of Dawkins and Freud: the idea that the metaphorical motives of the genes are the deep, unconscious, ulterior motives of the person. That is an error.
Steven Pinker
That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.
Cassandra Clare
Be kind. Be kind to others, be kind to animals, be kind to yourself. Smile at the mailman, pet your dog, buy yourself an ice cream cone. Spreading kindness in this world is the noblest thing a person can do.
Shenita Etwaroo
The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face.
Kemi Sogunle
I love you so much i can hardly tell my own heart from yours anymore, and I've never said it to another woman in my life as it's never until now been true.
Julie Anne Long
He was perfect, was how she'd put it to herself. And then that clear-eyed, calm-faced boy would shine forth from Red's sags and wrinkles, from his crumpled eyelids and hollowed cheeks and the two deep crevices bracketing his mouth and just his general obtuseness, his stubbornness, his infuriating belief that simple cold logic could solve all life's problems, and she would feel unspeakably lucky to have ended up with him.
Anne Tyler
We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
Joel Osteen
The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What wedo with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.
Helen Maryles Shankman
Even the worst humans in the history of the world didn’t grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when I’m an adult".
Andrew Cormier
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
Jodi Picoult
It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around.
Orson Scott Card
When to others it's not lying. It's privacy.
Brian Spellman
You never hear someone called beautiful who neglects themselves.
Toni Sorenson