Quotes by American Authors - Page 44

It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.
Steve Yarbrough
She talked about God giving man free will. Because of that, there is evil in the world. If God pulled everyone’s strings all the time, we’d be puppets.
Janice Cantore
...we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us...and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us... We were made to explore.
Richard Foth
Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.
Jennifer Elisabeth
... we can know with confidence that God sees us. He hears us. He knows us and feels our pain. He loves us and He acts on our behalf.
Teresa Schultz
In the end you only answer to yourself!
Ryk Brown
Also, serial killers, child killers, they’re hot, they’re the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody’s favourite spook monster.
Rafael Yglesias
What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to think) and (William) Deresiewicz’s moral purpose (building an integrated self).
David Brooks
Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you.
Catrice M. Jackson
He would have given anything for a tension-breaker-maybe, if he prayed hard enough, the school would catch on fire or something.
Christian M. Frank
Determination Determines Your Destination
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier
Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
Jonathan Haidt
I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.
Charles M. Schulz
Only God is awesome.
Shane Claiborne
I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wantedmy life to close, and openlike a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the songwhere it fallsdown over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;I wantedto hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalivefor a little while.
Mary Oliver
Don't ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is still happening even on days you may not realize it or feel like it.
Lalah Delia
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
Chuck Palahniuk
Gratitude is the key for the door of abundance.
Debasish Mridha
What is your intention as you begin dating? Are you hoping to enter into another serious relationship right away? Exclusive or Open? Companion? Friend with benefits? You define this. Don’t let someone else define this for you.
Staci Bartley
You can't change people with love. It doesn't work that way.
A.S. King
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
Katharine Hepburn
The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age
Barbara Leaming
And then Jonah heard God’s voice.t“Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?”ttHe was confident it was God because God usually asked questions but gave no answers. Jonah didn’t need a divine answer to this question, he knew it.t“Yes,” he said. “The difference between me and the trees is that the trees let go of their leaves. I keep holding onto mine. The trees make room for new life. I don’t.
David W. Jones
Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.
D.R. Silva
Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.
Raegan Butcher
Right now, I've got the weight of several worlds on my shoulders. My best friend is living in a cancer ward, and there's nothing I can do for him. The Serpents have hired the Jester to spark race riots with faked news stories, and I don't know how to smoke him out. My enemies are hiding all around, watching everything I do, and I can't find them. For the first time in months I find myself in the familiar, paralyzing grip of overwhelming depression.
Mark Waid
Light precedes every transition. Whether at the end of a tunnel, through a crack in the door or the flash of an idea, it is always there, heralding a new beginning.
Teresa Tsalaky
and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim uswhich will we claimhow will we go on livinghow will we touch, what will we knowwhat will we say to each other.
Adrienne Rich
Leadership is a mindset in which one is unapologetically driven towards their goals and in behaving accordingly, inspires those around them to join in.
Steve Maraboli
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
John Green
I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light.
Melody Lee
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
Timothy Fuller
We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
Christopher McDougall
The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance as surely as her body needed its fuel.
Jacqueline Winspear
Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change.
Dana Gore
It is distressing how often we repeat ourselves. When we ask questions, we know the answers already. We've grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance.
Louisa Hall
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
Frank Zappa
How long will we stand in silence while half of our nation is chained by ancient, outdated laws? How long will we close our eyes to a tribal mentality that subjugates women in the most base and dehumanizing ways? How long will we hide in the shadows while the ruling elites bask in the rays of wealth and privilege?
Christian F. Burton
This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing.
Derrick Jensen
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.
Kim Wright
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
Aberjhani
If you knew all about it, it wouldn't be the leading edge.
Karl H. Pribram
Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.
Piper Payne
She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.
Dean Koontz
Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.
Joseph Bruchac
Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
Peter De Vries
The Goober was beautiful when he ran. His long arms and legs moved flowingly and flawlessly, his body floating as if his feet weren’t touching the ground. When he ran, he forgot about his acne and his awkwardness and the shyness that paralyzed him when a girl looked his way. Even his thoughts became sharper, and things were simple and uncomplicated—he could solve math problems when he ran or memorize football play patterns. Often he rose early in the morning, before anyone else, and poured himself liquid through the sunrise streets, and everything seemed beautiful, everything in its proper orbit, nothing impossible, the entire world attainable. When he ran, he even loved the pain, the hurt of the running, the burning in his lungs and the spasms that sometimes gripped his calves. He loved it because he knew he could endure the pain, and even go beyond it. He had never pushed himself to the limit but he felt all this reserve strength inside of him: more than strength actually—determination. And it sang in him as he ran, his heart pumping blood joyfully through his body.
Robert Cormier
-Do you want to posses my body?-"I want to do many things to your body but that's not one of them
Becca Fitzpatrick
The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.
Marty Rubin
They say love and hate are closely tied, that they can turn at a moment’s notice.
Laura Lam
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.
Judy Blume
From surfeit to loss is a short line.
Carol Shields
Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.
Stephen King
I've never bonded with anyone before. I didn't know that day on the field that standing up to him the way I did could earn his respect. He might have been an asshole homophobe but he was my asshole homophobe and probably the first real friend I ever had. I love him. Don't tell him. He wouldn't want to hear it.
Mercy Celeste