Quotes by American Authors - Page 446

We are one knot in a great web of being, building out of the vast past and (with luck) continuing billions of years into the future, until the sun dies, the last of its energy reaches Earth, and our local light goes out. The most appropriate response to the world is to realize, with awe, the ferocious mystery of being alive in it. And act accordingly. The worst thing anyone should be able to say about their life is also the greatest thing anyone can say: 'I tried my best.
Carl Safina
The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.
Robinson Jeffers
Love is not a consequence.Love is not a choice.Love is a THIRST!
Colleen Houck - Ren
The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger. ... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated why it's just as good as sex.
Lou Centlivre
People don't resist change. They resist being changed.
Peter M Senge
The memory of how he felt when he cared about her was going to be the most painful thing after he began to hate her.
Amy Tintera
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter
One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you
David Levithan
Coming from where we do, it’s a rough adjustment—living here.” He put a hesitant hand on her shoulder, his calluses scratching against the fabric of her dress. “It’s true what they say about life in the dark ages, you know: nasty, brutish, and short. You and I once took it for granted we would die as old people in our beds, but we have no such assurance now. I’ll help you how I can, Isabella; but I can’t guarantee that either of us will live even to see tomorrow. Life is worth fighting for, young lady. But don’t feel it is something you’re owed.
Kristin McTiernan
Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.
Felix O. Hartmann
I saw my face todayAnd it looked older,Without the warmth of wisdomOr the softnessBorn of pain and waiting.The dreams were gone from my eyes,Hope lost in hollownessOn my cheeks,A finger of deathPulling at my jaws.So I did my push-upsAnd wondered if I'd ever find you,To see my faceWith friendlier eyes than mine.
James Kavanaugh
Okay, time to play doctor.”Her entire body quivered, sending “yes please” vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. “Sure, if I can be the doctor.”His mouth curved. “I’m willing to take turns, but me first.
Jill Shalvis
Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life
Sonia Rumzi
The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands—it was a composite of all the sprawling regions of the country. A language which sounded Southern to Southerners, Western to Westerners. It was the talk of the soil and its drawl covered the agility of the brains that poured it out. It was a soothing, illiterate, earthy language.
William Lindsay Gresham
What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?
Lev Grossman
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
Sylvia Plath
To say, “I’ve been converted and that’s that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.
Steve Goodier
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
The accumulation of grief over one lifetime is more then one heart can bear."Robert explained."Only the heartless could withstand more.Or the very young,those too naive to truly understand loss.
James Rollins
How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer.("Mind Over Murder")
Cornell Woolrich
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
John Muir
Courage is not always big and bright and loud; sometimes it's as silent and small as true words, a smile when you'd rather weep, or getting up every day and living with quiet dignity while all around you life rages. You cannot truly love, live or exist without courage. Without it you are simply biding time until you die.
Wendy Mills
I want to fill my mind with life-enhancing, positive, beautiful memories. The dark experiences can remain buried without a funeral.
Alexandra Stoddard
When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality.Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not.President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.
Robert B. Reich
Choose joyful abundance in your heart and be unbounded, free, and relaxed. Be relentless with your choice and you’ll make your mark.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
Stephen King
To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
Brandon Sanderson
Elias revved the engine menacingly. I put my hand on the steering wheel. "That's my mom! Don't even think about it." "How about I just back over the ones behind us?" " Or the ones on the sidewalk," one of the guys in the backseat suggested. "Be serious," I said, though they might have been.
Tate Hallaway
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Francis Chan
Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.
Michael Joseph Murano
Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What I envy is not their skin but their insouciance. I envy the freedom to sin with only a little bit of consequence, to commit one selfish act and not have it mean the downfall of my entire people. Where indecency and mischief do not mean annihilation.
Kaitlyn Greenidge
We need to retrain our brains, our hearts, and our wills to seek a comfort that truly satisfies.
Erin M. Straza
It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.
Erik Bundy
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown
There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy....Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space....God may be speaking 'in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.
Terryl L. Givens
Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.
Mollie Marti
The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.
Pearl Zhu
Shall I add a man to my collection?
Patricia A. McKillip
Sure, sometimes it is great when, in prayer, we can express to God just what we feel; but better still when, in the act of praying, our feelings change. Liturgy is not, in the end, open to our emotional whims. it re-points the person praying, taking him somewhere else.
Lauren F. Winner
When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world.
Jeanette Coron
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair.
Dorothy Parker
Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
He did everything to-get-her but together was never his goal.
Sanjo Jendayi
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.
Catharine Marshall
You die a little inside every time you have joyless sex. Neurons prune back. The good in there withers. And some things never grow back.
Hugh Howey
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain
Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
Dorothea Benton Frank
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.
Mark Epstein
So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everything is wrong.I am alive.
Victoria Aveyard
When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.
Bryant McGill
Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.
Seth Adam Smith
I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy..
Emery Lord
Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
Sarah Dessen
If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise.“Smoke and fire,” she said. “Clanging on metal all day long. You’re scaring away the birds!”“Oh, no, not the birds!
Rick Riordan
You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.
Marianne Williamson