Quotes by American Authors - Page 455

There are no veterans, only survivors.
Rick H. Blase
We don't experience the world. We experience our thoughts and think that's the world.
Tina Hallis
She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.
Jennifer E. Smith
Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.
Robert David Steele
Someone could tell you that they loved you every day, but still lie and cheat. Or they could never say those three words, but be there for you every day and be more than you ever wanted or dreamed. He wasn’t warm or cuddly, quiet or particularly nice to others, but he was nice to me, and in my heart I knew he would stand by me every time I needed him.
Mariana Zapata
Hitler took the action of pitiless massacre as a last resort in the face of a perceived irreconcilable e
Russel H.S. Stolfi
In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.
Tia Walker
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
Dean Koontz
...it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.
George Will
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
Ellen DeGeneres
It might've started as a lie, Faith, but it sure as hell didn't end as one. I might not have been real to you, and that's fine. But you have to know... you were real to me." His voice dropped so low I could barely hear him. "It was real to me. It's still real. The realest fucking thing I've ever felt.
Julie Johnson
Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.
Ellen Hopkins
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
Chuck Palahniuk
I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.
George Carlin
The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
Ray Bradbury
Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.
C. JoyBell C.
I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.
Melissa Senate
[A} maxim's legal character must be intrinsic: it must have what I shall call 'lawlike form.' this is why legal character, or universality, must be understood as lawlike form, that is, as a requirement of universalizability.
Christine M. Korsgaard
Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.
Ally Carter
How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.
Marcus J. Borg
Sam stood on the second floor veranda of the hotel, across from the pool, and looked out spotting Claire. His heart took a tiny leap in his chest when he first caught sight of her in the crowd around the pool, he zeroed in on her face instantly, like a computer program scanning faces. Her almond-shaped brown eyes captivated him, even at the great distance. When she stood up from the lounger, he instinctively reached down for the railing to grab on to something. It was the first time he'd seen her in a bathing suit. Wow. She looked lovely. Her exposed cafe latte colored skin glowed. Purple was her color, and it showcased her small, but curvy body the one he'd held tightly just a few short hours ago.
Carolyn Gibbs
But sometimes we crave the love of those we’re afraid to hate.
Anthony Breznican
Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir
Carrie Fisher
He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.
Jennifer Elisabeth
I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.
Dean Koontz
Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.
Gina Lake
Good is equal to Order While,Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.
James Eugeñio
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
I also like ladies. And not as in shopping buddies, but in the carnal sense.
Rachel Hawkins
Bring on the people you want me to love, the situations you want me to take on, and the lessons you want me to learn.
Patty Ptak Kogutek
Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.
Gary D. Schmidt
Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it.
Jay Leno
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
Henry Rollins
Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down
Tom Petty
We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.
Rick Riordan
One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.
Joanie Connell
[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
Anaïs Nin
Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?
Rebecca Solnit
Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.
Steve Maraboli
An important part of dressing for success is not only wearing something well but making sure it is appropriate for the occasion or the environment.
Susan C.Young
It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart.
Jack Kerouac
An entire aisle of cereal...hundreds of choices....Of course I had eaten cereal before. I'm not a savage....Cereal was a small, affordable luxury. An effort. A point of pride. Something special....Those crates of cereal meant that we deserved what others do not.... Here the choices that stand before me in the store aisles seem to exist only to mock me. Cereal isn't a luxury...the boxes laugh at me...Two aisles down I count 27 varieties of peanut butter....it is really necessary?
J.C. Carleson
Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.
Gayle Forman
...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.
John Irving
You're only as good as your last article, so make it memorable.
Morgan Amos
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
God says when. I execute.
Khalid Muhammad
Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.
Angie Thomas
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
Ann Brashares
The key realization to delving inwards to deal with the roots of outer symptoms is this: once you have clearly identified the core, inner roots to a problem, you then have authority over the situation. . . If, though, you never delve within. . . you will not eliminate the inner source of theproblem and thus never fully extinguish the external symptom.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.
Ellen Hopkins
See how many doors open, Alastor said, when someone with influence and ideas comes along with a key? Fortune can be hoarded, or it can be shared.
Alexandra Bracken
The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.
Michael Monroe
Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.
Carew Papritz
It's amazing how much power a smile holds. It's contagious and brightens people's day. It's also the most powerful camouflage. For that person who seems to have it all together is merely masking the pain of drowning tears. Don't be so quick to assume.
Brittany Burgunder
Ignorance is toxic.
James Jean-Pierre
Should I get married? Should I be good?
Gregory Corso
Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.
Jean M. Auel
My other hand?' Lopen said. 'The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would want to know, so you can prepare to be insulted.
Brandon Sanderson