Quotes by American Authors - Page 47

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
Sherman Alexie
While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F Kennedy
She believed in magic—the magic of places, the magic of people, the magic of coincidences, serendipity, and fortune. She enjoyed wandering through the world with the open mind and curiosity of a four-year-old child. In her world the mystical, mythical, and magical inhabited the same space and time as the ordinary and the practical. At Bethesda Terrace, she always felt close to a source of magic and creativity. It was as if she was tapping into the place where dragons, angels, gods, sorceresses, and demons came to life.
Jamie Le Fay
The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.
A.E. Samaan
In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.
Bryant McGill
The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.
William Faulkner
Anything is possible.""You really believe that?""It's what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds.
Richard Castle
Brie's expiration date on revenge was never.
H.M. Ward
Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.
J.A. Konrath
Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?
Simon S Tam
When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.
Shannon L. Alder
That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent."Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms.""Clumsy of them.
Jennifer Crusie
Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window. Suave. Sultry. I'm neither of those things
Chuck Wendig
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model of human community, offering the 'peace which passes understanding' to a world enmeshed in sin and violence. (1)
David Bentley Hart
What you stay focused on will grow.
Roy T. Bennett
If you don’t have a sense of wonder it’s like you’re dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be used to trick you. You can have a sense of wonder over a thing that’s basically a conjurer’s trick, or a con job, or a rip-off.
Bruce Sterling
As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture of a politician's wife, shoulders held back, dignifIed yet modest.
Tania James
You will succeed in everything you want to do, so start today with your heart and with your love.
Debasish Mridha
Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.
Deepak Chopra
Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
Arthur Golden
People who seek psychotherapy for psychological, behavioral or relationship problems tend to experience a wide range of bodily complaints...The body can express emotional issues a person may have difficulty processing consciously...I believe that the vast majority of people don't recognize what their bodies are really telling them. The way I see it, our emotions are music and our bodies are instruments that play the discordant tunes. But if we don't know how to read music, we just think the instrument is defective.
Charlette Mikulka
Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn’t about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one.
Steve Maraboli
My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
Michael Pollan
Looking is the nature of wisdom.
Rick Riordan
Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?
C.J. Cherryh
I love you as the moon loves the night.
Debasish Mridha
I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and the scientist is trying to elucidate the hidden order in our reality. And that impulse is what the scientist shares with the mystic. The impulse to get to the bottom of things. To know how the world really works. To know the nature of things.
Michael Crichton
God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.
Joel Osteen
People have their purposes and reasons, I just wish I found mine.
Anthony Liccione
You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there.
Jennifer Niven
His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could roll like thunder or hush down into a zepherlike whisper. He could imitate the voices of a dozen men at once; whistle so like a bird that the birds themselves would come to him to hear what he had to say; and when when he imitated the howl of a wolf, the sound could raise the hair on the backs of his listeners' necks and strike a chill into their hearts like the depths of a Drasnian winter. He could make the sound of rain and of wind and even, most miraculously, the sound of snow falling.
David Eddings
Yeshua was a feminist. A feminist is a person who is in favor of, and promotes, the equality of women with men, who advocates and practices treating women primarily as human persons (as men are so treated) and willingly contravenes social customs in so acting.
Leonard Swidler
Sit on a cliff and look at the ocean. In the ocean of life, you are a bubble, but you have the power to appreciate the greatness, vastness, and beauty of her. Because you came, sit next to the ocean and enjoy the beauty and appreciate the vast, great, and creative power. She is dancing with joy. You may not know that she is watching you, but she knows you are watching her.
Debasish Mridha
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Maya Angelou
There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.
Chinelo Okparanta
We're not friends, Mark," I reply sadly. "We're strangers with memories.
Kristen Proby
It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten another’s dull task. What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchanges of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?
Helen Keller
The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.
Rita Leganski
We can't give a child a natural consequence. The only truly natural consequences are the ones found in nature.
Joanna Faber
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.
E B White
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....
Barack Obama
Too trying, this is all far too trying, Parma thought. An ogre I may outwit or a Rahg I may defeat, but a horde of frightened villagers? Auay! How does Brandegan put up with it?
Julius Bailey
Appeals to the Young and the Young at Heart.
Jodie McCallum
Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain
All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.
Marty Rubin
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
Cynthia Ozick
It is easy to smile in the face of a challenge, when we believe in ourselves that we won't back down.
Ellen J. Barrier
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!
Marisha Pessl
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.
Rick Warren
Face it: as much as you’d like to be, you’re not perfect. Mistakes will be made in both your freelance career and life. Instead of fearing mistakes, remind yourself that there’s plenty to learn from them. If nothing else, you’ll learn that a mistake doesn’t mean the end of the world. In fact, it might be the beginning of a new one.
Michael Law
I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.
Sonia Rumzi
I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.
Tammy L. Gray
You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to exercise this right.
Steven Magee
If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community.'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.
Michael J. Sandel
You should not try to live without thinking and feeling, for then you are only a piece of machinery, not a human being. Even if it hurts. Even if the thing you have to think of are sad, think them through; live them through and write or tell me. Only when we completely work through our thinking and feeling do we live a full life. ~From a letter to Diet Eman from Hein Sietsma
Diet Eman
Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce works that are not only significant to his or her age, but that will also speak to future generations.
Rollo May
The assumption that women in hijab are less enlightened or empowered than those rocking daisy dukes is arrogant at best. Feminism should fight for all women to have he right to live as they choose, not for all women to live the same exact lives like we're all in some sort of Sims game.
Luvvie Ajayi