Quotes by American Authors - Page 470

This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.
Sylvia Plath
Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.
Norton Juster
Even though prayers are not offered only to get a desired result, there is little doubt that most miracles are the result of prayer. God wants us to pray to him and ask him for things, just as any loving father and mother want their children to come to them with whatever is on their minds. But if our focus is solely on getting the outcome we want, the prayer will fail, precisely because our belief is placed in the wrong place. It’s a great irony. If all we care about is the result, then we are effectively making that result our God, rather than God himself. So if we are praying to our “God”—the God of results—rather than to God himself, then we are praying to a “God” who is not God, and who is therefore powerless to help us.
Eric Metaxas
An excuse will not wake up early
Johnnie Dent Jr.
You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities. It's not always easy to make the transition from a beautiful London park filled with children to a war zone, but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war- to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
Lynsey Addario
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
Sherry Turkle
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.' Critic John Berger's well-known quote has been true throughout the history of Western culture, and it is more true now than ever.
Naomi Wolf
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Jimi Hendrix
He was one of those capital M Men.
Lauren Dane
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Brené Brown
There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one’s physician.
Christopher Hitchens
So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will beecstatic.”“They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really?
Cassandra Clare
If you are trading silence or compliance for love, you are being cheated. When acceptance or love is withheld if you reveal secrets, the value of the relationship is just an illusion. Love cannot be earned, bought or traded–only freely given. You are worthy of love that doesn’t require you to protect your abuser or sacrifice yourself.
Christina Enevoldsen
What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.
Leanna Renee Hieber
If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That's okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you're a fuckup
Justin Halpern
How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.
Stormie Omartian
I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants
Steven Magee
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.
Nicholas Sparks
take free food or tea from anyone talking about Godand find Heavenits gotta be out therefor there must be Godand how could any talk of good or God be wrong
Dito Montiel
The time and situation is always right to express and experience the beauty of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
Wonder at everything and ask, why?Love everything and wonder, why?
Debasish Mridha
Beacon, beacon, lonesome on a hill—Waves run aground, pound ‘round, what a thrill!Water water everywhere crashes,Shore’s not lazy for it mashes, bashes…..Summer’s when tourists traipse o’er to see you,Offering to wipe-wash your dust and mildew;Summer painters place you with dinghy and gull,Historians have you as subject o’er which to mull.When feline Fog drifts gently or is heavy,tYour bright light’s followed by boat bevy;And during those calm, clear days and nightsYou’re that upright nautical dream exciting tiny tykes.
Mariecor Ruediger
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
Elizabeth Gilbert
When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.
Bryant McGill
We are all disciples of the light.
Steven Magee
Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is for us and those like us to do nothing.
Julie Kagawa
Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.
Marty Rubin
But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?
Patrick Carman
The great paradox of life is that to fully live, we must let a piece of ourselves die.
Darren Main
If we can live well without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn’t we?
Gene Baur
There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.
Alexandra Kleeman
The battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several times each day.
Matthew D Lieberman
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Warren Buffett
Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.
Omar Nelson Bradley
As architect of your reality, you are empowered to create it as you choose.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Nothing is more attractive than being your authentic self!
Dawn Gluskin
Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.
Bryant McGill
We’re probably leaving soon,” Rider said. “Might catch a movie.”Jayden leaned against the wall as he looked around the room. “I see how it is. You figure you don’t stand a chance with Mallory now that I’m here to show her what a real man looks like.” He winked as Rider just shook his head. “Fine, leave. But no dumb movie will be as entertainin’ as the Jayden Show. And I don’t charge admission.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal…
Steve Maraboli
I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.
Scott Douglas
I wondered what those mountains behind them might tell me, what advice they would give, if they could talk. What they would tell me about love, and about loss, and about how this wild place could heal as naturally as it could kill.
Shannon Huffman Polson
Will you ever stop needing to be right?Will I ever stop needing you to be?
Scott Stabile
He profits most who serves best.
Arthur F. Sheldon
I don't know if anyone can ever really explain why they believe in someone. But I do. I believe in you. I hope that's worth something.
Amy Reed
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Kahlil Gibran
You're going to ruin me.
Kenya Wright
Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.
Brandon Sanderson
Every penny NOT spent on investing in yourself (after basic needs of course) may be a wasted future opportunity from missing learns and connects.
Richie Norton
She would never let anyone interfere with her right to use her mind.
Laurel Corona
Always find a reason to dream, to hope, and to love.
Debasish Mridha
How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?
Bruce Coville
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
William Stafford
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.
Chuck Palahniuk
We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.
Joni Rodgers
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.
Flannery O'Connor
The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.
Gerhard Casper