Quotes by American Authors - Page 480

What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?
John Di Lemme
She ... grabbed her bra, clasping it and shoving her arms through.t"Ye harness your udders?" The man was insufferable.t"For your information, it's a bra - short for brassiere, something that wasn't invented until the twentieth century.
Amy Jarecki
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland
Tell The Truth , and Shame The Devil.
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
You can’t live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.
Frank Sonnenberg
Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead temples than in living.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, two minds, two lives, two particular laughs in silly melody is important.And, it is yet unknown, as you are, to me.
Waylon H. Lewis
But like all moments trapped in time, that moment would end and Joey Boldt, as all the greats before him did, would begin to understand that clinging too tightly to anything results in Time and Fate shaking you until you can't hold on any longer. And then, when you are knocked for a six and lose your grip, they allow you to spiral into a freefall where men are broken and legends are made.
Melodie Ramone
They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come
Michael Biondi
He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab.
Peter Heller
She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.
Will Schwalbe
I'll write'em if you'll read'em
Robert Lee Thompson
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
Robert Orben
If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?
Carl Sagan
A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.
Michael Treanor
Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.
Alaric Hutchinson
I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.
Paloma Beck
Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.
Samantha Hunt
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."~Will Landsman
Gabrielle Zevin
We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.
Jen Wilkin
What we need is a rebirth of satire of dissent of irreverence of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
Arthur Schlesinger
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor Roosevelt
He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.
Audrey Niffenegger
But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way.
Donna Tartt
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
Elisabeth Elliot
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
Dan Simmons
No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.
Kelly Link
It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.
Mignon McLaughlin
I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.
David Archuleta
I head in the direction of the Eiffel Tower when I exit the alley, relieved to be out of the dark.
Ashley Earley
Have you ever wanted something so desperately that you imagine it, day in and day out, until you have created an image of perfection that becomes the 'real thing'? Suddenly, all you have to live for is the image in your head that may not be real to anyone else in the world, but is most certainly real to you. Nothing is as perfect, not even the thing itself, as the image you have created in your mind.
Leigh Hershkovich
Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.
Bryant McGill
He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.
Kristin Hannah
She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I.
Cassandra Clare
You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.
Travis Luedke
When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.
Elizabeth George
In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you're anorexic. Accept them and you're on the Atkins. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and you're bulimic. Best to keep perfectly still and bring an IV of fluids with you to dinner.
Sloane Crosley
I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
William Inge
It's war that makes generals
Seth Godin
You are my love, you are my light, you are my blue sky, when I am vanishing in you only then I can fly.
Debasish Mridha
But mostly because he could be himself - never needing to bend.
Niki Alling
Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done Has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have. A simplistic and unrealistic view I knew, but it soothed me.
Maria V. Snyder
Don't say it doesn't make sense then tell me you feel your spine curve and chill humps rise all over your skin. That's all the sense it needs to make. That's what it's supposed to do. That's poetry darling; you feel it in your noes, it chills your skin-- poetry speaks to your soul, it burns within.
Melody Lee
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
Stan Slap
So it’s fate then?” I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, “Us being together?”“Absolutely,” Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.Who was I to argue with Fate?
E.J. Stevens
I use health joy and comfort to set off my brain chemicals of bliss for my highest good.
Amy Leigh Mercree
You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
Carrie Jones
Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies.
Anthony Liccione
Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.
Donna Lynn Hope
High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps, and did nothing.
Blaine Harden
The devil has successfully fooled many churches, convincing them to follow the world. Biblical standards have been compromised by convenient social theories.
Billy Graham
Too many of us live with an uncontrolled thought life. It is possible to learn to identify destructive thoughts and make wiser choices. Instead of letting those thoughts rumble freely about in my mind, I make the choice to harness them and direct them toward truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there beside the bed. He was very close.tWretched curiosity!t But she would fight it and not look.t“Katherine,” he whispered, his breath rolling in a warm wave across her cheek. A traitor tear spilled out, the humiliation was too much to contain. Gently, a finger dabbed the wetness from her skin. He said it again, softly, as though it pleased him just to say it, “Katherine.”t“Viktor!” the accented voice bellowed from below. And then the shadow was gone. tDarkness overwhelmed her then and carried her away to a land of crows and mocking strangers.
Gwenn Wright
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher
Gregory B. Sadler
Overall, always strive to be genuine — about who you are, what you offer, and why you do what you do.
Amy Ippoliti
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
Winona LaDuke