Quotes by American Authors - Page 489

We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed.
Huston Smith
Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.
Ken Poirot
I told my brothers what happened. Are you ready to come meet them?"tShe straightened. "Aye."t"I warn you," he teased in an attempt to lighten the mood. "They're big, burly bampots.
Lisa Carlisle
Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.
Steven Magee
He came up flailing and sputtering and began to thrash his way toward the line of willows that marked the submerged creek bank. He could not swim, but how would you drown him? His wrath seemed to buoy him up. Some halt in the way of things seems to work here. See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history and will have it. But they want this man's life. He has heard them in the night seeking him with lanterns and cries of execration. How then is he borne up? Or rather, why will not these waters take him?
Cormac McCarthy
The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. ... When we give ourselves permission to fail we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.
Eloise Ristad
Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity.
Anthony Liccione
Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's about that slab, and how it's been shaped, or what's been carved on it. In "termite art" though, your slab has been wormholed countless times, and its meaning is really taking place in the resulting interstices. The actual art of the piece, in other words, and your enjoyment of it, is taking place in the cracks, and the shape of the slab is coincidental and ultimately meaningless.
William Gibson
When people quit talking to God, they quit talking to one another. And people who quit talking to God soon get very lonely and depressed. They are actually lonely for God, hungering for communion with Him, yearning for His close love and nearness; but instead of recognizing these needs as spiritual, they blame their lack of fulfillment on their husbands or wives.
David Wilkerson
The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.
Philip Zaleski
There, Clover found the "gardens and great trees and old cottages...so beautiful" that seeing them exhausted her. It was as if, she joked with her husband, "this English world is a huge stage-play got up only to amuse Americans. It is obviously unreal, eccentric, and taken out of novels.
Natalie Dykstra
We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,' he interrupted. 'But we don't all of us make our lives count for something. How much better to die saving another soul than to stand safe on shore and do nothing while others perish?
Julie Klassen
LeavingHe stood backlitby windows full of winter,a shade thrown over his face.What a waste, I thought.What relief.
Jameson Fitzpatrick
When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts.
Phil Volatile
Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.
Shanna Swendson
In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. And when he realizes that the treatment accorded him has nothing to do with anything he has done, that the attempt of white people to destroy him—for that is what it is—is utterly gratuitous, it is not hard for him to think of white people as devils.
James Baldwin
You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else.
Gabrielle Zevin
Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.
Edward Albee
The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.
Criss Jami
Did you know that a mind full of malice and hate is able to actually attack another's body and mind? Thus preventing good from taking place (or at least delaying and disrupting the good)? It's true, and we can call it a "psi-attack" or simply an attack from negativism. The way to overcome these forms of attacks is through cultivating a true Positive Soul through the energy of Love. The Love Nature of your Soul is powerful enough to counteract such attacks, because that positive energy forms a blanket around you. Real life isn't much unlike the movies, aside from the fact that in real life, these things truly affect your life immensely, unlike sitting down in a cinema. The vampires of the world are those who can in fact launch massive psi-attacks on whoever they focus their negative energies onto, and for whatever reasons that may be.
C. JoyBell C.
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.
Ilsa J Bick
I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.
Jasinda Wilder
She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.
Thomm Quackenbush
I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy.
David Foster Wallace
Your outlook affects your outcome
John Paul Warren
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
Andy Stanley
When we are deeply passionate about something, the obstacles or challenges are diminished by sheer will and desire.
Susan C.Young
Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.
Mark Batterson
Love and kindness are in the root of all creations.
Debasish Mridha
Winning has always meant much to me but winning ftiends has meant the most.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Help people.Be interested.Make a difference.Live passionately.Go comando.
Crystal Woods
Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.
Dan Brown
Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.
Kevin James Breaux
When she straightened, he leaned back in the chair, his eyelids heavy. “My God, woman, you know how to make a man melt.
Amy Jarecki
The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.
Jack Kerouac
We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.
Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
I wish for everyone to fall in love with their own work. Did you just paint something that you think is cool? Photograph it! Are you struggling over an issue that’s affecting your creativity? Write about it! Your art is the story of your life and you are the only one who can tell it. Tell people what you want them to know about you. Tell them why your art is special. Be constantly overflowing with enthusiasm for your work. Be you, not another artist. Meet the world as you are, and grow with them. The art experience and the human experience can be very similar at times.
Shayla Maddox
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
Criss Jami
I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with homosexuality, so it’s difficult to have your book on the shelves.” Here’s the thing: Being gay is not an issue, it is an identity. It is not something that you can agree or disagree with. It is a fact, and must be defended and represented as a fact.To use another part of my identity as an example: if someone said to me, “I’m sorry, but we can’t carry that book because it’s so Jewish and some people in my school don’t agree with Jewish culture,” I would protest until I reached my last gasp. Prohibiting gay books is just as abhorrent…Discrimination is not a legitimate point of view. Silencing books silences the readers who need them most. And silencing these readers can have dire, tragic consequences. Never forget who these readers are. They are just as curious and anxious about life as any other teenager.
David Levithan
It's funny how people can take up so much roomin your heartbut you still have plenty left for someone else
Marilyn Hilton
If you love everyone, how will you ever find an enemy?
Debasish Mridha
And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.
Nina LaCour
Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?
David Sedaris
What in your life is calling you,When all the noise is silenced,The meetings adjourned...The lists laid aside,And the Wild Iris bloomsBy itselfIn the dark forest...What still pulls on your soul?”—RUMI
Robin Gregory
Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.
Heather Anastasiu
I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart
Sarah Strohmeyer
No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.
Sara Raasch
Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to..." (1995)
George Soros
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
Edward Teller
Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow.
Don Herold
It is of immense importance, that first and foremost, people identify themselves as human beings, rather than as a believer in a spiritual belief system. Any spiritual belief system. There is such a preoccupation with where a person will be after he/she dies, that people keep on forgetting we are all here right now— on this planet! Okay, so you are on your way to Heaven, of course, whilst many others who do not believe as you do are on their way to hell, of course— but those are not yet facts! The fact that we do have, though, is the fact that we are all here right now, on this Earth, living this life, breathing this air, and it's about time we identify ourselves with the reality in front of us: that we are human beings and we all cry, laugh, love and hurt.
C. JoyBell C.
And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a run for it, and maybe he took a drunken swing at the arresting officer, and maybe he made a couple of off-color remarks about law-enforcement professionals, and maybe he’s been hiding from the cops ever since an incident a few years back involving a bleeding hooker, nine pounds of cocaine, and a soiled image of Tipper Gore.
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
Forbidden fruit makes a wonderful wine." Vazco gave him a leading look. "But leaves a hell of a headache.
Susan Scott
When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendship if you learned instead to stay put when storm hit?
Afton Rorvik
Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
Nicholas Sparks
There is a cookie trail of all my interests lodged in some digital sphere which will one day consolidate the collected data of six billion souls and vomit out—I don’t know—personalized infomercials for deodorant and car wax.
J. Lincoln Fenn
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John E. Kennedy