Quotes by American Authors - Page 497

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it " or success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.
Jim Gaffigan
In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.
Jim George
Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.
Siobhan Vivian
And darkness will rule.
Ashley Earley
I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have get be what I wanted.
Ceanne DeRohan
new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.
E B White
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman G. Rickover
Through pain and growth, I have come to appreciate -no, more than that-I've come to love my fence, even though it may be different than the neighbors'. The concept of perfection is not flawless or ripped from a magazine. It's happiness. Happiness with all itsmessiness and not-quite-thereness. It's knowing that life is short, and the moments we choose to fill our cup wiht should be purposeful and rich. That we should be present for life, that we should drink deeply. And that's perfection. And my dad and my mom and my family-my past, present, and future with Nella, what the world may view as broken or damaged-have taught me what true beauty really is.
Kelle Hampton
Duty over fear.
T.S. Pettibone
From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps. It was like the slot machines wherein one dropped pennies, and, with a metallic whirl of machinery had delivered to him a stick of chewing-gum or a tablet of chocolate. It depended upon which slot one dropped the penny in, whether he got chocolate or gum. And so with the editorial machine. One slot brought checks and the other brought rejection slips. So far he had found only the latter slot.
Jack London
It finally had to.I understood that it wouldn’t be easy, it would be very hard; I’d need to resist the habit I had developed long ago – with conviction. I’d have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that discomfort would add up to zap predatory threats like a Taser gun. I’d stun them. They’d bow to me. I’d let my no echo against the mountains.
Aspen Matis
As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.
Jeannette Walls
We are more of the earth,Farther from heaven these days.
Henry David Thoreau
But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point out that your friend hasn't touched her chicken fingers or French fries and not point that maybe she's just overreacting. Instead, you just smile and sit with her and say, "I understand" when really, you don't understand her at all.
Dana Reinhardt
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
Anthony Robbins
If you want to be wise, learn wisdom from nature.
Debasish Mridha
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
Madeleine K. Albright
Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Septima Poinsette Clark
We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.
Sheryl Sandberg
He shifted his attention back to me and leaned in closer. “I told you to behave. I don’t want to have to arrest you ever again.”“Um . . . okay.”I felt him slide something under my hand. He leaned in even closer, his mouth by my ear, and whispered, “Although I wouldn’t mind handcuffing you.”Oh. My. God.
Robyn Peterman
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
Willard Van Orman Quine
A psychologist would probably diagnose insanity for a nation that spends more on its military than the next 8 nations combined, while its poor are starving.
Steven Magee
He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.
Elton Trueblood
When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.
Gary Keller
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.
Prince
I'm going to make you come harder and longer than you ever have before, baby, and I'm going to feel every shudder, every ripple of that orgasm as it rips through you because I am going to be right here holding tight to you, buried deep inside you. And, Nikki, I'm not ever letting go.
J. Kenner
I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.
Lauren DeStefano
Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity.
Debasish Mridha
He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead, glittering. And the projected future fear. ... It's too much to think about. To Abide there. But none of it's as of now real. ... He could just hunker down in the space between each heartbeat and make each heartbeat a wall and live in there. Not let his head look over. What's unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. ... But he could choose not to listen.
David Foster Wallace
And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed her.
Chelsea Pitcher
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.
Elizabeth George
He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.
David Halberstam
finding in motion, what was once in place
Brian Heffron
My father had a healthy disregard for social conventions: he once let me paint the house windows in rainbows with my watercolor set, to my mother's horror, and he'd clap for trees that he thought were doing a good job of exploding into red during the fall.
Jennifer duBois
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
The Nightvale Podcast
Sometimes the MOM who's always there for everyone else, needs someone to be there for HER.
Tanya Masse
I practiced writing in every possible way that I could. I wrote a pastiche of other people. Just as a pianist runs his scales for ten years before he gives his concert: because when he gives that concert, he can't be thinking of his fingering or of his hands, he has to be thinking of his interpretation. He's thinking of what he's trying to communicate.
Katherine Anne Porter
You show me a teenager who doesn’t like to be flattered and I’ll show you a teenager who’s got a steady source of sex.
Dale Peck
There is no greater catalyst for change in a man than a woman. To love a woman is to become a new kind of man, in one direction or another. A woman holds sway over all. The right woman can assume command of your every part of your being, both body and soul. Her conquest will be total.
Bryan M. Litfin
But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.
Julia Quinn
Julia had no trouble believing that, but she suspected his challenging demeanor was his way of keeping people at a distance. Sadly it was a strategy she understood all too well.Trusting by nature, she'd learned the hard way that when you let someone too close, they discovered all kinds of things about you. That kind of intimate knowledge gave them the chance to hurt you so deeply, it took all your strength just to put one foot in front of the other.
Mia Ross
Let us be kind and compassionate to all beings. Everyone wants to enjoy their lives, everyone has sufferings, and everyone wants peace and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
technology leads to lower costs when it replaces workers' salaries. It does the opposite when it requires more highly-trained workers to utilize that technology. Higher education, medicine, dentistry and the legal profession all provide examples.
Robert B. Archibald
I mean this is the kind of love people dream about, poets write sonnets for, and well it's the kind of love that keeps people from losing faith in humanity and encourages people to believe that true love still exists and it's still powerful and still wonderful. (Quote from a reviewer of Loving Lily Lavender)
DeAnna Kinney
But you know, there's a difference between thinking something and feeling something. I don't know whether I ever thought an answer like that was true before. I might have. But I never felt it. And I guess what that means is that if you haven't felt something, you don't know it.''That reminds me of something a poet called Kabir said once,' I said.... 'He said, 'Nothing that hasn't been experienced is true.
Ptolemy Tompkins
The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.
Leigh Hershkovich
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
Abraham Lincoln
A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.
Megan Abbott
I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
Libba Bray
A good friend is a balm for the heart.
Linda A. Tancs
The moment you begin your journey, the whole universe begins to enjoy your song.
Debasish Mridha
I did not need him to survive. He inspired me to find that strength in myself.
Chrissy Moon
Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.
Billy Graham
Like the line of love, I thought. Once crossed you can't go back. Like the line between past and future. Or maybe really the line between past and now. The now my father spoke of. When I raced ... I would cross the line and there was no more thinking about what was going to be because it was. It happened that fast.
Adam Berlin Belmondo Style
Players have two things to do: Play and keep their mouths shut.
Sparky Anderson
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
Anne Lamott
Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.
Paul Russell