Quotes by American Authors - Page 50

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?
Robin Sloan
...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.
Mark Slouka
Faith helps you to over come all the troubles,If you faith, troubles will blow out like bubbles.So let faith become your strength,As faith will help you to walk the length.
Ron Sen
No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.
David Pietrusza
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse
Kahlil Gibran
...you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all.
Kristen Henderson
...it's nice of Mrs. Goe to think that marching against the juvenile juror law is going to keep kids safe. But the fact is, we're NOT safe. Nobody is. That's the whole point. There's no such thing as being safe--here or anywhere. People get hurt every day. Some people get killed by weirdos like Bob White and some people just get teased to death at the lunch table for drinking orange soda or eating a tuna fish sandwich.
Kate Klise
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco
Revenge itself may indeed be the best revenge, but slaying one's enemy does not give back what they stole.
Emilie Autumn
When I’m away from you I am lost.But when I’m with you, I am lost in you.
Eliza Freed
Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
Alison Arngrim
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.
Abraham Verghese
Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.
Pearl Zhu
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.
Dillon Burroughs
You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
Garrison Keillor
When family gathers around for a dying loved one, I have realised, that it probably does more good for the living, than for the dying. Sometimes, death can bring the living together, and death can cause the living to find solace in one another. In this way, death is a part of life, and those who die can in fact give gifts to the living, gifts that they were not able to give while they were still alive and well.
C. JoyBell C.
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
Michael Eric Dyson
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
Eudora Welty
What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?
Richelle E. Goodrich
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran
Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.
Thomas M. Disch
And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I'm talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this—this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you.
Christopher Hitchens
Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.
Criss Jami
God allows difficulties, inconveniences, trials, and even suffering to come our way for a specific purpose: They help develop the right attitude for the growth of patience.
Billy Graham
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
Vladimir Nabokov
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]
Thurgood Marshall
One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.He was the Fourth to follow the Star.His gift was a secret.The rest of his journey is unknown.
Vera Nazarian
Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.
Jay Samit
It’s very difficult sometimes to put into words one’s feelings, especially when one is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)
Cynthia Wicklund
Hopefully and devoutly focus on your greater possibilities.
Bryant McGill
Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.
Tim Wu
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
Jim Butcher
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Matthew Knisely
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
Twisting the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going. His dick smearing at my bare thighs. I would be shunted along whatever would happen, I understood. However he piloted the night. And there wasn't fear, just a feeling adjacent to excitement, a viewing from the wings. What would happen to Evie?
Emma Cline
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller
Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.
Ernest Hemingway
We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all. But in general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions.
John Dewey
What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?
Sontag
Other than that, we have each told the truth, and each truth is our own.
Liz Welch
It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
John Lewis Gaddis
The door to her heart was locked up tight, but he could still see a faint glow escaping through the keyhole.
John Mark Green
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsewhere everybody here wants to be Somebody.
Sydney J. Harris
Jesus Christ. This is what sin feels like," he rasped. "Wrong and right, at the same time. Life and death. Blond, long-legged, and tight.
Tessa Bailey
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
James Baldwin
Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.
Jessica Brody
Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila
Robert M. Pirsig
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
Libba Bray
Maya Angelou said, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." I'm proud that Mike Schur and I rejected the idea that creativity needs to come from chaos. I like how we ran our writers' room and our set. People had a great time when they came to work on our show and that mattered to us. I like to think the spirit we had on set found its way onto the show.
Amy Poehler
Frosting was his favorite. He liked to eat doughnuts at every meal. Because it was healthier to eat six small meals a day than three large ones, he restricted himself: jellied for breakfast, glazed for brunch, cream-filled for lunch, frosting for linner, chocolate for dinner, and powdered sugar for 2 a.m. supermarket stakeout. Because linner coincided with the daily crime peak, he always ate his favorite variety to ease him. Frosting was his only choice now, and upsetting his routine was a quiet thrill.
Benson Bruno
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy
How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. If not, choose a different path. That's the gift life offers freely.
Toni Sorenson
Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.
Sylvia Day
Great things in business are never done by one person,They are done by a team of people
Steve Jobs
Decide what you want to be....Pay the Price ...And be what you want to be.
John A. Widtsoe
Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.
Sharon Salzberg
That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.
Mark Goldblatt
It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- Leonard
Morgan Matson
Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
Jacqueline Carey
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.
Mark Haskell Smith