Quotes by American Authors - Page 516

Never complain, condemn, or criticize; just show them how to do better.
Debasish Mridha
We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.
Cora Carmack
I believe that man is here to grow into the fullest, the best that he can be. At least this is what I want to do. As I am growing to become whatever I become, this will just come out on the horn. Whatever that's going to be, it will be. I am not so much interested in trying to say what it's going to be. I don't know. I just know that good can only bring good.
John Coltrane
Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and less tangible form, in all strata of people. The degree of mystical, sentimental and sadistic feelings corresponds exactly to the degree of the disturbance of natural orgastic experience. Close observation of the audience of a trashy thriller or of a boxing match teaches more about these problems than a hundred handbooks of sexology.
Wilhelm Reich
Every day is as amazing as we decide it is.
Toni Sorenson
We came to this world with two wealths, love and hope, but, in the end, love is our only wealth.
Debasish Mridha
Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.
Sheryl Sandberg
She sniffled. "Does he know?""Not a clue," Law said. "There are concrete bricks less dense than my beloved.
Jez Morrow
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
She murmured, in that particular Nancy way of hers that grates most when my inner bitch is aching to be let loose, 'Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.'My eyes popped open to see her lemon face standing over me.'SOMEONE,' I hissed, 'HASN'T EVEN WOKEN UP YET. GOD, WHAT IS YOUR ANEURYSM? CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?
Rachel Cohn
I loved the fact there was a God who had made me, who had created everything around me. Jesus made sense to me. He’s real. He’s personal.”“He likes you,” Bishop remarked gently.“Exactly…I wasn’t smarted than He was. I adored Jesus for that fact. Every question I had, Jesus knew how to answer. That was such a relief. Not that He would always answer, but I knew I could search for an answer and find one, and it often felt like God was helping me go the right direction with my search.”“I’d bump into something cool God had made, and I’d promptly tell Him all about what I’d found and bombard Him with questions about it.
Dee Henderson
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves.
Clifton Fadiman
While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond the pale isn't always safe and secure. Outside the fence of state-sanctioned consciousness, there are, to be sure, peaks of profound insight and inspiration. But there are also the swamps of addiction, superstition, and groupthink, where the unprepared can get stuck.
Steven Kotler
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
Joe Hill
Outside of note passing and the occasional tight-lipped kiss after school events, "going together" in seventh grade was pretty meaningless. You couldn't drive, had nowhere to go, and either weren't allowed or couldn't afford to do anything. I was kind of like being an old married couple, except you could control you bowels and stay awake past 8 p.m.
Eric Nuzum
The central attitudes driving Rambo are:Strength and aggressiveness are good; compassion and conflict resolution are bad.Anything that could be even remotely associated with homosexuality, including walking away from possible violence or showing any fear or grief, has to be avoided at any cost.Femaleness and femininity (which he associates with homosexuality) are inferior. Women are here to serve men and be protected by them.Men should never hit women, because it is unmanly to do so. However, exceptions to this rule can be made for my own partner if her behavior is bad enough. Men need to keep their women in line.You are a thing that belongs to me, akin to a trophy.
Lundy Bancroft
True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
You act like you're okay,Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown,And smile at the same time.
Mimi Shannon
Faithfully, Calvi was following the rules to the letter. He knew one thing: Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who’d be next?
Peter J Tanous
You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away
Nina LaCour
The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don’t have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I’m headed, I know it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be.
Susane Colasanti
Come, kiss me sweet, and then let us return to bed, for I am tired, and I would sleep.
Christopher Paolini
My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die.
Tessa Gratton
Your thoughts make what happen in your life~You can turn anything negative into the positive~What you visualize can come true and you attract it to yourself
Pattimari Sheets-Diamond
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.
Asa Gray
I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts. I have watched men order at dinner, ask for shitty wine and extra bread with confidence I could never muster, and thought, what a treat that must be. But I also considered being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.
Lena Dunham
All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.
Shulamith Firestone
We’ve run out of comforting things to say.
Suzanne Young
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow
But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now
Carrie Newcomer
That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.
Adriana Trigiani
I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by definition, ‘discovery’ means you don’t know the answer when you start.
Ed Catmull
...if life never changed, there would be no room for good things that are still to happen.
Elizabeth Harmon
We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.
Jeffrey Tucker
Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.
Josephine Angelini
And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world.
Bryant McGill
Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?
Donna Lynn Hope
Think in a new way, think every day to find the truth.
Debasish Mridha
The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.
Kelly Easton
Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner.
Debasish Mridha
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan
Maybe if she saw Jag again... maybe that would wake her up. But if she sees him and remembers, I'm nobody. In more than ways than one.
Elana Johnson
They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
John Green
She looked back at him, her lips curving into an incredulous smile. "The man who just gave me the best orgasms of my life is asking me out on a date?"t"Um... yeah?"t"Um...okay.
Kathy Lyons
...because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.
Chuck Klosterman
You are the know place to which the unknown is always leading me back.""I possess nothing worthy to give you." "There's only me." ~ quotes from poetry that Angelo feels match him and Zach
Marie Sexton
Poetry fights against the injustice of this world. Poetry's truths are ageless.
Delano Johnson
Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.
Kathleen Glasgow
Many seasoned porn whores develop an ability to check out at will. The girl, on her back has unlit vacancy signs where her eyes once were.
Tyler Knight
When you study the wrongs you have committed before you study the wrongs done to you, you have no choice but to label yourself inherently evil, and be forced to dissociate emotionally to avoid the horrible pain in this lie.
Daniel Mackler
The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.
Francine Rivers
Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Oh! The morning sun, I am grateful for your light and warmth. Oh! The pristine nature, I am grateful for your beauty and life sustaining air. Oh! The river and oceans, I am grateful for your generosity and water for thirst. Oh! The vast sky, I am grateful for your vastness and deepness of love.
Debasish Mridha
9 Reasons Why Improving Your Posture is ImportantBy projecting strength and excellence in your physical presence, you will. . . 1.tLook better and feel better.2.tAppear, and be, more fit and healthy.3.tPowerfully influence your mindset.4.tAppear more confident, self-assured, and competent.5.tCarry yourself with more purpose and intention.6.tBreathe deeper and get more oxygen in your body, which will improve your energy and health.7.tReduce or prevent back pain and muscle tension.8.tImprove productivity by energizing your physiology.9.tMake a significantly more positive impression.
Susan C.Young
The great actors always play themselves.
Scott Farris
...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...
Judith Guest
Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.
Catherynne M. Valente
You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe.
Steve Siebold