Quotes by American Authors - Page 534

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.
Marston Bates
The Captain swallowed his capsules and lay down in the dark with pleasant anticipation. This quantity of the drug gave him a unique and voluptuous sensation; it was as though a great dark bird alighted on his chest, looked at him once with fierce, golden eyes, and stealthily enfolded him in his dark wings.
Carson McCullers
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
John Steinbeck
The will to believe has given us our great saints. The will to doubt has given us our great scientists. The goal of the intelligent man is a character in which the will to believe of the saint and the will to doubt of the scientist meet and mingle.
Glenn Frank
As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. Every deed done out of anger or spite, for instance, will be found at last to have been done for the enemy and against the kingdom of God.
A.W. Tozer
...I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have.
Soojung Jo
Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
Criss Jami
Sed lex dura lex," said Jace automatically. "The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
Cassandra Clare
The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.You are deciding your life right now.
Meg Ray
Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.
Russell D. Moore
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
Ernest Hemingway
Dude--she's your wife." He pointed to the locker where the Bible lay concealed. "God first, family second, country third.
Ronie Kendig
It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream--a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought--a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
Mark Twain
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W.C.Fields
Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.
Randy Alcorn
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
Stan Slap
Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.
Tom Robbins
So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual.
Rainbow Rowell
And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click.The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out."You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door."Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.
Julia Quinn
Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age—is not just something that happens to the church; it is something that happens in the church. In fact, it’s difficult to think of secularism as anything other than a Christian heresy.
Michael S. Horton
Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience.
Rebecca Goldstein
You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy
Dale Carnegie
Health makes good propaganda.
Naomi Wolf
It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something
Elizabeth Gilbert
What I'm trying to do is make impressions. I think of myself as a colourist, adding different colours and shades by using different techniques and touching the guitar in different ways. I'd like to play sounds you can see if you've got your eyes closed.
Lenny Breau
You should also have a bio that plays up your brand—this will be used for any kind of press or speaking engagement. Make it jazzy and exciting, and don’t be afraid of language that really touts you.
Kate White
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was.Only the is.
Augusten Burroughs
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Fantasize and start dream building. Bring your dreams into material reality. See yourself at your best. Transform yourself with dedication and work for excellence.
Mark LaMoure
For lack of love one does a million other things.
Marty Rubin
The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe within, to correspond with the far flight of the galaxies our telescopes follow from without.
Loren Eiseley
The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it's content can perpetually change with your perception.
Jennifer Sodini
What did Finnick Odair want?” he asks.I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation of Finnick. “He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets,” I say in my best seductive voice.Peeta laughs. “Ugh. Not really.”“Really,” I say. “I'll tell you more when my skin stops crawling.
Suzanne Collins
A life might end, but sometimes their case lives forever.
Charlie Donlea
The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
Rabih Alameddine
A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.
Wallace Stegner
By morning, Adelaide was beginning to understand why she'd never completely understood how God worked. Given that He had made the bewildering, maddening, incomprehensible species that was man from His own image, it stood to reason that the Creator would be a complicated mass of logic never meant to be understood by the female mind. That, or the fall of man in the Garden of Eden had taken them even further off the path than she'd ever realized
Kristi Ann Hunter
The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new genre based on a mixing of others. The potential for modern-day muses is as vast as individual creativity.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
Stop, stop pretty water!"Said Mary one dayTo a frolicsome brookThat was running away."You run on so fast!I wish you would stay;My boat and my flowersYou will carry away.But I will run after:Mother says that I may;For I would know whereYou are running way."So Mary ran on;But I have heard say,That she never could findWhere the brook ran away.
Eliza Lee Follen
We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital “T” or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small “t,” seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.
David W. Earle
It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.
Rudolfo Anaya
Never stop learning, and always be ready to teach yourself things you don’t know. The only things you will remember are things you care about.
Jonathan Tepper
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
Christopher Paolini
I'll tell you right now, the doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is the door; if you have an old, old story, that is the door.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.
Charles F. Glassman
Refuse the old means of measurement.Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.-From "Out West
Donika Kelly
I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.
Mike Mignola
Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain
Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
Phil Cooke
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
Frank Lloyd Wright
You don’t get to break someone's heart and think everything is fine just because you say sorry. That's just not fair.
Carey Heywood
When wounds are healed by love,The scars are beautiful.
David Bowles
You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure.
Cherise Sinclair
There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.
Leigh Brackett
...[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time...As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.
Kimberly McCreight
Broken hearts don't need medical treatment, they need a lover to mend them.
Dixie Waters
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
Chris Bohjalian
HereIt's like the song of a family where everything's always all right, it's a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it's a song that'll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that's broken, it fixes.
Patrick Ness
How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!
Debasish Mridha