Quotes by American Authors - Page 547

Don't you wish we all lived in black light.... for one thing, it would mean an end to toothpaste as we know it
Josh Stern
A song of love makes the spirit dance with joy.
Debasish Mridha
I know in my mindI would leave you nowIf I had the strength toI would leave you upTo your own devicesWill you not talkCan you take pityI don't ask muchBut won't you speakPlease.
Dave Matthews Band
Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?
George R.R. Martin
Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late
John Buchanan
Water is the most essential element in life, because without it you can't make coffee.
Karen Salmansohn
She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.
Betty Smith
You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.
Sally Henson
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.
Bonnie Blair
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
William James
The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldn’t have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, I mean. Anyone could see it was getting dark.
Daniel Polansky
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.
Ashly Lorenzana
Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers
Pat Conroy
What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced.
Thomas Paine
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
Alice Walker
Happiness is a frame of mind. It is a state of thinking. It is an attitude, a headset, a mentality. Happiness is a disposition and demeanor. It is a mood and sensibility. It is a philosophy, a notion, a tone, an outlook and perspective. Happiness is all of these things, none of which exist separate from me. They cannot be extracted or stolen because they constitute my very being. Therefore, happiness must be the natural essence of me.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
When you smile and no one else is around, you definitely mean it.
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.
Amy Stewart
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.
Jennifer Elisabeth
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
Anaïs Nin
A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.
Criss Jami
In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.
Chuck Palahniuk
A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
Madeleine L'Engle
When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is written . . . It is written” (Matthew 4:4–10 NKJV). And each time the devil was defeated.
Billy Graham
Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.
Ashley Ormon
The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything."--Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, "Know Your Enemy.
Kristine McGuire
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Mary Baker Eddy
Your inner voice and the spiritual guidance...will lead you to your goal.
Mary Ellen Flora
He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn’t something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial service day was not the worst kind. At least it was honest. At least it was a day shaped around what they were so preoccupied by: my absence. Today he would not have to pretend he was getting back to normal—whatever normal was.
Alice Sebold
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
Thomas Paine
Hope is dancing in the skyInviting you to have a dance.
Debasish Mridha
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
If you have to pray and sacrifice an animal to purify your heart, that is not a prayer. That is pure hatred.
Debasish Mridha
It was about having a box in the attic or basement or attic or garage, something we could return to over and over again, something that said, this is us, this is where we were last year, and this is where we'll stay, and this is where we'll pile on the memories, over and over again, until there are so many memories that it's blinding, the brightness of family, the way love and nurturing is like a color you can't name because it's so new.
Carrie Brownstein
Tell me,' I said. 'Tell me when you notice me.'I notice you going into church,' Joshua said. 'I notice your hair, how blond it is. But how in some light it looks like it has red in it. I notice the way you smell when we're close. And the way you walk when we're headed home from church and your family gets out of the Temple first. I notice how you are with your family and how you hold your little sisters. I've seen you stand out on your doorstep and look across the desert. I've watched you walk toward the Compound fence and then on past that. You've been walking for years.
Carol Lynch Williams
He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals.
Red Haircrow
You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.
Daniel Wallace
Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.
Shane Snow
May the flowers of spring bring beauty and joy to your world everyday.
Debasish Mridha
That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.
Suzanne Collins
Shazi, I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night—For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.Khalid.
Renee Ahdieh
Kale's usually picky about who drives his car, 'he says, smiling again. 'But in this case, I don't think he would mind''Well, technically, it's no longer his car, I point out.He tilts his head slightly. 'Touché.
Gwen Cole
What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.
Joshua Ferris
Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.
Oprah Winfrey
All Disruption starts with introspection.
Jay Samit
If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, and you must not waste any of it but what you do have will be of the most excellent quality. For it will accumulate, and the accumulation will all go to quality. And the things for which you are to be grateful are the bitternesses you have known.If you have had it in mind ever to give way to bursts of gratitude for this air that comes from off the salt sea, for that line of pearls and violets that you see just above the horizon, for the health of your body, for the sleep that comes to you at the close of the day, for any of those things, then get rid of the idea at once. Those things are quite well, but they are not really given to you. They are merely placed where any one can reach them with little effort. The kind fates don't care whether you get them or not. Their responsibility ends when they leave them
Mary MacLane
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
Janet Fitch
Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?
Bruce Bawer
Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet.
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.
Bryant McGill
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Benjamin Franklin
I've found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character
P.C. Cast
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?
Ravi Zacharias
We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.
Jesse Browner
Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go. The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
Melody Beattie
It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.
L.R. Knost