Quotes by American Authors - Page 58

He grappled with anxiety until the early hours, trying to work out the best way to tell her who he really was. But every time he played it out in his head, she always ran off screaming. How could he ask anyone to deal with this? It was his burden and his curse, and he was so afraid it would hurt her. But he was too far in, now, he loved her too much just to walk away. What was he going to do?
Lindsay Woodward
Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.
Catherynne M. Valente
The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).
Demetri Martin
Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process.
Darren Main
We would be in each other's lives again. No, he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed me countless times through the years, life had already proven too short for me to hold on to that. So I let go of my hurt. I let go years of frustration between us. Most of all, I let go of any desire to change my father and I accepted him for who he was. I took all of my anguish and released it like a fistful of helium balloons to the sky, and I chose to forgive him.
Liz Murray
Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.
Brandon Sanderson
When we consider that so few generations had passed since thechurch left off disemboweling innocent men before the eyes of theirfamilies, burning old women alive in public squares, and torturingscholars to the point of madness for merely speculating about thenature of the stars, it is perhaps little wonder that it failed to thinkanything had gone terribly amiss in Germany during the war years.
Sam Harris
10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Neurotic, ha!" I let out a scornful laugh. "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Sylvia Plath
the starting point of all achievement is desire
Napoleon Hill
No matter what path you're on in this life, if that path isn't about love, you're on the wrong path.
Laurence Overmire
These days, many well-meaning school districts bring together teachers, coaches, curriculum supervisors, and a cast of thousands to determine what skills your child needs to be successful. Once these "standards" have been established, pacing plans are then drawn up to make sure that each particular skill is taught at the same rate and in the same way to all children. This is, of course, absurd. It gets even worse when one considers the very real fact that nothing of value is learned permanently by a child in a day or two.
Rafe Esquith
In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment — a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.
Bryant McGill
Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice had a darker side, a gray area where it mingled alongside vengeance, and only the wise and pure of heart were able to tell the two apart. That kind of justice was swift. It was only called upon afer mercy and morals fail. It was the darkest form of goodness known to anyone, even the gods, and required only the strongest, most daring men to bring about.
Evan Meekins
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Shirley M Hufstedler
Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
Heather Brewer
We’re not crazy. We’re just not in the dark anymore. And my goodness, we can see you so clearly now.
Saeed Jones
Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God’s agenda.It’s not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.
Judah Smith
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
Susan Sontag
The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller
Bossy means “given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive.” ...Could it be that girls are called bossy when they’re… well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?
Matt Walsh
I find it increasingly difficult to speak of my feelings at will.
Alexandra Kleeman
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.
Mandy Hale
One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
Edward Swift
In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.
Tom Vanderbilt
A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.
Christopher Bram
I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende
It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.
Alexandra Robbins
Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon you'll just feel better.And then you'll feel awesome.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.
Faith Sullivan
Today’s struggle will be tomorrow’s strength so welcome it with love and courage.
Debasish Mridha
Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
John Piper
The central attitudes driving the Drill Sergeant are:I need to control your every move or you will do it wrong.I know the exact way that everything should be done.You shouldn’t have anyone else — or any thing else — in your life besides me.I am going to watch you like a hawk to keep you from developing strength or independence.I love you more than anyone in the world, but you disgust me. (!!)
Lundy Bancroft
It’s been said that I have a problem admitting when I’m wrong. The main reason is because I never am.
Shamara Ray
A dreamer must be discovered working or working on it or it is reduced to a wish.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
Ludwig von Mises
He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.
Catherine Lacey
Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them.
Kathy Kelly
Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.
Stephen King
If I walked in there right now, you would beg me to make you scream.""Oh, please," she said sarcastically."We wouldn't make it to a bed before I would be deep inside you.
Zoe Forward
Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.
Terry a O'Neal
Kindness is the best philosophy.
Debasish Mridha
Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.
J. Budziszewski
She trusted him. Her heart knew him.And her body wanted him.
Donna Grant
Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.
Shannon L. Alder
Eventually you will find something to put that energy into and you will be unstoppable. Even now with something you take no joy in, you do your task dutifuly, because it's all you can do. There's something beautiful in that, Collin.
Kiera Cass
There is no such thing as a fair fight.
Bohdi Sanders
I have known many survivors for whom the holocaust is the central them of their lives. They have no other. I have tried to live with tolerance and forgiveness as the theme of my life. God have us the power to be good or evil. This is our choice. Because some pick evil, we must work together to recognize and stop it. But while we survivors may lead the change, we cannot do this alone. It must be the goal of all people. If we will join in this goal, then there is hope for humanity.
Andrea Warren
We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won't allow us to see, to protect our sanity, or our soul, or maybe just to keep the shit out of our pants.
David Wong
Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear.
Terri Frey Maxwell
Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.
Christopher Morley
Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)
Richard Kadrey
It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.
Louis L'Amour
When I write, I can be hear. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
Norah Raleigh Baskin
Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek.
Kilroy J. Oldster
The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.
Brennan Manning
This is THE most romantic thing that has ever happened to me, and it involves both drugs and a toilet.
Katie Heaney
Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.
Toni Morrison