Quotes by American Authors - Page 581

The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.
Alice Walker
Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floor under the weight of a world that does not need the sweet talk of a heartbeat.
Sonja Livingston
when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.
Mitch Albom
Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.
Aaron Swartz
The media's job is to serve as society's referee, throwing down truth flags when uninformed bigots are shouting their opinions into the wind.
Allison Kilkenny Jamie Kilstein
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
Benjamin Rush
We are born with hope to dream and love to live.
Debasish Mridha
I’m only going say this—love is a wild creature that cannotbe tamed. It’s unconditional. And although it sometimes makes youfeel like one small person against this big old world, you must rememberyou are the world to one particular person. - Astral
Candace Knoebel
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Rodney Dangerfield
If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.
Lynn Austin
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over.
Henry George
Then, I feel it; it was a hot that was like a burning sword, fine, slicing my skin in pieces, and not even my jacket could protect me from the hot. Then it goes, as unexpected like it came, lifting dirt from the floor and a smell I remember, metal, and the only thing it could be: blood.
Ana Plascencia
Those who lack courage, can’t be kind for kindness is a state of courage.
Debasish Mridha
The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.
Ryan Lilly
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E B White
A shared vision driven by core values is a powerful alchemy.
Colleen Mariotti
Love, just to love. Don't wait for a reason to love. That is selfishness.
Debasish Mridha
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Robert Hass
In the Bible, one often confronts real antinomies (equal but opposing truths). But in life one never does and always has options in difficult situations ...however uncomfortable may be their consequences. Satisfice in the circumstances and get on with your life! ~ © gfp '42™
Gary Patton
Was Philip Dexter upset?""He's telephoned the office every day."She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?""Everybody. Roosevelt orderded an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like Armistice Day.
Rose Franken
The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible.
James M. Fallows
If you think it can be done, then go ahead with boldness. Don’t listen to those who do not believe in your dreams.
Debasish Mridha
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.
Michael Pollan
Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.
Ann Aguirre
…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.
Alan Jacobs
Life is the ultimate artistic masterpiece, and it's up to you, the creator, to make it as wildly dazzling as possible.
Laura Resau
He guided her hands lower, over her own soft belly, her hips, the tops of her thighs. The oils they spread there left a sheen upon her flesh. A sheen that glistened as firelight and shadows caroused about the space. His grasped her wrists and he urged her hands to her back once again. “Clasp them,” he said and she did.
Arla Dahl
Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed
Bell Hooks
You're never alone when you're reading a book.
Susan Wiggs
I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
George Burns
We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.
Billy Graham
If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all
Yogi Bhajan
I would start with four fingers of Jack in a thick mug, with a sweating Budweiser back, and by midnight I would be alone at the end of the bar, armed, drunk, and hunched over my glass, morally and psychologically insane.
James Lee Burke
Because everything worth having hurts.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
Christina Westover
War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.
Sarah Addison Allen
Like Molière’s M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole’s 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'.
Ernest Nagel
Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience?
Todd Stocker
As they left the pier and walked into the park, Chahda looked around appreciatively. "Nice place, this. Capital of New Caledonia. Big island, has 8,548 square mile, also has 53,245 peoples. Eleven thousand in Noumea. That is what says the Worrold Alm-in-ack."Rick and Scotty laughed. It was like old times to hear Chahda quoting from The World Almanac. A Bombay beggar boy, he had educated himself with only the Almanac for his textbook, and he had laboriously memorized everything in it.
John Blaine
The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone.Why alone?He's alone so that we might never be alone.
C.J. Mahaney
Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder.
Robyn Schneider
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.
Jordan Belfort
Mr. Ryland was a riddle to unfold, an attractive one at that. The lone candle flickered behind him, outlining powerful shoulders, tempting solidness she wanted to test.t"But an evening of harmless flirtation isn't out of the question."tHis gaze fixed on her. "I'd welcome an evening free of complications."tDid he just proposition her?
Gina Conkle
Look, I’ll tell you what I do, but you won’t believe me.” …t“Given that I just found you bound and gagged, my mind is somewhat more receptive than it might normally be.”t“Well then, here’s the deal,” Krystal said as she sat down next to me. “Everything you think you know about monsters is a lie. Ghouls, ghosts, werewolves and more are real and hiding out behind the scenes in our world. Officially, they are known as parahumans.
Drew Hayes
Do you need me to carry you?" The words were said softly but with a definite edge. He looked so angry, I wasn't sure if he was mad or trying to help.t"No." The last thing I wanted was to be carried out of there. I turned in my seat and tried to get a read on him. An idiot would have known he was pissed, but beyond that, I got nothing. Why was he the only person in my life I had so much trouble reading. He started to lean down and I realized I was out of time. t"Don't you dare," I said, trying to delay whatever action he was preparing to take. Looks like my stall quota had been all used up. If I'd had any delusions of him cutting me any slack because of what had happened between us, I was quickly realizing how wrong I'd been. He seemed even worse.
Donna Augustine
How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.
Michael Talbot
I want to towel off, leave my heart on this beach and walk the sand into a lake of stars, while never looking back.
A.P. Sweet
Rules help us live our liveswhen we lose the will to do it on our own
Yvonne Woon
It's a real lightning bolt, this Science of Phrenology. I've found out more in the last three days than I knew in my whole life before. Mrs. Guilbert has always been a nasty one, but now I know that she can't help it—she's got a big pit in her Benevolence spot. She fell in the quarry when she was a girl, and my guess is she cracked her Benevolence and was never the same since.
Mary Ann Shaffer
We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.
Susan Glaspell
A man has to have something he can put faith in.
Erich Maria Remarque
The human life cycle no less than evolves around the box; from the open-topped box called a bassinet, to the pine box we call a coffin, the box is our past and, just as assuredly, our future. It should not surprise us then that the lowly box plays such a significant role in the first Christmas story. For Christmas began in a humble, hay-filled box of splintered wood. The Magi, wise men who had traveled far to see the infant king, laid treasure-filled boxes at the feet of that holy child. And in the end, when He had ransomed our sins with His blood, the Lord of Christmas was laid down in a box of stone. How fitting that each Christmas season brightly wrapped boxes skirt the pine boughs of Christmas trees around the world.
Richard Paul Evans
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian Tracy
This reminds me of old times,” he said, and his lashes lifted. As his gaze drifted over me, it was focused but all too brief, because he looked away, a muscle working along his jaw. “Kind of.”A flush raced across my cheeks as I switched out the ball for a new one. He was right—this was like all the other times I’d cleaned him up. Well, when I was younger, I tried to clean him up, but had no idea what I was doing, but as we grew older, and he got into fights defending me or for some other reason, this was our routine.Except I was pretty sure that when his gaze roamed over me just now, he’d checked out my breasts, and that was definitely something that hadn’t happened before.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
God doesn't promise us an easy life. But He does promise to love us and never leave us, no matter what happens.
J.E.B. Spredemann
...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.
Lisa Unger
Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.
Jim Rogers
Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.
Tiffany Reisz