Quotes by American Authors - Page 582

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge
Jan Valtin
In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.
Ravi Zacharias
Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.
Charles R. Swindoll
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
Life is here to teach us, so be a good student. Mistakes are the only way we learn.
Dannika Dark
To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
John Howard Griffin
My best days are Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday." "Ian," Wesley noted, "that covers the whole week." Ian nods his head. "Pretty much.
Carroll Bryant
Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
Medeia Sharif
My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came of his skin. it was like there had never been any hole in my chest. i was perfect- not healed but as if there never had been a wound in the first place.
Stephenie Meyer
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Your attitude determines how you experience the world.
Sanaya Roman
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner
i witness the birth of the moon and her servants walking the night sky pulling us into their wake
A.P. Sweet
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.
Damon Knight
One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.
Maria Augusta von Trapp
Little tape recorders, that's what kids are, Cat thought. If you want to find out what your husband is saying behind your back, play Barbie with your daughter.
Jan Strnad
You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can’t get into your brain unless you open the door.
Toni Sorenson
Does the silents of love cry out in your heart today? Words that can not be spoken, calling out to you; a voice so tender and sweet wanting to tell you the secrets of life, crying out to you with a love so deep. It's the voice of the Father wanting to embrace you with all that He is, just say yes Lord I hear!
John M Sheehan
You sure you don't want me to bring you back something?" Her eyes moved in the direction of his office. "A hit man? Some holy water?
Christina Lauren
And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.
Cassandra Clare
Frank Olson had joined the Special Operations Division of the Army's Biological Laboratory at Fort Detrick at its inception in 1950. He was issued a Q clearance, the civilian equivalent of the military's top secret clearance, and worked with the CIA on MK-ULTRA.As part of that work, he traveled in 1953 to Britain, France and West Germany. At the secret British military research center at Porton Down, the sons say, Olson witnessed "extreme interrogations" in which "the CIA committed murder" using biological agents Olson had developed.They say a psychiatrist there, William Sargent, grew concerned that Olson "had serious misgivings related to those murders and might therefore pose a security risk," and so recommended to his superiors that Olson no longer be granted access to classified research facilities in Britain.source: Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientistThe Baltimore Sun, 8 December 2012
Matthew Hay Brown
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley
Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.
Chuck Palahniuk
Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made for me, that would shatter the foundations of my very existence. I would see that I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive. For a long time I wouldn’t be ready to accept that my worldview could be wrong, but I do not look back with shame at my ignorance.
Deborah Feldman
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
Lydia M. Child
This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.
Ann Brashares
Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.
Debasish Mridha
She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were gentle, and some were wicked. Some were smart, like Fido, and some were foolish, like the hens.
Roger Lea MacBride
The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?
Lindsey Rietzsch
... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.
Mike Bryan
That woman," Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then?
Jim Butcher
At that, Marty howled great big, messy sobs, and Elanor, the little lady in the yellow suit, who organized the weddings at the church, came running with a box of tissue.Oz appeared in the vestibule, looking alarmed. “Is everything all right? I thought someone was strangling a duck.”“Do you mind?” Marty snapped. “Me and the bride, here, we’re having a moment.
Jenn McKinlay
I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.
Whitney Houston
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Marianne Williamson
I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
Sherman Alexie
Love as a flower loves the morning sun.Love with kindness, expect no return. Love like the morning sun, expect no return.
Debasish Mridha
I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.
Sherwood Anderson
Yeah, equal pay for equal work and our bodies ourselves and Gloria Steinem and all that jazz...but in that dusty dark little corner of every woman's heart where we keep our maps of Tierra del Fuego lives the hunger to fetch a powerful man his slippers on her hands and knees.
Tiffany Reisz
Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you.
Mindy Hall
Let me be kind, let me be compassionate, let me be joyful, and let me sing a song of love.
Debasish Mridha
I shoved his arm with all my strength, but it wouldn’t budge. His waist rippled with sculpted muscles. His chest and shoulders bulged and spoke of great strength. It was one thing to assume he had a big frame, another to have it confirmed with the moon's light.
Kenya Wright
The 2016 USA presidential election race clarified how an evil Nazi dictator like Adolf Hitler was able to come to power in global politics.
Steven Magee
Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.
Bryant McGill
You're my world.In this loveless world, you’re my endless love.Love! In this world of sadness, you are my happiness.Love! In this world of sorrow, you're my source of joy.Love! In this world of pain, you're my vintage wine.Love! In the midst of ugliness, you're my beauty.Love! In the midst of deception, you are my trust.Love! In the midst of darkness, you're my guiding light.O my love! In this loveless world, you are my world.
Debasish Mridha
Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat?Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?
Lucia Perillo
Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on time and doesn't cheat or abuse you, then it's in your best interest to show up consistently from year to year.
Ruth Ozeki
He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.
Rebecca Donovan
Almost forgot. Can you stop by and feed my fish every few days? And talk to them too. They get lonely when I am not home.”Cooper made a face “Who the hell talks to their fish?”“Me. You’ll feed them, right”“Yeah, I’ll feed them. But I am sure as hell not talking to them,” Cooper said…..
Paige Tyler
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.
Tiffany Madison
When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.
Dean Koontz
uh, yeah, I love...worms" Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth.
Rachel Van Dyken
Where is the most important of the 5 W Questions. When you are in your "Where" you can fearlessly become "Who" you are to fully live "Why" you are here. Determine your "Where" then your "Who" then your "Why".
Diana Dentinger
They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303
Lionel Shriver
If we’re not the one driving our dreams forward, who is? If we don’t figure out how to change jobs, eat healthily, date, fall and stay in love, who will come save us? No one. But, then again, no one should, right? The are, after all, our dreams.
Lauren Handel Zander
I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.
Hope Jahren
I Am PrimateI was once taught, that I am a soul in a body.I once believed I was separate from the earth.A stranger in a strange land,a sinner in need of a Savior.But, isn't this my home? This beautiful world?Isn't this my form?These hands, these eyes, this touch?Am I to believe I have violated a rule,just by being born?Who claims this right to judge,and on what authority do you stand?The truth screams out from my cells.I am not the imagination of a God,I am a voice in the earth,I am that which you deny!The earth is my home and the stars my destiny.I will touch the planets throughthe hands of my children. . . not the will of your ghost!I am a voice in the evolutionary continuumand I claim the right to be alive,without your story.For I Am Human, I Am Proud,and I AM . . . PRIMATE!
Christopher Zzenn Loren
We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.
G.G. Collins
She didn't fear the night, though she found little comfort in its dark hours. It was the time when she slept, the time when she stalked and killed, the time when the stars emerged with glittering beauty and made her feel wonderfully small and insignificant.
Sarah J Maas
Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.
H.W. Brands
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
John Green