Quotes by American Authors - Page 584

To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential.
Pearl Zhu
Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.
Richard Kadrey
Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.
Roy T. Bennett
I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.
Mary Griffith
In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.
Terry Goodkind
To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.
Maurice Young
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
Anna Quindlen
Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...
Lorrie Moore
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it.
Sheralyn Pratt
You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.Lost, injured, hurt by chance.I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed....Trying to change our nightmares into dreams...
Maya Angelou
A pigs and pain, until you really get to know 'em. Then he's a paid with the soul.
Lois Greiman
What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
Wendelin Van Draanen
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?
Steven Wright
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Mitch Albom
...I know there's no such thing as forever. So what can we be, in the now?
Ellen Hopkins
Being confident simply means believing that you have what it takes to do the job.
Josh Shipp
Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
How do you know about Leotta?"tIt wasn't like I could tell him that Cephus Hardy was dead and right there about to give him the smackdown, nor could I tell him that I had seen his old Buick parked in front of Higher Ground when I acted like I had no idea he had a car and offered him a ride.t"Isn't she still married to Cephus Hardy?" My eyes zeroed in on his facial expression.tCephus jumped around me and grabbed Terk by the neck. "Yeah, you sonofabitch!"t"Stop!" I yelled, but it was too late.
Tonya Kappes
Then what’s the problem?” He was getting irritated now. “Are you scared, V? Scared that fucking me might turn into something more?” Taunting her, he continued, “Scared that I might just be able to get past that impenetrable outer shell?
Nicole Edwards
If you want to see beauty, look with love and appreciation and you will find it.
Debasish Mridha
how can it be that the modern human mind is capable of precise logical analysis, and yet simultaneously permits us to accept religious beliefs that should crumble beneath even the slightest rational scrutiny?
Dan Brown
You see the bird and you see its flight.You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false.
Ron Brackin
I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Clara Barton
Your real personality identity is not an option, it is the foundation for your happiness and health.
Diana Dentinger
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
T.S Eliot
An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.
Debasish Mridha
Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future!
John Di Lemme
Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you’re hitting a wall because you simply don’t understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective
Susan C.Young
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.
Gore Vidal
Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.
Jeane Westin
Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer
Cynthia Sue Larson
If you don't know where you are going how can you expect to get there?
Basil S. Walsh
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
H.P. Lovecraft
Soap?""School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.
Stephanie Perkins
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou
The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.
Thomm Quackenbush
The higher the testosterone, the lower the maturity level.
Jennifer DeCuir
That is how the European tribes operate, she said, If they can't control it, they destroy it.
Colson Whitehead
If we emphasized only precision, our meditation might become quite harsh and militant. (...). One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation.
Pema Chödrön
I had witnessed his pain in motion; the way he had stroked over the sea fueled by something so similar to what fueled me. The agony he couldn’t hide from his caramel-colored eyes. I was drawn to whatever was broken in him, probably in the same way that he was drawn to what was broken in me.
Marni Mann
But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?"t"I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides ’Locks self in room and draws all day.’ Even art schools won’t take a psychopath.
Natalie Standiford
You're so beautiful. I can't believe you're almost mine.
Debra White Smith
She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself-- then bring it back and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.
Darnell Lamont Walker
His punch knocked her back a meter into the wall. His fist had moved of his own volition, carrying a rage and frustration all its own. To his dismay, she didn’t fall. People so small as her always fell.No tears pooled in her eyes; instead they flared golden amber as she rubbed her jaw and pushed off the wall to stand rigid straight. A peculiar smile danced across her lips as blood trickled from the corner of her mouth and down her chin.
G.S. Jennsen
Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?""Kiss a cow farm boy
Nora Roberts
The God who impoverished himself is also the God of abundance, and somehow, perhaps at times nonsensically, Christians are called to live out of an ethic not of scarcity but of abundance—an abundance that extends both to the homeless neighbor and to the artist neighbor. . .
Lauren Winner
I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.
Ann Aguirre
He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness.
Donna Tartt
... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians and courtesans.
Patrick Rothfuss
I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding.
Ralph Ellison
Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.
Mandy Hale
It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
Elizabeth George Speare
She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He grew molten when she passed near other men, and at night they made their own shaking tent. They got teased too much and moved farther off, into the brush, into the nesting ground of shy and holy loons. There, no one could hear them. In solitude they made love until they became gaunt and hungry, pale windigos with aching eyes, tongues of flame.
Louise Erdrich
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the other hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is contradicting himself. There can be no knowledge of what is good for man apart from knowledge of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in which this knowledge can be acquired except through reason. To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
George H. Smith
You have an ocean of love in your heart. Then why are you too stingy to give it away?
Debasish Mridha