Quotes by American Authors - Page 598

The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.
Bell Hooks
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Joyce Brothers
She leaned over the bed to plant a goodbye kiss on his cheek. Instead he reached up and cupped her head in his left hand, so that he was in charge of her kiss and it landed oh his lips. It was not, as she would have expected, the fumbling kiss of a boy unused to dating but the practiced kiss of a man who knew exactly what he was doing.
Lois Duncan
Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world.
Bryant McGill
He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.
Demi Lovato
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
Edmund Morris
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.
C. Wright Mills
When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so are selfishness and impatience. It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; so easy to be indignant without being intelligent; so easy to be impulsive without being insightful. It is so easy to command others when we are not in control of ourselves.
Neil A. Maxwell
Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".
Maggie Stiefvater
Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.
Joss Whedon
Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.
Annie Dillard
For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.
Bo Schembechler
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945
Ernest Hemingway
For some, like me, writing comes at a price. My best creations were written while I was emotionally ripped open. I've spent some scenes so mentally self-exposed that I could barely see what I was writing. And as I sit here-my heart pounding, heaviness threatening to pull my heart down to my stomach, I ask myself this question...are you ready to bleed some more? I smile and without pause, I pull up my current WIP.
Jennifer Salaiz
(T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.
Vladimir Nabokov
Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.
Steven Ramirez
Love knows all.
Nely Cab
If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create.
Lionel Suggs
To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly charismatic leader. They were to follow him blindly, as if he possessed a divine judgment, for the next twelve tempestuous years.
William L. Shirer
There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.
Andy Andrews
They'll get my Kindle when they pry it from my cold dead hands, if my corpse will release it.
Elizabeth Horton-Newton
The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.
Jonathan Martin
How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.
Meg Rosoff
What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation
Bill Konigsberg
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.
Laura Lippman
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Ralph Ellison
In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone. What happened in front of my friends felt read. What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by own fears and wants. And who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
Ann Brashares
In photography and in life, always look for the light -- if you don't see it, bring it...
John Waire
Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you.
John P. Clark
... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. [p. 13]
Shirley Hazzard
Live every day,not by spending time,but by investing all the way.
Debasish Mridha
The new vantage from which Christian theology as a discourse on Christian identity must operate in the modern world, then, is the Christological horizon of Mary-Israel. To be Christian is to enter into this horizon. But where is the horizon concretely displayed, where is it made visible if not in despised dark (and especially dark female) flesh? Is this not the flesh of homo sacer . . .the flesh that is impoverished, "despised and rejected of men," flesh that in shame we "hide our faces from" (cf. Isa. 53:3)? But if this is the case, it follows that the poverty of dark flesh is where one finds the wealthy God. . . In (Christ"s) taking on the form of the slave, the from of despised dark (female) flesh there is the diclsoure (sic) of divinity, a disclosure that undoes the social arrangement of the colonial-racial tyranny (tynannos,), as the seventh-century theologian Maximus the Confessor called it, that is the darker side of modernity
J. Kameron Carter
It was the same old question, whether a declaration of purpose might protect you from failure.
Emily Witt
Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.
Anasazi Foundation
The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses. Originality also brings on the most merciless attacks. The world resents originality in the beginning writer, and then rewards it abundantly once that writer has been successfully published. Cherish your own voice. Don't try to sound like anybody else. Sound like yourself and take the slings and arrows and keep going.
Anne Rice
I can only control my actions, not their reactions," Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.
Amber Argyle
An old man spoke to his grandson. "My child," he said. "Inside everyone there is a battle between two wolves. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, and truth." The boy thought for a moment. Then he asked, "Which wolf wins?" A moment of silence passed before the old man replied. And then he said, "The one you feed." - Native American Folk Tale
Christine Woodward
Dick called, but he just left dirty voice-mail messages. Let's just say if I'm ever in the market for a massage involving canola oil and marabou feathers, I'm covered.
Molly Harper
People are fond of saying this or that "changed my life." What they mean is something influenced their life. Only Jesus Christ--or WITSEC--can really change a life.
Ron Brackin
... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.
Tania Aebi
He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.
Rick Yancey
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.
Jonathan Franzen
That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.
Nicholas Sparks
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all together, irrespective of their color.
Malcolm X
Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.
T.F. Hodge
Human race should have a common goal and that is to establish infinite peace in this world which we call home.
Debasish Mridha
The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.
Suzy Kassem
You only live once
Mitch Lucker
From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.
Tera Lynn Childs
CAN is the enemy of DO.
Alaina Odessa
Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.
Robert Ripley
my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.
Freeman Dyson
Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.
Kamal Ravikant
Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.
David Burr Gerrard
The universe will never 'take away' something that is for our highest and greatest good so when we 'lose' something, or our lives shift, it is always for our benefit. It’s unwrapping a surprise present from the universe.
Caroline A. Shearer
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.
Jewel
Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.
Cormac McCarthy
The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.
Robert Henri