Quotes by American Authors - Page 603

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.
Dean Koontz
She lacks confidence she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
Anaïs Nin
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me, adoption was grief in reverse.
Jody Cantrell Dyer
I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.
Melodie Ramone
I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
Henry Ward Beecher
From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Have you achieved your goal today? Fantastic! Set a goal for tomorrow, next month, next year, and years from now.
Debasish Mridha
Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.
Adam Rex
The bottom line on the declaration, 'This is part of our culture,' is this: At its best, this is a choice made with little or no critical thinking about future results. At its worst, it is merely an excuse to do what one wants to do. It is selfish, leaderless, pack behavior with unconsidered consequences that ultimately destroy families, neighborhoods, cities, and before you know it, generations.
Andy Andrews
Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.
Nina LaCour
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
Ernest Hemingway
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
Lauren Oliver
For believers, there is much more to existence than simply passing out of one world and into another.
Van Harden
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Berger
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
Khaled Hosseini
THEY STOLE YOUR STYLEBUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW
Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier
The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.
James Scott
She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?
Christy A. Campbell
Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Is it okay to do something wrong if you're doing it to protect someone who deserves to be helped?""That's an odd question Is there anything you need to tell me?"but I think sometimes you have to tell a white lie,. It's like when Grandma and Grandpa were here for the funeral. They didn't say a word about Grandpa being sick. They tried to protect us because they knew we had enough to deal with. I wondered if you thought they did the right thing by not telling us."Her mother let out a soft sigh. "You're right. We call it a white lie. We do that to protect the ones we love. I used to think it was totally wrong no matter what the reasoning was. Now I think I've changed my mind a bit." "No," Ele said,
Peggy M. McAloon
When she saw me, my mother stood up and started to come toward me, but then stopped. I think maybe Cat Poop had told her not to make any sudden movements because they might scare me, like I’m a wild animal or something, because she kept looking at him and then at me. Finally she just said, “Hello, Jeff,” and sat down again next to my father.
Michael Thomas Ford
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Donald Trump
If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.
Jeanette Coron
The public's dilemma is to know how to consume the news with an ability to extract opinion from the simple facts and evidence... The best solution to the fact/opinion dilemma is to acquire more diverse information across the ideological and geological divide. If you find yourself relying on one source of information for the news, whether right or left, you are likely to be exposed to more opinion that reinforces rather than challenges your own.
Nancy Snow
That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.
David Wroblewski
Dreams come true if we can overcome the fear of failure and pursue them.
Debasish Mridha
I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.
Jennifer Elisabeth
I want to be able to see stuff," Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt.
James Patterson
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.
Harry A. Overstreet
Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.
Samuel R. Delany
As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.
Asa Don Brown
Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
Peter S Beagle
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?
Marilyn Manson
Why would a god sacrifice her life if she was God? Just show real power and send an army of angels and there'd be no debate.
Peter Tieryas
I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)
Mev Puleo
Damn it," I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton."He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face. "Eat him," he said.
Patricia Briggs
Night-time. Why is it, I wonder… Always, always it is at night whenThe fury of a hurricane makes itself felt. Perhaps it is because the spirit of the storm Delights in the darkness, for there it can Unleash its rage most potently, most Anonymously, upon the element of earth? Or perhaps it is simply because we Humans are afraid of the dark.
Stephanie Osborn
My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.
Jazz Feylynn
Strive to be active rather than lethargic—determined rather than wavering or lazy.
Susan C.Young
Carry good cheer in the morning;Carry good cheer in the night.Effort is sweeter and living completer,If ever we walk in love's light.
G.B. Williams
For many, it's a once-in-a-lifetime, long dreamed-of and longed-saved-for trip. Pennies have been pinched and sacrifices made to make the vacation a reality. All Guests' wallets will be separated from a great deal of money, like trout expertly filleted, but it will be a curious;y painless experience, for all but a few, the trip will be transcendently and sublimely worth every sacrifice and penny.
Leslie Le Mon
But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive in this exciting age of our humanity’s journey toward a greater life and a more fundamentally intelligent evolution of our species.
Martha Char Love
Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, "Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important. Life is about doing what others expect of you." If you accepted this idea, later on you wondered what had happened to your fire. Where had your enthusiasm for living gone?
Nathaniel Branden
By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed and beautiful.
Dianne Sylvan
I don't have any big adventures.""But of course you have big adventures," Papa said. You have adventures of all sorts, all the time.""Not like Radish in the Book of Tales," Geraldine said, scuffing a toe along the ground. "I could never be like Radish.""No, you don't have adventures exactly like Radish," Papa said. "But that's because you're not Radish and you must have your own adventures. All creatures must.""Happy ones?" Geraldine asked."In the end, yes. But they won't all seem that way at first. They'll have unexpected twists and turns. You must let them play out to the end, like a story in the Book of Tales. Follow God, speak to him and listen to him, and all tales will be beautiful in their time.
Karin Kaufman
No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of grace. Certainly this law is of one spirit with the Son of Man who says, "I was hungry and you fed me. I was naked and you clothed me." This kind of worldliness entails the conferring of material benefit over and above mere equity. It means a recognition of and respect for both the intimacy of God's compassion and the very tangible forms in which it finds expression.
Marilynne Robinson
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
Adam Johnson
I think irradiating pilots with WiFi radio frequency (RF) radiation is really going to hit about five years from now as 'Delayed Radiation Complications' show up. I am expecting to see increased airplane accidents & crashes for various reasons starting in 2020 onward.
Steven Magee
The Broaden-and-Build Theory in Positive Psychology suggests that positive emotions initiate upward spirals of positivity which contribute to our optimal well-being. It is no wonder positive people are more likely to make a positive impact!
Susan C.Young
...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes.
Elizabeth Peters
Some call me nature, others call me Mother Nature. ... How you choose to live each day, whether you regard me or disregard me, doesn't really matter to me. One way or other, your actions will determine your fate, not mine. I am nature. I will go on. I am prepared to evolve. Are you?
Conservation International
No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me.
John Steinbeck
These were all simple acts of obedience I missed. But not missed because I was unaware. They were missed because I was busy—caught in the rush of endless demands. And the rush makes us rebellious. I knew what to do and blatantly ignored it.Ignoring God's leading doesn't seem like such a big deal in these cases. In the grand scheme of the world, how big a thing is it that I didn't pick up that cup? After all, how can I be sure it was really God?I think a better question would be, How can I be sure it wasn't God?
Lysa TerKeurst
What wish did you grant me?" Lolly asked. "I can't tell you," the little girl said very seriously. "But if you believe, it will come true.
Viola Shipman
Give me a man who says this one thing I do and not these fifty things I dabble in.
Dwight L. Moody