Quotes by American Authors - Page 638

Passion fuels dreams. Commitment fuels action. Get clear about what you want to do and why you want to do it. Take action. Your time is now!
Julie Connor
To shut your eyes is to travel.
Emily Dickinson
Like capitalism,” Carl suggested. “‘We’ll give you so much pleasure, you’ll never want to try another socioeconomic system.
Caleb Crain
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
Jim Rohn
I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.
Jane Lotter
Let’s agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap.
Steve Maraboli
All Ghosts Are Gray
Andrew Barger
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
Lisa Kleypas
You are my ground and you are my rainbow. You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy. You are the start of my journeys and always my destination. You are my home - the place to which I always return.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I’m talking to you in bed at one in the morning. How mad can I be?”I picture him there, in what, flannel pajamas? Underwear? Nothing at all?
Jeannine Garsee
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become.
Shannon L. Alder
The most tragic thing anyone could ever say to us is “Oh – you're a Christian? I had no idea!” It is not who we say we are, but how we are recognized. Let's remember, “In Antioch the disciples were first called Christians “ and By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Dear brothers and sisters, let our walk match our talk and be doers of the word...
Pastor Steve Bainbridge
One day the world will be so badly wounded that those who try to repair it will only be called "close-minded.
Danielle Valenilla
In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who don't make you want to shove a pitchfork up his nose.
Lois Greiman
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
Walker Percy
When I dreamed about becoming a fantasy adventurer, I was always a max-level character with epic gear. Look at me. I’m wearing vendor trash.
Noelle Alladania Meade
It would be too easy to become infatuated with a man like him, and also decidedly unwise considering the female debris left in his wake.
Tiffany Snow
By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.
Sharon E. Rainey
Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.
Debasish Mridha
When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal.
David Foster Wallace
If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you
Stanley Victor Paskavich
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Sylvia Plath
How We Respond to Our Mistakes Has a Profound Effect on the People in Our Lives
Holly Elissa Bruno
Could be a cold night so I guess I'll start a fire."t"A fire? Have you got wood?"tA curve played at the corner of his mouth. "Oh, yeah. I got wood."tThe door slammed before she realized what she'd said.
Tracy Brogan
Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.
Brent Weeks
(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?
Sherman Alexie
The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.
John Kasich
Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.
David Levithan
Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.
Audre Lorde
it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
Randy Alcorn
Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too.
Timothy Hallinan
The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.
Roy H. Williams
Christians, day by day, week by week, and month by month, are told to walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit means being led and directed by the Holy Spirit. This comes as we progressively yield various areas of our lives to the Spirit’s control. Now desire in itself is not wrong, it’s what we desire or lust for that is wrong—and when we yield.
Billy Graham
I just want that, the way I feel when you kiss me. Just having it makes all the bad things better.
Brenna Yovanoff
But then Klaudia's lips curled ino a conniving smile."Actually, Aria, I'm going to fuck your boyfriend. Ton
Sara Shepard
Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.
Jodi Picoult
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.
Veronica Roth
So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
Sherman Alexie
The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.
Edward Teller
In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore
The weatherman/woman definitely has SuperPowers.
Margaret Aranda
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.
Daniel Keyes
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
Adam Gopnik
Mary and Josephhuddle snugly together.They cradle God's son.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and yes we enjoy it and yeah we can have a good time with it. But if you wanna LAND, you wanna make an impact, you want those FUCKERS TO REMEMBER YOU! Then you have to let it hurt sometimes. You gotta get there because that’s all an audience ever wants. Is for you to open up your chest and show them that you have a fucking heart. That’s all we want. A heart. A human being. Not an affectation.
Kevin Spacey
The canker of self-consciousness has been long in me, so like a lot of writers I not only do a thing, I see myself doing it too—it’s almost like not being alone. That morning our hero skipped in his skivvies down to the shore of the sea . . . it was dark . . . the fog . . . Storytelling!
Charles D'Ambrosio
Maybe we could get Aiden some pants because I'm tired of looking at his junk," Jayce muttered.
Katie Reus
Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself.
Bart Hopkins
I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing
Jonathan Tropper
Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.
Gordon B. Hinckley
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.
Henry David Thoreau
She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!
Carolyn Keene
Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love
Bryant McGill
At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was only remembering a dream? She was alone among the rocks on a dark coast beside the sea. The water surged upward and fell back languidly, and in the distance she heard surf breaking slowly on a sandy shore. It was comforting to be this close to the surface of the ocean and gaze at the intimate nocturnal details of its swelling and ebbing. And as she listened to the faraway breakers rolling up onto the beach, she became aware of another sound entwined with the intermittent crash of waves: a vast horizontal whisper across the bossom of the sea, carrying an ever-repeated phrase, regular as a lighthouse flashing: Dawn will be breaking soon. She listened a long time: again and again the scarcely audible words were whispered across the moving water. A great weight was being lifted slowly from her; little by little her happiness became more complete, and she awoke. Then she lay for a few minutes marveling the dream, and once again fell asleep.
Paul Bowles
People should know, only what they need to know.
Amy Rachiele
Women have problem areas in a way that men don't. We have big hips and muffin tops. Men just have the thing where they create wars and wreak havoc all over the globe.
Jessi Klein
As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical, less apt to blame and less tormented by others and their faults and views.
Bryant McGill
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
Abraham Joshua Heschel