Quotes by American Authors - Page 646

The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.
Billy Graham
We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.
Michael Sokolove
When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.
Zane Grey
Skyscraper National Park
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The middle is the longest in any story, and therefore the time with the most desperation.
Rick Moody
In the corner of her eye she caught her daughter’s shoulders drop as Alex exhaled with uncommon soberness. “So you trust me, and you understand that I will never do anything I think might hurt you.”Miriam stopped outside the armory and pivoted to her daughter. “Alex, what have you done?
G.S. Jennsen
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
Ron Garan
Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.
Robert A. Schuller
Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.
Rick Riordan
A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, and perhaps that is why they went out in the first place. When the rough edges are worn off the new land, businessmen and lawyers come in to help with the development---to solve problems of ownership, usually by removing the temptations to themselves. And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. And culture can be on any level, and is.The Church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously.
John Steinbeck
Think of the air you breathe as love. Changes everything.
Renae A.Sauter
But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.
Thomas M. Disch
We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.
Annie Leonard
Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
Sharon Salzberg
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.
Michael Dell
Jesus calls all sinners to repent. True repentance is not a nebulous response of sorrow; it requires definite actions. Repentance so transforms the mind that it results in a changed life. Repentance does not merely say “I’m sorry” (similar to what we say when we accidentally step on someone’s foot). Rather, true repentance says from the heart, “I’ve been wrong and grieve over my sin, but now I see the truth, and I will change my ways accordingly.
Joel R. Beeke
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
Richard Bach
As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.
Andrena Sawyer
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.
Rick Yancey
A mother's hardest to forgive.Life is the fruit she longs to hand youRipe on a plate. And while you live,Relentlessly she understands you.
Phyllis McGinley
The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is…emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty.
Robert M. Pirsig
Even when you don't see Him working, He's busy working on your behalf. Forever grateful for God's grace!
Yvonne Pierre
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn’t get him anything other than a living.
Mark Helprin
...the way we ended things was not uncommon for kids like us. She said we'd lost enough in our short lives to want to cauterize our wounds before they happened. We burned our connection closed before we felt the holes.
Joshilyn Jackson
Raw love, like raw heart-ache, could blindside you.
Jodi Picoult
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.
Bree Despain
Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
George R.R. Martin
Even at the Gallagher Academy, they don't teach you to break somebody's heart.
Ally Carter
If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.
James Dillehay
So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I’m a great multitasker.
Holly Hood
It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.
Robert Kurson
Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.
Colin S. Smith
That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.
Anthony Doerr
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
Cortney S. Warren
There's always more to the story, Catriona," She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories.
Heather Vogel Frederick
There's and entire world outside these bleak pages, one full of SUNRISES and KITTY-CATS and late-night BURRITO RUNS and the horrible, creaking amble of us all towards DEATH. It is to that world that I am afraid I must release you to now.
David Malki
One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.
Harold Holzer
Most beautiful things comes to us free of charge.
Debasish Mridha
Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.
Shannon L. Alder
... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?".
John Green
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Through the "Strength" of one and his simple existence, there will be a transformation affecting many because of just one life.
J.D. Stark
I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up.
John Green
If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much.But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats.
Sarah Ruhl
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne W. Dyer
I think you’re wonderful. You’re the only person I have in this awful, twisted world, and it’s incredibly scary, but if I had to fight my way through this disease of a life with one person by my side, I’m glad it’s with you. You inspire me to be stronger, and I need to be strong.
Christina L. Barr
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
Naomi Shihab Nye
All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
Mary Ann Shaffer
...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.
Patricia Engel
That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific. -(Linc Blaise)
Jennifer Crusie
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
Thomas Merton
The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives
Huey Freeman The Boondocks
I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
Bernard Malamud
Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people — but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil.
Bryant McGill
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
T-4.II.4. Think of the love of animals for their offspring, and the need they feel to protect them. That is because they regard them as part of themselves. No one dismisses something he considers part of himself. You react to your ego much as God does to His creations,–with love, protection and charity. Your reactions to the self you made are not surprising. In fact, they resemble in many ways how you will one day react to your real creations, which are as timeless as you are. The question is not how you respond to the ego, but what you believe you are. Belief is an ego function, and as long as your origin is open to belief you are regarding it from an ego viewpoint. When teaching is no longer necessary you will merely know God. Belief that there is another way of perceiving is the loftiest idea of which ego thinking is capable. That is because it contains a hint of recognition that the ego is not the Self.
Foundation for Inner Peace
I'm often wrong but never in doubt.
Ivy Baker Priest