Quotes by American Authors - Page 670

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
Peter Kreeft
What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end.
Richelle E. Goodrich
At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite my staunchly atheistic inclinations, I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realized that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedic memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza?
Zack Love
Everything not saved will be lost. –Nintendo “Quit Screen” message
T. Michael Martin
Perhaps I shouldn’t like it so much, but I’ve always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories.
LeAnn Neal Reilly
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
Amy Tan
Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also -- either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.
John Steinbeck
Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
Criss Jami
Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes.
Diana Gabaldon
Our thoughts and our happiness are inseparable. Our happiness depends on our thoughts.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
The big one was at least cute, and as annoying as she was, you couldn't get mad at a golden retriever.
Chelsea Handler
Maybe you should've let God do the planning, rather than doing it yourself.
C.B. Cook
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
Philip Yancey
Your love is my diamond that I want to wear near my heart. Your hug is my heaven where I want to belong always.
Debasish Mridha
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it.
Herman Melville
We make families of our own, Travis whispered in my arms on the last night we spent together. It starts with you and me and then it spreads. And whatever happens, there’ll always be a part of me that’s part of you. No matter what.
Steve Kluger
Develop a conscience to live by.
Debasish Mridha
Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives so much of our activities. Yet this obsession with the passing of the hours is a relatively modern phenomenon; an inevitable product of the Industrial Revolution, and its fixation on efficiency. A new master exported by England across the globe, so that in the developed world at least everyone has one wrist on which is clamped the new and unforgiving shackle we call a watch. In less pressurised days, men observed the ageing of the universe through the more sedate changing of the seasons. But no more. Now the hour is king, or the minute and sometimes even the second. We are all people in a rush, where speed is of the essence, and slow is often deployed as a term of abuse.
John Dolan
You want to live?Yes!Then quit thinking you're gonna die!
Laurel Dewey
Brother," Artemis chided. "You do not help my hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.
Rick Riordan
A few days later, Tuesday quietly crossed our apartment as I read a book and, after a nudge against my arm, put his head on my lap. As always, I immediately checked my mental state, trying to assess what was wrong. I knew a change in my biorhythms had brought Tuesday over, because he was always monitoring me, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Breathing? Okay. Pulse? Normal. Was I glazed or distracted? Was I lost in Iraq? Was a dark period descending? I didn't think so, but I knew something must be wrong, and I was starting to worry...until I looked into Tuesday's eyes. They were staring at me softly from under those big eyebrows, and there was nothing in them but love.
Luis Carlos Montalván
She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. That sort that normally came in a black bottle and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA.
Maggie Stiefvater
To sing is to love and affirm to fly and soar to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live that love is there that nothing is a promise but that beauty exists and must be hunted for and found.
Joan Baez
You," she said. She grabbed my wrist and pressed two fingers onto me as if taking my pulse and I stopped breathing. "I know you. I remember you from my youth. You contain multitudes. There is a crush of experience coursing by you. And you want to take every experience on the pulse.
Stephanie Danler
The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.
James Garbarino
Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.
Lauren Groff
Want to stay over at my place tonight?” “But I don’t have anything to sleep in,” “Who said we’re going to be sleeping?
Codi Gary
it is, just a door.if you never knock,it may, never open.
JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
John Kennedy Toole
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casual
John Irving
With each tweet, post, share and comment, we are building and adding to our digital iceberg.
Tiffany Sunday
By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.
John Piper
Your level of consciousness depends on your love and understanding of this universe and all its contents.
Debasish Mridha
Maybe we could, um, go sit in the truck?" he said, but even as he said it, it sounded so dumb. And not exactly the way he wanted her to remember a marriage proposal.
Robyn Carr
On the way home from church, I felt like I was walking on clouds, as pure as an angel. I wished a car would run me down at that very instant, so I could die and go straight to heaven before I had a chance to sin again.
Alice Bag
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.
Dick Gregory
Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?
Ken Poirot
The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
Sharon Salzberg
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?
Michele McKnight Baker
The outgroup is rocks.
Joseph Felsenstein
If you run, you better be faster than my gun. -Weasel to illegal aliens
Ray Palla
An Airstream is a lot like a first love: you are lured by her charm, seduced by her beauty, and once bitten, you are forever chasing after her mystique.
Bruce Littlefield
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.
Joe Queenan
I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Brandon Sanderson
Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
I couldn’t help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I’d had it off and on my entire life.
Drew Nellins Smith
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
Edward Abbey
If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.
Dave Hunt
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
Robert M. Pirsig
If I think God’s aim is to produce rule-followers, spiritual growth will always be an obligation rather than a desire of my heart.
John Ortberg
I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.
Marissa Meyer
At the end of the day, can you look back and say to yourself, "Today, my mother would be proud of me because I gave it all I had"? If you can, you will have had a very good day. And if you can do this every day, you will have a very good life.
Patrick Henry Hughes
Tell Hugh," she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.
L.J. Smith
I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.
Michael J. Kannengieser
Is it really a Lie if someone is unwilling to see the Truth?
Soman Chainani
In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him.
Sarah J Maas
Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.
Jack Kerouac