Quotes by American Authors - Page 692

Like watches over like, as the saying goes.
Drew Hayes
He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.
George Saunders
It is a miracle if we can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do... Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal
Shirley A. Moore
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
Benjamin Franklin
I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
Ernest Hemingway
I cupped her chin and tilted it back, deepening the kiss, wanting to somehow claim her very soul. Funny thing was, it was my soul that was being claimed, my breath that was being stolen, and my heart that was pounding crazy fast in my chest.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
I loved you before I even knew the name for it. Everyday I'd sit beside you, inhaling your scent, looking at your beautiful face. Every night, dreaming about you. You eclipsed everything else. It was you. Always you.
Heather Anastasiu
Clean your home first before complaining about others.
Debasish Mridha
Percy grunted. ‘Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo’s powers.
Rick Riordan
What was the exact percentage of this day that had already slipped away?
Tara Altebrando
Kids don’t act right. Sure it’s embarrassing when it happens but any reasonable person won’t fault a parent when a kid throws a fit. However, when a child doesn’t act right and a parent doesn’t act at all then we’ve got a problem.Parents get up off of your rears and parent your children. Please I beg you stop these little bedlamites from running amuck at church, in restaurants, at the movies, in the store or really anywhere that I may be.
Aaron Blaylock
Drama is real life – with the dull parts left out.” Alfred Hitchcock
Marja McGraw
Plasticity inhibits authenticity, and fosters in its place a kind of fairytale, insubstantial, unstable environment. All under the cover of freedom of choice. but there is no freedom larger than simply being who you must be. There is no more formidable Self than the one that has adjusted to nonnegotiable fixed points or unconditional obstacles to its aspiration. There is no more compelling truth than accepting with genuine grace what one cannot change.And so there is no larger testimony to freedom than someone who has taken such a course of life over a long haul; who ultimately and transparently bears the marks and scars of where they have been in real time. Such person wear line on their faces, lines that resolutely defy the airbrush. Such persons need not continuously broadcast their inner narratives; nor need they present the same visage to every acquaintance. But their faces still speak volumes to anyone with eyes to see. Their faces bear the marks of their irrevocable investments in their inalienable humanity.
Mariam Thalos
You will never get to a new place by walking an old path.
Toni Sorenson
I have fallen in love with the worldAnd I am aware that I have chosenthe most dangerous lover of them all.
Rod McKuen
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
Shannon L. Alder
Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.
Toni Sorenson
Wisdom of the Ages: "Soylent Green" No matter how many times I see that movie, I still get a hankerin' for a Big Mac.
Matthew Heines
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
Ray Bradbury
There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
Harper Lee
One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles.
Steven Magee
I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.
Laurie Halse Anderson
Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity.
Debasish Mridha
Intent without dedicated action is simply not enough. Action without a clear intent is a waste. It is when these two powerful forces are aligned that the energy of the universe conspires in your favor.
Steve Maraboli
What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.
Mary Karr
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
Dean Koontz
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?
Elizabeth Coatsworth
What I have called the internal morality of law is in this sense a procedural version of natural law, though to avoid misunderstanding the word "procedural" should be assigned a special and expanded sense so that it would include, for example, a substantive accord between official action and enacted law. The term "procedural" is, however, broadly appropriate as indicating that we are concerned, not with the substantive aims of legal rules, but with the ways in which a system of rules for governing human conduct must be constructed and administered if it is to be efficacious and at the same time remain what it purports to be.
Lon L. Fuller
It can't be taught to all, but people who deliver exceptional work, merely by relaying their passion through what they say and do in the workplace, are priceless.
Susan C.Young
I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers.
Kristie LeVangie
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.
Tom Waits
To pray is to communicate with the essence. Praying is calling home.
J.R. Rim
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
Clark Kerr
If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!
Beth Ramsay
The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.
Charles Bracelen Flood
لقد عرف كيف يموت ، كما عرف كيف يعيش
Isabel Allende
I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
Libba Bray
In a world where the most consequential things happen by chance, or from unfathomable causes, you don't look to reason for help. You consort with mysteries... They have been killed in place of you - in your place. You don't think it out, not at the time, not in those terms, but you can't help but feel it, and go on feeling it. It's the close call you have to keep escaping from, the unending doubt that you have a right to your own life. It's the corruption suffered by everyone who lives on, that henceforth they must wonder at the reason and probe its justice.
Tobias Wolff
it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.
Judith Krantz
Let your fear dissolve and allow love to effervesce through your being. Be open to feeling good in this moment.
Amy Leigh Mercree
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?
Gian-Carlo Rota
Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.
Anne Rice
Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.
Lynne Rae Perkins
But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
David Foster Wallace
He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
Isabel Allende
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.
Billie Jean King
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
John Mason Brown
We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion.
Bryant McGill
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
Craig Groeschel
God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.
James MacDonald
Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.
Laini Taylor
Love is cursed by monogamy
Kanye West
Figured that most of life's dilemmas could be solved by asking yourself this one question: " Is it worth it--to me?
Heidi Thompson
Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others.
Shannon L. Alder
If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes.
Debasish Mridha
Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.
Larry Kramer
If you can't tell someone how to think, then you have to learn to manage the environment where they think.
Eric Schmidt
Homesickness is absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
John Cheever
When an employee, a team, or a company is passionate about their products and services, I am more inclined to bring them my business. Aren’t you?
Susan C.Young