Quotes by American Authors - Page 732

It’s hard for me to talk about love,' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that.
Anna North
Every touch ramped her desire higher and the carnal look in Chad's eyes was making swallowing difficult.By the time the waiter served their coffee, she was ready to throw him down on the table and ravish him in front of God and everybody.
Tamara Hoffa
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Malcolm Forbes
Life is ever since man was born licking honey from a thorn.
Louis Ginsberg
Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the worldacknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.
Patrick Califia-Rice
Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
Tamora Pierce
Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.
Cambria Hebert
Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zoo. It’s a ridiculous endeavor and has a low probability of success, but most importantly, it is way easier if you’re with a friend.
Amy Poehler
Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.
Rachel Aukes
I suddenly remember being about seven, riding beside him in the car, and asking him how grown-ups found their way to places. After all, I had never seen him pull out a map."I guess we just get used to taking the same turns," he said, but I wasn't satisfied."Then what about the first time you go somewhere?""Well," he said, "we get directions."But what I want to know is who got them the very first time? What if no one's ever been where you're going? "Dad?" I ask, "is it true that you can use stars like a map?""Yeah, if you understand celestial navigation.""Is it hard?" I'm thinking maybe I should learn. A backup plan, for all those times I feel like I'm just wandering in circles."It's pretty jazzy math—you have to measure the altitude of a star, figure out its position using a nautical almanac, figure out what you think the altitude should be and what direction the star should be in based on where you think you are, and compare the altitude you measured with the one you calculated. Then you plot this on a chart, as a line of position. You get several lines of position to cross, and that's where you go." My father takes one look at my face and smiles. "Exactly," he laughs. "Never leave home without your GPS.
Jodi Picoult
Becoming aware of what you are doing and how others perceive you will provide you with instant insight for making changes where necessary.
Susan C.Young
Alex and Carlos—the tag team from hell. They’re the last people I need shit from right now. If they decide to trail me, too, I’ll have an entire entourage.“I’m fine.”“Then sit up and talk to us.”“Okay, in that case I’m not fine. Go away.” I moan. “Unless you want me to puke all over you.
Simone Elkeles
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.
Criss Jami
Fleet kept running,” Kaladin growled, getting back under Elhokar’s arm.“What?”“He couldn't win, but he kept running. And when the storm caught him, it didn't matter that he’d died, because he’d run for all he had.”“Sure. All right.” The king sounded groggy, though Kaladin couldn't tell if it was the alcohol or the blood loss.“We all die in the end, you see,” Kaladin said. “So I guess what truly matters is just how well you've run. And Elhokar, you've kept running since your father was killed, even if you screw up all the storming time.”“Thank you?” the king said, drowsy.
Brandon Sanderson
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.
David Foster Wallace
Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.
Dean Koontz
You will feel powerful only when you learn to use the power of love.
Debasish Mridha
What I was sure of was that Tommy had something I'd never seen in anyone else: a blind and unhinged and totally unfounded ambition. He was so out of touch, so lacking in self-awareness, yet also wildly captivating. That night there was this aura around Tommy- an aura of the possible.
Greg Sestero
Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?
Gloria Furman
They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.
Vic Chesnutt
The face of self-pity was universally understood.
Vann Chow
The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.
David B. Lentz
When it comes to getting things done we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen C. Barrett
We’ll sleep when we’re tired. When we wake, I’ll find a way to make you laugh and I’ll live in the sound of it.” My throat gets tight because I long for that day to be now. “We’ll find somewhere you’ve never been and we’ll make it ours—fill it with memories of us. That’s what I want.” I finish with the alcohol swab. Leaning close, I gently blow on his healing wound to ease the sting. Reed takes my hand and brings it to his lips, kissing it tenderly. “And when we get that sleep, there will never be a your side or a my side of the bed—we’ll always meet in the middle. And when I hold you there, in our bed, you’ll let me rest my lips here.” Reed lets go of my hand to move his thumb to caress the sensitive skin of my neck just beneath my ear. I get swept up in him: my body his with one touch. I turn and rub my cheek gently against his palm. “And we won’t rush...ever,” I murmur, forgetting to be scared. I want that future with him. “The world can spin around us but we’ll take our time, savor every moment.” My head rests on his shoulder. “Just you and me.
Amy A. Bartol
Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.
Melissa Cady
Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.
Elizabeth Gilbert
You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary tasks of living as a half-decent person. Does your mother fix you breakfast? She is a hero. Does your father visit you every weekend without fail? A hero. Does your teacher mark your papers faithfully when you make a mistake? Unexampled heroism, that. If everyone is a hero, then no one is a hero; and genuine heroes will go unnoticed in all the mindless self-congratulation.
Anthony M. Esolen
It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.
Idowu Koyenikan
Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.
Peter N. Stearns
The shame, embarrassment, feeling of low self-worth, and scores of "labels" we give ourselves are not fitting. I am beginning to see how I had no control over the situation. He was a big man, I was a little boy.
Charles L. Bailey Jr.
The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn’t really know the person well.
Rick Moody
It is human nature that rules the world not governments and regimes.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
There must be some kind of internal time distortion effect in here, because when I look at myself in the little mirror above my sink, what I see is my father's face, my face turning into his. I am beginning to feel how the man looked, especially how he looked on those nights he came home so tired he couldn't even make it through dinner without nodding off, sitting there with his bowl of soup cooling in front of him, a rich pork-and-winter-melon-saturated broth that, moment by moment, was losing - or giving up - its tiny quantum of heat into the vast average temperature of the universe.
Charles Yu
As long as everyone thinks you’re a cutter or tried to commit suicide you’ll always be on the outs.
Katie McGarry
Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.
George Saunders
Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people... He'd seen it in the men who'd crippled him in Memphis, he'd seen Wage affect the semblance of it in Night City, and it had allowed him to accept Armitrage's flatness and lack of feeling. He'd always imagined it as a gradual and willing accommodation of the machine, the system, the parent organism. It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to hidden levels of influence.
William Gibson
Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.
Paul C. Nagel
[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.
Michael Chabon
He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
Henry James
Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.
Jack Johnson
If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.
Shannon L. Alder
We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.
M. Scott Peck
Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.
Mark Lawrence
It's love. But it's a different kind,""Doesn't make it any less love, though.
Patrick Ness
The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word “conversion” means simply “turning.
Billy Graham
As long as you believe that you can achieve and progress in it you will succeed
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Most people don't know that heartache smells like blueberries.
Stacey Lee
Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.
Sheldon Vanauken
Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.
Criss Jami
People who help others on a regular basis are ten times more likely to be healthy than people who do not.
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.
Corey Ann Haydu
Stop shoving things up me. Stop shoving and stop cleaning it up. My vagina doesn't need to be cleaned up. It smells good already. Not like rose petals. Don't try to decorate.
Eve Ensler
I like a bit of spunk in a lady
Lauren Groff
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
Some people reflect lightSome deflect itYou by some miracleSeem to collect it
Mark Z. Danielewski
The picture of love and truth together is in Jesus. The challenge is to resist the temptation to think in terms of a mixture or recipe: 50% love and 50% truth. The historic creeds affirm Jesus as fully God AND fully human, and likewise with love and truth – Jesus is fully truth and fully love; any less and He ceases to be fully God, and for this reason love and truth must not be separated...
Michael M. Rose
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.
Robert James Waller
The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.
Lisa Kleypas