Quotes by American Authors - Page 733

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.
Ozzie Zehner
What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.
David McGee
I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?
Jaye Robin Brown
Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTESANDHIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
Jacques Barzun
He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return to that original self, if, in fact, it ever existed. And yet, he was helpless but to regard that unmistakable fear that gripped him in his dream as a sign that his unevenness lent him now to utter incongruity with this specter of past.
Ashim Shanker
this process isn’t suitable for complex decisions that have nuance, and those who use it in such situations run the risk of being perceived as rubberstamping when the decision had already been made.
Charlene Li
It's not your job to like me, it's mine
Bryon Katie
By learning to contact listen to and act on our intuition we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.
Shakti Gawain
When I was young I wanted to be just like him.One of the charm, of a bright orange smileand muscular laughter.Bold brown eyes flashing fearlesswhen he sat not alone on cold blue nights in empty boxcars.Riding a freight train'ssolitary wailaway from NebraskaDepression, accompanying dreamswithered farms.Nothing left but the leaves of possibilities.
Larsen Bowker
How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked—but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.
Billy Graham
Forgive my brother," Camira apologized. "We don't normally let him out of his cage when guests are present.
Brandon Mull
The darkest of men carry the brightest of lights
Joe Putignano
In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power.
John Piper
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Woody Allen
Giving back is so important. Give back to your communities in whatever way you can. With donations, items or with your time. The Universe blesses a generous heart.
Eileen Anglin
Seeing with your soul will bless you with greater capacity for awe and wonder, for joy and for appreciation of all the quiet miracles that happen all around us every day when we stop to look and admire.
Catherine Carrigan
I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
Jack Vance
Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.
Brian K. Vaughan
Sometimes we get a little tired of the burdens of life, but it is exhilarating to know that Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life’s journey.
Billy Graham
Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me!
Adelaide Crapsey
I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.
Robert E. Lee
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
How is Angeline?" asked Dimitri. "Is she improving?"Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much for avoiding her indiscretions. "improving how exactly?" I asked. "Improving how exactly?" I asked. "In combat, in following the dress code, or in keeping her hands to herself?" "Or in turning off caps lock?" added Eddie. "you noticed that too?"I asked. "Hard not to," he said.Dimitri looked surprised, which was not a common thing. He wasn't caught off guard very often, but then, no one could really prepare for what Angeline might do. "I didn't realize I needed to be more specific," said Dimitri after a pause. "I meant combat.
Richelle Mead
To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve.
Debasish Mridha
I couldn't stop staring at his mouth when he spoke. I bet he knew how to kiss. Perfect kisses too, ones that weren't wet and gross, but the kind that curled toes.I needed to stop looking at him in general.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.
Regina Scott
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
Eric Jerome Dickey
All roads out of hell lead home.
Shannon L. Alder
I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
Jonah Goldberg
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
Albert Einstein
Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.
JOHN C MAXWELL
Describing current human mindsets reflecting our ignorance and cowardice and non action-oriented mentality:"I'm going to do nothing but escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my way out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth.
Mark Passio
Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.
Davis Miller
Money can't buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.
Ronald Reagan
I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.
Raymond Carver
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. 
Roger W. Babson
I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely. "I'll wait for you," I told him.
Kristen Simmons
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
Amby Burfoot
When you're anxious, don't immediately trust your automatic thoughts because oftentimes these thoughts are irrational. Thoughts are not facts. They're just thoughts and sometimes don't need to be given so much importance.
John Tsilimparis
She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.
Turcois Ominek
Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.
T.F. Hodge
I always thought that I was a good swimmer, you know? That in a sink or swim situation I would rise to the top. But the truth is I was drowning. I was sinking fast and you threw me a lifeline. I never expected to love you. But you saved my life. How could I not?
Rachel Hayes
When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.
Bob Dylan
She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her.
L.J. Smith
I let myself be sad. I let myself think of him.
Kiera Cass
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
Kurt Cobain
A God of love must be a God of justice. It is because God loves that He is just. His justice balances His love and makes His acts of bothlove and justice meaningful.
Billy Graham
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Mary Pettibone Poole
And I'll be a witch in hell before I let someone hurt my dogs.
Barbra Annino
The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know—what’ll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual? Or slack-jawed, half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high? There is not much choice in there, you see. And we all want our children to be well adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well adjusted to!
Terence McKenna
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. - Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life
Kristen Ashley
Well, you know that old saying, “Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies.
Shae Ross
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.
Jean Toomer
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
Sam Harris
Time is measured in meaning
Rene Denfeld
He was the most wickedly handsome creature she had ever seen in all her days. His hair was black as night, his stature large, his muscles were etched with precision into his smooth skin, every last ripple chiseled into wicked perfection.
Madison Thorne Grey