Quotes by American Authors - Page 744

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.
Ashly Lorenzana
I think you’ve forgotten that this place holds a lot more than justbetraying Hobgoblins. Call upon the spirits, summon fairies, raise thedead! My brother, you have the power to do so--now get off of your buttand use it!
Richard P. Denney
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
Willa Cather
What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.
Heather Day Gilbert
We are living in an age of grace, in which God promises that “whosoever will” may come and receive His Son. But this period of grace will not go on indefinitely. We are even now living on borrowed time.
Billy Graham
Get money when you don't need it, so you can use it when you need to.
J.R. Rim
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
Bette Davis
What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.
Anne Rice
Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.
Charles Boardman Hawes
I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.
Amy Engel
When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.
Rick Jarow
Trust, like money, needed a guarantee to back it.
Seth Dickinson
When you made tons of money, had a beautiful wife and three adorable kids-when you were the envy of your community and coworkers-you had no right to behave badly. Stop whining, chin up, take Prozac, and pretend your pain isn't ravaging your soul.
C.S. Lakin
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins
Benjamin Cardozo
... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
Ursula K Le Guin
The number of family secrets is just staggering.
Jill A. Davis
This world of ours is a new world in which the unit of knowledge the nature of human communities the order of society the order of ideas the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new not because it has never been there before but because it has changed in quality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 
Gerald Hausman
Rachel slid inside her silver Kia and slammed the car door, grateful that the museum’s security guard was now watching from a distance. If he hadn’t been, she might have acted on a homicidal impulse and run Chase over, the manipulative jerk. In fact, it made her feel better just to imagine it.
Kaylin McFarren
A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two.Two is enough.Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right.Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.
Matthew Woodring Stover
The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only distance and air.
James S.A. Corey
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
You know, I once read a book about people who practiced polygamy. One man with several wives. Crazy. I was just in a room with eight very unhappy woman and I have no idea why anyone would choose that.
Kiera Cass
Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.
Sheldon Vanauken
You know it’s the 21st Century when someone TEXTS you from the washroom to ask you to bring them a roll of toilet paper.
Tanya Masse
My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.
Charlaine Harris
Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.
Susan C.Young
Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?""Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.
Liz Weber
We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.
Rachel Cohn
You said I told you I was in love with someone else, but I’m not. That’s not what I meant. Cassandra was a part of my past, but our time together ended. The only person I want, the only person I love, is you.
Angela Corbett
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man
George Jean Nathan
It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.
Karen Marie Moning
It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
H.P. Lovecraft
Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
Abraham Verghese
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing an
Junot Díaz
The source of infinite wisdom in this infinite universe is that you are blessed with infinite love.
Debasish Mridha
Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.Even if he could never be human.He wanted the chance to matter.He wanted to live.
Victoria Schwab
I know exactly who you are.” I took a step forward, and another, until I was standing right in front of him. Then my words turned to ice. “You are the selfish, spineless son of a king who is too afraid to be his own man. You would rather hide behind your status than fight for something that could actually mean something.” There, that felt good. “And it’s a shame, really it is, because, according to you, I was the one true friend you had.
Rachel E. Carter
Be yourself to understand others.
Debasish Mridha
The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.
Anthony Liccione
You are nothing but your desires, dreams, thoughts, and beliefs
Debasish Mridha
Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.
Orson Scott Card
We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.
Walter Kirn
You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
As his gaze rose to her face - he bit back a gasp. "Your hair, it's - ""Red." ..."You look stunning." ..."Did I ever tell you that when I was growing up, my favorite cartoon characters was Jessica Rabbit?" ..."You always had the curves, but now, with the hair..." He blew out an exaggerated Roger Rabbit whistle. "You're a spittin' image.
Kristin Miller
I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset. The sunset isn’t fucking married.
A.J. Jacobs
Today I have nothing to do except sing the songs of peace.
Debasish Mridha
Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death and, despite his gimp and speech impediment, lived a long life doing pretty much what he wanted. He hadn't drawn the best of cards, but he'd played his hand darned well, so what was there to grieve over?
Jeannette Walls
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin
The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
Bob Hope
You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.”“What’s it like?”He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.”“Tell me.”And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them.
Kristin Cashore
I won’t pretend that I deserve you. I am faithless. I have done unforgivable things. And I am broken.” He gestured to his face and body with trembling hands. “I know you see past these things when you look at me . . . but I hope I can be enough for you.”“What? Enough for me? Gabriel, you are everything.
Rachel L. Demeter
Waldo, I say-that is-aren't you tired, my boy?" Professor Buckley, suppressing a yawn, was unaccustomed to others matching his wakefulness wink for wink, as it were, and seemed jealous of the competition Waldo presented in that regard. t"Who can sleep?" Waldo replied. "We're on another of these crazy roads, we can't find the interstate...."t"Yes, I suppose you're right." The Professor interrupted, taking off his thick spectacles and polishing them on his bright tie. "I, on the other hand, never sleep, as I'm sure you're aware." tWaldo smiled. The Professor had little in life to be vain about, and he wasn't going to stop him from expressing a little pride now and then.
Donald Jeffries
As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the best means to that good.
Allen Wheelis
Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't think I even know what love is
Tahereh Mafi
Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.
Steve Maraboli
Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.
Janette Rallison