Quotes by American Authors - Page 760

As I have explained in earlier chapters, abusiveness has little to do with psychological problems and everything to do with values and beliefs. Where do a boy’s values about partner relationships come from? The sources are many. The most important ones include the family he grows up in, his neighborhood, the television he watches and books he reads, jokes he hears, messages that he receives from the toys he is given, and his most influential adult role models. His role models are important not just for which behaviors they exhibit to the boy but also for which values they teach him in words and what expectations they instill in him for the future. In sum, a boy’s values develop from the full range of his experiences within his culture.
Lundy Bancroft
Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.
Mark Epstein
Words have weight.
Stephen King
We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity aside and forces us to confront that loneliness and the uncertainty with which human beings, in the end, live and die.
Boria Sax
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles
God's word is alive, so full of spiritual truth and wisdom that even a single passage can be digested for a lifetime
Charles F. Stanley
Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)
Mev Puleo
An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills. Some writers have felt new appreciation for their lives after surviving a serious illness or disability. A fortunate outcome does not invalidate the unfortunate aspect.
Nan Merrick Phifer
Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.
H.L. Stephens
More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else
Philip H. Friedman
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.
Craig Groeschel
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.
Maya Angelou
Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.
John Scalzi
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
Tom Robbins
Hello?” I peered into the shadows.Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall.“And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?
Seanan McGuire
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
George Saunders
Be the gardener of gratitude to grow flowers of happiness in your garden.
Debasish Mridha
Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.
George F. Will
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Bette Bao Lord
Love gives you eyes.
Peter Kreeft
I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much. ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.
Rosslyn Elliott
Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!
Bill Hicks
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?
Brom
We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome.
Deepak Chopra
The JewelThere is this caveIn the air behind my bodyThat nobody is going to touch:A cloister, a silenceClosing around a blossom of fire.When I stand upright in the wind,My bones turn to dark emeralds.
James Wright
Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.
Lauren Oliver
The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it...
Charles R. Swindoll
In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no room for imagination. There is no ability to visualize a concept. Perfection is limited by its own nature, which in short, is zero.
Lionel Suggs
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
That's my girl," he murmured."I'm not your girl.""Well," he said not bothering to hide his smile from her sightless eyes, "the good news is that the honey gave you back your sparkling personality.""And the bad news?""The honey gave you back your sparkling personality.
Larissa Ione
How can it hurt so much to love someone?
Tracy March
Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.It was real.So real that I refused to believe it.
Kami Garcia
Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will
Jack Welch
He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
John Green
Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs.""Harma's dead." Jon said."But not the pigs. They look at me the way Slayer used to look at ham. Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. Aye, we hacked their gods apart and made them burn the pieces, but we gave them onion soup. What's a god compared to a nice bowl of onion soup? I could do with mine myself.
George R.R. Martin
I don’t believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.
Laini Taylor
When one matures in life is when one knows we never grow up
Ron Riccota
To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.
Criss Jami
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
Chögyam Trungpa
Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.
Joseph J. Ellis
All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen.
Debasish Mridha
Feel special, because you are.
Debasish Mridha
It does not matter that the 'intentions' of individual educators were noble. Forget about intentions. What any institution, or its agents, 'intend' for you is secondary. Our world is physical. Learn to play defense - ignore the heat and keep your eyes on the body. Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. But a very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve the Dream. No one directly proclaimed that schools were designed to sanctify failure and destruction. But a great number of educators spoke of 'personal responsibility' in a country authored and sustained by a criminal irresponsibility.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.
Lemony Snicket
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.
George Steiner
[Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]"My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany!
Pamela Clare
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford
Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it’s necessary to start with ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
Well done, Darren!” Master Byron was full of praise for the prince. “What did you use to cast it?”Darren’s eyes found mine. “Something I don’t regret.
Rachel E. Carter
Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.
J. Loren Norris
Knowledge has no value if it does not enhance your wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
There is something to be said for the night. The darkness holds a sense of promise, as if anything could happen. Maybe something good, like a handsome stranger or something with snarling teeth that whispers pretty things as it eats you. Thus, the night is a test. A test of fear and the sweet promise of pain.
Meg Collett
... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a new and disturbing style in which the colors seemed to blaze with such intensity they destroyed the old lines, the old solidity, to make a vision like those states which I'm nearest my delirium and flowers grow before my eyes and crackle like the flames of lamps.
Anne Rice
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes
Vladimir Nabokov
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
Thomas McGuane
I didn't like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people.
Elizabeth Eulberg