Quotes by American Authors - Page 761

Everyone has their own boat, it's a matter of pulling it out of the sand, and putting it in the water. But further, you can anchor the boat in fear when the storms rage, and go nowhere, let it drift aimlessly on its own or you can let God be the navigator and guide you on a journey in a way that is right for you.
Anthony Liccione
You’ve said life is a series of choices, but I think it’s also a series of opportunities, a series of lessons, a series of moments all strung together that loops around into a lifetime—it’s a lifetime of moments. Every decision, every person that has entered my life, has shaped who I am today.
Sheena Hutchinson
Please, Sir, make it hurt.
Ella Dominguez
...we’re not even really hiking,more like meandering in cinematic light.
Kristen Henderson
I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.
Marilyn French
Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.
Nancy A. Dafoe
That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.
David Foster Wallace
If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has been decided for them in advance. All they need to do is follow the orders given to them before the game, showing them where to run and how to violently deploy the meat of their bodies against the meat that is running at them. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the "coach" or "yelling surrogate dad who will never be happy.
John Hodgman
Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.
Stephenie Meyer
My Dad used to tell me not to wish my life away by praying it was Friday, or wishing for a day that was a ways off. Soon days will pass so fast you will pray for them to slow down. Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last.
Carlos Wallace
Everything has a price, but not everything should be for sale.
Frank Sonnenberg
He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.
Ursula K Le Guin
Future belongs to those who live with hopes and dreams, act on those dreams and hopes until those are a reality.
Debasish Mridha
Kache did not know how to rewind his life, how to undo the one thing that had undone him. His world was indeed flat, and he'd fallen off the edge and landed stretched out on a sofa, on pause, while the television pictures moved and the voices instructed him on everything he needed to know about everything--except how to bring his mom and his dad and Denny back from the dead.
Seré Prince Halverson
In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.
Bethany Brookbank
I am not God, and I am not judge. Your fate is your own And you need not to budge.
Brian M. Boyce
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
Sharon Creech
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brownn
All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I say." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it's impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it's too bad it's impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today's irony ends up saying: "How very banal to ask what I mean." Anyone with the heretical gall to ask an ironist what he actually stands for ends up looking like a hysteric or a prig. And herein lies the oppressiveness of institutionalized irony, the too-successful rebel: the ability to interdict the question without attending to its content is tyranny. It is the new junta, using the very tool that exposed its enemy to insulate itself.This is why our educated teleholic friends' use of weary cynicism to try to seem superior to TV is so pathetic.
David Foster Wallace
If we would have God in the closet God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God but by living to God.
E.M.Bounds
Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
George R.R. Martin
Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
Brent Weeks
No one cares what YOU want, they only care about themselves.
Art Sobczak
McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming.
Jodi Picoult
In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.
David Sedaris
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
Stephen L. Carter
Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism.
Joyce Carol Oates
and something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.
Marina Keegan The Opposite of Loneliness
Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while. That is what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there is just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go ut of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I am beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside
Harper Lee
If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over.""Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree.""No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.
Deepak Chopra
Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.
Nenia Campbell
Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.
John Cage
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
John Naisbitt
Audition requires different neurological processes than vision, or smell. And I would suggest that we hear more than we see while we are reading.
Peter Mendelsund
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
Os Guinness
Hey, pretty book, why don’t you lie in my lap awhile?
Richelle E. Goodrich
You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
Patrick Rothfuss
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
Philip G. Zimbardo
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.
Robert Silverberg
Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.
Geerhardus Vos
In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
John Rogers Searle
He looked her over with blatant intent, his gaze containing an edge that had her swallowing hard before she could stop herself. "Do you know what I think?" he said at last."I live to hear such things."He stepped forward, only a handful of steps, but enough that the full force of his gaze grabbed and held held hers, enough that she could almost believe she could fell his breath, hear the beat of his heart under his chest. "I think I am done with anticipation.
Danielle Monsch
Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.
Bryant McGill
Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.
Anna Godbersen
The nature of capital was a major debate issue at the turn of the twentieth century because economist wanted to know how quickly the economy could adjust and recover from a depression. If capital were homogeneous and highly liquid, then the adjustment process should not take long and the economy could soon be back on its feet. But if capital were heterogeneous and not easily transferable to other uses, then the adjustment process could take much longer and it might take years for a nation to recover from a depression
Mark Skousen
Her voice is so soft. If it were a food item, it’d be a marshmallow.
Tim Tharp
A person archives self-realization by engaging in deliberate contemplative acts that serve to unify of all aspects of the self. To deny part of the self, a person risks spiritual decay.
Kilroy J. Oldster
He spins us both, wrapping us in his wings until I’m dazed and gig
A.G. Howard
... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.
Heidi Julavits
When you care deeply about someone or something, repairs are worth your investment of time, energy, effort, heart, and resources. Whether it is to repair a broken trust or a damaged relationship, take the initiative to make it right and make it better.
Susan C.Young
Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.
Bryant McGill
My heart is a blooming rose of self-love.
Amy Leigh Mercree
You don’t have to be a rich person to have a great life. You have to be a person of value to enjoy the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?
Aaron Sorkin
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.
Franklin P. Adams
the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception
American Psychiatric Association
Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.
Robin Hobb
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark Twain