Quotes by American Authors - Page 77

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Amanda Lovelace
Our scars make us who we are. Some scars are just deeper than others.
Alex Rosa
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
Chuck Palahniuk
As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.
David S. Landes
Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.
Sherry Thomas
Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.
Adam Young
If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?
Stephen King
I have a hundred million fans, Angela, but I have very few friends.
Raynetta Manees
That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.
Brandon Sanderson
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
Frances Hodgson Burnett
That really was NOT fun, though. Well, the hitting-her-with-a-stick part, that was fun. But crashing into a concrete bear? NOT fun.
Rick Riordan
I know you deserve better than me. You think I don’t know that? But if there was any woman made for me … it’s you.
Jamie McGuire
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.
Criss Jami
Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded.
Mike Klepper
To be worthy of recognition, be humble.
Debasish Mridha
I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine.""Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.
Shannon Hale
May your wants be few and your pleasures many.
Marty Rubin
But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.
Pamela Morris
I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of a particular group, scene or tribe. I was friends with everybody. My best friend in high school was prom queen, yet I was voted the biggest nonconformist of my senior class.
Suzy Kassem
Their house was about a mile outside of town. The kids would play outdoors, in the backyard and the large stubble field behind the house. Dusk seemed to last for hours, and when it was finally dark they would sit under the porch light, catching thickly buzzing June bugs and moths, or even an occasional toad who hopped into the circle of light, tempted by the halo of insects that floated around the bare orange lightbulb next to the front door
Dan Chaon
To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!
Susan Lendroth
They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel.
Robert Jordan
Empty yourself to fill the void with love.
Debasish Mridha
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Dave Barry
Want to create the best Christmas ever? Forgive someone who doesn’t deserve your forgiveness. Hug a stranger. Pass on something that you want to keep for yourself. Spend time with the ones you love. Spend time on your knees. Decorate your life with light and laughter. Love yourself while you’re loving others. Christmas is about Christ and Christ is all about your joy and happiness.
Toni Sorenson
Transcendence is more about the personal act of not engaging the enemy, finding a way out of the cage that is being designed for you at a particular moment by others, circumstance, or your own bad habits and ignorance.
Darrell Calkins
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch
Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.
Laurie Buchanan
Be grateful for everything. The good, the bad, the ugly. Our entire life is a precious gift. It’s all part of our path.
Dawn Gluskin
When a lady isn't perfect, she's a lot more perfect, I believe. - Mack
Paul Griffin
I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.
Colleen Hoover
You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.
Emma Forrest
Loneliness is a strange sort of thing.It creeps up on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes your hair as you sleep. It wraps itself around your bones,squeezing so tight you almost can’t breathe. It leaves lies in your heart, lies next to you at night, leaches the light out from every corner.It’s a constant companion, clasping your hand only to yank you down when you’re struggling to stand up.You wake up in the morning and wonder who you are. You fail to fall asleep at night and tremble in your skin.
Tahereh Mafi
Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning....
Peter Singer
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
Adrienne Rich
She crooned in his head. Honey, I'm so proud of you for not killing anybody.His gaze flashed to hers, and that flat, assessing expression vanished as he laughed. Squeezing her fingers, he told her, Week's not over yet.
Thea Harrison
You are capable of doing everything you are afraid of doing, If only you would energize and motivate the Magical thing would absolutely happen to you!
Sereda Aleta Dailey
The world is a living mirror. With the light of your perception, you see yourself in it every moment.
Debasish Mridha
Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television.
Hunter S. Thompson
Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error
Jim George
True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out you must stay out. And to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Henry James
- “I don’t know what to believe in.”- “If you want to believe in something, then believe in it. Just because something isn’t true, there’s no reason you can’t believe in it. Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most: that people are basically good; that honor, courage and virtue mean everything; that good always triumphs over evil; that true love never dies. It doesn’t matter if they are true or not. A man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
Tim McCanlies
We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.
Billy Graham
And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?" Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. "God, Bones...some of that was depraved." "I'll take that as a compliment." He closed the distance between us."I love you. Don't be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support.
Jeaniene Frost
A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.
Will Bowen
Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.
A.S. King
Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own private personal meanings, many things happen. There is first of all a grateful look. He feels released. He wants to tell me more about his world. He surges forth in a new sense of freedom. He becomes more open to the process of change. I have often noticed that the more deeply I hear the meanings of the person, the more there is that happens. Almost always, when a person realize he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.
Carl Rogers
There is for each man a day, an hour, a minute. The Bible talks in many places about the brevity of life, and the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.
Billy Graham
He knows her like man knows earth, touching the surface but unaware of her depth.
Piper Payne
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
Louis L'Amour
Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)
John F. MacArthur Jr.
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.
Cornel West
We walked the length of Jackson Square, stopping to look at the work of a couple of artists who'd set up their sidewalk shops for the day."Look." Eugenie stopped in front of an acrylic painting of a mustached man with curly dark hair, hooded eyes, and a big hooked nose. He looked like he'd steal the hubcaps off your grandmother's Cadillac."It's Jean Lafitte, our most famous pirate," the artist said. "He was quite a character."She had no idea. She also had badly missed the mark on his looks. His hair wasn't that curly, he'd been clean-shaven the whole time I'd known him, his nose was straight and in perfect proportion to the rest of his features, and he didn't have hooded black eyes. Still, he might find it entertaining. "How much?" I asked.
Suzanne Johnson
No one can set your level of worthiness except you.
Bryant McGill
A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.
Billy Graham
When he let go of Clary, he turned and hugged Jace. Clary watched, tears running down her face.
Cassandra Clare
There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
Max Brooks