Quotes by American Authors - Page 774

I just want to pour my soul out on someone and not have to worry about the mess I’ve made.
Andrea Slicker
Jesus told His disciples that the “world,” meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.
Billy Graham
This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.
Laura Goode
Strive to follow your big dreams. If you fail, cherish the valuable experience gained during the process. There’s always a second time.
Yatin Patel
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
But hey, if there’s one bright side to your dying, it’s that you aren’t around to tell me things I don’t like hearing. I’m sorry. That was a dickhead thing to say. I need a condom for my mouth.
Adam Silvera
The front door is usually unlocked and there is no alarm system. They don't wear their seat belts in the car; they don't wear suntan lotion in the sun. They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.
David Benioff
-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at right hundred miles per hour.
Allie Brosh
When man was created it was not for this purposeTo become taken over and be utterly worthless
Justin Bienvenue
The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.
Susan Cooper
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.
Kevin Abdulrahman
A small positive thought can bring a magical change to the world.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
It was him, it was always him, they only needed to stand there with their feet buried into the muddy moss and look at each other; to feel each other. Time stopped, movement disappeared and it was both the beginning of everything and the end of everything else. They had each other and there was no name, no title to it other than they just had each other. There was no necessity to be practical, what they had and what they were, was of their own and in their own and I think nothing in the world could have made Lucy happier than to have what they had, to be what they were.
C. JoyBell C.
And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.
Paul Harding
People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappoint them, or if they do, the owners manage to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.
Ann Patchett
The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.
Ken Wilson
I pictured love as a big hairy giant with a dead fish in his mouth. Grizzly bear claws and his heart half out of his chest cause it’s too big and the lungs have to fit. He never stops walking. Over mountains. Through the desert. On top of icy lakes. Past huge cities. And he hunts and kills for you and always comes back with plenty to eat.
Adam Rapp
Autumn...the year's last, loveliest s
John Howard Bryant
Be selfless to find yourself.
Debasish Mridha
FYI, it isn’t how I suspected. If you eat enough Cheetos you will NOT actually poop an extra-large Cheeto.
Felicia Day
Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand” of the market. When the plan was formulated in tons of steel sheet, the sheet was made too heavy. When it was formulated in terms of area of steel sheet, the sheet was made too thin. When the plan for chandeliers was made in tons, they were so heavy, they could hardly hang from ceilings.
Daron Acemoglu
Someone needs to put a muzzle on President Trump sooner rather than later.
Steven Magee
And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.
Morgan Matson
Neither care too much nor too little about the feedback of others.
Miles Anthony Smith
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
Beverly Sills
It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.
Kem Nunn
She felt wild and unruly, determined and free.
Scott Stabile
DYING IS NOT HOTBy Celia the DarkCool is no longer cool because cool is now hot,and school isn't school if you are skipping.Then the neighborhood is school and John,the creepy dropout guy is teaching.And it isn't cool because the cool kids stay in school,where the other cool kids tell them them how hot they areand they wouldn't want to miss a dance for cutting.Kids who skip school were never cool or hot butalready dumped into the trashcan with leftover lunch pizza,bruised into a locker, asking their parents for extra lunch moneyso they can smoke and act like they never cared anyway.And skipping school's not cool but it is schoolbecause that's where they learn what the uncool learnabout life and dying.
Karen Finneyfrock
Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.
Sarah Dessen
No, I mean earlier. Where’d you go? You weren't here with me because no, nothing happened. I could see on your face that something was wrong, so I didn't do it. But now you need to think long and hard about where you were inside that head of yours, because you were panicked. You were hysterical and I need to know what it was that took you there so I can make sure you never go back.
Colleen Hoover
What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be for him to say, to tell the people? What message could he bring?What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull?
Philip K Dick
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
Francis Chan
That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show.
Charlie Jane Anders
Beyond all judgments of good and bad ...is perfection - Vivian Amis
Vivian Amis
The sin of man was placed on a sinless Savior. 2 Cor. 5:21
John Paul Warren
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone.
James L. Sutter
Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.
Jim Holt
You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.
Tara West
I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidence which caused many close observers of the Malcolm X phenomenon to declare in absolute seriousness that he was the only Negro in America who could either start a race riot-or stop one. When I once quoted this to him, tacitly inviting his comment, he told me tartly, "I don't know if I could start one. I don't know if I'd want to stop one.
Alex Haley
Annabelle was practically standing on my back. It was like wearing an Annabelle backpack.
Rose Pressey
There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.
Ice-T
This was the kind of kiss you remembered when you were a very old lady with a very poor memory.
Valerie Bowman
The undeniable paradox of human existence is that a person seeks closeness with other people while protecting his or her sanctified right of privacy. Each person must carefully guard their personal identity in order to give their life a unique purposefulness. Loving other people and nature is not mutually exclusive of a person maintaining independence of thought and action. A person need not surrender his or her own pursuit of personal excellence when maintaining a respectful and reciprocal relationship with a life mate.
Kilroy J. Oldster
It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.
Joan Holub
Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another.
Harold Brodkey
Let me be of service to all living beings. Let me be in faith that all my needs are taken care of.
Eileen Anglin
I would die for you. But I won't live for you.
Stephen Chbosky
Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)
Manny Pacheco
Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement.
Nathaniel Branden
If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.
Criss Jami
Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.
Karen Chance
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Daddy-by Nancy B. BrewerWhen I used to say, speak up you are as good as they, You would just smile and say, let them have their way. When in my foolish youth, I so often disobeyed,He would just smile and say, let her have her way. When summer passed and winter overcame. He was not afraid, never once did he say. When in the moonlight his final hour came, He just smiled and said Lord I'll go your way.
Nancy B. Brewer
Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness.
Craig Groeschel
Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.
Billy Graham
Alma didn’t want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldn’t shush until sundown. “I’ve found the missing lady,” Alma said. “Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.
Ed Lynskey
Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.
Thomas C. Oden
You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.
Shannon L. Alder