Quotes by American Authors - Page 784

It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince
Melanie Rawn
Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.
Francine Rivers
I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.
David Byrne
Without trade the world will become what it was once—a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.
James Clavell
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
Dan Chaon
Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams Week" Now that NBC is giving him a sixth month "leave" I wonder if he will be "Killing Time-In Saudi Arabia!
Matthew Heines
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua Loth Liebman
Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present .
Carlos Wallace
It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.
Jaron Lanier
An alder tree can't become an oak at will. A maple can't pick up its roots like legs, and stride, step by powerful step, along the shore to find the sun. And everything that ever said otherwise--all those years of school, and the plays and moving pictures that promise you can be someone else, something more--they were all lies.
Emily Whitman
There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.
Deanna Herrmann
Don't you agree that if I act like there is nothing going on, other people will behave that way too?
Nichole Chase
I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.
Georgia Clark
A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.
Robin Wasserman
By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce.
Elizabeth Enright
Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
Peter S Beagle
An investment in self-development pays the highest dividends.
Debasish Mridha
God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.
Nancy N. Rue
Reality always wins.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
The danger of abusing the discovery of the truth value of imagination for retrogressive tendencies is exemplified by the work of Carl Jung. More empathically than Freud, he has insisted on the cognitive force of imagination. According to Jung, phantasy is ‘undistinguishably’ united with all other mental functions, it appears ‘now as primeval, now as the ultimate and most audacious synthesis of all capabilities.’ Phantasy is above all the ‘creative activity out of which flow the answers to all answerable questions’; it is ‘the mother of all possibilities, in which all mental opposites as well as the conflict between internal and external world are united.’ Phantasy has always built the bridge between the irreconcilable demands of object and subject, extroversion and introversion. The simultaneously retrospective and expectant character of imagination is thus clearly stated: it looks not only back to an aboriginal golden past, but also forward to still unrealized but realizable possibilities.
Herbert Marcuse
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.
Gloria Steinem
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge?
Lorna Jackie Wilson
Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
W.C.Fields
Within weeks of my arrival in New York, I was someone else, not because there had been a revolution in my psychological makeup or any trauma. It was simply this: people saw me in a light in which I had never been seen before.
Siri Hustvedt
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
Maureen Johnson
The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.
Henry George
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.
Nora Ephron
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
John Green
When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.
Judy Blundell
If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.
Catherine Friend
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
Warren G. Bennis
I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.
Ta-Nahisi Coates
We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.
Francine Rivers
Either you run the day or the day runs you
Alice Glynn
We should live lives of intentionality, for every life ends in death, but not every death ends in peace. The type of death one wishes to experience determines the type of life one ought to live. We should begin with the end in view, and in our journey we should never lose sight of the destination. The meaning of death holds the key to the meaning of life.
James Castleton
If poetry escapes my mouth then it shall seek comfort in your heart. Will you keep it safe?
Delano Johnson
Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins.
C. JoyBell C.
That house was no longer my home.
Alisa Mullen
When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.
David Foster Wallace
Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
Ray Bradbury
People who could easily be mistaken as preteens just shouldn’t even try to pull off the look-at-me-I’m-so-serious-and-mysterious-and-sexy look. Especially while driving because, please, you look like you are twelve and a half and driving with a serious look. Most kids who get the opportunity to drive illegally are smiling so big that they look dyslexic and about to piss their pants with excitement because they are in operation of a vehicle that isn’t manufactured by PlayStation.
Chase Brooks
The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior.
Billy Graham
There will always be a down but also always an up, your moods depends on wich of the two you pay the most attention to.
Laurins
Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.
Elizabeth Brundage
Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine
Yes, my sister is weird and says crap like en route. I smirk - it's a common facial tic of mine - and turn to her.
Stacey Wallace Benefiel
I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. “Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs.”“And yet,” he said softly, “you’re risking everything to help me.
Kate Avery Ellison
A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. Purplish bruises covered the kid, red hives, bloody scratches. His bloodshot eyes bulged, darting back and forth.
James Dashner
You are nothing but what you think. That is existentialism.
Debasish Mridha
When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential.
Lionel Suggs
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.
Shannon L. Alder
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.
Rachel Cohn
The first step is the best step in a journey towards a destination.
Debasish Mridha
So let's just forget about the whole thing and agree never to speak of it again. And I promise I'll never lie to you again.Ah, but surely you must be saying, "Hey! Isn't this entire story a work of fiction and therefore one big lie?"Perhaps. But we already agreed never to speak of it again.
Jason Carter Eaton
I'm scared David""That's good, because there's lots to be afraid of
David Wong
Luthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish." "What's the difference?" (Eric)
Shannon A. Thompson
Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.
Amy Waldman