Quotes by American Authors - Page 796

Life should be lived as a dream to see and enjoy the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
Mama?""Yes, Emmy."She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?"Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.
Karen White
Ah, the bliss of Mahotsava!What joy it brings to every heart!What a rare and precious chanceTo share all knowledge with the wise,And bless and love all peoples of the Earth!”—Book of Secrets I, 1
Robert Delgado
Until you know how to change yourself for the better, you cannot change others.
Debasish Mridha
Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
...By the time I would finish school I'll be fifty? He smiled."You're going to be fifty anyhow
Edith Eva Eger
The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath choses the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And bade things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.
Madeleine L'Engle
Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?
Julie Kagawa
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.
Louis L'Amour
Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
Decency is such a rare thing in this world, and it can only be repaid with loyalty.
Mike Klepper
Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.
Mario Cuomo
Our first stage of existence is truly honored by the magnificent view of our destination.
Sergio Tinoco
She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.
Gregg Olsen
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
You express yourself through written words. You’re a writer.
Tara Sue Me
Most people have a perception that winners are born great. Winners aren’t born great. They have become great by the virtue of doing a little extra to achieve greatness. That little extra effort accumulates to one day giving them the winning results when compared to the ordinary efforts of others.
Kevin Abdulrahman
The most common definition [of the word information] is: "the action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowledge.This definition remained fairly constant until the years immediately following World War II, when it came in vogue to use 'information' as a technological term to define anything that was sent over an electric or mechanical channel. 'Information' became part of the vocabulary of the science of messages. And, suddenly, the appellation could be applied to something that didn't necessarily have to inform. This definition was extrapolated to general usage as something told or communicated, whether or not it made sense to the receiver. Now, the freedom engendered by such an amorphous definition has, as you might expect, encouraged its liberal deployment. It has become the single most important word of our decade, the suspense of our lives and our work.
Richard Saul Wurman
All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.
John Maxwell
Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that, we should be so grateful for both the light and the dark.
Dave Matthes
Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the despair - like planets taking turns in orbit around the sun. Each containing their own unique gravity. Their own force of attractions. Drawing near and holding fast to whatever entered their own atmosphere ... they would find love and lost love and recover from love and love again.
Hannah Tinti
There is no feeling like the one you get after you complete a goal,no matter how menial even one such as cleaning your home. You take a step back, look around and at that moment you feel true happiness.Don't let that person inside of you laze around and escape reality no matter how tempting they can be.They are the true devil, standing by doing nothing as the world passes you when you could have made a difference, no matter how small.
Michael Mano
One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one.""Always?" I ask."Always!" she confirms. "Good stories teach!
Camron Wright
What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?
Jamie McGuire
What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?
Aleksandra Layland
I have decided to understand and spread love for peace rather than fight for peace.
Debasish Mridha
It’s hard to say how it happens. How all of the bits of me – even the broken ones – start to tumble. I think it’s my toes that go first. Next – my legs and the hallow spaces behind my ribs. And then my arms all the way down through my wrist bones to the tips of my fingers. My lips part and I realize that this is what it feels like to fall.
Autumn Doughton
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
Dorothy Thompson
Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest,Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest.
Emily Dickinson
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P.C. Cast
This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.
Colleen Hoover
Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.
Caroline B. Cooney
We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.
Douglas Preston
sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.
Elizabeth Peters
Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.
Jaeda DeWalt
They can’t help it, you know. It happens in the egg,” she reasoned. “As soon as they grow that genitalia, intelligence goes right out the window and we’re left with this thing that just wants to stick it in any hole.
G.A. Aiken
The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connection…starting from a disconnection from themselves and then with others. This is why love often becomes so distorted and destructive. When people experience a disconnection from themselves, they feel it but do not realize the problem.
David W. Earle
You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.
Antonin Scalia
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
Jay-Z
You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
James Fenimore Cooper
If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down.We'd shut down hunger.We'd shut down loneliness.We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.
Ron Hall
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
Henry A. Wallace
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
James C. Collins
I say, you look smashing this evening," Zayne strode over to her, took her arm, and began helping her up the walk, "That is a lovely gown, and what is the color of the hair you're currently sporting?
Jen Turano
Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.
Evanescence
Scotland - The Highlands - Thirteenth Century t"Have ye e'er seen such a lovely set o' bosoms?
Maeve Greyson
O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!
Gregory Maguire
Becoming an empathetic listener helps you to better understand how another person feels and why they communicate as they do.
Susan C.Young
Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.
Amy E. Reichert
But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do the will of God—that is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.
Herman Melville
I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?
Ray Bradbury
There is no Social Media without Women... it ceases to exist!
Ted Rubin
The selection process is simple. Hubby exhausts every ploy in his psychological arsenal to filter out the liars, fakes, and undesirables. (If only every husband were so devoted . . .) Me, I try to prove that I’m not the stereotypical single male. That I’m in the Lifestyle for the right reasons. That I’m courteous and respectful. All of which are true, but the burden of proof is onme. It always is.
Daniel Stern
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
Maya Angelou
Of course, fall isn't just about preparing for winter. It's also about sitting on the patio in a worn wool sweater and warming your hands over the swirl of steam rising from a coffee cup. It's about walking across a darkened yard and seeing a flight of geese cross the face of a full moon. It's about settling in, relishing sights and sensations of a world slowing down.
Brent Olson
If you can't have frank and honest discussions with your partner about sex, you'd better be damn good with your hands.
Stuart Hazleton