Quotes by American Authors - Page 834

Wisdom of the Ages: Do the aliens on the moon pull down their pants and 'earth' their friends for fun?
Matthew D. Heines
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.
David Richo
Keep your eyes and your mind open. Don’t be blinded by filters like fear, uncertainty, pessimism and negativity.
Carlos Wallace
To enjoy a stress free life, enjoy what you have-not what you think you deserve.
Debasish Mridha
Where there is hope there is life.
James Rozoff
When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled to deal with every man of it as you see fit in order to set things right. No--you're more than entitled. You're obligated. Or the rule would mean nothing.
James Carlos Blake
Why do I write?To be somewhere elseTo get free of ourselvesTo stopTo stop being anything or anywhere at allTo disappear
Rainbow Rowell
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!
Vladimir Nabokov
I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world.
Debasish Mridha
Fat gives things flavor.
Julia Child
You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it!
Steve Maraboli
Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in spite of the facts, or to keep expecting that the same behaviors will have different outcomes.Dad's not an alcoholic because he never drinks in the morning, in spite of the fact that he's drunk every night.
John Bradshaw
Forgiveness is local.
Matthew C. Harrison
I have finally come to realize that it’s being forced to be honest with myself that’s made my pain painful all along.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t.
Jim Blasingame
Rory said he loved me but wouldn't hold my hand in public. & he wanted so badly to end the pain, but it never went away, it stayed with the people that loved him.
Christopher Soto
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.
Sara Farizan
Don’t be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you.
Erica Cameron
God’s Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.
Elizabeth George
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L.Doctorow
Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try.
Diana Gabaldon
Sometimes life just hits you, right in the face. And it’s alright. Because I, for one, think it’s kinda cool to have a black eye every now and then. And I think it’s definitely okay to have scars, and it’s definitely okay to hurt, and be in pain and show it. And that’s why we have friends in this life. And it’s why we have music.
Hayley Williams
They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It’s like nothing about me is allowed to change.
Becky Albertalli
An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government
Ron Paul
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.
Anne Fortier
Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.
Ann Leckie
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.
Horace Greeley
I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.
Ron Koertge
For brick and mortar breed filth and crime,With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats;And men are whithered before their primeBy the curse paved in with the lanes and streets.And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed, In the smothering reek of mill and mine;And death stalks in on the struggling crowd—But he shuns the shadow of the oak and pine
George Washington Sears
To be ordinary is a choice, for everyone has it in them to become extraordinary.
Lauren Lola
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.
Paul Fussell
The starlight, which seemed strangely bright tonight, wasn't starlight at all. Instead, Lucifer's demons had gathered high in the firmament above. It was their eyes that shone like stars through the wildfire smoke.
Lauren Kate
Discover your level of consciousness. Now be silent and transcend and transform your consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
Courage is nothing to laugh at, not if it is proper courage and exercised by men who know what they do is proper. Proper courage is wise courage. It's acting wisely, acting wisely when fear would have a man act otherwise. It is the endurance of the soul in spite of fear - wisely.
Tim O'Brien
Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. You have to fight the people who say it can never be done. You have to fight the institutions that put up the glass ceilings that must be shattered. You have to fight your body when it tells you it is tired. You have to fight your mind when doubt begins to creep in. You have to fight systems that are put in place to disrupt you and obstacles that are put in place to discourage you. You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.
Ronda Rousey
If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.That woman could not make toast.
Darynda Jones
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick," Vida said with a shrug. "You are atually the worst person I have ever met," Chubs said. "And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
Alexandra Bracken
Christians could agree or argue about God as much as we wanted, but it was all essentially chatter. What bound that driver and me together was the obvious thing, so plain and dumb between us we could almost ignore it: the rough wooden pallet of onions that organized our days. Feed the hungry, heal the sick, visit prisoners. We fed people.
Sara Miles
Kid, I've only known you two days and I've seen you plastered three times." He shook his head. "A bar would not be a good career move for you.
Jennifer Crusie
If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her."Ranger
Janet Evanovich
... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone.
John Steinbeck
Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight a home a teacher a companion.
Lorraine Anderson
For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
George Lakoff
My friend opened a small box which Lestrade had produced. Inside lay a beautiful silver cigarette case monogrammed with Holmes's initials, underneath which ran the words, "With the Respects of Scotland Yard, November 1888."Sherlock Holmes sat with his lips parted, but no sound emerged."Thank you," he managed at length.
Lyndsay Faye
Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe bursts in to save you. Not a bad idea.
C.M. Hayden
You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
Baron von Steuben
Judging from the unfamiliar number, I assumed the text came from Shannon. If not, I would see who came by my house at 4:30 and go with it. Maybe it would be Mr. Darcy coming to pick me up in an extravagant horse-drawn carriage, but I couldn’t picture Mr. Darcy using a cell phone.
Michelle Madow
In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!
Billy Graham
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
You’re a good man who happens to be a vampire. We aren’t human, but that doesn’t make us monsters.
Drew Hayes
We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.
Stephen King
He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.
Barbara W. Tuchman
As I sit under the moonlit tree, your heart adorns me with the twinkle of stars.
Debasish Mridha
If I were to sit on the ocean floor and look toward the sky,I might see a whale or electric eel or octopus pass by.And if I decided to jump straight up and reach with open arms,I might feel the pleasure of ocean flight propel me ’mid their swarms.But if I were seated upon the shore and looking toward the stars,I might see a comet or falling star near Mercury or Mars.Then if I decided to jump straight up and reach with open hands,I might feel despair when my feet refused to leave the shoreline sand.And so I return to the ocean depths where swimming creatures fly,For there I can soar with the whales and fish that daily touch the sky.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The bigger the words the weaker the voice.
Gregor Collins
As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential.
Stefanie Weisman
Novel ideas are unsettling, innovative concepts about important matters in human affairs is disruptive of the internal harmony that people prefer. There is a tendency even for the most logical and classically educated people steeped in rational scholastic traditions to assume that if any new hypothesis were correct, a scholar would already written it in a book.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
David Alan Harvey