Quotes by American Authors - Page 856

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Stephen King
Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.
A.E. Samaan
In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay.
Marty Rubin
He won't listen to the music, and I can't turn it off.
V.C. Andrews
Here's my advice: don't put all your hope and faith into something that could suddenly and easily disappear. And honestly, that's almost anything. The only thing that will never go away, that will never fail you, is your faith in God.
Bethany Hamilton
Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map.
Anne Sexton
I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fact soon to be gone. When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no longer be there. I will be erased from history, like a traitor in the Soviet Union. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible...
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.
Anaïs Nin
Sometimes the most painful lessons are delivered by someone masquerading as a soul mate.
Steve Maraboli
Sweetheart, no one needs coffee, I just like the taste. Almost as much as I like the way you taste.
Katie Reus
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Abigail Adams
If you want to find missing children put their photo's on Soda Cans, beer cans and cigarette packs and you'll increase the odds by millions some people are lactose in tolerate.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money.
J.R. Rain
God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden... The best gift of the desert is God's presence... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.
Paul E. Miller
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts.
Michael Chabon
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen
Fin," she whispered. "What do you need?" He covered her hand, right there in her lap, then let go quickly and dipped his head to try to meet her downcast eyes. He smelled so good--like intrigue and dubious morality. It sent a delicious shiver down her arms.
Lauren Christopher
One of the greatest skills—and gifts—is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they’re the only person in the world.
Rhonda Rhyne
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
Steve Martin
I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.
Cassandra Clare
In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.
Cora Carmack
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
Elton Trueblood
Think before you act. Reason before you react.
Kemi Sogunle
It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.
Eowyn Ivey
Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.
Seré Prince Halverson
Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.
Germany Kent
Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh
Anita Amirrezvani
In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful.
Steve Watkins
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
Bill Watterson
Life and whatever you do in your time in this world should not be a chore. You will be spending a lot of time doing it anyway. Every moment should be fuelled by your passion. It’s your reason. It’s your why.
Kevin Abdulrahman
You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?
Shannon L. Alder
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love... too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate.
Ralph Ellison
When you are at a loss of words then go with your feelings. If you feel nothing you must rely on your thinking. If your thinking is not clear then lean on the spirit. With Spirit you cannot go wrong!
James Brown
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.
Eudora Welty
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Ellen DeGeneres
Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this:Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?'Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.'Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?'Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.'Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.'Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while.
Rick Riordan
it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.
Melissa Andrea
The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.
William Moulton Marston
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Even the smallest magics can grow.
Cassie Beasley
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost
Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.
Marty Rubin
I've always been fascinated by weather.
Shepard Smith
Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
Vera Nazarian
Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.
Billy Graham
A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .
Arthur Asa Berger
On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.
Neal Shusterman
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.
Julie Powell
Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.
Zora Neale Hurston
there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.
James Salter
The simple things in life are the greatest gifts.
Bryant McGill
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
Robert Frost
In a great mistake.
Nathalia Crane
Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.
Stephen King
Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...
Gertrude B. Elion