Quotes by American Authors - Page 883

Beauty without expression tires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.
Geoffrey O'Brien
We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.
David Arnold
There is a light that can only be found on the other side of darkness, there is a peace that can only be found on the other side of struggle, there is a faith that can only be found on the other side of doubt, and there is a healing that can only be found on the other side of pain.
Sarah Holman
We pass Tinsley's Fried Chicken with the big sign that reads, TRY OUR BIG, JUICY BREASTS.
Donna Cooner
It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.
David Kuo
They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.
Dana Reinhardt
Don't blame my heart's appetite for how it chooses to feast, for my heart is a wild lover, an all-consuming beast.
Melody Lee
This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world.
Sharon Biggs Waller
Kid 1: *examining my gorgeous strawberry and blueberry pies*: Wow, Mom, your pies don’t look awful this time.Me (Ilona): ...~A little later~Kid 2: *wandering into the kitchen*Kid 1: Hey, you’ve got to see these pies. *opening the stove*Kid 2: Wow. They are not ugly this time.Kid 1: I know, right?
Ilona Andrews
You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.
Colleen Hoover
I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.
Anne Rice
If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.
Diane Wood Middlebrook
When you live in love and light, you will not go unseen; ignite the world with every flame of your being.
Alexandra Elle
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.
Jeannette Walls
We humans are confined to our brane.
Kip S. Thorne
I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.
Sheri S. Tepper
I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do."(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things -and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.
Dale Carnegie
Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct.
Gary Hopkins
Most people would say they love animals, but the reality is, if your using animals for food, clothing, or entertainment, you're only considering the lives of certain animals, typically those of cats and dogs.
Melisser Elliott
I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.
Ben Lerner
When a child is forced to prove himself as capable, results are often disastrous. A child needs love, acceptance, and understanding. He is devastated when confronted with rejection, doubts, and never ending testing.
Virginia M. Axline
Regardless of our cleverness, our achievements, and our gadgets, we are spiritual paupers without God.
Billy Graham
And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.
Garth Risk Hallberg
Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
Tamora Pierce
Do ye always drool like that? Is it a family trait, lass?
Vonnie Davis
The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly."In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..."He glanced at the blackjack tables.Simon shook his head. "I don't count cards, Hale.""Don't?" Hale smiled. "Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal.""But it's frowned upon."Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... "It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.
Ally Carter
Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go.""You're not?"Blake stared at her in irritated confusion. What was her game? "Do you think I'm an idiot?" he spat out."No," she said. "I've just escaped from a den of idiots, so I'm well familiar with the breed, and you're something else entirely. I am, however, hoping you're not a terribly good shot.
Julia Quinn
Turn down mediocrity in all its forms!
Michael J. Schiemer
When is a train most free? Is it when it goes bouncing across the field off the track? No. It is free only when it is confined (if you will) to the track. Then it runs smoothly and efficiently, because that was the way that its maker intended for it to run. It needs to be on the track, structured by the track, to run properly. You too need to be on the track. God's track is found in God's Word.
Jay E. Adams
Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie
Anita Silvey
For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable?
Clifford Whittingham Beers
Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!
C. JoyBell C.
[She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn’t what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic.
Beth Hoffman
Do you have any idea how beautiful you are?" he asked hoarsely.tMinka didn't answer. She simply reached up and tangled her fingers in his hair, urging him down for a searing kiss.
Paige Tyler
You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.
Christina Rasmussen
Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up,” she used to warn me.
Zack Love
A trap, like a goodstory, needs to hint at greater things without revealing themuntil the prey is snared.
E.J. Patten
Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the book (or story, or hopelessly long essay) that exists in such brilliant detail on the big screen of my limbic system onto a piece of paper (which, let’s face it, was once a towering tree crowned with leaves and a home to birds). I grieve for my own lack of talent and intelligence. Every. Single. Time. Were I smarter, more gifted, I could pin down a closer facsimile of the wonders I see. I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
Ann Patchett
Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life.
Debasish Mridha
But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.
Orson Scott Card
Come closer, and I will tell you."But he forgot. He kissed her, and became lost in the exquisite sensation of his skin becoming too tight for his body. He murmured other things instead. A secret, a want, a promise. A story, in its own way.
Marie Rutkoski
And I dare say most people don't think too deeply on sex, beyond what they've been taught through the media and society.
Abigail Barnette
There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.
Alexandra Silber
I promise you that the moment you unwaveringly commit to your own vision, seen and unseen powers will unite to make that vision a reality.
Toni Sorenson
Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows.
Don DeLillo
Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.But now and then, a miracle is declared to the world.And when that happens, things change
Mitch Albom
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
Megan Chance
To control yourself, control your fear first.
Debasish Mridha
why would i date him i like someone else"... "I'm the only someone else you know
Cindy C. Bennett
Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. “Don’t let go.
G.S. Jennsen
GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.
Max Lucado
Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.
Pearl Zhu
Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing their spirit with unnecessary pressure and expectation that seem forced and destructive to me. Long ago I was one of them. I still regret I was forced to leave them. My entire body of work is because of men and women like them.
Pat Conroy
She was right. Karma was a bitch, but so was I.
Julie Murphy
I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.
Dashiell Hammett
Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.
Garth Stein
The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.
Steven Pinker
Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
Bill Watterson