Quotes by American Authors - Page 899

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
Mark Twain
May I see your dance card?”“Don’t you believe me?” She presented it to him with a flourish.He ran his fingers down the list of names.“Hmm . . . Waterburn? Bastard. D’Andre. Definitely a worthless bastard. Lord Camber, a thoroughgoing bastard. Lord Michaelson? Bastard. Peter Cheswick? Bast—”She snatched it from him, laughing.“I wouldn’t dance a waltz with you, anyway, Lord Dryden.”“No?”“You might accidentally lock eyes with Lisbeth Redmond, stumble, and fling me across the room to avoid crushing my feet.
Julie Anne Long
Mothers cry in anguishand fathers curse in anger,while others turn away in sadness,all for the children who are lost.
Katlyn Charlesworth
One of the greatest responsibilities of an organization’s leadership is to communicate with unwavering clarity the values on which the organization has been built.
Vern Dosch
What you do is less important than the difference you make.
Tiffany Dufu
I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy
Siri Hustvedt
Say, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ ”“Oh, please.”“Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. ”“I don’t think so.”“Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ ”“I’m out of here.
Jennifer Crusie
Quote for the day from an unknown author: "Don't ever question the value of volunteers: Noah's Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by porfessionals".
Douglas Boren
In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.
Ellie Krieger
May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily flow from me, may I seek your forgiveness and excitedly accept it.
Katie Kiesler
I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it.
Erin McCarthy
It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.
Lev Grossman
I am writing just to inspire you, encourage you, empower you, and give you hope when you are fighting your life's battle.
Debasish Mridha
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
Matt Chandler
Annabeth didn’t want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. “Percy, wake me for second watch. Don’t be a hero.”He gave her that smirk she’d come to love. “Who, me?”He kissed her, his lips parched and feverishly warm. “Sleep.
Rick Riordan
Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38
Thomas Merton
To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever we encountered him on his afternoon walk. If we were particularly lucky, he would send us to the ‘Big House’ for ice-cream – a rare treat in the early 1950s
Bill Scott
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.
Charles Frazier
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
Ernest Hemingway
No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court.""Well, I'm not, he dumped me.""You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court.""Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
Holly Black
If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.
A.E. Samaan
Sometimes, it is necessary for me to step back from my emotions and my life. I need to be the outsider looking in, sitting in the objective chair, as a witness. As opposed to being so entangled in my feelings, that they become a noose around my neck.
Jaeda DeWalt
Imagination is the propulsion of Life once we exhaust all reality.
Marrett Green
The majority of people in modern society feel separated—from the world, each other, and themselves. This feeling of separation is a resultfrom we humans attempting to separate ourselves from nature, and consequently forgetting who we really are.
Joseph P. Kauffman
God's will can go fuck itself. And so can you.
Jason Aaron
In the darkness of night,Demons strut, taunting, goading.In the light of day,Angels sing glorious songs.In the time in between,We live our lives alone and searching.And sometimes, softly,You understand damnation.All is forgotten, all is lost,All but forgivenessAnd the memory of her kiss.
Lisa Mangum
Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared’s neck.
Jodie B. Cooper
Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
Criss Jami
Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him
John Paul Warren
We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.
Russell Banks
You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.""I was ninety percent sure.""I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain."What the hell was that for?""The other ten percent.
Cassandra Clare
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
Let us express our gratitude to those people who make our journeys in life beautiful, easy, and interesting. They are the angels of Eden whom we often forget to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
Cameron Conaway
You make me believe in happiness... if I had my way, if anything were up to me, I’d never be without you. You are my purpose.
Courtney Kirchoff
we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.
Orson Scott Card
What are you doing?” Nine Eleven asked, noticing Seth trying to look around him. He followed Seth's gaze. “Oh.”He turned back around and handed Seth a wry smile. “So what are you going to do about her, Seth? Create a love spell that will bend her to your will and make her your sex slave?”“Is that how you get dates?” Seth asked.
Charlie Fey
If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?
Alexandra Bracken
Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.
Richelle E. Goodrich
You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.
George Carlin
There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.
Harlan Coben
A week ago, he would’ve sank his fangs into her flesh without a second thought. But now? Muriah had lured him into her world, into her reality, not as a god, but as a partner, a man.
Lisa Kessler
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is the most fascinating subject that I have ever encountered in human health!
Steven Magee
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.
Laini Taylor
It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)
Bill Bernico
The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.
Pearl Zhu
If you have to cut corners to get it, without allowing yourself go through the process, you will not be able to keep it.
Kemi Sogunle
More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...
Saul Bellow
Sometimes the best thing about us isn’t what we’re gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.
Sarah Noffke
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
Tennessee Williams
I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose, and she never finishes the statement. It seems right, that her words should fall into oblivion; after all, she—like me, like everyone—has no words for what follows, for the unknowable, only her hopes and prayers and an unwavering faith in something more.
Kelseyleigh Reber
Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt.
Rick Yancey
When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.
Susan Quinn
Yeah, well, when they say ‘You know it’s a long way, don’t you?’ what they really mean is: ‘You know it’d be faster if you just rode a kangaroo, don’t you?
Elle Lothlorien
Death is almost never timely, even for the old.
Christopher Bram
There is no place more lonelyThan a rich man's home.
Margarita Engle
She couldn't stop thinking about Elias. His hands caressing her feet, his arms around her body, his fingers entangled in her hair--he was so warm. It wasn't only the temperature, it was some deep connection that ran down to her soul, his touch mollifying the core of her. And his voice--it was no wonder the magic ceased when he spoke. It was so deep, but so level--not even the most kindhearted and loving women deserved to hear such a sexy sound come out of a man's mouth.
Allie Burke
Innovation gives life to imagination by providing that it is true, real, and useful.
Debasish Mridha