Quotes by American Authors - Page 903

You have to set somebody free for them to return
Candice Night
We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land.
Debasish Mridha
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
Aberjhani
If wishes were horses," she murmured, "beggars would ride.
Jennifer Haymore
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Ellen Willis
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.
Charles R. Swindoll
We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.
Stephen Kuusisto
The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.
Michael Pollan
A guide to overcome challenges for effective multi-generational communication.With Invincible Summer we get on better, have more respect and better understanding.This is by speeding up our interactions, finding ways to get with other people, and also getting our due recognition and appreciation. And it only takes simple steps
Ann J. Polya
After winter, spring never forgets to come.
Debasish Mridha
We were friends before.” Sort of. We never tried to kill each other.
Amanda Bouchet
I didn't raise you I be good and weak. I raised you to be powerful and happy.
Shannon Hale
There is only one risk and that is not taking one.
Debasish Mridha
When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one. But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again. So what I saw because of what I knew was a kind of death with the marvellous promise of less than a three-day resurrection.
Norman Maclean
a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his own generation was superior to any yet known
Carl Lotus Becker
You should seriously get a job planning dates for The Bachelor.
Nicki Elson
It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.
Richard Paul Evans
I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.
Candy Darling
Ready?"Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that."Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.
Becca Fitzpatrick
If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
Jacqueline Carey
Life there was hard and it made people hard.
Jeannette Walls
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.
Roger Ebert
I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.
Henry Miller
Tru, this is your home. You are my blood kin, my second cousin thrice removed. But blood kin's not the most important kin. Do you know what is?" "No, sir." "Love kin. And that comes from the heart. That's why this is your home.
G. Neri
What is beautiful is goodand who is good will soon be beautiful.
Cathryn Michon
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be." - William James
Charles Duhigg
Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on
Lana Del Rey
Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.
Charles Bukowski
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
Kevin J. Anderson
I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.
Taylor Swift
Life is absolutely impossible without love.
Debasish Mridha
We have used so much polyethylene ( plastic ) since the invention of this oil derivative that plastic broken down has over time completely changed the molecular structure of seawater .
Norbert F Hoffmann Jr
The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.
Nicholaus Patnaude
The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty, than it is, in the latter, that intellects of the vaster capacity, while more forcible, more constant, and more eventful in their movements than those of inferior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embarrassed, and full of hesitation in the first few steps of their progress
Edgar Allan Poe
We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those tales that evolve endlessly into other tales, stories have no end. They are hardly ever the stories you know, the official ones, in which wishes are made formal, then legislated and enforced as matters of life or death. They are more often the stories we didn’t hear, or wouldn’t believe, told by the person we ignored, the house that was razed, the choir of dry bones. The scholars of Heaven read and study the vast collection of ashes, books from the torched libraries.
Patricia Storace
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.
Dick Couch
That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.
Anita Shreve
And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.
Jeff Lindsay
Let us make the earth peaceful to enjoy the joy and beauty of spring.
Debasish Mridha
What's your name?" he asked above the roar of the music.She leaned close. "My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song."He chuckled a low, delightful sound. She was drunk and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself."I have no name," she purred. "I am whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be."He grasped her by her wrist, running a thumb along the sensitive sknin underneath. "Then let me call you Mine for a dance or two.
Sarah J Maas
Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
Criss Jami
What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.
Chris Prentiss
If. If Mingus Rude could be kept in this place, kept somehow in Dylan's pocket, in his stinging, smudgy hands, then summer wouldn't give way to whatever came after. If. If. Fat chance. Summer on Dean Street had lasted one day and that day was over, it was dark out, had been for hours. The Williamsburg Savings Bank tower clock read nine-thirty in red-and-blue neon. Final score, a million to nothing. The million-dollar kid.Your school wasn't on fire, you were.
Jonathan Lethem
Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to sample again.
Michael Chabon
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
Alan Lightman
You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.
Elizabeth Naramore
No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
William Ellery Channing
With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don't save anything for the walk home.
Ethan Hawke
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
Nora Ephron
It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.
Danny Elfman
I want to get some sleep, so if there's something mind-numbingly disturbing you want to show me, can we just get it over with?
Kendare Blake
You'll come to learn that many times, the people you have problems with are not really the people you have problems with; but in actuality, the problems lie in the premises of everybody else in between you, in their suggestive glances, in their implications and tone of voice, in their provocations and less-than-noble intent. Again, it comes down to shutting out the noise that isn't supposed to be there and listening to your inner silence.
C. JoyBell C.
When complimented, a sincere "thank you" is the only response required.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd
Gut feelings are often the first inkling you receive that something is not quite right in any situation.
Catherine Carrigan
Advice is autobiography.
J.R. Rim