Quotes by American Authors - Page 922

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
Henry David Thoreau
Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
Roger Wolcott Sperry
I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.
Jessi Kirby
Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God’s character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.
Enuma Okoro
The most important question that we should ask is, “How can I serve?
Debasish Mridha
The biggest challenge in business isn’t your competition, it's what goes on inside your own head.
Barbara Corcoran
If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more
Ashly Lorenzana
Love is deepest driving passion of a purposeful life.
Debasish Mridha
Don’t judge anything. If you have to judge, judge with kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope.
Nadia Hashimi
Wolfman clears everything off the table except his gun. That he keeps close at hand. There is a sense of ceremony about his actions. My stomach tightens up. We are about to begin.
Carolyn Lee Adams
The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.
Anthony Liccione
The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that.Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison
On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.
Gabrielle Zevin
What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a curious kind of economic crisis, the overproduction of capital and the emergence of "superfluous" money, the result of oversaving, which could no longer find productive investment within national borders. For the first time, investment of power did not pave the way for investment of money, since uncontrollable investments in distant countries threatened to transform large strata of society into gamblers, to change the whole capitalist economy from a system of production to a system of financial speculation, and to replace the profits of production with profits in commissions. The decade immediately before the imperialist era, the seventies of the last century, witnessed an unparalleled increase in swindles, financial scandals, and gambling in the stock market.
Hannah Arendt
Believe that you are someone worth saving.
Slade Combs
Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott)
Rachel Gibson
But the essence of the process at its best is basically the same: women and men join together as equals, they get deeply honest with each other about their experiences, and through this process they heal past wounds, awaken to new realisations together, reach a place of reconciliation and forgiveness, and are thereby mutually transformed.
William Keepin
All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.
Bryant McGill
Art is seldom the result of true genius; rather, it is the product of hard work and skills learned and tenaciously practiced by regular people.
Sally Mann
The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.”~ Christa Desir
Christa Desir
Brace yourself, Savannah Daly. I’m taking you home to meet the family.
Samantha Chase
It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
Toni Morrison
What’s in an Orange?Cuba has encouraged foreign investments in agriculture. The Cuban citrus industry was started during the 1960’s to supply the former Soviet Union, as well as other socialist countries in Eastern Europe, with oranges and grapefruit. After the economic crash and the restructuring of the Soviet Union, the demand for citrus crops fell off by about half. In 1994, the National Citrus Corporation was founded in Cuba, and is now known as the “Fruit Trees Enterprise Group.” It consists of 13 nationally owned citrus enterprises, a commercial company and 4 processing plants. Cítricos Caribe S.A. has three cold storage facilities and exports to contracted foreign vendors. A Chilean venture and a Greek-British consortium, both affected by the decline of demand, halted their operations in 2014. However an Israel company has successfully developed huge citrus and tropical fruit plantations on the island, with most of their crops being sold in Europe. Israeli orange groves stretch for miles in the Matanzas Province, east of Havana. The province known chiefly for its white sandy beaches and resorts also has the massive BM Corporation, based in Tel Aviv, operating huge citrus groves and one of its packinghouses there. Its modern processing factory is located in the middle of 115,000 acres of groves. It is known as the world’s largest citrus operation.Read the award winning bock that is at all the US Military Academies,
Hank Bracker
Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.
Laura Lam
I scoop a clattering cascade of green apple Jelly Bellys into the white paper bag and remember when we were seven. I got stung by a jellyfish. Tim cried because his mother, and mine, wouldn’t let him pee on my leg, which he’d heard was an antidote to the sting.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?”“Ah specs it’s kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes’ knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An’ givin’ dem whut dey thinksdey wants saves a pile of mizry an’ bein’ a ole maid. An’ dey thinks dey wants mousy lil gals wid bird’s tastes an’ no sense atall. It doan make a gempmum feel lak mahyin’ a lady ef he suspicions she got mo’ sense dan he has.
Margaret Mitchell
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
John Cheever
It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.
Richard M. Weaver
The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.
Lisa Wingate
If you think I'm overdramatic, just remember that Candy Crush calls itself a saga.
Randi Lawson
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
Tennessee Williams
Impulsive isn’t something you choose. It’s something youare.
Kirsten Hubbard
If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.
Shauna Niequist
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.
Orrin Woodward
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
Dr. Seuss
A lot of money is tainted - Taint yours and taint mine.
Xaviera Hollander
Today is the best day to begin your life again and plan the rest of your life.
Debasish Mridha
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.
Marilyn Johnson
Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.
Holly Hood
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
Gregory Corso
A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight
Robert Jordan
The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real.
Lisa Grace
Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.
Torey L. Hayden
Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy.
Debasish Mridha
Give yourself the love and attention you desire, it's the starting point of contentment.
Rob Liano
Will leans forward, pulls off his mask, and kisses my forehead. "I'm glad I was the one to save you this time" he whispers.
Bethany Griffin
To be slightly evil is to embrace life.
Venkatesh G. Rao
You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.
Warren Buffett
Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.
Madeline Miller
I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness.
J.D. Salinger
If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him.
Lillie Devereux Blake
Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.
Elin Hilderbrand
The phrase “timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.
Stormie Omartian
You know what they say about boys next door...
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.
Allan Lokos
About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending.” - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life
Norman Sunshine
Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.
Debasish Mridha