Quotes by American Authors - Page 94

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost.
Kate Zambreno
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
Bruce Lee
Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.
Magnus Flyte
It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.
Derek Thompson
And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
Chris Bohjalian
Our pets are our family.
Ana Monnar
Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
Kathryn Orzech
A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.
Shannon L. Alder
Information and complexity go hand in hand.
Lee Spetner
What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?
Stephen Chbosky
For, dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true?Cling to it long enough, and not a doubtIt will turn true again, for so it goes.Most of the change we think we see in lifeIs due to truths being in and out of favor.As I sit here, and often times, I wishI could be monarch of a desert landI could devote and dedicate foreverTo the truths we keep coming back and back to.––from "The Black Cottage
Robert Frost
Over and over we lose this sense of feeling we are wholly in our skins by means already named as well as through extended duress. Those who toil too long without respite are also at risk. The soulskin vanishes when we are not paying attention to what we are really doing and particularly the cost to us.""We lose the soulskin by becoming too involved with ego, by being too exacting, perfectionistic, or unnecessarily martyred, or driven by a blind ambition, or by being dissatisfied - about self, family, community, culture, world - and not saying or doing anything about it, or by pretending we are an ending source for others, or by not doing all we can to help ourselves. Oh, there are as many ways to lose the soul skin as there are women in the world.""The only way to hold on to this sensual soulskin is to retain an exquisitely pristine consciousness about its value and uses.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.
Kathleen O'Dell
I had a dream about you last night. The best day of my life was when I taught you how to juggle, but the best day of yours was when you taught someone else.
Michael Summers
I no longer cared about survival - I merely loved.
Loren Eiseley
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
Alan W. Watts
It's stupid, what keeps families apart
Rick Riordan
The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.
Jonathan Antin
How would your life be different if...You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day...You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happiness and dilute the beautiful life experience. Have fun. Give - Love - Play!
Steve Maraboli
I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
Henry James
I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking
Henry Rollins
just know that it takes a bit of courage to unlearn that shame, and to be there for others when they try to unlearn that shame, and that it all gets easier after you feel how healthy it is.
Hugh Howey
Country’s friggin’ dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.
Jess Row
Until one comes who is mightier,The one sprung from misery,The one who was weak,The one who was hunted,The one marked with claw and vine,The one named in secret,The one called Jezelia.
Mary E. Pearson
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
Clifford Geertz
As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the whole world . . .The life of no human being is cheap in the eyes of God, nor can it be in our own eyes.
Billy Graham
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
Alex Haley
I really want to punch you right now. Maybe even break your nose.” She rolled her eyes upward, seeking calm. “But I won’t because I like this dress.
Zoe Forward
Sanity and sense becomes a prison.
Darnell Lamont Walker
I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't believe in god have to believe is in other people and that New York City is the best place there ever was for a godless person to practice her moral code. I think it has to do with the crowded sidewalks and subways. Walking to and from the hardware store requires the push and pull of selfishness and selflessness, taking turns between getting out of someone's way and them getting out of yours, waiting for a dog to move, helping a stroller up steps, protecting the eyes from runaway umbrellas. Walking in New York is a battle of the wills, a balance of aggression and kindness. I'm not saying it's always easy. The occasional "Watch where you're going, bitch" can, I admit, put a crimp in one's day. But I believe all that choreography has made me a better person. The other day, in the subway at 5:30, I was crammed into my sweaty, crabby fellow citizens, and I kept whispering under my breath "we the people, we the people" over and over again, reminding myself we're all in this together and they had as much right - exactly as much right - as I to be in the muggy underground on their way to wherever they were on their way to.
Sarah Vowell
It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.
Criss Jami
Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it’s really learning. The questions, What’s being taught? What’s the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum.
Robert M. Pirsig
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...
Joseph Heller
No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl... a woman who will fight to survive.
Sophie Jordan
You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I look for my sister but it's hopeless. The goggles are all fogged up. Every fish burns lantern-bright, and I can't tell the living from the dead. It's all just blurry light, light smeared like some celestial fingerprint all over the rocks and the reef and the sunken garbage. Olivia could be everywhere.
Karen Russell
Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.
Tracy Deebs
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Clarence Day Jr.
It’s all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses.
Helen M. Ryan
...You have knowledge, and I have skill, and between us we have...""We have the Ring of Erreth-Akbe.""Yes, that. But I thought also of another thing between us. Call it trust... That is one of its names. It is a very great thing. Though each of us alone is weak, having that we are strong, stronger than the Powers of the Dark.
Ursula K Le Guin
Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.
Stephen King
How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings?
Sally Painter
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
Jay Samit
As long as you think like that, you'll be as brainless and helpless as the actual cuff of Astia. Use your will, Elli, for surely you have one. How else did you survive the torture that nearly killed you? How else did you make it to the woods? How else are you right here, after weeks of winter spent living in a cave, for stars' sake, looking stronger and healthier than I ever expected? No will, my arse.
Sarah Fine
However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
Eric Hoffer
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
John Cage
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
Abraham Lincoln
The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.
Matt Perman
Reach into the past and remember the reasons you fell in love. Hold on to that, son, and cherish it. Then you must start moving forward again.
J.L. Berg
For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act accompanied by a criminal state of mind.
Alan Dershowitz
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.
Sarah Dessen
It's him," I said. "Typhon."I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!
Rick Riordan
Without sound,There would be no music.And without music,There would be no life.And without a life force,There would be no matter.But it does not matter -Because what is matter,If there is no light?
Suzy Kassem
News is only the first rough draft of history.
Alan Barth
If you see the light at the end of the tunnel, you’re lookingthrough binoculars the wrongway
Josh Stern
Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.
Whoopi Goldberg
He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough.
Rhyannon Byrd
As a little girl, I'd have given up my Barbie Dreamhouse to have a miniature purple dragon - as an adult, I didn't find it nearly as exciting.
R.L. Naquin
Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?
Ronald Reagan
Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day?""What?""A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible?""I don't know.""Have you ever had one?""No.""I've never had one either, but I'm looking for it.
Jennifer Niven