Quotes by American Authors - Page 965

We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings.
Allan Lokos
Maybe in life you get all kinds of soulmates. Multiple people who vibrate at the same level you do. I think that's what Fred is for me. I just don't get to see his penis anymore. So, no, I don't get my happy-ending tongue kiss in the rain, but I did get my friend back. And I don't have to worry about running these busted knees around after any babies.
Samantha Irby
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
Mandy Hale
The word 'algebra' derives from Al-Khawarizmi's book title "al-jabr", meaning "completion"; balancing both sides to find a solution
Firas Alkhateeb
If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.
Bill Wilson
A hundred years or more, she's bent her crownin storm, in sun, in moonsplashed midnight breeze.surviving all the random vagariesof this harsh world. A dense - twigged veil drifts downfrom crown along her trunk - mourning slow woodthat rustles tattered, in a hint of windthis January dusk, cloudy, purplingthe ground with sudden shadows. How she broods -you speculate - on dark surprise and loss,alone these many years, despondent, bent,her bolt-cracked mate transformed to splinters, moss.Though not alone, you feel the sadness of atwilight breeze. There's never enough love;the widow nods to you. Her branches moan.
Lauren Lipton
Know, in every moment, that you have attracted this situation into your life experience so you can grow and learn the lessons necessary to get to the next level.
Dashama Konah Gordon
Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.
Dawn Powell
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell
Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.
Rachel Caine
Duke was already sitting in the passenger seat, waiting for her. She got in and started the car. Duke busted into a Slim Jim of his own. “You hairy toad fucker. That stuff’s nasty. Your toilet must be like a nuclear reactor.” Dove turned on her windshield wipers as a light mist seemed to fracture the glass. “I’m sorry, Whore Basket. I couldn’t hear you over the noise of you crapping your pants!” Duke took another huge bite and chewed the waxy meat like gum. “This stuff is off the charts. I could eat vats of it.
Debra Anastasia
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
Benjamin Franklin
When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.
Debasish Mridha
Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life.
Billy Graham
All lovers meet and love by chance.
Marty Rubin
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
Renata Adler
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
Marianne Williamson
Love doesn't measure that way... you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.
Kristin Cashore
Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.
James Qualls
Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.
Deke Sharon
God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
David Platt
Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.
Megan Lindholm
It was tall, made of pale blue light, a creature with long arms and long legs and the shadow of a smile, and above it all, eyes that shone bluer still than its body. "What do you seek in this place?" the shade asked plainly.
Robin Sloan
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
Anne Lamott
A mist crept into the valley—how could this be, by the light of the climbing sun? It drifted over the form in the grass, nearly obscuring it, seeming to draw all sound into itself. I thought I might burst from the strain of that silence... until a single sound shattered it:The gasp of an indrawn breath.
Tosca Lee
I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.
Edmund White
Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it?
Sheryl Sandberg
Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.
Bryant McGill
Unprofessionalism damages the business reputation and tarnishes the trust of society.
Pearl Zhu
We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall.
Henry Cloud
Be yourself there is no one better
Selena Gómez
There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)
Patrick Rothfuss
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow.
Bryant McGill
You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.
Erica Jong
I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.
John Green
And right action is freedom from past and future also.For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. "The Dry Salvages
T.S Eliot
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
John Green
A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.
Pearl Zhu
a wish... that we may, each of us, with utter regularity, melt into the truth of our inescapable beauty.
Scott Stabile
Maybe that was what growing up was, understanding where the real magic lived in this world. Inside our very own hearts.
Gina Linko
...She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself.
Sandra Kitt
Urges. Mercy, the urges.
Kelly Moran
The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.
George W. Bush
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
Alice Sebold
There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.
Katelyn S. Bolds
Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift
Steven Pinker
He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.
Karen Marie Moning
To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.
Debasish Mridha
Why do they hate us?" He paused. "We didn't do anything wrong.
Shannon A. Thompson
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
A Parting GuestWhat delightful hosts are they—Life and Love!Lingeringly I turn away,This late hour, yet glad enoughThey have not withheld from meTheir high hospitality.So, with face lit with delightAnd all gratitude, I stayYet to press their hands and say,Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night.
James Whitcomb Riley
It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.
Barry Lyga
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression.
Irving Kirsch
Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow
Mary Anne Radmacher
I was sure that if I could just scale this fortress I would reach a height with a sunny blue sky and fresh air. I would stand there and experience myself as redeemable rather than ruined. I had no idea what kind of animal I was facing.If you had suggested to me at the time that my problems were due to some faulty wiring, some chemistry experiment gone wrong in my brain, I'd have said you were suggesting that I not take responsibility for my own choices. Now I know I was wrong. Now when I'm haunted by the specter of depression, I recognize it for what it is. I don't systematically dismantle my life every time depression pops out from behind a tree. But at that time, I was sure it was fixable if the world would just change faster, or if I would.
Jillian Lauren
Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today. That, however, is not a ground for dismissing them. If every proposal for reform in ethics that differed from accepted moral views had been rejected for that reason alone, we would still be torturing heretics, enslaving members of conquered races, and treating women as the property of their husbands.
Peter Singer