Quotes by American Authors - Page 977

The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you'll become.
Scott Stabile
Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?”“Well I would if you’d let me finish,” he grumbled.
Maya Banks
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
John Howard Griffin
I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school.
J.D. Salinger
A nation lives by its myths and heroes. Many societies have survived defeat and invasion, even political and economic collapse. None has survived the corruption of its picture of itself. High and popular art are not in competition here. Both may help citizens decide what they are and what they admire. In our age, however, high art has given up speaking to the body of its fellow citizens. It devotes itself to technical displays that can appeal only to other technicians.
E. Christian Kopff
Battle scars were not a commodity that I was accustomed to selling, least of all to myself.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.
Lauren Rowe
You can't live when you're afraid of daying.
DiAnn Mills
This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) "Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls down and has no one to help them up." God didn't intend for us to do life alone. So let me ask you, who do you turn to when life hits you hard in the mouth? Your family? Some trusted friends? A teacher or coach? Are you building relationships today that will be there for you tomorrow when adversity comes your way? Do you have humility to look to others for strength and encouragement, or are you holding to the foolish pride that says, "I need to make it alone"?
Kirk Cousins
The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.
Tobias Wolff
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?
Steven Curtis Chapman
They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic.
Max Gladstone
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking
Agnes De Mille
I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.
Diana Gabaldon
What you call pride, I call courage.
Jeff Zentner
Everything made sense in a book...Too bad her life wasn’t fiction.
L.A. Kuehlke
Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it. It is an end where breath and strength and will have vanished, leaving no way to persevere. To sink into the abyss that is despair is to suffer an existence far worse than death; therefore, cling to its enemy, our ally—hope. For life goes on, and we must not live in despair. We must not.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.
Billy Graham
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.
S.I. Hayakawa
While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.
Herman E. Daly
Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.
Deborah Day
The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.
Suki Michelle
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me
Mary Haskell
What I must do is all that concerns me,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right then I wasn't a freak. I wasn't an ice queen. I didn't have powers. What I had was a friend comforting me when I needed it most. Right then I was just a normal girl, and Ryan was the superhero.
Kelly Oram
That night Tommy kissed him and eased his way into Chase’s body so gently that when Chase came, his vision washed in white, not red, and it did for him what sex with Tommy always did for him: set him free and let him fly.
Amy Lane
The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...
Rebecca Solnit
How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?
Steve Hagen
Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
Victor J. Stenger
Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.
Dan Pearce
You know nothing about me." "I know your soul. Everything else is an ornament.
Roshani Chokshi
To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?
Anne Rice
But I know that in my heart of hearts that drinking is about as good an escape as an innocent game of suicide skiing, so I know also that David's complete obsession with video games of this type, or any type, are far from healthy.
Sarabeth Purcell
Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.
Barbara T. Cerny
[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want to encourage her. I couldn't touch my father's cigarettes, couldn't look at the Pall Mall cartons in the pantry. I was the sort of child who couldn't even watch commercials for horror movies - the ad for Magic, the movie where marionette kills people. sent me into a six-month nightmare frenzy. So I couldn't look at her books, would turn them over so their covers wouldn't show, the raised lettering and splotches of blood - especially the V.C. Andrews oeuvre, those turgid pictures of those terrible kids, standing so still, all lit in blue.
Dave Eggers
We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.
Brandon Sanderson
Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar, it comes in through an open window while you’re sleeping. It takes little things at first; your appetite, your desire to return phone calls. Then it comes back for the big stuff, like your will to live.Then next thing you know, your legs are filled with sand. The thought of brushing your teeth fills you with dread, it seems like such an impossible task. Suddenly you’re living your life in black and white – nothing is bright, nothing is pretty anymore. Music sounds tinny and distant. Things you found funny seem dull and off-key.
Lisa Unger
The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.
Katharine Hepburn
The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.
Ray Bradbury
Don´t ever scared to dream because everything is possible no matter how bizarre.
Jared Leto
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Cormac McCarthy
Attention serves a person better when he or she works for it and then lets it come.
Ron Baratono
A world in which people with learning difficulties have access to the resources they need to live happier, healthier, more secure and more meaningful lives.
Steve Silberman
The good news is that you don’t have to remove absolutely every single barrier that stands between you and your SoulMate. You just have to remove enough of them.
Annette Vaillancourt
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?
Roman Payne
Just love as you breathe.
Debasish Mridha
It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
Sarah Dessen
She looked at the produce stalls, a row of jewels in a case, the colors more subtle in the winter, a Pantone display consisting only of greens, without the raspberries and plums of summer, the pumpkins of autumn. But if anything, the lack of variation allowed her mind to slow and settle, to see the small differences between the almost-greens and creamy whites of a cabbage and a cauliflower, to wake up the senses that had grown lazy and satisfied with the abundance of the previous eight months. Winter was a chromatic palate-cleanser, and she had always greeted it with the pleasure of a tart lemon sorbet, served in a chilled silver bowl between courses.
Erica Bauermeister
Make him love you,” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you. The devil you know.” I felt her growing inside me, bringing with her the insane idea that I actually wielded power with Caleb.
C.J. Roberts
Leaders today should be more conductors than solo artists.
Brad Lomenick
Times will change for the better when you change.
Maxwell Maltz
You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.
Amy Zhang
Once we understand cause and effect, we can stop complaining about the effects of our choices. We can start making more mindful decisions about the thoughts we entertain, the actions we perform, the people with whom weassociate, and the quality of life we want to live.
Darren Main
Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you liveMaybe one these days you can let the light inShow me...how BIG your BRAVE is!
Sara Bareilles
….For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes on the car radio, I find myself pounding my fist on the dashboard, screaming, “Pearl JAM! Pearl JAM! Now this is rock and roll! Jeremy’s SPO-ken! But he’s still al-LIIIIIVE!
Rob Sheffield
You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.
Zig Ziglar
But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.-Aphrodite
Rick Riordan
the gravity of wound to fist
Karen Russell