Quotes by American Authors - Page 989

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Tim O'Brien
If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed or daunted to see them pick Proust or Thomas Mann or James Joyce. You might even feel sheepish about the fact that you reread Pride and Prejudice or The Lord of the Rings, or The Catcher in the Rye or Gone With the Wind every couple of years with some much pleasure. Perhaps, like me, you're even a little suspicious of their claims, because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly - or the ones we'd most like other people to think we read over and over again.
Laura Miller
In my own opinion (key word), the foundation of feminism is this: being able to choose. The core of anti-feminism is, conversely, telling a woman she can't do something solely because she's a woman—taking any choice away from her specifically because of her gender. ... One of the weird things about modern feminism is that some feminists seem to be putting their own limits on women's choices. That feels backward to me. It's as if you can't choose a family on your own terms and still be considered a strong woman. How is that empowering? Are there rules about if, when, and how we love or marry and if, when, and how we have kids? Are there jobs we can and can't have in order to be a "real" feminist? To me, those limitations seem anti-feminist in basic principle.
Stephenie Meyer
Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but i'd rather have Harley's colors.
Beth Revis
The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It’s not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the “right time,” the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you—no one else.
Loren Weisman
Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki
Richelle E. Goodrich
In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.
Philip Jenkins
joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms
Mark Matousek
The best way to not die with vacation time on the books is to stop worrying about what you shoulda done. Stop worrying about what you woulda done. Stop worrying about what you coulda done.
Andrea Goeglein
The worst enemy in life is resentment.
Debasish Mridha
A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.
Paul Lockhart
The problem with the 'masculinity crisis' is not that women have excelled too much and therefore created a crisis for men, but that we have such a stein inability to let go of what it has traditionally meant to be a man...As long as we perpetuate the myth that men have inherent qualities that make them more suitable than women for certain types of work, the shifting nature of the economy (and women's attainment of better jobs) is going to continue to be interpreted as a crisis of masculinity.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.
Pema Chödrön
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
Criss Jami
I hated him for making me stop hating him
Tim O'Brien
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79
Gloria Steinem
A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult
Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
Shannon L. Alder
The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.The job is not the work.
Seth Godin
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth
Rolf Peterson
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.
Michael Chabon
I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve Tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.
Angie Thomas
We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.
Audre Lorde
In our spreading materialist wasteland, more and more people thirst for contemplation, including political wheel-dealers, tycoons, and military top brass, stressed out by the rigors of their professions. Are we to suppose that everyone doing deep breathing on a meditation pillow is communing with the God of Christians? Not necessarily. What unites us to God is the practice of love. If prayer, or any other religious act, is not grounded in that, it is an offense to God.
Dean Brackley
Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.
Mark C. Carnes
When we can accept reality as it is and are okay with it without needing to change it, we then can begin to take steps toward creating a brighter reality for ourselves and others, coming from a place of understanding. But when we are motivated to change reality due to our discomfort with it, we do not think clearly. The reason that there is so much suffering in the world is because people are too busy judging everyone and everything, and through the judgments they perpetuate the suffering. People are so focused on changing outside conditions, all the while forgetting the judgment and separation within their own heart.
Alaric Hutchinson
There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.
Connie Brockway
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
John Green
The second sober thought of the people is seldom wrong and always efficient.
Martin Van Buren
Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life.
Linda Rawson
There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.
Jim Butcher
Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.
Kate Christensen
We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it’s to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with a final mistake... We always have to go back to pull ourselves out of ignorance or cast ourselves deeper into revenge.
Amy Rachiele
We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers and thuggish music. Of our neighbors, who were buying gold and ammunition and great quantities of freeze-dried food, and who were organizing themselves into angry tribes recognizable to one another by bumper stickers.
Jean Thompson
Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.
Maureen Corrigan
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
Chuck Jones
All right," Harry said coldly. "I'll answer your original question, then. You asked why Dark Wizards are afraid of death. Pretend, Headmaster, that you really believed in souls. Pretend that anyone could verify the existence of souls at any time, pretend that nobody cried at funerals because they knew their loved ones were still alive. Now can you imagine destroying a soul? Ripping it to shreds so that nothing remains to go on its next great adventure? Can you imagine what a terrible thing that would be, the worst crime that had ever been committed in the history of the universe, which you would do anything to prevent from happening even once? Because that's what Death really is - the annihilation of a soul!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.
Siri Hustvedt
Out of the military, out of the war, out of the only life they knew. Team Fear took the fall.
Cindy Skaggs
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.
Carol Grace
Great things in business are never done by one person.They are done by a team of people
Steve Jobs
While God desires salvation for everyone, God owes salvation to no one.
Evan Minton
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.
Nathaniel Branden
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
Philip K Dick
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.
Donald Kingsbury
She had never met Caroline's mother, but she knew a thing or two about what happened when someone went far away, how after a time you couldn't see their faces anymore when you closed your eyes or hear exactly how they laughed at a joke, how they seemed less like a real person whom you loved and more like a character in a story. And once that happened, it was easy, too easy, to let them float away like milkweed.
Hannah Barnaby
How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control?
Mary Kubica
I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad."If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself."He nods in understanding."And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?"I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.
Libba Bray
In the deep shivering winter, I can feel the joy of a dancing summer in my heart.
Debasish Mridha
When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility
Johnnie Dent Jr.
If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.
Nicola Yoon
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.
Daniel J. Siegel
There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
Jacqueline Carey
Accidental, unintended connections are the best concocted by the universe long before realizing the moon's heartbeat was waiting for you.
Melody Lee
First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.
Pete Wentz
Holding a grudge is a fatal flaw.
Rick Riordan
Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss
Bryant McGill
The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.
Peter Mendelsund
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.-Maggie
Sarah Dessen