Quotes by American Authors - Page 104

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.
Ryan Winfield
Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.
Germany Kent
A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.
Nicholas Dawidoff
I have the whole team just around the block! One call and they'll ride in here like cavalry! Riding on... robots! Giant robots! Well, not giant robots, like in Egan, but... but... big enough robots!
Dennis Liggio
Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.
Aimee Bender
What is your hands to make a difference in the world?
Artika R. Tyner
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
Andre Previn
A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play.
Sarah Price
For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves
Sandra Kring
Dive deep. Drown willingly
Ted Dekker
It doesn’t work,” she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. “What you’re feeling right now doesn’t work. You can’t wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don’t want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it’s none of my business. But still.
David Levithan
War is sweet to those who have never fought.
Jess Rothenberg
The dove descending breaks the airWith flame of incandescent terrorOf which the tongues declareThe one discharge from sin and error.The only hope, or else despairLies in the choice of pyre or pyre-To be redeemed from fire by fire.Who then devised the torment? Love.Love is the unfamiliar NameBehind the hands that woveThe intolerable shirt of flameWhich human power cannot remove.We only live, only suspireConsumed by either fire or fire.
T.S Eliot
What haunts me far more than anything I’ve ever done are the things I haven’t done.
Dan Pearce
Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that is a treat.
Joanne Woodward
If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense … sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.
Brian Spellman
When you focus and accept the current moment with love, faith, and joyfulness, you are practicing mindfulness. That is better than controlling the universe.
Debasish Mridha
We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've learned is either wrong or irrelevant. A big part of our mind can handle this; a smaller, deeper part cannot. And it's that smaller part that matters more, because that part of our mind is who we really are (whether we like it or not).
Chuck Klosterman
Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one...
Anaïs Nin
We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment.
Chris Matakas
One part of Judaism called tikkum olam. It says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job – everyone’s job – is to try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again ... Maybe we’re the pieces. Maybe what we’re supposed to do is come together. That’s how we stop the breaking.
Rachel Cohn
Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.
Richelle E. Goodrich
If you dont' live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good.
John Green
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
° I no longer saw God's commandments concerning sex and marriage as a prohibition, but as His loving protection.° I no longer thought of sexual purity as a rule, but as a desired virtue.°I no longer was attracted to the guys that treated girls like commodities, but was now attracted to men of character who modeled Jesus' humility and self-sacrifice. °I no longer saw my body as something to use to gain a guys attention; I now viewed it as God's holy temple.
Marian Jordan Ellis
The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
William McKinley
If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
Pat Murphy
Satan is both a fashion designer and an interior designer. He first appeals to the eye and then shouts, “Gotcha!” Then he goes to work on the “inside job.
Billy Graham
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
John Updike
Shards flew everywhere, slicing her hands, her forearm, and cascading to the floor like snow glistening on a winter morning.
Katherine McIntyre
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.
Terry Goodkind
The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes...Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important...Don't mumble or hesitate. Speak...in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear.
Jonathan D. Spence
That's the funny thing about stealing money---it always seems to be the rich people who have the most of it.
Ari Marmell
The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.
Anne Katherine
Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.
Matt Chandler
On rare occasion we are granted the gift of seeing how far we have come just how much we have healed and how really free we are. This changes us. Never again will we underestimate our ability to rise.
Renae A.Sauter
You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I've only felt that way about one boy.
Renee Ahdieh
The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant before he hit the ground, he knew. You always woke in the instant before you hit the ground.
George R.R. Martin
Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.
Ron Suskind
Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.
Thomm Quackenbush
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
Janis Joplin
Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.
Orson Scott Card
The true terror Jonah thought the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die but that we were all born that we were all once little babies like this unknowing and slowly reeling in the world gathering it loop by loop like a ball of string. The true terror was that we once didn't exist and then through no fault of our own we had to.
Dan Chaon
A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.
Shannon L. Alder
A person who does not get attached to anything, and never forgets to do his duty, will achieve everything.
Debasish Mridha
For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them
Seth Adam Brown
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
Brandon Mull
God does not ask your abilityOr your inability.He asks only your availability.
Mary Kay Ash
There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.
Carol Morgan
One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.
Forrest Curran
Good evening, Lady Ruby," he answered. "What are you to dream of?" he asked again with a curious expression.Ruby's cheeks turned red as she met his warm blue eyes. Her feet felt heavy as bricks, and she did not know if she could walk. She had thought she'd never see him again, but here he was now before her.She thought of a crafty remark. "Not of you," she answered. But quickly she wondered if her protest made her sound like a silly, lovesick girl. She bit her lip."I see," he said. "Well, we will have to change that." He gave her a grin, a flash of dark sensuality that sent a bolt of excitement through her.
Jettie Necole
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
He looked like a Greek god. Jade’s thoughts snapped from togas to white sheets to sex in the span of two seconds.
Alyssa Goodnight
If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case.
Andrena Sawyer
We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.
Shane Claiborne
In his business, he observed human nature and came to certain conclusions about it. The conclusions lacked wisdom and originality; in fact, they were tiresome. But they were important to McGarrity because he had figured them out for himself. In the first years of their marriage, he had tried to tell Mae about these conclusions, but all she said was, "I can imagine." Sometimes she varied by saying, "I can just imagine." Gradually then, because he could not share his inner self with her, he lost the power of being a husband to her, and she was unfaithful to him.
Betty Smith
This isn’t a religious book though I mention God, not a medical advisory though I speak of pain. It’s a circus, a mortuary, a grade school, a limousine ride. Will it be worth the paper it’s printed on or the screen you hold in your hand? I just hope you remember it next week.
Chila Woychik
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.
Audre Lorde
His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.
Cormac McCarthy