Quotes by American Authors - Page 106

He looked up at her. Age and worry had taken their toll on her frail body, but she was kind and beautiful. And for a moment, memories and thoughts swam to the surface, the world coming into utter clarity. And all of them revolved around Amanda, his wife of fifty years.
Crissy Moss
But maybe that was what it meant to grow up and have the seemingly infinite possibility of childhood vanish in an instant. You had to press on, no matter how dark and narrow the path ahead seemed.
Martha Brockenbrough
If you don't like something about yourself change it. If you can't change it accept it.
Ted Shackelford
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
Derrick Jensen
A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.
Bill Courtney
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A good relationship is a two-way street, gatita. Submitting and serving is equaled by a master’s need to take control, to protect, to make someone happy.
Cherise Sinclair
Don't want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
Melody Lee
Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)
Janice Hanna
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story … to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.
Stephen King
Wesley went everywhere with me from then on. I even wrapped him in baby blankets and held him in my arms while grocery shopping, to keep him warm during the first cold winter. Occasionally someone would ask to see "the baby," and when I opened the blanket, would leap back shrieking, "What is that?! A dinosaur?" Apparently, the world is full of educated adults with mortgages and stock portfolios who think people are walking around grocery stores with dinosaurs in their arms.
Stacey O'Brien
care for your body as you care for your home, and care for your home as you care for your body.
Jennifer Carter Avgerinos
Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine.
Steven Magee
Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
John Green
My life's work is to create tools to empower and elevate life on the planet. To create global change, one heart at a time.
Eileen Anglin
Trust God and leave the consequences to him. My mentor, Dr. Charles Stanley
Linda Heavner Gerald
Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table—so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.
Daniel H. Pink
Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow s
Vera Nazarian
Now here's the thing about being a little off-center; you're never sure if you're a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don't have.You have to navigate through life using a kind of psychic gyroscope to keep from falling too far one way or another, and you feel a peculiar kinship with other people who are also a little bit off-center.
Blaize Clement
Look at it,' he said, gesturing. 'This window looks down upon hundreds more panes of glass, and behind those panes live thousands upon thousands of lost souls. When I feel cast down and helpless, scores of other men do as well, and when I am bitterly angry at feeling cast down and helpless, countless other people languish in concert with me. When I'm happy, it's the same. It's a bit like...I used to play chamber music. It's like a vast orchestra. And so I shan't ever be alone.
Lyndsay Faye
So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.What other surprises was she concealing?
Tessa Dare
Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.
Rolf Potts
At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.
Herbert M. Shelton
MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.
Mina Loy
Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.
James Salter
People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.
Stephen R. Covey
To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Let me have you in the most intimate ofways, let me give you a part of myself that no other man may touch.Make me yours forever.
Rachel L. Demeter
Wow, is that Katniss making out with Yoda?
Becky Albertalli
Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn’t need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It’s amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn’t exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I’ve done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.
Alaric Hutchinson
They hate you.""Why?""Cause you're a dick, Mitch.
Andy Weir
A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location.
Ellen J. Barrier
I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
Criss Jami
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.
Stephen Colbert
Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
Laurence Gonzales
Despite what you’ve read, your sadness is not beautiful. No one will see you in the bookstore, curled up with your Bukowski, and want to save you. Stop waiting for a salvation that will not come from the grey-eyed boy looking for an annotated copy of Shakespeare,for an end to your sadness in Keats.He coughed up his lungs at 25, and flowery words cannot conceal a life barely lived. Your life is fragile, just beginning, teetering on the violent edge of the world. Your sadness will bury you alive, and you are the only one who can shovel your way out with hardened hands and ragged fingernails, bleeding your despair into the unforgiving earth.Darling, you see, no heroes are coming for you. Grab your sword, and don your own armor.
Emily Palermo
Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.
Carew Papritz
Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.
Arun Gandhi
You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?""I guess I'll finish last.
Jalpa Williby
I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
Queen Latifah
Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books contain messages I am meant to receive. I’m not normally superstitious, but I’ve even had books fall from shelves and land at my feet. Books are my missives from the universe.
Laurie Horowitz
I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.
Dana Reinhardt
Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.
Ellen P. Lacter
Science has the capacity to uplift us to heights of undreamed of sophistication and quality of life or to drag us down into an abyss, from which we may never return. I do not believe science and/or technology are bad. However, I am very concerned with the beliefs the majority of scientists have about the world, which is its overriding view of reality— the mainstream scientific worldview. I believe it is the greatest weakness of science and so the greatest weakness of modern society and poses a serious risk, as we accelerate toward the biggest upheaval in human history, within the context of the enormity of global issues we face.
Jonathan R Banks
... gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice.
G.A. Hauser
She breathes a soft sigh, and in the tried and true ways of time immemorial, she welcomes me home.
Magda Alexander
A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.
Nora Roberts
It is uncertainty which fills life with beauty, excitement, and joy.
Debasish Mridha
She was thong-climbing-her-ass pissed.
Caris Roane
Standing on the edge with my patients — abiding with them — means that I must harbor a true awareness that I, too, could lose my child through the play of circumstance over which I have no control. I could lose my home, my financial security, my safety. I could lose my mind. Any of us could.
Christine Montross
Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.
Becca Fitzpatrick
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike
To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.
Maggie Stiefvater
We cannot carve or forcibly preserveor cultivate belief. If it will grow, it growsas we do - mostly after we have fallen
Jennifer Clarvoe
Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
You have to move forward in life. You can’t sit in the same place, unless you want to, that’s a choice too. But you can’t sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable.”Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. “Country.” Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
Danielle Steel
What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.
Laini Taylor
I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.
Noah Hawley
If we're going to be smart, we can't be stupid…!
James A. Murphy