Quotes by American Authors - Page 109

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.
Maggie Stiefvater
Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.
Barack Obama
Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.
Sarah Ockler
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herb Gardner
If we're not naked soon, I'm going to lose my fucking mind.
Lisa Kessler
Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.
Michael W. McConnell
Capture your youth, while you can.
Anthony Liccione
Bruner discusses the need for teachers to understand that children should want to study for study's own sake, for learnings's sake, not for the sake of good grades or examination success. The curriculum should, in other words, be interesting. (Yes, it sounds too obvious even to say, but sometimes the emphasis on content has trumped all other considerations, including that of making learning interesting.)
Gary Thomas
A life I didn't choose chose me.
Wally Lamb
Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other way around, i.e., human skulls with 'ape leg and foot bones?' . . . Come on, creationists, think about it! Did God hide the human skulls, only leaving behind leg and foot bones belonging to human midgets with misshapen feet, and mix such bones only with the skulls of ape-like creatures with larger cranial capacities than living apes? What a 'kidder' the creationists' God must be.
Edward T. Babinski
Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.
Lidia Yuknavitch
Oh, I have plenty of problems with Rabbit, it’s just that my comfort level with his name is standing in line behind about a hundred more important things.
Elle Lothlorien
Each of us has a finite reservoir of energy in any given day. Whatever amount of energy we spend obsessing about missteps we have made, decisions that do not go our way or the belief we have been treated unfairly is energy no longer available to add value in the world.
Tony Schwartz
Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason."Zeus's royal nostrils flared. "You dare accuse-""No more undetermined children," I said. "I want you to promise to claim your children-all your demigod children-by the time they turn thirteen. They won't be left out in the world on their own at the mercy of monsters. I want them claimed and brought to camp so they can be trained right, and survive." "Now, wait just a moment," Apollo said, but I was on a roll."And the minor gods," I said. "Nemesis, Hecate, Morpheus, Janus, Hebe--they all deserve a general amnesty and a place at Camp Half-Blood. Their children shouldn't be ignored. Calypso and the other peaceful Titan-kind should be pardoned too. And H
Rick Riordan
-and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.
Michael F. Moore
Am I glowing?""Like a Christmas tree.""Not just the star?"The bed moved a little, and I felt his hand brush my arm. "No. You're super bright. It's kind of like looking at the sun.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.
Frederik Pohl
The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.
Richard J. Foster
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Austin Kleon
Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
Marilyn Monroe
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
Shannon L. Alder
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
Robert A. Heinlein
My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.
Joss Whedon
You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.
Cassandra Clare
Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.
Florence H. Winterburn
If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either.
Cassandra Clare
May the music rock and the guys be hot
Brenda Pandos
I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?
Jandy Nelson
Courage is stepping forward when all you can see is darkness.
Toni Sorenson
Write that novel, sail that boat. And if you can't, immerse yourself in the fantasy, be the ultimate dabbler, just enjoy what it is you enjoy. It'll help you get well if you're going to get well, and it'll help you sail that great boat in the sky if that's what's going to happen. Onwards and Upwards. No regrets.
Meg Wolfe
Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips.
Gretchen de la O
Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
Addiction by any other name is love.
Shannon L. Alder
He stands alone in hollow gloom, with the sound of his own breath whispering down unseen passages ahead and behind and to both sides, wondering how he stumbled into this blackest of all labyrinths.He entered by choice. We all do. Whether we are mapping the heavens or skulking the lanes of the underworld, whether we are hunting the imprisoned fiend or have ourselves become the monster, whether we are searching for what is lost or hiding what must never be found, we all round that first corner by choice - and by then, we are lost.You too. You must decide what is false and what is true, and what is true for me but not for you. We are wandering the mazes, all of us, and we cannot hope to escape until we learn to tell between what is real and what is real for someone else. There lies the madness, and the truth as well.
Troy Denning
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
Tamora Pierce
Sofi had no idea how long she sat like that. Tucked up beside this boy she despised more than anyone other than her mother while his music overwhelmed her senses and set them all right again. This man who'd used her and hurt her and probably would again, and yet who stayed, soothing her hair and not saying a word.
Mary Weber
Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.
Sam Childers
Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.
Brian Spellman
It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
Louisa May Alcott
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.
Robert G. Ingersoll
That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.
Tom Perrotta
I’m not a notch on a belt.”“You could never be a notch, London Chantelle. You’re the whole belt, sugar.
Elizabeth SaFleur
His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.
Stephen Crane
The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family’s income is managed.
Jim George
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
Words mean nothing.
Lynn Raye Harris
While like most men, Sam prided himself on being equipped with a supernatural internal compass that kept him from ever being lost, he'd also learned to concede those rare times when that compass seemed to be temporary disrepair.
Clive Cussler
You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks.
Rick Riordan
I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.
Morgan Matson
Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.
Theric Jepson
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard
Historiography -- commonly and often simultaneously defined as the study of historians' scholarship, how history has been and is contrived, the history of historical writing, and the body of historical scholarship on historical subject matter -- is, therefore, essential to understand when studying history.
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms." I didn't need to see him to know he wore a smile. "Stop laughing," I said, my cheeks hot with humiliation. "Get me down.""Jump.""What?""I'll catch you.""Are you crazy? Go inside and open the window. Or get a ladder.""I don't need a ladder. Jump. I'm not going to drop you.
Becca Fitzpatrick
If you are paralyzed by your past, if Satan is destroying your gifts and your calling by his incessant replaying of old tapes, you're actually being hit by a double whammy. The original damage in the past is one thing - but now you're letting yourself be hurt and sidetracked again by the memory of what happened... We should not be ignorant of Satan's devices, and these ugly memories are one of the main weapons in his arsenal.
Jim Cymbala
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
Jared Diamond
Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.
Sandra Dallas
The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.
John Burroughs