Quotes by American Authors - Page 110

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
Louisa May Alcott
Christianity is not a spectator sport, it’s something in which we become totally involved.
Billy Graham
A society without the authentic and vibrant influence of women is a society that is not fully alive. A culture lacking the vital creativity of women is disadvantaged. Without the bearing of women on world affairs, humanity's already tenuous grip on peace is made even less sure. When women are barred, whether by law, cultural prejudice, or political ideology, from developing their full potential and offering their unique gifts, it is an injustice to women themselves and to humanity as a whole.
Stephen Catanzarite
She shook her head. “I won’t go.”His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. “You say thatas if you have a choice.”“There is always a choice.
Aliyah Burke
God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.
Forrest Carr
Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.
Allan Lokos
You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.
Thomas Pynchon
Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...
Edith Wharton
What would people think?'Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart.'Oh,' said Grandpa.
Garrison Keillor
If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on earth, and has made itself impossible to observe. Even if you believe in that God... why would you think it would want to be worshiped?
David G. McAfee
Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?
Richelle E. Goodrich
Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.
Rick Riordan
Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy.
Brenda Hiatt
The body is the garden of the soul.
Tony Kushner
Women Empowerment Reminder of The Day. Always respect yourself as a woman. You attract what you are, so be very mindful of how you’re representing yourself. If you want respect, you must first learn how to respect yourself, first. Attracting negative attention is never a good thing. Be a woman of substance! Be a woman that both women and men respect, admire, and look up to. Don’t disrespect yourself by lowering your standards and accepting just anything that comes your way. It’s okay to be single! If you want a relationship of substance, you can’t keep entertaining people and things that mean you no good. Think about it! It’s all up to you.
Stephanie Lahart
Never misconceive that which is real
Kim Holden
A man is known by the books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Looking at the root of a word is much like looking at the roots of a tree. The foundation is important, but even a tree with a strong root can still bear sickly fruit if it is subject to mismanagement
Mary Robinette Kowel
Not setting the 'proper and accepted' religious example for them conjured up images of the bad mother, the worst mother. Yet wouldn't the example of a mother being true to her journey, taking a stand against patriarchy, and questing for spiritual meaning and wholeness, even when it meant exiting circles of orthodoxy, be a worthwhile example?
Sue Monk Kidd
[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.
Kate Messner
Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.
Catherynne M. Valente
It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.
Steve Maraboli
The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.
Michael Monroe
God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.
Criss Jami
I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset. The sunset isn’t fucking married.
A.J. Jacobs
Turn off the device and take your child for a walk through the woods or on a hike up a mountain. Go on a camping trip. Late at night, when it's absolutely dark, take your child's hand and ask her to look up at the stars. Talk with her about the vastness of space and the tininess of our planet in the universe. That's reality. That's perspective.
Leonard Sax
Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.
Steven Magee
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
Rollo May
Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.
Robert D. Kaplan
DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.
L.J. Smith
See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!""Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!
Rachel Caine
26. Don’t marry someone with intolerable characteristics in the hopes of changing him or her. If you can’t live with someone who drinks or someone who isn’t a Christian or someone who isn’t clean, then don’t marry that kind of person. The chances for miraculous improvements or changes in behavior are slim. What you see is what you get!
James C. Dobson
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. ... When we give ourselves permission to fail we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.
Eloise Ristad
His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood.
Debra Anastasia
Poetry makes nothing happen.
W.H. Auden
Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.
Manil Suri
Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud.
Richelle E. Goodrich
she and Ben chattered away to each other in the language of mothers with their toddlers; the two understood every word exchanged, while the rest of the world just listened, smiled, and didn’t understand a single word of the happy gibberish.
William R. Forstchen
People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
Leah Stewart
Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.
Brenna Yovanoff
Red Rover, Red Rover, send Ardor right over," Eliza said. They laughed. The asteroid was a little bigger now, brighter, and still they went on laughing. Laughing in the face of what they couldn't predict or change or control. Would it be fire and brimstone? Would it be Armageddon? Or would it be a second chance? Eliza held tight to her friends, laughing, and a pair of hands land soft as feathers on her shoulders, like the hands of a ghost, laughing and laughing as Ardor swept along its fated course, laughing and through that laughter, praying. Praying for forgiveness. Praying for grace. Praying for mercy. 0
Tommy Wallach
We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
A reputation is like a shadow; it hides when you go to sleep, but always returns with the sun…
Nanette L. Avery
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
Billy Wilder
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
William Faulkner
He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.
Flannery O'Connor
There is beauty in thinking independently.
Debasish Mridha
like our parents alwaystold us not to likefirefighters warn againstwe're playinggames and makingthe rules upas we go we'rematchingwarmth to warmthstarting fires burningwishes into ourskin we're hiddenholdingforbidden lightswe're childrenwhose fathers havenever taught nevertouchbut we're findingthese new flameswe smotherat the sound of footsteps.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Never fear the thing you feel-- Only by love is life made real
Sara Teasdale
The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.
David Richo
When you strip down the layers and get to your soul, there is nothing that can be taken away. This is the essence of freedom.
Brownell Landrum
This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.
Mitch Albom
Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires….
James A. Murphy
You need to be able to fill that space on your own, Maddie. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous.
Katie Kacvinsky
Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness.
Charles F. Glassman
The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life.
Kemi Sogunle
Step into the marketplace with some sizzle, spice, spunk and shazam!
Catrice M. Jackson
Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.
Debasish Mridha