Quotes by American Authors - Page 115

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More
Karen Swallow Prior
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.
David Rakoff
This world is unreal and ever-changing. Only an optimist with optimum love can adjust and grow with joy.
Debasish Mridha
The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison.
Jodi Picoult
Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Careful. I'm fatal." He needed to remember that warning.He whispered back, holding her hair so she couldn’t squirm away, “Jesus. It’s like you said that directly to my balls.”She laughed so hard at his unexpected reply.
Debra Anastasia
I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
Lauren DeStefano
Welcome to Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar.
Michelle Hughes
I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
Sharon Kay Penman
It’s very silly,” she said, “but I go on with it in spite of myself. I’m afraid I’m too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can’t read it.
Henry James
It only takes one voice to give others the chance to see possibilities.
Aimee Carter
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The only thing that is stuck is your mind, and you have all the power in the world to change it.
Theodore Volgoff
My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . .
Carew Papritz
Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails," suggested
Neal Shusterman
Need I say more?''No, because you're wrong, and I'd hate for you to keep embarrassing yourself.
Erin McCahan
She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
Veronica Roth
To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.
Sofia Samatar
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.
Chris Hedges
He said that if I ever hurt you, he'd find me and kill me. I told him that if I ever hurt you, I'd want him to." - Aiden MacRae
Cyndi Tefft
As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
You try almost dying, being chased, thenhopping in a car with a complete (horny)stranger.
Gena Showalter
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.
John Piper
Such bliss is not meant to last. In my husband's house, my children were my real gifts.
Ru Freeman
Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.
Steve Maraboli
If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.
Benjamin Franklin
As you know, the International Poker Tour, by its own admission, knows very little about poker games, one of which ended tragically last week when an IPT-sanctioned tournament aboard a yacht in Australia accidentally used tarot cards instead of playing cards. That’s right, it’s true! Apparently no one noticed until someone laid down a full house and the dealer died.
Elle Lothlorien
What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked.“We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator,” Joseph chimed in
Laura Kreitzer
We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.
Chris Hodges
The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
We present a series of hypotheses and speculations, leading inescapably to the conclusion that SU(5) is the gauge group of the world — that all elementary particle forces (strong, weak, and electromagnetic) are different manifestations of the same fundamental interaction involving a single coupling strength, the fine-structure constant. Our hypotheses may be wrong and our speculations idle, but the uniqueness and simplicity of our scheme are reasons enough that it be taken seriously.
Howard Georgi & S. L. Glashow
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.
Trenton Lee Stewart
She had seen him once, smiling a little through another friar’s sermon about Hell, saying after the other left that fear of Hell is one of many paths to it. Forget Hell and love one another. That is all He wants of you.
Christopher Buehlman
I want to hear the wind in the trees. Feel the sun warm my back. I want to see birds fly in a sky with no boundaries.
Lea Doué
Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other; Each one that comes into being, they feel, diminishes the rest of humanity, ordinary homo sapiens, that little bit more.
Jim Lee
You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.
Anne Tyler
Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact.
Kiran Desai
Dear young woman, do not place your sense of beauty and self worth, upon the plastic pedestal called "what other people say to you", "what other people think about your photo", "how many 'likes' your pictures get", "how many guys tell you that you look sexy", "how skinny can you be?". A plastic pedestal that is but the dismal shadow of the real one. Dear young woman, place your sense of self worth and beauty upon the Roman marble pedestal that will exist even when all other people are no longer there. If you were the very last person on this planet, you should still be able to know within your heart that you are worthy, you are beautiful, you are wanted. Even if you become the very last person on Earth, you should be fully wanted. Want yourself. Know yourself. See yourself as beautiful, see yourself as worthy.
C. JoyBell C.
Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
General George S. Patton
The Bible is the means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service.
Richard Foster
Life is a practice. When you 'fail,' you can immediately begin practicing again.
Bryant McGill
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
Frederick Buechner
I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.And it seemed so easy, once he capitulated. It seemed natural and right.Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.
Lisa Kleypas
I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.)
Edward Abbey
Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!
Dana Arcuri
Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrialhighway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis Jr.
Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.
Rick Riordan
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.
John Green
Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image.
Mike Donehey
Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.
Alysha Speer
From my vantage point I can see the back of his neck flush pink beneath his collar. He's got freckles there, too. I wonder how many more freckle's he's got. Are they all over, or just where the sun's touched?Good Lord, why am I thinking of Finn Belastra without his clothes on?
Jessica Spotswood
Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)
Shannon A. Thompson
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Joseph Heller
I remember hearing years ago about a centenarian being interviewed on her birthday. She was asked, “Throughout your life, you have witnessed amazing change and innovation. The past one-hundred years have brought the inventions of the car, television, air conditioning, and microwave ovens. What is the most extraordinary change you have seen in your lifetime?” Without missing a beat, she replied, “That a teenager can say “suck” in front of their parents and get away with it!” While cultural norms may have changed with the times, being considerate of fellow human beings is not an antiquated notion; its time hasn't ended. Quite the opposite is true. In our world today, kindness and politeness are needed more than ever.
Susan C.Young
Excellence is not an event but a habit.
Debasish Mridha
I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even without my knowledge. But it is here. While I was despairing, thinking everything lost, it was already quietly growing. I had thought that division was always an end. Now I know that growth also is division. And growth means relinquishing. And growth has no end.
Erich Maria Remarque
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
Jodi Picoult
Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.
Jennifer duBois