Quotes by American Authors - Page 27

If I'm such a legend then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland
When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in your heart to forever stay.
Imania Margria
Be confident. Be successful. Bebeautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest.Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Beeducated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just beyou!
Russell Strand
A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion".
Vivian Amis
Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.
David Brooks
God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.
Billy Graham
It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.
Bohdi Sanders
She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.
Lisa Genova
Come here. I told you to go to sleep and you wouldn’t go, so now you’ll have to take care of me.
Kenya Wright
I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
Catherynne M. Valente
The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.
Billy Graham
What could be a better use of your time than establishing a game plan for your life?
Michael Hyatt
I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars
Tom Waits
If you find yourself in an interrogation room, you will probably do better if you have not spent a bit of time kneeling on a blood-soaked carpet. And it would be especially good if you didn't have any of that blood smeared on your clothing and your hands. I'm just saying. A word to the wise.
Victoria Abbott
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller
The power of our subconscious thoughts and desires attracts good luck.
Debasish Mridha
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Mark Twain
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.
Maureen Corrigan
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.
Terry Tempest Williams
Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it.
J. Wilbur Chapman
Is it possible to find your future in the past?
Liz Ann Hawkins
Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.
John Green
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
John Green
We describe a person without compassion as “heartless,” and we urge him or her to “have a heart.” Our deepest hurts we call “heartaches.” Jilted lovers are “brokenhearted.” Courageous soldiers are “bravehearted.” The truly evil are “black-hearted” and saints have “hearts of gold.” If we need to speak at the most intimate level, we ask for a “heart-to-heart” talk. “Lighthearted” is how we feel on vacation. And when we love someone as truly as we may, we love “with all our heart.” But when we lose our passion for life, when a deadness sets in which we cannot...
John Eldredge
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
J. Horace McFarland
The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.
Siri Hustvedt
Give me agony or give me death,I'll take thy heart as eternal breath
Nely Cab
In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
Stephen King
Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.
Richelle E. Goodrich
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.
Criss Jami
Live simply, laugh joyfully, love tremendously, and leave silently.
Debasish Mridha
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
Robert Brault
It's amazing to me how hard people work to maintain a life they hate.
Steve Maraboli
You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.” ― Michael P. Naughton,
michael p naughton
Nature always accepts changes and never misses the opportunity to bloom.
Debasish Mridha
At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.
Nicole Blackman
Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
Arthur Golden
Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....
Kiana Davenport
The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.
Shannon L. Alder
In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.
Bryant McGill
The material universe exists only in the mind.
Jonathan Edwards
Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.
Carroll Bryant
Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know will ALL of your heart that you will. You will succeed in spite of any obstacles that may try to hinder you! There’s so much power in having a positive attitude, positive mindset, and positive outlook.
Stephanie Lahart
I want to make you hold onto that bag while I bury myself in you so hard and so deep you don't know your own name. -Nick Rixey
Laura Kaye
Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.
Alane Adams
The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.
Elizabeth George
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
Marguerite Yourcenar
There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.
Obert Skye
Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.
Suzanne Palmieri
Needs? I guess that is what bothers so many folks. They keep expanding their needs until they are dependent on too many things and too many other people... I wonder how many things in the average American home could be eliminated if the question were asked, "Must I really have this?" I guess most of the extras are chalked up to comfort or saving time.Funny thing about comfort - one man's comfort is another man's misery. Most people do't work hard enough physically anymore, and comfort is not easy to find. It is surprising how comfortable a hard bunk can be after you come down off a mountain.
Richard Proenneke
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy
Kahlil Gibran
But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could."Every person in the hall held their breath.
Sarah J Maas
Back in the 1800's, Ormsby Island was one of South Carolina's crown jewels. The island was owned by Maxwell Ormsby, a very wealthy man who liked to entertain everyone from heads of state to artists and authors and anyone who knew how to make money in business. An invitation to the island was a declaration that you were someone on the move. Once a year, Ormsby opened the island up to the public and hosted a huge fair. It was the social event of the year in these parts. My family still talks about the days when my great grandmother would take the family out to enjoy the festivities. It must have been some party.
Hunter Shea
There are many dreams in a lifetime – dreams that flourish or flounder for reasons much more complex than can be pinned down to any one person or situation.
Sasha Martin
A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and…actually, no it’s just those two things.
Colleen Houck
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.
Benjamin Hoff
You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!
Bryant McGill