Quotes by American Authors - Page 32

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.
Pema Chödrön
Ask yourself this question: will this matter a year from now?
Richard Carlson
Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others.
Billy Graham
The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have relationships, with multiple ideas, at once. You may devote yourself completely to one idea, for a awhile, but the affairs will never end. There will always be more ideas to romance and more concepts to develop. And all for that wonderful moment when you get to gaze at the complete creation and hold perfection in your arms, for one blissful moment... before your inner-critic starts tearing it to shreds.
Jaeda DeWalt
The greatest joy in life comes not from winning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds.
Jandy Nelson
Sometimes she was Aurora. Confident. Clever. Cultured.Sometimes she was Rora. Afraid. Alone. Ashamed.And more and more, she was Roar -- bold, brash, and increasingly baffled by the situation in which she found herself. And sometimes she was none of them, lost and adrift somewhere in between, like the wildlands between Stormling cities.
Cora Carmack
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
James Baldwin
But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-
Clifford Chase
I wish I lived in your world, where it's sunshine and puppies all the time.
Charlotte Huang
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
Mel Brooks
Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.
George Allen
Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.
Gregory Sherl
If you are opportunity oriented, you will find opportunities all around you. If you are problem oriented, you will see problems all around you.
Debasish Mridha
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Blake Lively
This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement to get back on the wall. It’s a crazy rollercoaster and I owe my family and partners a great deal for encouraging me through it all.
Tommy Caldwell
It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.
Dave Eggers
Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.
Arthur Bennett
Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
Catherynne M. Valente
The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell this ship. Your talents were underrated.
David Brin
If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.
C. JoyBell C.
I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.
Leonard Nimoy
A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, no one would ever go in the sea.
Cassandra Clare
Compared to when I was a boy, we now live in reverse. The people are locked up in their homes at night and criminals are outside on the loose! When I was young, the criminals were locked up and the people were free to move about. That time has passed for many cities.
Billy Graham
Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren’t guy and girl. We weren’t damaged and terminal. We were just now.
Elizabeth Langston
It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.
Kahlil Gibran
Obedience requires knowing God’s word, His expectations and then actually living them out.
Sara Dormon
God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.
Deepak Chopra
The Dead are a larger army than any ever assembled, and they follow no leader, fear no threat, and accept no bribe or compromise. The Dead are the silent majority, and should they ever decide to say something, it will be the new law of the land.
Isaac Marion
Fantasize and start dream building. Bring your dreams into material reality. See yourself at your best. Transform yourself with dedication and work for excellence.
Mark LaMoure
Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.
Henna Inam
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
Elizabeth Gilbert
We're going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue
Melissa Cutler
He lowered his head until his lips hovered centimeters above hers. This was the moment he craved. This heated moment – each of them lingering, waiting, wanting. He loved the excitement of the build-up almost as much as the conquest itself. As he’d told her many times, the greater the anticipation, the sweeter the reward.
Lisa Carlisle
One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.
Stephen King
Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way
James MacDonald
I did the wrong thing, and I lost him for
Louise Rozett
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word."What a stupid lamb," I sighed."What a sick, masochistic lion.
Stephenie Meyer
A lot of men wonder what a woman wants. The answer is power. There are many ways to get it, but the easiest way is to tear other girls down. Any girl can play that game, but there's no way to win, except not to play at all.
Mara Wilson
To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace.
Debasish Mridha
Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.
Neal Stephenson
I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.
Don Piper
While physical states can be publicly known, mental states are only privately known. This characteristic of the mind is not shared with the brain; the properties of the brain and the mind are not identical.
J. Warner Wallace
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
Herbert Marcuse
I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, 'In the name of all that is holy, cease this incessant drivel, you pretentious ass.
Meg Howrey
If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them.
Brandon Sanderson
A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.
Steven Pinker
for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.
Sarah Dessen
WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.
John Medina
Is it time for your period, or somet
Linda Howard
Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
Stephen Chbosky
At the end of his life Buddha said: “I am still searching for truth.” This statement could be made by countless thousands of scientists, philosophers, and religious leaders throughout all history. However, Jesus Christ made the astounding claim: I am . . . the truth” [John 14:6]. He is the embodiment of all truth. The only answer to man’s search is found in Him.
Billy Graham
When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?
Richie Norton
When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or playing people because of ego reasons and/or control. 3. They don’t know the truth themselves. 4. They are undecided. 5. They refuse to let their guard down and be vulnerable because you or someone else have hurt them tremendously. 6. You are not being told all the information because of a break down in communication.
Shannon L. Alder
Such an incredible, stupefying realization: I am not, indeed, the center of the universe.Not! Not! Not!And the overwhelming gratitude, the flooding relief that comes from finally being able to give myself the permission to lay down that excruciating, exhausting burden of needing to prove to the world, every waking moment, that I am, indeed, undeniably, irrefutably The Center of the Universe.
Lionel Fisher
Private fireworks are far superior to public fireworks.
Tracy Brogan
One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who are evil into good or kind people. That day I let go; I stopped caring for them, gave up any hope for their souls, and knew they were never worthy of me or my time.
Ken Poirot
Celebration is the sparkle in the eye of the one who glows. It is the song that plays in the house of freedom. Celebration is the dance of life, it’s the one dancing to the drumbeat of the heart, it’s your birthday cake, it’s you blowing out the trick candles, it’s you delighting in the fire of life.
Tehya Sky