Quotes by American Authors - Page 37

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice the dress the look the very motions of a person define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Comamandering is not a word.It has letters, doesn't it? Sounds like a word to me.
Tahereh Mafi
The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.
Daniel Alarcón
Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.
Barry López
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
Richard M. Rorty
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
Paul Shepard
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart
Helen Keller
Health is a priceless wealth. Invest while you can.
Bryant McGill
Accidents are built into the road.
Marty Rubin
Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are
Mason Cooley
After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip
Erma Bombeck
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
Ann Brashares
For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead is dead and no feather-dusters.
Henry Miller
What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?
Mitchell Heisman
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton
I’m going,’ he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave.
Jodi Meadows
Let your life be a vivacious poetry of love, compassion, kindness, and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.
Donna Lynn Hope
Most of your problems exist because your heart is hard and you are being arrogant.
Bryant McGill
A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn't hide. You didn't wait for the perfect moment to settle on you like a butterfly, like
Sarah Cross
It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.
Harry Stack Sullivan
There was a day when writers actually read," he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.
J. Lincoln Fenn
You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.
Charles Bukowski
...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
Marcus Buckingham
What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?" "Probably Dasani," Thomas replies.
Kendare Blake
We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Lyman Lloyd Bryson
I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real feeling—a feeling like, this is really sad, this is a sad place to be, a sad part of my life, maybe just a sad life. The woods were not particularly beautiful. I was not impressed by the trees.
Catherine Lacey
Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education.
Brad Blanton
I endured all our hardships as if they had been luxuries: I made light of scurvy, banqueted off train-oil, and met that cold for which there is no language framed, and which might be a new element; or which, rather, had seemed in that long night like the vast void of ether beyond the uttermost star, where was neither air nor light nor heat, but only bitter negation and emptiness. I was hardly conscious of my body; I was only a concentrated search in myself.
Harriet Prescott Spofford
They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.
Andrew Klavan
I do believe—that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far!" Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)
Ian Doescher
Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
Thomas Jefferson
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.
Dean Koontz
I believe in love at first sight. I know it's real because I experienced it the moment I saw my wife for the first time.
Johnny Corn
Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy," I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.
Cat Winters
Javier opened her makeup kit, held it edge to edge with the dressing table, and swept everything--every vial, brush, tube, and bottle--into the kit with his forearm.Laura gaped at him. "That stuff is worth hundreds of dollars."He shrugged, then shut the kit. "That's how SEALs pack makeup.
Pamela Clare
Healing is that place where we step into 20 seconds of insane courage because we need to either close that door or hold it open. Regardless of the outcome, the truth is what sets you free never the fear of not knowing.
Shannon L. Alder
Some teach “universalism”—that eventually everybody will be saved and the God of love will never send anyone to hell. They believe the words “eternal” or “everlasting” do not actually mean forever. However, the same word which speaks of eternal banishment from God is also used for the eternity of heaven.
Billy Graham
Satanism is developing two circles, an elitist group which I always intended my church to be, and the faddists who are becoming Satanists because it’s the thing to do.
Anton Szandor LaVey
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable.
Criss Jami
I was asleep for almost ten years. And then this big goober with all these fucking weird animals moved into my house, and I was suddenly awake.
Amy Lane
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.
Moshe Waldoks
Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
Why we should believe in wolf children seems somehow easier to understand than the ways we distinguish between what is human and what is animal behavior. In making such distinctions we run the risk of fooling ourselves completely. We assume that the animal is entirely comprehensible and, as Henry Beston has said, has taken form on a plane beneath the one we occupy. It seems to me that this is a sure way to miss the animal and to see, instead, only another reflection of our own ideas.
Barry López
Just fuck me up.A caffeine-addict placing an order with the barista.
Julie Johnson
How your heart can possibly find a way to love and trust a man again proves that I've fallen in love with the bravest woman I've ever known. I know how much courage it took for you to allow me in after what your father did to you. And I swear I will spend every last breath thanking you for allowing yourself to love me. Thank you so much for loving me, Linden Sky Hope.
Colleen Hoover
The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.
Jim George
That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.
James A. Owen
Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.
Eugene O'Neill
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
Barbara W. Tuchman
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.
Edgar Allan Poe
It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them
Laura Fitzgerald
Memories leave a light in the eyes, just as plain as scars.
Kat Richardson
She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.
Scott Westerfeld
Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.
John David Anderson
Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward and collapsed onto the floor in a fetal position, the letter in shreds around her. The room had grown dark. Like a gentle snowfall, the cold mantle of an unbearable silence descended.
V.S. Kemanis