Quotes by American Authors - Page 40

You have to remember that there are reasons to live, and that at least a few people are decent, and that the world is worthwhile some of the time, okay?”I raise my face to his, wanting another kiss, but he stops me.“You will remember?”The balloon bumps downward again. His eyes are still closed.“Why don’t you open your eyes?”He opens one and squints at me for a second. “I’m terrified of heights,” he says.
Bethany Griffin
The arctic loneliness of age.
S. Weir Mitchell
Bad is the new good - you've got my permission to stick that on one of your t-shirts.
Lia Riley
Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When you have true love in your heart,You will never be depressed or fall apart.
Debasish Mridha
There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be.
Michael Card
Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time
Patrick Lencioni
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
Alan Dean Foster
Your perception about the world creates your thoughts, your thoughts create your desires and intention, and your intentions manifest as your reality.
Debasish Mridha
I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.
A.E. Samaan
We tangle and merge. Love and let go. No one will ever know her like I do. I’ve touched every inch of skin. I’ve explored every part of her being. I love her shy when I pull her to my hips, my lap. I love her present uncertainty for things she knows how to do so fucking good. I love her pink flushed skin all over.
Pella Grace
There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.
Criss Jami
Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.
Anne Rice
The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.
David R. Wommack
So, Azalee—” When he turned to her, she stared daggers back—almost as though she had read his mind. Can Chertzes do that? he wondered in a wild moment of panic.“What?” bit Azalee when he didn’t continue.Mighty Zeus, could he go five minutes without offending a woman?
Deidre Huesmann
You’re not doing a good job of selling me this dumb fantasy. I’m not climbing into the back of your van if I have to be Robin. I’m Batman. That’s how these things work.
John Kerry
Have the courage to walk away, those that value you will want you back, & those that do not won't hold you back.
Trevor Driggers
A city obsessed by its ghosts seems to be weighted down by a conflicted view of the past. Something close to melancholy: a weight it can't quite let go of, a lingering sadness. And though we don't often think of the United States in these terms, this melancholy is as much a part of our history as our triumphs.
Colin Dickey
This is the part they don’t tell you about in the movies. Or in On the Road. This is not rock ’n’ roll. You are not William Burroughs, and it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference if Kurt Cobain was slumped over in an alleyway in Seattle the day Bleach came out. There is no junkie chic. This is not Soho and you are not Sid Vicious. You are not a drugstore cowboy and you are not spotting trains. You are not a part of anything—no underground sect, no counter-culture movement, no music scene, nothing. You have just been released from jail and are walking down Mission Street, alternating between taking a hit off a cigarette and puking, looking for coins on the ground so you can catch a bus as you shit yourself.
Joe Clifford
Two Parts. One Whole.
Victoria Green Jinsey Reese
...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
David Levithan
We don’t hide crazy,” I said. “We put it on the porch and let it entertain the neighbors.
Nick Wilgus
Hope is a flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.
John Mark Green
And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.
Nancy Garden
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
Mira Sorvino
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
Brigham Young
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
Criss Jami
Courage doesn’t defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.
Richelle E. Goodrich
He turned to Matt and gave a huge smile, one hand on her withers. James reached out and pulled Matt to him, and they stood there in a little circle. It felt disconcertingly like… a family reunion. Matt turned away from James‟s bright smile and looked at Miz in something akin to horror. Was she their… child? Miz nipped him. Hard. While snorting horse mucus all over him. Damn thing couldn‟t even blow her own damn nose. Would she ever grow up?
Anne Tenino
That girl's heart is bigger than Texas." Her eyes narrowed. "And it's as tender as a baby's butt. You take care with it, you hear?
Rachel Harris
If there’s anyone we are sure to learn something from, it’s the one who pushes our buttons.
Kate McGahan
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
James A. Michener
Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).
Mary Roach
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.
Paul Lockhart
Nothing great happens without a great idea.
Debasish Mridha
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
Mahalia Jackson
Wit defies deathbut death defines wit
David Giannini
It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
Ellen Hopkins
Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.
Billy Graham
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
Adriana Trigiani
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Herman Melville
Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards.""I didn't know that words grew on trees," said Milo timidly."Where did you think they grew?" shouted the earl irritably. A small crowd began to gather to see the little boy who didn't know that letters grew on trees."I didn't know they grew at all," admitted Milo even more timidly. Several people shook their heads sadly."Well, money doesn't grow on trees, does it?" demanded the count."I've heard not," said Milo."Then something must. Why not words?" exclaimed the undersecretary triumphantly. The crowd cheered his display of logic and continued about its business.
Norton Juster
What happened?" Bailey asks."That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story.""And you're not going to tell me, are you?"She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says."Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?""Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed.
Erin Morgenstern
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
Aimee Bender
There was something in the way he posed a question and followed it up with a generous pause, I think, that drew me out. I had never noticed all the pauses that were missing from most people's conversations.
Suzanne Rindell
Just like real sex, the touching was good, but there came a point in time when a woman needed to be filled - deeply.
Lacey Alexander
We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.
Anna C. Salter
From beneath the folds of his robes, he reveals a small steel dagger. “You have tempted fate so many times already and still yield to it. Time for history to rewrite itself. Time for Tutankhamen to have a new ending.” Aten holds the hilt out to me.I stare at the dagger. The hilt is bronze, carved with sun discs that glow when they catch the sun. “What do you want me to do with that?”Aten smiles a white, gaping grin. “Kill Tutankhamen and carve out his heart.
Kate Rooper
An excuse will not wake up early
Johnnie Dent Jr.
He'd fantasized about her too? "You don't have to fantasize anymore," she murmured...
Katie Reus
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
Veronica Roth
Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.
Elizabeth Bear
Tasers are a one-size-fits-all paranormal butt-kicking option. Mine’s pink withrhinestones.
Kiersten White
Etiquette tip: If you're looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, "No one leaves here alive," that's your cue.
Rick Riordan
You can break a man with hope.
Kate Morgenroth
Today is filled with solutions, be positive and enthusiastic at ALL times. Why worry or live in fear, it will probably never happen!
Ron Barrow
Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.
P.W. Catanese
You are the artist, and your days the canvas. Will you create an original masterpiece, or live a paint-by-numbers kind of life?
John Mark Green