Quotes by American Authors - Page 500

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....
Ken Kesey
I have a bad feeling about this,” she said.t“We’ll fake it. And if push comes to shove, we can just sing Goober Peas and waltz around.”t “Rebecca might not find that very funny.”t“Rebecca is a Northerner. You can tell because there aren’t any cheese straws on the snack table.
Mary Jane Hathaway
Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.
Donald Miller
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes [of Eastern Europe] began instead to create a new system of state-controlled schools and mass organizations which would envelop their citizens from the moment of birth. Once inside this totalitarian system, it was assumed, the citizens of of the communist states would never want or be able to leave it. They were meant to become, in the sarcastic phrasing of an old Soviet dissident, members of the species Homo sovieticus, Soviet man. Not only would Homo Sovieticus never oppose communism; he could never even conceive of opposing communism.
Anne Applebaum
A child thinks and acts like a child. But when you are grown, you act and think like an adult. Too many people are still childish and immature and fail to realize it's a setback in their lives.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'Neill
There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.
Michael Connelly
Sweet girl, if I told you everything, life would lose all mystery.
K. Webster
Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, needless procreation, heartbroken families, and shattered dreams.
Mike Norton
The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.
Bryant McGill
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
Alice Hoffman
If I can do it, anybody can do it. Willpower is strong! I believe that. You just have to have faith in yourself—and God—and make sure you know where your priorities stand.
Gavin MacLeod
Depression is boring, I thinkand I would do better to makesome soup and light up the cave.
Anne Sexton
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
Bryant McGill
Call your destiny. Put in your work. Manifest your blessings.
Alafia Stewart
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing.
Anaïs Nin
Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.
Andy Stanley
He who serves God with what costs him nothing will do very little service you may depend on it.
Susan Warner
You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.
Patricia Polacco
Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.
Connor Franta
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.
Frank Herbert
In life, every step you take is an adventure. Never fear to venture and never forget to enjoy.
Debasish Mridha
In a world where PG 13 means kinda-sorta-depends on your level of morals, I don’t wish to loosen our kids’ morals just because some adults choose to say, “They are going to see it anyway.” If we don’t show them that integrity is something you should always have in the back of your mind, then we’ve given up on them.
Cyndi Goodgame
You don't die in the United States you underachieve.
Jerzy Kosiński
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
T.S Eliot
High culture can never be obliterated as long as the species continues to produce individuals with the inclination and fortitude to pursue their interests and talents against the grain of the mass culture surrounding them.
Susan Jacoby
You deserve good sperm. You’ve waited a long time.
Buffy Andrews
We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
Melissa Marr
If you’re not good, I’ll burn your—”“Yeah, I know.” MeShack strolled to his bedroom. “You’ll burn my balls off.
Kenya Wright
We are here, not to be someone, but to live joyfully, blissfully and love everyone.
Debasish Mridha
I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move through us, we can become the hands of Christ on earth. Hands that heal, bless, unite, and love. I'd like to think God's hands are a bit like Grace's man hands—gentle but big, busy, and tough. God's hands are those of a creator—an artist who molded and shaped the universe out of a void, who hewed matter from nothingness.
Cathleen Falsani
He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.
Robert M. Pirsig
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
For me, the most magical truth of this universe is that no magic is required.
Steve Maraboli
Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
Dean Koontz
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy
Richard Bach
Outside, it feels like there is less standing between the Creator and us. There is a lingering visceral connection we can hear and see and smell, reminders of the bond between Creator and creation, like the mountain sage crushed up in the pocket of the sweatshirt I was wearing on a short, muddy hike the other day. “In
Cathleen Falsani
There is more important work to be done here. The strong must lead us into a new energy age before our world dies out. Who's going to do that? You, Caleb? Your face bears new marks–you are not ready to win such a battle. - Adrian
Donna Galanti
Respect Death and You Live In Life
Christopher Thames
Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no control, and since I have but one life and that is fleeting, I should strive to do my best. I am like a crustacean attached to a crag on the bottom of the sea. Over me storms rage and huge ships sail; but my entire effort is concentrated upon clinging to the rock, for otherwise I will be carried off by the waters and perish, leaving no trace behind.
Czesław Miłosz
I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
Dean Koontz
My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say
Jonathan Friesen
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
Jay-Z
God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!
Shannon L. Alder
I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favourite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.
Janet Fitch
It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because ofthe need to assuage an unusual power drive.
Robert Greenleaf
Wisdom of the Ages "The Marshawn" US Army's new main battle tank. Runs over enemies instead of shooting them. Biggest expense: maintaining the dreadlocks hanging off the turret.
Matthew Heines
The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.
Susan Sontag
Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.
Iris Johansen
Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.
Bryant McGill
We have probably all seen teachers who would pick a student up by the scruff of the neck for saying ‘Shit,’ but who would walk by without a word when overhearing that same student taunting a classmate, calling him a ‘fag.’ It is often easier not to intervene — even when there is a clear-cut victim. It’s out in the hall. It isn’t our business. It isn’t our problem.But our inactions, like our actions, define who we are and what are true values are.
Richard H. Eyster
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
Brandon Sanderson
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?
A.S. King
The underlying issue in getting women to top positions is what kind of leadership we value and how we teach, assess, and promote “good” leaders in all organizations.
Maureen Chiquet
I Didn't Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted)
Doug Jensen
It's too much to be trusted with someone else's heart. I don't think it ever ends well.
Amy McNamara
Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved
Kristen Callihan
When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself.
Debasish Mridha
You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.
George R.R. Martin