Quotes by American Authors - Page 503

Life is like an echo; if you love life, it loves you back.
Debasish Mridha
Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of life—the inescapable sorrows, the speechless longings, the disappointments, the regrets, the cold miseries. It also allowed one the leisure to ponder questions unasked in the bustle of brighter days; and if one were snug under a sound roof, as Abel was, one felt somehow mothered, though mothers were nowhere around, and absolved of responsibilities.
William Steig
'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.' 'You consider that unjust, Serenity?' 'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.'
Katherine Addison
The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.
Ravi Zacharias
Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic, with a good chance of A. indifference and B. disinterest in what the critics say.
Panic at the Disco
What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance?
Chuck Lorre
If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them.
Stephanie Perkins
You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.
Taylor Mali
Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain."Ditto.
Rick Riordan
Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out of fossil fuels. But it may end because burning these wonderful fuels puts the planet farther down a path we don't want to head down
Russell Gold
Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.
Tahereh Mafi
From Chapter 1:The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from the MP Corps, vowing I'd never do police or criminal investigative work again. Instead, I returned home when I should've learned better.
Ed Lynskey
Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.
Tess Gerritsen
right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
Maggie Stiefvater
They walked off on the earthy path, laughing not quite naturally, for they could hardly help being pleased by the momentary attention of descending passengers and by their own almost meritorious youth.
Shirley Hazzard
Our need to control eventually works against us b/c we start to repress what we truly feel, need and want. God is in control so trust in that more than yourself!
Michael Barbarulo
Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement
Robin Hobb
The ever-present macabre, a universal dance,You cannot hide, whether you wield crossbow or lance. Like the bones of the house in which you dwell, Death will come, to drag your soul to hell.
Christa Carmen
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
John Updike
When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.
Veronica Randolph Batterson
The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.
Lynne McTaggart
Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.
Colson Whitehead
The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal system while the lower classes resort to what scholars of violence call “self-help.
Steven Pinker
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
John Erskine
Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.
Kate Meader
The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.
David Platt
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.
Junot Díaz
If only he’d taken one look at her and seen that they were soul mates, swept her off her feet and taken her to Las Vegas to be married in the same little chapel where Britney Spears had been. She laughed to herself. It would probably have lasted just as long, once her mother found out.
Jettie Necole
There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source.
Bryant McGill
Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.
James MacDonald
There are very few personal problems that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.
Darynda Jones
For a moment, I felt sorry for him. The pain and disappointment of his life hung about him like a cloak. It permeated the air, giving him a rank and bitter scent. This, I mused, was an example of human betrayal left festering, and I felt some compassion for the man whose life had been so disturbed by his wife's ambitions and dishonesty.
Evette Davis
Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential.
Kamal Ravikant
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.
Steven Pinker
Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’ve always loved you,” he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. “You know this.” She swallowed a lump in her throat. “I only wonder whether I deserve such devotion.”“Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is,” he said with a quiet intensity. “What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.
Sherry Thomas
Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.
Craig Ferguson
There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.
V.E. Schwab
Maia screamed and woke. 'Serenity?' Cala's voice, Cala's angular shape outlined against the window. ' 'Tis an ironic title, in sooth,' Maia said feebly, realizing that the entangling garments of the nightmare were merely his bedsheets. His heart was hammering, and he was clammy with sweat.
Katherine Addison
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
Wally Lamb
Emma, everyone's afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.
Cassandra Clare
There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
Gretchen Rubin
Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver.
Thea Harrison
The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.
Abhijit V. Banerjee
But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that's celebration.
Shauna Niequist
God, or the 99 Gods, can’t give out miracles to everyone without contradictions.  Give to one, take from another.  Prayer is pathetic, if you give it any thought.  Prayer is nothing but ‘I’m special, gimme what I want’ egotism run amok, exactly the sort of muddy thinking I expect from non-Telepaths.Nessa Binglehause
Randall Farmer
I have to return some videotapes
Bret Easton Ellis
He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.
Emilie Autumn
Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are the most magnificent flower. Your beauty is immeasurable and incredible. The universe created you with all of her love and power to see herself in you.
Debasish Mridha
A picture is a personal diary where only the artist knows the meaning.
Steeven Shaw
Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.
Charles Martin
Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Because that is how one survives eternity,” I say, “or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.
N K Jemisin
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
Philip G. Zimbardo
If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.
DaShanne Stokes
Come on, baby. It’s time.”“You’re mean, Noah.”The blanket falls off her arm as I slide a finger down her shoulder. Goose bumps form along her skin at my touch. She may be cranky, but she’s responding.“A deal’s a deal,” I remind her.“I changed my mind. I’d rather sleep.” With her eyes still shut, she hunts for the cover, but I kick it off. She presses her lips together. “I’m serious. You’re the meanest person I know.”I kiss her neck then blow on the skin, pleased with the smile she’s fighting.“Does that feel mean?” I ask.“Horribly.” She giggles. “It’s torture.
Katie McGarry
Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?
Isaac Marion
Feast and your halls are crowded Fast and the world goes by.
Ella Wheeler Wilc