Quotes by American Authors - Page 512

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.
Jean Lush
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
Charles Bukowski
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Horace Mann
Go find your own hiding spot!” I hissed. “The seat is not wide enough to hold me and that whale you call a nightgown.” Also, we were better off if whoever was coming caught one of us – and by one of us, I meant Rose.
Erica Sehyun Song
There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn’t say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann.
George Pólya
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes
Folks fall down all the time.. The key is to get back up ASAP
Sereda Aleta Dailey
The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord.
Kate Wicker
Worry, fear, doom, and gloom are all an absolute waste of energy ' ~ Ramie
Tim Bauerschmidt
My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.
Craig Silverstein
The secret of success is a pleasant personality with a sincere enthusiastic attitude.
Debasish Mridha
There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.
John Michael Greer
Every action or perceived inaction shapes credibility.
Mindy Hall
In her small voice, Persephone said, "I have nothing to add." After a moment of consideration, she added, however, "If you are going to punch someone, don't put your thumb inside your fist. It would be a shame to break it.
Maggie Stiefvater
It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.
Debasish Mridha
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.
Stephen Jay Gould
Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.
Slade Combs
If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
Sharon Salzberg
In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached.
Edward Abbey
A good leader is one who reveals to you your own potential and then inspires and shows you how to reach your potential.
Debasish Mridha
In order to get positive results, fill your mind with positive thoughts and take action.
Debasish Mridha
I'll turn into a god of pain and disease and build an altar to you from the bones of your murderer. Their suffering will be my first odes, and they will not end until I feel satisfied that even dead, resting wherever you are resting, you can hear the pain of the idiot that thought your death would go unavenged.
Ayize Jama-Everett
You know, maybe we don't need enemies.""Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
Bill Watterson
I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.
Sonya Bateman
Then someone cried out, “Suicide bomber!” The crowd panicked. In the ensuing stampede, terrified pilgrims ran in both directions, many colliding in the middle of the bridge. A side railing collapsed under their weight, and scores leaped into the water whether they could swim or not. Hundreds were trampled to death. More than a thousand died. Hundreds of pairs of sandals were scattered around the bridge, left behind when pilgrims made their desperate dives into the river. I was given all of seventy-five seconds to tell the story on the Nightly News.
Richard Engel
Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.
Lindsey Rietzsch
All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.
RuPaul
Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?
Colleen Houck
At every point in our food economy, present conditions remaining, we must expect to come to a time when demand (for quantity or quality) going up will meet the culture coming down. The fact is that we have nearly destroyed American farming, and in the process have nearly destroyed our country.from the essay"Nature As Measure
Wendell Berry
Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.
Cassandra Clare
And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are.""I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you.""What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?""Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.
Lisa Genova
He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.' 'That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in the worl can resist an evil-hearted man. And that is another man. In our shame is our glory. Only our spirit, which is capable of evil, is capable of overcoming it.
Ursula K Le Guin
Broken or whole... you're all mine. You... are all mine! ~Sade~
Lucian Bane
Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.
Jeff Goins
There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet.
Clara Kramer
Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.
Justina Chen
All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for 'he's standing right behind you'?
Skye Callahan
...There's a lot I don't understand...but not understanding is better not believing" - Ambrose
Amy Harmon
When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
T.S Eliot
So weird,” Decker mumbled. “I thought she walked through walls.”“I guess she doesn't have to. This is how she kept getting my porno stash last summer,”Beckgrumbled. “I had it behind lock and key.”“Our porno stash. I told you to give it to Grandpa Louis. She leaves him alone.
Lizzy Ford
Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.
Charles Portis
Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.
Rick Riordan
If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.
Fulton J. Sheen
Life’s easy.It’s living it that’s difficult.
Mike Sasso
All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book?
Sean Hinn
He saw trust. Complete trust. It was a gift, a precious one, and it humbled him. I've got you, Emeline. I will always be with you.Dragomire to Emeline, Dark Legacy, Dark #27
Christine Feehan
the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.
Erich Maria Remarque
Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart.
Marie Lu
Life is not kind. Who are you trying to kid, Kendall?” He sighed.
Holly Hood
Above all, protect your inner light. There are those that seek to take it from you.
Sara Secora
I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?""No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.
Rachel Caine
And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.
B.J. Novak
The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.
Timothy J. Keller
It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?
Craig Ferguson
Gutenberg (hesitantly): Perhaps the book, like God, is an idea some men will cling to. The revolution of print pursued a natural course. Like a river, print flowed to its readers, and the cheapness of the means permitted it, where the channel was narrow, to trickle. This electronic flood you describe has no banks; it massively delivers but what to whom? There is something intrinsically small about its content, compared to the genius of its working. And--if I may point out a technical problem--its product never achieves autonomy from its means of delivery. A book can lie unread for a century, and all it needs to come to life is to be scanned by a literate brain.
John Updike
It's all just practice for the next time
James E. Brown Jr.
It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right
Abigail Reynolds
The simple heart that freely asks in love obtains.
John Greenleaf Whittier