Quotes by American Authors - Page 528

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.
Ron Brackin
There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.
Jennifer E. Smith
There are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof-Ellie O'Neill, This is What Happy Looks Like
Jennifer E. Smith
Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.
Shannon L. Alder
You never help anyone without helping yourself. You never pick up anyone without making yourself stronger.
Debasish Mridha
So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?""Yes.""Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something you'd do."I resisted the urge to smack him. "Because I'm not insane! But I'm going to go get them before they do something even stupider.
Richelle Mead
I want that person you knew to return. But the truth is, this may be the best we achieve. Today, having her here and comfortable and not agitated…that may be as good as we get. Are you okay with that?
Chris Fabry
Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.
Nora Roberts
If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.
Cora Carmack
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
Marty Rubin
Life is a continuum; neither black nor white, but a series of shades from light to dark. When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back.
Brownell Landrum
I don't know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He's just an asshole, creating this world full of human suffering and letting all these terrible things happen to good people, and sitting there and doing nothing about it. At June's memorial service, a few people came up to me and said some really stupid things, like how everything happens for a reason, and God never gives us more than we can handle. All I could think was, does that mean if I was a weaker person, this never would've happened? Am I seriously supposed to buy that June's death was part of some stupid divine plan? I don't believe that. I can't. It just doesn't make sense.
Hannah Harrington
Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning.
Lori Jenessa Nelson
Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.
Eve Glicksman
How much Romance do you like in your Fantasy? And, respectively, how much Questing do you like in your Romance?
Paula Millhouse
The most important things to know in life are how to love unconditionally and how to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
John P. Roche
The key difference between captain and coach? The latter’s opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
Carolyn Taylor
Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?"Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.
Dan Brown
I was ashamed by my vulnerability. Nergal had really broken me. I tried so hard to stay strong, but my body couldn’t handle my determination. Eventually, I gave in to what I thought was my ultimate demise. Although my body was still weak, one look at my savior refreshed my will to live, to be strong. I looked longingly into the depths of his eyes, trying to convey my love for him, but there was no way to show how my heart beat just for him. He wasn’t my soul mate, he was my soul.
L.J. Kentowski
What is the male equivalent of Bimbo?
Valerie Harper
The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.
Alexandra Kleeman
People are generally gracious and generous of spirit.
Del Suggs
People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn’t want to see.
Donna Tartt
While the classic conversion story involves desperation, hitting bottom, and a plea for help, I think now that it was gratitude, as well as the suffering I'd seen, that made room for me to open my heart to something new.
Sara Miles
If not me then who? Confront evil!
Ken Poirot
The only disability in life is a bad attitude/
Scott Hamilton
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.
Cornell Woolrich
Adapt to your surrounding but remain flexible for growing.
Ashley Porter
Think of a typical full-time worker, who's in the office from nine to five daily, but takes thirty minutes for lunch, leaves an hour early on Friday, and comes in an hour late on Tuesday due to a dental appointment. That puts her at 35.5 hours for the week. One errand tacked on to the end of lunch one day or a longish midmorning break will pull her under that thirty-five-hour threshold that defines "full time.
Laura Vanderkam
Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.
James Rozoff
Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.
John Green
The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.
Lauren DeStefano
I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
Jim Elliot
I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.
Eva Hoffman
In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they’re not supposed to have. They don’t always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.
Stana Katic
The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted.
Anthony Liccione
Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
Lloyd Alexander
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
Chuck Wendig
I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embrace.Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East,Where do you go?
Tom Carter
...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.
Richard Carlson
And it seems people should not build houses anymoreit seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floorsunder electric lightswithout shades;it seems there is a lot to forgetand a lot not to doand in drugstores, markets, bars,the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at nightand look through this house and the house does not want to be built
Charles Bukowski
Always be a seeker. Always be a giver without expecting anything in return. Remember that true joy is in the journey not the destination.
Debasish Mridha
Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.
Ann Aguirre
Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.
Debasish Mridha
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
Chuck Palahniuk
Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.
Mary Lydon Simonsen
Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .
Mary O'Neill
It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.
M. William Phelps
If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.
Kristin Armstrong
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
Roxane Gay
The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.
Meindert DeJong
They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.
Gillian Flynn
I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.
Mildred Aldrich
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Ron Suskind
If I wanted, I could come up with reasons to be angry with everyone I know; there are sins of commission or omission I could hang on every last person in my life… The truth is, I will never run out of people to indict. We are all guilty of so many failures to love well that if I wanted--and sometimes I do want--I could find some fault or transgression in everyone I know that I could then use to justify writing them off. I could blaze that trail to hell if I wanted to, and just the thought of it scares me off
Russ Ramsey
But that's the thing, how you feel about the place that's home. About its sky, its air, its smell, the color of the light, the way the rain falls (or doesn't), whether it hot or cold.
Laura McBride
History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.
Alasdair MacIntyre
You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute of your time looking in a mirror wishing you looked different.
Jamie Le Fay
Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!
Elizabeth George