Quotes by American Authors - Page 535

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.
Allan Wolf
Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.
Gordon S. Wood
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
Joss Whedon
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
Bret Easton Ellis
Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling.But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.
Mark Batterson
Don’ttempt the scorpion if you don’t want toget stung.
Colleen Hoover
But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.
John Williams
We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well?
Jen Naumann
Be you wise and never sad,You will get your lovely lad.Never serious be, nor true,And your wish will come to you--And if that makes you happy, kid,You'll be the first it ever did.
Dorothy Parker
President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country.
Kilburn Hall
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
Julia Quinn
It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death…I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.
William Styron
Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now.""Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow.""You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen.
Ilona Andrews
Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.
John Sandford
If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
Richard Feynman
It is easy to create a memory, but it is almost impossible to forget.
Debasish Mridha
Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!
Lisa A. Mininni
One small decision can shape an entire life. Sometimes, if you're lucky, the biggest hardship can lead to your greatest blessing. It just takes time to see that God works in mysterious ways.
Penelope Ward
I want to do everything to you, all at once,” he muttered. “I want to stroke you, fuck you, hold you down, lift you up, pin you, take you. I want you to take me. Lord and Lady, Sophie, I don’t know that I have any gentleness in me tonight.
Thea Harrison
In this vast universe when I was getting lost, you made me infinite with infinite love.
Debasish Mridha
Nancy took her tiny little baby and held him down toward Norton."Look Norton," she said, "This is a baby."Norton looked up at Charlie, took him in, and sort of nodded as if assimilating the information.There was a very long pause, and then I heard Nancy gulp."You've finally done it," she said to me."What?" I wanted to
Peter Gethers
God calls us to live lives of purity.
Billy Graham
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.
Mark Helprin
I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?
Mattie Stepanek
Despite what you think you know, sometimes your plans may be interrupted. Because you were designed for a purpose. You are on a mission to achieve greatness. No matter what obstacles lie in your path, you will reach your destination. Remember God's grace is sufficient.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.
Anna Godbersen
Hell was what you made it
Charles Bukowski
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
Alan W. Watts
Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.
Maud Hart Lovelace
A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.
Pearl Zhu
A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even when that resolution and fulfillment are dark, the journey can still be vivid, potent and illuminating.
Bill Johnson
And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.
Garth Risk Hallberg
I'm happy, Ahren. I'm a princess. I have everything.""I think you're mistaking comfort for joy.
Kiera Cass
Each human being deals with hurt or resentment in a unique way. When you feel insulted or bullied, you may reach for a chocolate bar. In the same circumstance, I might burst into tears. Another person may put his or her feelings quickly into words, confronting the mistreatment directly. Although our feelings can influence how we wish to act, our choices of how to behave are ultimately determined more by our attitudes and our habits. We respond to our emotional wounds based on what we believe about ourselves, how we think about the person who has hurt us, and how we perceive the world. Only in people who are severely traumatized or who have major mental illnesses is behavior governed by feelings. And only a tiny percentage of abusive men have these kinds of severe psychological problems.
Lundy Bancroft
Finally, I formulate and say a little prayer to God, and since we haven’t officially spoken since my mom and Elliott died that takes up quite a bit of my time. The rest of it I spend on trying to determine what I think love really is and what I actually feel for Tally Landon at this point. Upon deep reflection, I realize that I must be at the edge of life’s abyss. This is me. All there is left of me; and yet, I’m looking over and contemplating its meaning on whether to jump or stay. I’m not sure this feeling for Tally Landon is made up of love any more than it is of hate. This must be a kind of purgatory—the in-between place—because these pervasive feelings of rage and passion for Tally are equalized and actually co-mingle together—like fire and water—each ready to extinguish the other. I’ve come to accept the truth. There may be nothing left for us. It could go either way.
Katherine Owen
I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions.
Alexandra Bracken
Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. "NO?
Brenda M. McGraw
Think with your eyes open.
Shelly Crane
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,Adore to weeping,Love to laughing,Desire to praising.Tickle, giggle, kiss!Adonai my God,For one moment in love,Let alone a thousand,Let alone my life,For the honor of raising and lovingChildren in love,Praise of You is ever upon my lips.
Zoe Klein
Don't discuss your relationship problems with friends. Your zombie problems are another story entirely.
Jesse Petersen
A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
Angela Flournoy
You've turned out good.You've made me proud, Markos.I am fifty-five years old. I have waited all my life to hear those words. Is it too late now for this? For us? Have we squandered too much for too long? Part of me thinks it is better to go on as we have, to act as though we don't know how ill suited we have been for each other. Less painful that way. Perhaps better than this belated offering. This fragile, trembling little glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
Khaled Hosseini
The daddy-at-home theory posits that concealed ovulation evolved to promote monogamy, to force the man to stay home, and thus to bolster his certainty about his paternity of his wife's children. The many-fathers theory instead posits that concealed ovulation evolved to give the women access to many sex partners and thus to leave many men uncertain as to whether they sired her children.
Jared Diamond
You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.
Richie Norton
A dalliance with poetry before we dance.
Delano Johnson
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.
Joan Rivers
New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.
Damon Runyon
Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.
Gayle Forman
Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.
Suzy Kassem
So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.
Steve Maraboli
Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.
Jay-Z
God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human flesh and be tortured on a cross in order to absorb the penalty for sin on our behalf. God wants no one to perish but for all people to come to repentance, and He grieves when people don’t.
Evan Minton
We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.
James Baldwin
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Eric Hoffer