Quotes by American Authors - Page 548

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.
Sarah Vowell
Live Long and Prosper
Leonard Nimoy
What a slut time is. She screws with everybody.
John Green
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
Stewart Stafford
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
Mason Cooley
Keep your relationship private but don't hide the fact you're in one.
Genereux Philip
Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.
Jessica Day George
My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.
Flannery O'Connor
Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.
George R.R. Martin
You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s wealth, your title, your virtue—they mean nothing out here. They won’t fill your belly, and they won’t keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival. (Joseph to Lady Sarah)
Pamela Clare
Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
Stuart Dybek
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
Anne Rice
Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.
Madeleine L'Engle
Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.
Robert Arnot
Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you're going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of betraying people's trust.
Ron Suskind
Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world—somewhere between India and the United States. Who’s sending missionaries to that country? Who’s planting churches there?
Phil Cooke
A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone, even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone. Singleness can give us the kind of backbone - courage, confidence, and leadership skills that an effective Christian must learn.
Leslie Ludy
Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.
Kelli Jae Baeli
She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.
David Levithan
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
Benjamin Franklin
We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that irritate us. When we focus on the bigger picture, those small things fade away.
Ron Baratono
It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.
George M. Gilbert
Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Could a being create the fifty billion galaxieseach with two hundred billion starsthen rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?
Ron Patterson
You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.
Bill Jensen
I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What do you think is the problem? You’re a cute kid-­‐uh, guy. Man. You’re a cuteman.
Gena Showalter
There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.
Billy Graham
Revenge is a dish best served in something microwaveable
Josh Stern
That bowl was special because of the blue. It exactly matched your eyes.
Jennifer Ashley
Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.
Larry McMurtry
None of us are perfect, so a true friend will never look for defects in you as a person, it won't even cross their mind. Your happiness will be their main concern.
Ron Baratono
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
Steven Wright
It’s not the art, it’s the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it’s organic; it’s relational.
LaMar Boschman
Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light.
Debasish Mridha
To be fair, she called this morning. I stared at the phone. Circled it on my bed. And, eventually, it stopped ringing. If it had been important, she would’ve called back, right? That was the line of thought that ran through my head until halfway through the day, when I started to feel bad about it.
Kelley York
They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place.
Cormac McCarthy
He didn’t have regular email like everyone else. He couldn’t afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world.
Kenneth Eade
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
Rollo May
[Running] is a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can’t run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.
Scott Jurek
It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.
Garth Risk Hallberg
My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.
Pittacus Lore
His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss.
Vladimir Nabokov
There is only one way of salvation. Men are sinful rebels against God, by nature, enemies of holiness and He who is holy. Dominated by sin, ruled over by evil, we are helpless to even drag ourselves toward the true and holy God, even if we wanted to! We are dead in sin. "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love which he loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ" (Ephesians 2:4-5). The Father, in His infinite mercy and grace, saved us in Christ Jesus.
James R. White
I was unrecognizable even to family. When Kim saw me she yelled," That's not Amy!" Just before she passed out.
Amy Rankin
Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift
Tamora Pierce
We'll have all night for slow and sweet," she said softly. "But right now, I really want that hard and fast you mentioned earlier.
Samantha Chase
As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it does about them.
Michelle Alexander
People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle
Debbie Macomber
I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton
And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what?...to talk.("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")
Eudora Welty
She gave him a double-birded salute, and he barked out a rusty laugh. I’m laughing. Me. When was the last time that had happened? He couldn’t remember. But she kept doing things to amuse him. Shock him, even. Like pulling out a sword and expressing a very real fear about zombies. Zombies.
Gena Showalter
Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
Scott Adams
Think about the people in your life with whom you have the most engaging dialogue—the ones who will listen to you and consider your opinions regardless of the topic. They'll stop whatever they are doing to give you their full attention. They become completely present and hear you.
Susan C.Young
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.
Jean Liedloff
I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.
Raymond Carver
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough
Walt Whitman
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
Carroll Bryant