Quotes by American Authors - Page 549

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.
Kami Garcia
I should stay to be sure she doesn't have a concussion. And that she doesn't need sex for it. Or just to be there in case she did . . .
Robyn Carr
They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.
Jess "Chief" Brynjulson
Myths do not happen all at once. They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words—to the memories—to keep them rolling on their own. But all stories start somewhere, and that night, as Rhy Maresh walked through the streets of London, a new myth was taking shape.
V.E. Schwab
Relationship math suggests that It is rare for two people to enter marriage and one person is to blame for everything that goes wrong
Johnnie Dent Jr.
Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.
Alaric Hutchinson
It doesn’t matter,” said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. “Some things are worth the trouble.
Richelle Mead
Jane: "Look, Dave Chandler left me on the ninth floor of our university research library without my panties after we lost our virginity together. He never called me again and actually turned on his heel and walked in the opposite direction whenever he saw me on campus. Unless you're going to do that, I don't think were gonna have a problem. Gabriel?"Gabriel: "Sorry. Something strange happened inside my head when you said the word "panties". The overwhelming urge to kill Dave Chandler combined with a simultaneous loss of blood to the brain.
Molly Harper
Above them, stars shine in constellations that Jenny recognizes from the ceiling of her father's house, the ones Mom and Dad helped her put up when she was in third grade. Constellations with names like Fire Truck and Ladybug Come Home, constellations that you won't find in any astronomer's catalogue.
Yoon Ha Lee
Follow your heart; don’t fear changes. With love, the heart changes its content.
Debasish Mridha
I used to play a game where I imagined that someone had abandoned me in a strange place & I had to find my way back home-I thought I could do it blind, the same way a lost dog might trek a thousand miles to return to its owner, relying on some mysterious instinct that drew the heart back to where it belonged.
Laura McHugh
Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.
Kenneth Eade
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education helps you to find beauty, but you are responsible to see it.
Debasish Mridha
I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me.
Meryl Streep
She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.
Amanda Quick
...and the sorrow sent her spiraling back into sickness.
Kenya Wright
A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.
Debasish Mridha
Are you being approachable when you are around new people? Ever not know what to say? Simply smile when you make eye contact. This is a subliminal invitation to help others feel safe—allowing a conversation to follow naturally.
Susan C.Young
Persecution, whether it is physical, social, or mental, is one of the worst types of pain, but those who persecute us are to be the objects of our prayers.
Billy Graham
Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.
Lisa Carey
Happiness depends on perception, not on possessions.
Debasish Mridha
In America we have an idolatry called the “adulation of youth.” Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.
Billy Graham
The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.
Richard Matheson
The one who truly sacrifices the most is usually the one who talks about it the least
Todd Stocker
Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level.
Marcia Conner
Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you.
Ellen Hopkins
Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.
Cassandra Clare
It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another’s value. It is easier to define yourself as ‘not that,’ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.
Jessa Crispin
By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they have succeeded magnificently. They have applied a novel tool to the task. We are that tool. Dogs have learned this--and they see us as fine general-purpose tools, too: useful for protection, acquiring food, providing companionship. We solve the puzzles of closed doors and empty water dishes. In the folk psychology of dogs, we humans are brilliant enough to extract hopelessly tangled leashes from around trees; we can conjure up an endless bounty of foodstuffs and things to chew. How savvy we are in dogs' eyes! It's a clever strategy to turn to us after all. The question of the cognitive abilities of dogs is thereby transformed; dogs are terrific at using humans to solve problems, but not as good at solving problems when we're not around.
Alexandra Horowitz
But you will trust me again, Annabelle. You will want me again, and we will be together. I will behave. You'll see. - Zacharel
Gena Showalter
Visualization: daydreaming with a purpose.
Pen
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."~Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis
My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
Nina LaCour
I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it was the world was cracking open to show me something really important underneath. I knew I was only seeing a tiny bit of it, but it was bigger than anything I'd ever seen or felt before.
Ruth Ozeki
Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I'm so sorry, Henri," I whisper in his ear. I close my eyes. "I love you. I wouldn't have missed a second of it, either. Not for anything," I whisper. "I'm going to take you back yet. Somehow I am going to get you back to Lorien. We always joked about it but you were my father, the best father I could have ever asked for. I'll never forget you, not for a minute for as long as I live. I love you, Henri. I always did.
Pittacus Lore
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
Amby Burfoot
Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded.
Mike Klepper
We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.
DaShanne Stokes
You want to give the biggest klutz who ever walked the earth a sailboat? I might run over someone.""Just make sure they deserve it," he answered without missing a beat.
Donna Grant
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Ernest Hemingway
Every single Biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the book of Genesis.
Ken Ham
It's not your job to like me, it's mine
Bryon Katie
If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves" - Fernando Conclaves
Deborah Harkness
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Edna Woolman Chase
Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.
Steve Maraboli
Butterfly causing a tsunami with on beat of its wing.
Michelle Dalton
Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.
Terence McKenna
But we do not choose our deaths. The Norns do that at the foot of Yggdrasil and I imagined one of those three Fates holding the shears above my thread. She was ready to cut, and all that mattered now was to keep tight hold of my sword so that the winged women would take me to Valhalla's feasting-hall.
Bernard Cornwell
She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell."tHe smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.
Erin Kellison
...that whole day, being with Willem, being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door.
Gayle Forman
We came to this world to enjoy the magic of love, the beauty of existence, and the joy of life. We did not come to this world to look for money and fame.
Debasish Mridha
The intelligence of women is not out in the world, acting on its own behalf; it is kept small, inside the home, acting on behalf of another. This is true even when the woman works outside the home, because she is segregated into women's work, and her intelligence does not have the same importance as the lay of her ass.
Andrea Dworkin
If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.
Lisa Locke
But had Minkowski and Einstein not recognized it long before us, our schizophrenic children would have taught us that space-time is a unity that precedes any separate understanding of either category; just as grasping this unity is a precondition for understanding causality.
Bruno Bettelheim
I wanna be so consumed with the love of Christ that it flows into every aspect of my life.
Evangelist Jordan Wells
[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.
Tina Fey