Quotes by American Authors - Page 55

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
Nancy Hale
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
Louis L'Amour
When you want to talk about honor, they want to talk about money. When you want to talk about money, they want to talk about gentility. They either get the notion of honor or they don't. And if they don't, you probably shouldn't be fucking with them.
Liam Rector
If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.
Mitch Albom
Bitch you.
Colleen Hoover
If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for beauty." If we define "intelligence" as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a "gene for intelligence." The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
You think you're gonna find your soul. Ever since I've known you, you've been thinkin' that someday you're gonna crack and end up like your daddy. And you're been looking for proof that you won't. What you don't realize is this: the looking is the proof. Trust me when I tell you that Billy Dent never had a moment's doubt in his life about what he was and what he was doing. Your doubt is your soul
Barry Lyga
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Walter Colton
i want to remember
Maggie Stiefvater
The reply to this was that Three took out a small revolver, and this surprised me; for everyone knows that anger is most intense towards those you know: it is lovers and neighbors who kill each other. There's no sense, after all, in behaving that way toward a perfect stranger; where's the satisfaction? No love, no need; no need, no frustration; no frustration, no hate, right? It must have been fear.
Joanna Russ
Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories.
Lionel Suggs
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.
Jim Butcher
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.
Norman Maclean
The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.
Richard Powers
Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will.
Billy Graham
Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as written by isolate Miranda, raised on the romances in her father's library.
Michael Chabon
He simply preferred the sensation of soil beneath his feet and wind in his hair, of fresh, non-recycled air which carried on it the scent and taste of life. He preferred what was solid and real, where if you could see it you could touch it, feel its texture between the tips of your fingers. As far as he knew, no one had ever touched a star. Not even her.
G.S. Jennsen
Last, I would like to thank the dogs, not just the Vick pack, but all of them, simply for being dogs, which is to say, tolerant and perseverant; willing to connect with a world that does not always return their affection; and for proving, time and again, that life, while messy, difficult, and imperfect, has the capacity to exceed our expectations and feed our undying hope.
Jim Gorant
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.
Anne Bradstreet
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
Therese Anne Fowler
It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.
Thomas L. Friedman
Worthy or not, you will receive your destiny. Awake or not you will notice.
Julieanne O'Connor
I think we're supposed to know everything we can figure out. I don't think we're supposed to make up answers just because we can't stand living with unanswered questions.
Ben Logan
The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, two minds, two lives, two particular laughs in silly melody is important.And, it is yet unknown, as you are, to me.
Waylon H. Lewis
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Stephen R. Covey
Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?
Nadia Hashimi
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
He didn't get it. That's exactly why I needed my Maker's Mark. You can't throw my life into turmoil, and then screw me out of my bourbon too.
Donna Augustine
Ladies and gentlemen after what I've been through I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.
David Letterman
Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.
Chris Prentiss
He already couldn’t remember what it’d been like before her. He’d thought everything was great in his life but then he’d been thrown a curve ball in the form of this gorgeous, passionate woman who he suddenly couldn’t get enough of. Which made it official. He was hers, completely.
Jill Shalvis
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
Brandon Sanderson
The Luidaeg sighed and put her arms around me, pulling me close. "Come here," she said. "I need to hold someone, and you need to be held. It's a fair trade. Just for a little while, and then we can go on being what we are." I thought about objecting, but dismissed the idea and nestled against her, enjoying the feeling of security given by knowing someone bigger and stronger than I was would stop anything from hurting me. That's all childhood is, after all: strong arms to hold back the dark, a story to keep the shadows dancing, and a candle to mark the long journey into day. A song to keep the flights of angels at bay. How many miles to Babylon? Sorry. I don't care.
Seanan McGuire
Eventually I would learn that the enchanting tree was one of the resort's signatures, one of those subtle delightful touches that resonate on poetic, artistic, and even spiritual frequencies.
Leslie Le Mon
However you see the world, realize that you can be successful if you do the work. Being positive and doing nothing will generate nothing. Being negative and fighting everything that cross your path can still lead to success.
James Woosley
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
Tracy Chevalier
Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.
John Green
Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.
Lauren DeStefano
There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,
Alexandra Kleeman
Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..
Cassandra Clare
As concerns the question of the psychological engine that drove Hitler, the conventional interpretation of lusting after power is, in final analysis, the refuge of lack of comprehen
Russel H.S. Stolfi
It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.
Harold Bell Wright
Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.
Janet Evanovich
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
Martha Gellhorn
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell
...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.
Nikolas Schreck
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
Scott Belsky
Anything for you, Dru. And I mean it. Now, be quiet and let me concentrate.
Lili St. Crow
The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.
Debasish Mridha
I don’t dwell on the fact that I may have ridden on planes. That which I can’t remember having needed, I simply accept. It is the most preferable kind of self-insight: one that does not require any accompanying change in behavior.
Benson Bruno
Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went.
Cassandra Clare
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher
Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.
Henry David Thoreau
A smile is the most beautiful dance of a woman's heart.
Debasish Mridha
I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?
Marie Lu
The individual psychotherapy patient comes to the therapist with an almost automatic deference, a sense of dependence and compliance. The role pattern is old and established: the dependent child seeking guidance from a parent figure. There is no such traditional image for the family, no established pattern in which an entire family submits to the guidance of an individual. And the family structure is simply too powerful and too crucial for the members to go trustingly into an experience that threatens to change the entire matrix of their relationships. If the family therapist is to acquire that initial "authority figure" or "parent" role that is so necessary if therapy is to be more powerful than an ordinary social experience, he has to earn it.
Augustus Y. Napier
Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.
Ryan Lilly
The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.
Chris Prentiss
Be sure of your heart before you speak.
Lisa Mangum
she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
Jonathan Safran Foer