Quotes by American Authors - Page 581

I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see people being converted to Christ, and it would have a far greater impact on the social, moral, and psychological needs of people than anything else it could possibly do.
Billy Graham
Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.
Geraldine Brooks
He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them.Because–Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions–But he did not amend them, shows the Sky.The rest are worth as much as their pack animals, I show, but worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
Patrick Ness
When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
Alexandra Bracken
The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
Anne Rice
I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.
Alexandra Bracken
The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.
Karen Marie Moning
It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.
Gail Carriger
If I weren't so depressed, I'd kill myself.
Steve Kluger
Will you ever stop needing to be right?Will I ever stop needing you to be?
Scott Stabile
I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards
Charles Manson
You’re kidding, right? The whole town will know where we are just by the idle on that thing.”He feigned a look of shock. “That thing is a 1966 GTO. It has a name, okay? It’s Mack—as in ‘to mack on women.’ I rebuilt it last year, and I was told the engine makes girls hot.”“Someone actually used those words? Is it true?”“TBD,” he said.“You’re goofy. Let’s ride in my Jeep. Its name is Jeep.” Quinn chuckled. “Kavanagh has a smart mouth.
Laura Anderson Kurk
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
Serotonin, the "feel-good" brain chemical that is boosted by Prozac, depends on magnesium for its production and function.
Carolyn Dean
He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.
Joe Garagiola
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
Katharine Hepburn
It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.
Carson McCullers
After Jesus' fast, he began healing, rescuing, redeeming. The Spirit filled up the emptiness Jesus created, launching him into ministry. In some supernatural way the abstinence from food was the catalyst for Jesus' unveiling; the real fireworks were next.
Jen Hatmaker
We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella
Lisa Kleypas
Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?
Tamora Pierce
Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.
Donna Lynn Hope
Ultimately love is self approval.
Sondra Ray
Whatever you attempt go at it with spirit. Put some in!
David Starr Jordan
When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of love roaring inside.
John Mark Green
By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.
Maria V. Snyder
I happen to know this, and I happen to know that, and maybe I know that;and I work everything out from there. Tomorrow I may forgot that this is true, but remember that something else is true, so I can reconstruct it all again. I am never quite sure of where I am supposed to begin or where I am supposed to end. I just remember enough all the time so that as the memory fades and some of the pieces fall out I can put the thing back together again every day.
Richard Feynman
The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.
Charles Frazier
Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of strange men and women who lived in far-off, benighted places and times. Accordingly, the One who came to give abundance of life is commonly thought of as a cosmic stuffed shirt, whose excessive "spirituality" probably did not allow him normal bodily functions and certainly would not permit him to throw a frisbee or tackle someone in a football game.
Dallas Willard
The first thing I would like to share with youhere is that when you help people, you don’t waitaround until they say thank you because you didn’thelp them so you can hear appreciation.
Nouman Ali Khan
She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?
Sage Steadman
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.
Libba Bray
...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.
James Scott Bell
I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.
Colleen Hoover
People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you
Bella Pollen
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Edwin H. Chapin
Such a shovel, it seemed a waste not to use it.
Daniel Kraus
Problems are providence in disguise. All things good and bad, problematic and praise worthy are providential-God conceived, sustaining and guiding. With the right perspective, patience, hard work and hindsight, we can push through, beyond our pain, to a place of realization... that our troubles are simply part of the hands of the Potter who molds the very essence of our human spirit. As long as we breathe, we will be shaped by our problems but it’s our response that truly defines us. ~Jason Versey
Jason Versey
WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
Pema Chödrön
Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.
Andrea Gibson
Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--""Drugs?""Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?""No. But maybe rituals""Drugs might be better.
Maggie Stiefvater
I tried to curl around him, holding him with my arching body. His mouth was slow and searching, the kisses hard at first, then loosening as if unraveling from their own heat. The pleasure thickened, hard flushes rising through me, bringing the desire to full-slip ripeness.
Lisa Kleypas
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
Jack Kerouac
Maybe you should get a very large life insurance policy on the next husband,” Lily suggested slurping her coffee loudly. “You know, before he makes an ash of himself.”“Very funny, but don’t think I haven’t thought of it. It’s an unpredictable way to score more rental properties, but I do seem to be good at burying men.
Tracy Brogan
Your soul is bigger than your programming.
Claudia Gray
Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.
Andrew Sullivan
The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.
Daphne Kalotay
The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
Nouman Ali Khan
Victory is forged in the heart.
Noelle Crawford
Why are you being so mean?”“Friends tell friends the truth.”“Yeah, but not to hurt. To help.
Laurie Halse Anderson
I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be stupid."That explains why you freaked out on Apollo's bus. Why you didn't want to talk about it."She took a deep breath. Then she brushed the pine needles out of her hair. "If you tell anyone, I swear—"No, no," I said. "That's cool. It's just… the daughter of Zeus, the Lord of the Sky, afraid of heights?
Rick Riordan
A lot of you cared, just not enough.
Jay Asher
There was a faint ringing in her ears that turned into a roar. And beneath it, a sudden wave of numbness, a too-familiar lack of sight or sound or feeling. She didn't know why it happened, because she had been so dead set on hating him, but . . . it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the absolute truth about her—and didn't hate her for it.It would have been really, really nice.She walked away without another word. With each step she took back to her room, that flickering light inside of her guttered.And went out.
Sarah J Maas
With humor and humility you can withstand anything.
Shannon L. Alder
80There is no greater influence in the lives of your children than the words you speak over them. The blessing of the father is incredibly potent and powerful. Your words give your children potential. As their father, you are prophesying their future!
Neil Kennedy
When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.
Steven Ramirez
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.
Lewis Thomas