Quotes by American Authors - Page 59

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never yours to begin with.
Jack Engelhard
I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me," I say quickly."I want to, though.
Lauren Oliver
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.
Marisha Pessl
Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.
Tibor Kalman
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.
James Baldwin
Monoculture is mono for the earth.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Chloe didn't have all the answers, either. I knew that now. But she had known something all along that I hadn't: that being ashamed of what you want or how you feel is pointless, and letting anyone else make you feel ashamed is a waste. We all wanted different things, and that was okay. Chloe wanted sex without commitment. Mary wanted to wait until she was ready. And I wasn't sure what I wanted, but I didn't want to make any decisions until I knew. And I was proud of that.
Kody Keplinger
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.
Seraphim Rose
A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked.
Shannon L. Alder
She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Mary Baker Eddy
There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.
Jessica Khoury
I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find.
Bell Hooks
Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin.
Lauren Lola
You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
Kate DiCamillo
An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means.
Kathy Dunnehoff
True love is very silent, very personal, very non-demanding, and nonjudgmental.
Debasish Mridha
We may view it as our responsibility to control something that is not in fact within our control and yet fail to exercise the power and authority that we do have over our own behavior. Mothers cannot make children think, feel, or be a certain way, but we can be firm, consistent, and clear about what behavior we will and will not tolerate, and what the consequences are for misbehavior. We can also change our part in patterns that keep family members stuck. At the same time we are doomed to failure with any self-help venture if we view the problem as existing within ourselves—or within the child or the child’s father, for that matter. There is never one villain in family life, although it may appear that way on the surface.
Harriet Lerner
The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.
T.S Eliot
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course
Marilyn Monroe
If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in!
Shel Silverstein
Abundance is not defined by possessions, but it is defined by inner perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.
Pseudonymous Bosch
Being 100 percent in the moment and focusing on the person you’re with is one of the finest compliments you can offer. One of the most respectful and considerate things you can do for another is to truly be with them in the here and now.
Susan C.Young
Most importantly, the epidemic was only news when it was not killing homosexuals. In this sense, AIDS remained a fundamentally gay disease, newsworthy only by the virtue of the fact that it sometimes hit people who weren't gay,
Randy Shilts
I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you and I will always love you.
Edward Cullen (Stephenie Meyer)
I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
Marisha Pessl
Last of all, this book owes perhaps its biggest debt to the ultimate models for Kira and Heron and every other awesome girl in the Partials series: my two daughters. May you always have heroines to inspire you, role models to look up to, and the freedom and courage to make your own choices, no matter how simple or scary or hard or eternal they may be.
Dan Wells
Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
Criss Jami
Liquor is not necessary either for health or for so-called gracious living . . .It is the cause of untold sorrow, suffering, and material loss, not to mention the spiritual implications of drinking.
Billy Graham
I won't ever ask if you don't ever tell me.I know you well enough to know you never loved me
Taking Back Sunday
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.
Dan Barker
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
Jane Yolen
The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes.
Raymond Chandler
One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish
John Paul Warren
Healthy people have healthy boundaries. Unhealthy people, well, let’s not get into that. It’s like this: some people have walls which means they let no one in. This equals unhealthy. Some people let everyone in and let themselves be stepped all over. This equals unhealthy.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French
Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.
Russell Kyle
One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.
Austin Grossman
Proving himself to himself was no small matter.
H.W. Brands
Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.
William S Burroughs
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will never understand why you Humans weren’t designed to recycle your body’s water after filtering waste. It’s just so much more efficient.
Bryan Fields
When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt.
David W. Earle
Love is a cheap word. Anyone can say it, and few truly know what it means.
Julianna Scott
A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood?
Alexandra Bracken
She placed her fingertips on her forehead as if trying to gather her thoughts on how to handle this unexpected scenario. "Do not run from a bear. Make yourself a large target and yell to scare the bear away. Bears are easily frightened unless it's mating season." "Oh, wouldn't it be just my horrible luck to fall on a horny bear?
Vonnie Davis
I never miss a good chance to shut up
James Patterson
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
Barbara Hall
We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.
Kate Wicker
May your union be filled with loveAnnealed by passion Built on a strong foundation And tempered by time
Richard L. Ratliff
And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.
Chuck Palahniuk
Good God, is the man a heathen?’‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.
Melanie Jackson
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Malcolm X
I think it is a wise person who does not answer the door to uninvited police officers. Who knows what kind of crazy person could be standing there with a loaded gun!
Steven Magee
In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the thrill of rapids, never comprehending your utter lack of control, your constant peril.
Andrea Cremer
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
Lorraine Anderson
The Ferryman will transport us across the moat,” Chris informed. “Yeah. This seems legit,” Gabriella quipped as Chris helped her onto the boat. Andrew followed behind.“Are you sure this isn’t a trick?” Egnatious asked.Again, uncertainty filtered into Chris’s blue eyes, but he nodded anyway. “This is the only way.
Laura Kreitzer