Quotes by American Authors - Page 590

When a man looks into a mirror and can no longer see his own reflection... he has lost his way.
Brian Leslie
Time is always ready.
Debasish Mridha
When happiness depends on a situation or creation, it is not happiness; it is the joy of action.
Debasish Mridha
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Dean Acheson
The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.
Daniel Quinn
As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.
Suzanne Collins
W. S. Plumer said, “We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, ‘I have sinned’; but the returning prodigal said, ‘I have sinned against heaven and before thee’; and David said, ‘Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.
Jerry Bridges
Unhealthy people tend to be unhappy people.
Toni Sorenson
Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished
Esmé Raji Codell
You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.
Becca Fitzpatrick
A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he’d affected her. Of how he’d changed her.
Katherine McIntyre
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.
Anne Rice
Don't Fear the Reaper.
Rae Hachton
My beauty doesn’t lie between my thighs.
Tracy Ames
Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and devotion—I still don't believe in them.  For I know the truth.  Only one such miracle worker exists who performs magic in my life, seeing to my wants and needs without fail.  That queen is my mother.  With unwavering faith I believe in her.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.
Jennifer E. Smith
Besides, two kinds of people have the courage to make someone else's decisions: the hero, who comes to your rescue when you can't even cry out for help, and the tyrant. The only difference between them is the hero listens. As soon as you can talk, he'll put you down if you say so.
Skyler White
A balanced diet” is not so much about protein/fat/carbohydrate ratios. The real ratios to consider, at least for the typical American or European, are energy consumption/expenditure, pleasure/actual need, food/everything else.
Darrell Calkins
There are no healing agents.
Herbert M. Shelton
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.
Brian Tracy
Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies—good or bad—cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.
Richelle E. Goodrich
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person place thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Four laughs vibrate in harmony,WarmDeliciousReal.
Stasia Ward Kehoe
His hand came out and captured her by the chin. She froze, finding it hard to breathe as he gently raised her face to meet his gaze.
Lia Davis
We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.
Rick Yancey
It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.
Jodi Picoult
If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
Frans de Waal
Ames clucked his tongue, “You know, not all of us are so evil minded. You’ve just met the wrong ones.” He meant guys. “You’re all the same.” I should know.“Not all of us,” he said too soft but I heard. “But judgment before proven can eat one up with anger. Sometimes you just have to take a chance. Trust someone.
Cyndi Goodgame
Have and the have nots. Why do people say that, it’s stupid? I think it should be the gets and the get nots; that makes more sense.
James Jean-Pierre
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
Matthew Pearl
With all her finesse for cleaning, Snag sometimes felt that her biggest contribution to mankind was making a mess of things.
Seré Prince Halverson
There were times when I would forget her, though they were rare, and it would be for a time as though she had never existed; and then some passing girl's inadvertent gesture, or an accidental profile, or a hat like hers, would restore her, and restore the suffering too, and I would long again, somehow, to encounter or to see her.
Alfred Hayes
The life of truth is cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only in the silence of our mind are we One.
Vivian Amis
But my point is, homosexual is genetic. ‘Gay’ is a choice. ‘Gay’ is the admitting to yourself that you are not only homosexual, but you embrace it. You find joy in it. You’re thankful for it!
B.G. Thomas
For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.
Jeff Zentner
He downed the last of his coffee, carried his mug over to the pot, poured himself a refill, and returned to the
Lynda Hilburn
Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.
Pixie Lynn Whitfield
I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.
Roshani Chokshi
I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.
Jasinda Wilder
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
Barbara Kingsolver
Bethany had liked Miles because he made her laugh. He makes me laugh, too. Miles figured that digging up Bethany's grave, even that would've made her laugh. Bethany had had a great laugh, which went up and up, like a clarinetist on an escalator. It wasn't annoying. It had been delightful, if you liked that kind of laugh. It would have made Bethany laugh that Miles Googled “grave digging” in order to educate himself. He read an Edgar Allan Poe story. He watched several relevant episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and he bought Vicks®VapoRub™, which you were supposed to apply under your nose.
Kelly Link
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]
Benjamin Franklin
The sun just touched the morning;tThe morning, happy thing,tSupposed that he had come to dwell,tAnd life would be all spring.
Emily Dickinson
Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
Nelson DeMille
Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
Mercedes Lackey
Don’t savor temptations; don’t dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.
Billy Graham
Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.
Peter Kreeft
Film does not replace language, for it cannot exist without it. Film displaces language, exposes the abyss that threatens to engulf every semantic signification. Film parasitizes language, much as the animal does, drawing into its imaginary panorama that which remains undisclosed in discursivity. Cinema is a parasite.
Akira Mizuta Lippit
How strange it is, to be walking away. Is it possible that I am really going to leave Ray—here? Is it possible that he won’t be coming home with me in another day or two, as we’d planned? Such a thought is too profound for me to grasp. It’s like fitting a large unwieldy object in a small space. My brain hurts, trying to contain it.
Joyce Carol Oates
We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.
Harold Bloom
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Because, from the beginning , God said, 'I'm gonna put this world into your hands. If I run everything, then that's not you.' So we were created with a piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, and I think God watches us everyday, lovingly, praying we will make the right choices.
Mitch Albom
Reusability is key in reducing bugs and coding quickly. The more I use a piece of code, the more confident and familiar I become with it, which in turn significantly speeds up my development time.
Robert Duchnik
Where's the heart?" - Dimitri Belikov
Richelle Mead
If life has taught me anything it’s to appreciate what you’ve got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had.
Kristen Callihan
He pauses then, studying me. “How would you have done it?”His question surprises me. “You mean how would I have killed you?”“Yes. Do you have a favorite method for such things?”Since he knows I am an assassin, there is no need to be coy. “I prefer a garrote. I like the intimacy it allows me when I whisper reminders of vengeance in their ears as they die. But in your case, I had sharpened my favorite knife especially for the occasion.”His brows quirk up. “Why no garrote for me?”I look pointedly at his thick neck, bulging with muscle and sinew. “I do not have one big enough,” I mutter.
Robin LaFevers