Quotes by American Authors - Page 592

How can it hurt so much to love someone?
Tracy March
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
Steve Maraboli
People say memories are there to be cherished. I believe memories are there to be created, and if you do something worthwhile today, you will stop living in the past
James Perrin
When one says, I won't judge you for that, what they're really saying is, I am judging you for that. Think about it. If you walk into my house and I tell you, "I won't judge you for wearing those pants," what am I really saying?
Dan Pearce
Where did you get that assault weapon?""Assault weapon?" Zach turned his head to look at her. "Well, lookey there. You're cute when you blush."Maddie's face grew hotter, but at least he'd mistaken the reason for her embarrassment.Zach turned his face back toward the ceiling. "That there's standard equipment, darlin'.""There's nothing standard about that.""I didn't hear you complaining.""Of course not. You sprang it on me when I was mentally incompetent."Zach laughed out loud. "That you were, sweet Maddie that you were." Maddie and Zach
Suzie Quint
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.
William Ellery Channing
Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together.
Aaron Hirsh
He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television.""Are you and Beetee going?" I ask."As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.
Suzanne Collins
Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.
Jennie Chancey
Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.
A.E. Samaan
Godzilla was coming...
Julie Kagawa
It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.
Bela Schick
You know how dey say some people “devour” books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books!
Mike Pantuso
We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.
Cortney S. Warren
Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.
Eric Greitens
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
Anaïs Nin
In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility.
Billy Graham
When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it.
Nora Roberts
...Why is it that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, the only disorder that you will ever diagnose with a physics textbook is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The laws of thermodynamics are always true, the energy balance equation is irrelevant...
Gary Taubes
Time is measured in meaning
Rene Denfeld
There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.
Stormie Omartian
And how can evil be the mere absence of good? Is genocide the absence of something, of what? Of kindness? Were there no kind Nazis? Of love? Were there no Maoist revolutionaries who loved their families? Evil is an act, we commit evil proactively, it doesn't simply emerge in the absence of good. When you don't put a dollar in the donation tin in the front of the convenience store it doesn't mean that an ax murderer was created. We human beings have one set of actions described as "good" and another set described as "evil.
T.J. Kirk
Today I began to criticise myself and look at myself with a judgmental eye... but then instead of going all out in that direction, I stopped and I began to understand me. And then I began to be patient with me. And then I began to feel a softness in the middle of my chest. So then I concluded that I can understand and be patient with me, just like how I am always understanding and being patient with everyone else. Why? Because I deserve that, and more.
C. JoyBell C.
When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?
Robin Sloan
It's called publishing. It's how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains.
Steven Magee
The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71
Vladimir Nabokov
He didn’t know if he was amused or unsettled by her ability to unbalance him the way she had. Correction. He didn’t know if he was amused, unsettled or pleased by her ability.
Ally Fleming
Of course not. No one is chosen. Not ever. Not in the real world. You chose to climb out of your window and ride on a leopard. You chose to get a witch’s Spoon back, and to make friends with a wyvern. You chose to trade your shadow for a child’s life. You chose not to let the Marquess hurt your friend--you chose to smash her cages! You chose to face your own Death, not to balk at a great sea to cross and no ship to cross it in. And twice now you have chosen not to go home when you might have, if only you abandoned your friends. You are not the chosen one, September. Fairyland did not choose you--you chose yourself. You could have had a lovely holiday in Fairyland and never met the Marquess, never worried yourself with local politics, had a romp with a few brownies and gone home with enough memories for a lifetime’s worth of novels. But you didn’t. You chose. You chose it all. Just like you chose your path on the beach: to lose your heart is not a path for the faint and fainting.
Catherynne M. Valente
This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.
Rose Chernin
I am in no mood to fulminate on paper--I wish the two of us were in a room together talking of what matters most, the air thick with affinity. In January a man crawls into a cave of hopelessness; he hallucinates sympathies catching fire. Letters are glaciers, null frigates, trapping us where we are in the moment, unable to carry us on toward truth.
Carlene Bauer
I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
Nicholas Sparks
I didn’t know who I was or who I wanted to be until you stumbled into my life. I refuse to let you go.
Alex Rosa
We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better.
Larry Crabb
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett
Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable.
Courtney M. Privett
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
Pema Chödrön
Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.
Marty Rubin
I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.
Cole McCade
You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come!
Kemi Sogunle
Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.
Don Roff
Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win...
Marie Rutkoski
Those who apparently do evil do it ultimately out of love, even if their actions are misguided for the moment.
Shepherd Hoodwin
What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?
F. Sherwood Rowland
I look for my sister but it's hopeless. The goggles are all fogged up. Every fish burns lantern-bright, and I can't tell the living from the dead. It's all just blurry light, light smeared like some celestial fingerprint all over the rocks and the reef and the sunken garbage. Olivia could be everywhere.
Karen Russell
I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.
Anthony Kiedis
Life is like a balancing act and we are always just a step away from a fall.
Dee Waldeck
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Christopher Lasch
I don’t even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, and she hadn’t, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you’re swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive. (83)
Ron Rash
It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it.
Stephen King
After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism
Niall Ferguson
This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and "The Wind in the Willows"--big Icelandic romance and small-scale, cozy English children's book. The story told by "The Lord of the Rings" is essentially what would happen if Mole and Ratty got drafted into the Nibelungenlied.
Adam Gopnik
Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?
Cassandra Clare
Take 5" is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent.
Don Maruska
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Henry Ward Beecher
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
Fulton J. Sheen
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.
Stephen King
Fear and doubt are major stampeders.
Karen Marie Moning
Put out more energy and it will return to you ... multiplied.
Jon Tetsuro Sumida