Quotes by American Authors - Page 594

Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wants or care, bothers me. The book while interesting, was not what i expected, yet, the last chapter was the most disturbing, love knows no bounds, she had unconditional love for Spencer, it is a shame it was not reciprocated. she deserved so much more. but she did it out of love. how can you argue with that? i hope her free spirit is still surrounding all of us.
Katharine Hepburn
If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.
Robert Brault
Laughter is the best medicine
Chase Soundly
You can have religion but not know Christ. It’s having Christ that counts.
Billy Graham
And don’t miss Frank Otto, the world’s most tattooed man! Held hostage in the darkest jungles of Borneo and tried for a crime he didn’t commit, and his punishment? Well, folks, his punishment is written all over his body in permanent ink!
Sara Gruen
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
Thomas Jefferson
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Maya Angelou
As I gave my hand to one and then another of the Winter Knights, hoping to forget Kian's kiss in the arms of the other dancers, I could feel Kian's eyes piercing through me, their flame-tinged ice searing through my soul.
Kailin Gow
Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
Idowu Koyenikan
Find what you want. I will find you.
Lloyd Alexander
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.
Francesca Lia Block
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
Dinesh D'Souza
The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is an euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.
Bob Black
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
Raymond Chandler
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
Tom Robbins
Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.
Molly Friedenfeld
But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
Lurlene McDaniel
Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends.""You're a twisted little man.""Come on, Stretch, share with the class.""No!" I laughed."Prude.""Perv.""Schoolmarm.""Some other word that essentially means perv.
Molly Harper
...he didn’t know when he was going to get the chance to play WoW again. And it was damn important to do his bit to save all life on Azeroth while he could.
Thea Harrison
With my tongue buried deep in her sweet cunt, I mumble, “Yes, you’re definitely the girl for the job.
Ella Dominguez
Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.
Kim Harrison
Because deep down you know that someone needs to keep you out of trouble.
Mike L. Hopper
Have you ever come out of a dramatic, chaotic situation and said, “I did everything I could, and it wasn’t enough?”That’s because “everything we can” isn’t enough. It’s only enough when our everything joins with Christ’s everything.
Toni Sorenson
Perspective, patience, & trust. One derived from the past, one applied now, and one for the future. Powerful allies for your journey in life.
Gary Rudz
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.
Grace Paley
I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They think of it as a special privilege. Going to school, being with other children, getting books and pencils - all of that is like a dream for them.
Cheryl Benard
To have a good business, always have a caring heart.
Debasish Mridha
I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time. It is my choice, William, and you cannot make it for me.
Cassandra Clare
I will always find a way and a way will always find me.
Charles F. Glassman
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
Rollo May
There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.
Veronica Roth
Bob leaned back and straightened his red paisley power tie. His smile was a bit lopsided and more than a bit suggestive. “In my experience, older women have very definite ideas about what they want—ideas that don’t include wheezing, potbellied, middle-aged guys with receding hairlines.” He chuckled and smoothed his flaxen tresses once more.She drummed her fingernails on the white tablecloth and looked for the waitress. That made six times so far this insolent pup had used the term “older women.”He gave her the once-over. “Nowadays, older women are so—”God help him if he says...“—well preserved.”Lina briefly closed her eyes. It was going to be a long evening.
Pamela Burford
Men will always create new arenas for honor if traditional rituals fade.
Joel Dinerstein
That,” Adriana said, “is a puzzling mystery that must be solved.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
He'd saved her life and killed her trust. He'd thought it a fair trade, at the time.
Alyssa Day
Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.
Sharon Lee
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what's at stake isn't a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.
Lewis H. Lapham
Once you embrace that continuous change is a natural process for your growth and evolution, you will be reminded that who, what, and where you are now is a temporary condition. Understanding this fact is foundational for hope, positive change and resilient transformation.
Susan C.Young
happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.
Jennifer Egan
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
Barack Obama
Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you.
Susan May Warren
Hate destroys a bridge but forgiveness rebuilds it.
Debasish Mridha
It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.
Ashly Lorenzana
Someday my prince will come,” she lamented softly, “too fast.
Melinda DuChamp
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."
A.B. Simpson
He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.
Dianne Harman
Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth.
Marty Rubin
Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever.
Megan Duke
No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.
Nina LaCour
The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.
Kristen Iversen
A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.
Joe McNally
Art is not in some far-off place.
Lydia Davis
This is THE most romantic thing that has ever happened to me, and it involves both drugs and a toilet.
Katie Heaney
He who doesn't fear his own imagination...is not worthy to envision.
Lionel Suggs
By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.
Cassandra Clare
You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
Kazu Kibuishi