Quotes by American Authors - Page 598

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband only another man would make me think that way.
Lauren Bacall
Sometimes the best choice is to wait.
K. Weikel
Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possess is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart.
Colleen Hoover
The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.
David S.E. Zapanta
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.
Thomas Merton
He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.p92
Frances O'Roark Dowell
Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. Kelley Harrell
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.
Gloria Naylor
God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.
Anne Lamott
i know more than i know and must learn it from myself
Marilynne Robinson
I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other sideI guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye
Carrie Underwood
Better safe than sorry!
Jodi Picoult
Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.
Gregory McDonald
Be real, rare, refreshing you! Fan the flames of self love and ignite your light!
Amy Leigh Mercree
Each person carries within their core the birthright of creative freedom, which, when organized and orchestrated, is the most awesome force on earth.
Bryant McGill
When you have nothing left, you don’t have anything to lose.
Tessa Clare
When in doubt, focus on your heart. It will show you your destiny.
Debasish Mridha
His smile is too beautiful for this world, and I am dying of love.
Ann Aguirre
There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at the very point of that very surrender, when I became convinced that I must bow to a world that would be forever frigid, God cupped the hands of my soul and poured in the warmth of Christmas.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don’t let hatred control you, no matter what others do that causes [anger]. You would only become guilty of the same sin that afflicts them, and nothing would be solved.
Billy Graham
I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.
Lionel Shriver
You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the most potential to go anywhere you wish in this world – your test scores and grades have always been among the highest of your peers. But it’s clear now that you cannot reach your full potential in Syria.
Zack Love
Stay with me.Always.
Suzanne Collins
My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.
Cynthia Hand
The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy’s most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind’s destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race.
Janet Fitch
There is nothing about you to be embarrassed about
S.C. Stephens
Twenty years ago, two of the CIA's best double-agents had been murdered in their own home on Christmas Eve. The husband had been killed first, and the wife had been raped repeatedly before she'd been beaten to death. The two children were never found.
Katie Reus
We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives some polish to our tarnished lives, and sometimes we may choose one dream over another, and in the choosing find some respite from ordinary sadness. After all, we, none of us, can ever untangle the knot of fictions that make up that wobbly thing we call a self.
Siri Hustvedt
Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.
Richard Brautigan
Rare and precious moments, how I long to live with you eternally! If only your sweetness never ceased to touch my lips, and the flutters you evoke nevermore faded away. I dream of your arm extended immeasurably to keep hold of my reaching hand. But Father Time, being a cruel master, will not grant such a wish. And so I tuck you away as cherished memories, stored in a treasure box buried in my heart. And in times of solitude, I shall bring you out to view like rainbows.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.
Lucian Bane
Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.
Muriel Rukeyser
So while the world thinks of you as a real-life Bruce Wayne with hundreds of millions in the bank and models draped across your arm, you’re really Batman, aligned with the Resistance, and you kidnapped me for your own good?”“Exactly,” he said.“Isn’t that what an assassin would say in such circumstances?” She batted her eyelashes.
Avery Flynn
Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.
Mike Schmoker
....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.
Holly Lynn Payne
Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.
Mike Bond
When I near Charlie’s house, I notice she’s standing in the doorway with a spatula in her hand. Despite being on edge, I can’t stop myself from grinning. I feel like such a chick around her sometimes, like I’m seconds away from buying a tiara and starting my period.
Victoria Scott
A gentle answer turns away wrath.
Gary Chapman
To waste valuable time on stressing over those who treat you unkindly, accomplish nothing of importance. Rather, that time should be spent working on most important things, that actually create something of value that is worth your time.
Ellen J. Barrier
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.
Noah Webster
Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an’ lose yo’self in it.
Jason Medina
As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.
Rick Riordan
I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life.
Deb Caletti
He cupped my face in his hands and wiped my tears with his thumbs."Better?""Yes."He looked into my eyes and said, "I'll never leave you alone, Anna. Not if I can help it.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.
Fred B. Craddock
The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about “who we are” fuel our sense of separateness
Christopher Zzenn Loren
Happiness is the china shop love is the bull.
H.L. Mencken
Winning without honor, is worse than a resounding defeat.
Frank Sonnenberg
In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.
Daniel Quinn
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
William James
What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
David Platt
Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.
Richard Mitchell
If you could possibly understand how precious and powerful your experience of this one lifetime as yourself is, you wouldn't be trying to go anywhere else.If you could know the perfection of time and space,You would slow each moment downTo drain every possible nuance of juice and flavor from it.When you leave this place, your body and mind and the earth which holds you, you will look back and only wish you had known the immense richness that you hurried through trying to find other better states of being.But this is the best bite.Heaven is here.Nirvana is now.As soon as you know that for sureYour life will never be the same again.In fact, in every way it seeks to get your attention. begs you to awaken to the magic right before your eyes.
Jacob Nordby
I'm so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.
Randy Kagan
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.
Jerome Stern
This book says 'life isn't fair' and I'm telling you, one and all, you betterbelieve it. I got a fat spoiled son�he's not gonna nab Miss Rheingold. And he's always gonna be fat, evenif he gets skinny he'll still be fat and he'll still be spoiled and life will never be enough to make himhappy, and that's my fault maybe�make it all my fault, if you want�the point is, we're not created equal,for the rich they sing, life isn't fair. I got a cold wife; she's brilliant, she's stimulating, she's terrific; there'sno love; that's okay too, just so long as we don't keep expecting everything to somehow even out for usbefore we die.
William Goldman
You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.
Junot Díaz
For the first time I had the best of both worlds--a mission to live for and a man to love.
Rie Warren
Who saidI can't wear my ConverseWith my dress, well babyThat's just me!
Demi Lovato
Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.
Eric Samuel Timm