Quotes by American Authors - Page 601

Sometimes there’s a fire in your life and you ask God,“Lord, let me go around the fire.” And God says, “No.”Then you ask, “Lord, then let me go over the fire.”And God says, “No.” Then you ask, “Well Lord, please let me go under the fire.” And God says, “No. Go through the fire and I’ll be with you.
Lydia Thornton
After all, why things ended up in a way that you never imagine.
Mary Queen
Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.
Christopher Bram
Until you take your first step, you will not be able to open the door to begin the journey toward your ultimate goal.
Debasish Mridha
I'm too intense. I feel too much. And when I experience certain sensations, I act. Even if the situation is one I should probably walk away from. But you know what?" She was feeling a little better. "I'm never going to walk away, not from any of it. I can't. I am what I am. I'm intense, just as my fiance said. I feel everything around me, and I'm glad about that. I can't imagine life without the depth, without the magic that accompanies the pain.
Tara Taylor Quinn
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Chuck Palahniuk
Statistically, the odds that any given rape was committed by a serial offender are around 90 percent," Lisak said. "The research is clear on this. The foremost issue for police and prosecutors should be that you have a predator out there. By reporting this rape, the victim is giving you an opportunity to put this guy away. If you decline to pursue the case because the victim was drunk, or had a history of promiscuity, or whatever, the offender is almost certainly going to keep raping other women. We need cops and prosecutors who get it that 'nice guys' like Frank are serious criminals.
Jon Krakauer
The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.
Steven Magee
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.
H.P. Lovecraft
Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words.
Diana Gabaldon
What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be--not seem--outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined--as a means of being spontaneous. That one resist at whatever cost the fearful pressures placed on one to lie about one’s own experience. For in the same way that the writer scarcely ever had a more uneasy time, he has never been needed more.
James Baldwin
I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.
Sonia Rumzi
In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.
Barbara Kingsolver
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we walk in the sunour shadows are like barges of silence.
Mark Strand
It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.
Anthony Liccione
An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.
Robin Williams
You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
Sandra Brown
Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
Bayard Taylor
Time is an illusion.
Albert Einstein
Men believe women are hopeless gossips, but women know men are. The poor creatures are worse than women in some ways, because they cannot admit to themselves that they are gossiping, or doubt the discretion of the individuals in whom they confide. 'Strictly in confidence, old boy, just between you and me...'.
Elizabeth Peters
The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.
Roy T. Bennett
His kiss was cold, and his tongue made her sick. She felt a sharp prick as he pulled her even closer. Her conflicting thoughts dissolved from her mind, every thought except surrendering to him. The heat returned and she desired more, more of what he had to offer, more of what he was doing. She could not deny him any longer. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders pulling him closer, holding on to his solid form.
Jettie Necole
Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style
Cindy Ann Peterson
God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.
Shirley Jump
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.
Malcolm X
I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.
Mary Beth Chapman
I'm asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. And it's this: to be a part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language and customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one's hands--using all one's senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure (thought oral sex has to be a close second).
Anthony Bourdain
All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
Margaret Mitchell
Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.
Steven Millhauser
The power of the Will in a man, is favoured by the Heavens. The man who sets his Heart and Word onto something, and says "I will" no matter what obstacle is placed in his way— joins the ranks of the demi-gods. All else remain in mortality and are soon forgotten.
C. JoyBell C.
I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.
Stephen King
If I were a seagullI wouldn't have to stick aroundIf people argued- I would fly off,swerve, wheel, dip, scream.a thousand wings of company if I have friendstwo strong wings of my ownIf I don't
Caroline B. Cooney
Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn’t have to dress up for me.''Quiet, Sage,' he said. 'I’ll make the hilarious one-liners during this daring rescue.
Richelle Mead
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
Albert Einstein
Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word.
Billy Graham
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Robert W. Sarnoff
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
Tact by its nature entails staying mum, prudently electing to forgo urging other people to pursue an alternative course of action. Creation of silent spaces in our own life and equitable distribution of periods of respite that allow for periods of equable inner reflection is necessary to spur personal growth. It is equally important to honor other people’s intrinsic need for periods of introspection, uninterrupted by unsolicited advice
Kilroy J. Oldster
Remember that our desires will not arrive by our schedule. If you really want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
Wayne W. Dyer
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
Rufus Wainwright
It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.
Jack London
The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature.
Napoleon Hill
... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix.
J.P. Donleavy
The word "seek" is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or love, DO it - BE it!
Steve Maraboli
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not.
Ernest Hemingway
No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.
Kaza Kingsley
It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.
Marilynne Robinson
A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries.
Richelle E. Goodrich
But he just stared at my eyes, as if searching for a stray eyelash. A free wish.
Leah Raeder
I think that certain emotions can compromise you when you’re at war. If you stop to mourn the dead, or even to breathe in what you’ve done, you’ll be dead as well. Your brain goes to a primitive region, one inaccessible to feelings beyond pure anger and pure fear. Your brain is reduced to two impulses: fight or flight. Kill or be killed. No room for more delicate feelings. No room for a soul. All you’re thinking about is how to maneuver your body in space so it will survive.
Willa Strayhorn
While appearing weak is okay, giving in to weakness is definitely not.
Alyson Noel
They called you the Glue""The Glue?""Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together
James Dashner
When you tell your dreams you gotta tell people you trust, 'cause sometimes they’ll snatch your dream right away from you.
Michelle Muriel
God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited creation.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
Walter E. Cole
The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
Rick Riordan
You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things.
H.L. Burke
God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups.
Oliver Markus