Quotes by American Authors - Page 625

The myriad of flavors explode on my tongue, shimmy through my mouth, slap my taste buds and call them filthy bastards, and I love it.
Stacey Jay
Think how wonderful it might be to no longer matter, Mrs. Peregrine. Think how wonderful it might be to no longer worry, struggle… or fail.
Diane B. Saxton
Eli: Dear Lord, thank you for giving me the strength and the conviction to complete the task you entrusted to me. Thank you for guiding me straight and true through the many obstacles in my path. And for keeping me resolute when all around seemed lost. Thank you for your protection and your many signs along the way. Thank you for any good that I may have done, I'm so sorry about the bad. Thank you for the friend I made. Please watch over her as you watched over me. Thank you for finally allowing me to rest. I'm so very tired, but I go now to my rest at peace. Knowing that I have done right with my time on this earth. I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.
Book of Eli Movie
It’s easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.
Elizabeth George
I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don’t find that look attractive on women and I don’t want to become part of that trend. It’s unhealthy and it puts too much pressure on women in general who are being fed this image of the ideal, which it is not. I think America has become obsessed with dieting rather than focusing on eating well, exercising and living a healthy life. I also think that being ultra-thin is not sexy at all. Women shouldn’t be forced to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy body images that the media promote. I don’t need to be skinny to be sexy.
Scarlett Johansson
Love is fuel for the soul.
Molly Friedenfeld
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Brenda Ueland
Saying goodbye to someone you love isn’t really the hard part. It’s living every day, not being able to say anything to them at all.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
Raymond Carver
You don't have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.
Mark Batterson
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.
Ravi Zacharias
Those with a perpetual victim mindset tend to create the situations from which they suffer.
Steve Maraboli
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
Jack Weatherford
God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
Francine Rivers
If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.
Mike Klepper
Rockface sheer and imposing, emerges from the sea, reminding us nature makes no allowances.
Marcia Meier
You can never lose anything. You only gain the moment of beauty like a bud transforms into a flower.
Debasish Mridha
In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.
Timothy J. Keller
Some of the strongest warnings about judgment in the Bible come from the lips of Jesus.
Billy Graham
Don't lie to a liar,
Victoria Aveyard
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My home made education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London asking questions. One was, “What’s your alma mater?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.
Malcolm X
Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course, or drive both majorities and minorities into the cruelties of the Inquisition, the pogrom, the gulag, or the jihad....A rejection of absolutism, in all its forms, may sometimes slip into moral relativism or even nihilism, an erosion of values that hold society together…
Barack Obama
The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connection…starting from a disconnection from themselves and then with others. This is why love often becomes so distorted and destructive. When people experience a disconnection from themselves, they feel it but do not realize the problem.
David W. Earle
Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.
Rafe Esquith
He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.
Dick Van Dyke
He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
J.E.B. Spredemann
Properly buried.""Properly kept.""That is the way with witches.""And with all things.
Victoria Schwab
Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.
Sarah Manguso
The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.
John Green
Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?
Becca Fitzpatrick
But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that’s what mothers did.
Kiera Cass
Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you.
Richard Foth
If you fall still stand your ground and strive for that new start.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".
Maggie Stiefvater
In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.
Liza Wiemer
It takes definitive action to see positive gains.
Michael Hyatt
Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way to let Happiness happen in your life in Abundance!
Sereda Aleta Dailey
Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.
Carew Papritz
Nothing fun in life is easy.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause; the mortality rate was terrible.His train of thought, the story's lifeline, beer-lubricated but no whit impeded, flashed and sputtered and coursed ahead like lightning in a topaz mist, and the loose fingers and hiccuping keys followed as fast as they could. ("The Penny-A-Worder")
Cornell Woolrich
She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.
Laini Taylor
The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.
Edwidge Danticat
Laire, get back here! You do not drink before we meet with our mortal enemy.
Danielle Monsch
Your tone of voice can be conveyed in both the words you speak and in the words you write.
Susan C.Young
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment but it is the better alternative.
Fannie Hurst
How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
Richard Bach
A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.
Timothy J. Keller
Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.
Dale Carnegie
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother’s influence. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. It is mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness. How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home—and how apparent when neglected!
Ezra Taft Benson
How beautiful a woman can be if kindness is her true beauty.
Debasish Mridha
Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one has ever asked them before.
Eve Ensler
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Helen Keller
There is one question George is asked about life and art and which is more important, and George said art is more important because it is immortal. This struck a very deep note inside me. For I am quite aware of the chance that I have or will have AIDS.tThe odds are very great and, in fact, the symptoms already exist. My friends are dropping like flies and I know in my heart that it is only divine intervention that has kept me alive this long. I don’t know if I have five months or five years, but I know my days are numbered.ttThis is why my activities and projects are so important now. To do as much as possible as quickly as possible. I’m sure that what will live on after I die is important enough to make sacrifices of my personal luxury and leisure time. Work is all I have and art is more important than life.
Keith Haring
A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.
Brenda Sutton Rose
Now all these virtues mean one thing, and that is bravery. A Sioux boy was taught to be brave always. It was not sufficient to be brave enough to go to war. He must be brave enough to make personal sacrifices and to think little of personal gain. To be brave was the supreme test of a Sioux boy, and this bravery might receive a greater test in times of peace than in times of war.
Luther Standing Bear
It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed,' my father said softly.
Chaim Potok
And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.
Robert Jackson Bennett