Quotes by American Authors - Page 629

So you've taken to spying on her. It must be love.
Richard Finney
No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it.” Nick did not bother trying to deny it. “I was going to be so much smarter than you,” he muttered. Sir Ross grinned. “I prefer to think that intelligence has nothing to do with it. For if a man’s intellect is measured by his ability to remain untouched by love, I would be the greatest idiot alive.
Lisa Kleypas
Ella, if it's magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.
Brad Barkley
I’ve succumbed to the absolute power of the man that pulls, culls, calls my unwitting submission. And I’ve embraced the power of my submission to draw him in further, to have him kneeling and worshiping what he’s conquered. I’ve known surrender and strength with him. True freedom. And a hell of a lot of orgasms.
Willow Madison
No one wanted to deal with damaged. It made them uncomfortable.
Cambria Hebert
God wants you to bless Him because it’s the purpose you were originally created for.
Andrew Wommack
In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.
Neil Postman
Little girls have large maternal instincts, and they take the Feast of Hungry Ghosts very seriously, and they were making their rounds with small lanterns made from candles inside rolled lotus and sage leaves. I could feel ghosts all around us, moving toward the warmth of the sweet singing voices: You are not alone, the girls sang, you are not forgotten, we care and understand, our own lives are but a candle flame from yours.
Barry Hughart
Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.
Christopher Hitchens
Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
John Adams
I do consider it my responsibility to know everything there is to know about anything that could be considered my domain. I believe I am quite adept at the management of people and events.” His green eyes twinkled. “You’ve certainly managed me since the day I was born.” “I was but three years old when you were born,” she protested. “I didn’t start managing you for at least another year.
Erica Ridley
Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
Adrienne Rich
You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.
Sarah Dessen
Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.
Brian Rathbone
A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.
Chris Prentiss
Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending—deadly, if you weren't careful.
Kiersten Fay
You do not believe in the magic and power of this book only because you cannot comprehend that it is possible. The lack of faith of your part does not make the power less capable or less real...You only have to open up your mind to the possibilities. There is a sea of power out there, all around us. It doesn't wait until someone believes in order for it to exist. It just does."-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
Alec Wilkinson
Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.
Lois Greiman
There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.
Renee Ahdieh
All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.
Justin Cronin
Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser.
Andrew Solomon
August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.
Elizabeth Spencer
So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.
Billy Graham
So why isn't the world overrun with evil spirits?"Moira stared at her, a half-smile on her face. "Who says it isn't?
Allison Brennan
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein
True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.
Ken Poirot
Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
Society needs to evolve just as our DNA does.
Kat Lahr
He (Peter) doesn't know if he's looking into the eyes of a madman, or the eyes of a King.
Roma Downey
I become a horn to be heard over whistles.
Krysten Hill
Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.
Robert M. Price
I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.
Lisa Kleypas
Memories are as infinite as the horizon.
David Arnold
In short, if you should find yourself in a fight against a vampire, you are really right and proper fucked.
Robyn Bachar
Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.
James Jones
Don't confuse activity with action.
Mark Sanborn
Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to dictate our relationships with others and ourselves.
David W. Earle
See, I am very dependent... on beauty and peace of the world... on loyalty of friends... on love in families... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have it all...
Galina Nelson
I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.
Sarah MacLean
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
Anne Fortier
'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my neck. It wasn't until I saw you that the knot loosened.'
Sara Bell
How is it that I am completely naked while you haven’t shed even one stitch of clothing?”“Because you were dinner, Rebecca.”A snort escaped, mixing with her laughter. “Remind me to have dinner with you more often. I have been missing out.” “You? What about me?
Krystal Shannan
Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.
Nathan W. Morris
Design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process, maybe even a strategic differentiator.
Pearl Zhu
Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens for the angels with whom, on some level, she wanted to commune.
Chris Bohjalian
Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.
Isaac Marion
Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?
Dave Eggers
So the first time she and Leo combusted, she'd practically been poised for the breakup. In some inexplicable way, she'd been looking forward to it and all its attendant drama, because wasn't there something nearly lovely–when you were young enough–about guts churning and tear ducts being put to glorious overuse? She recognized the undeniable satisfaction of the first emotional fissure because an unraveling was still something grown-up and, therefore, life affirming. See? The broken heart signalled. I loved enough to lose; I felt enough to weep. Because when you were young enough, the stakes of love were so very small, nearly insignificant. How tragic could a breakup be when it was part of the fabric of expectation from the beginning? The hackneyed fights, the late-night phone calls, the indignant recounting for friends over multiple drinks and in earshot of an appropriately flirtatious bartender–it was theatre for a certain type of person . . . Until it wasn't.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan
In my civilian world at home in Los Angeles, half the people I know are on antidepressants or anti–panic attack drugs because they can’t handle the stress of a mean boss or a crowd at the 7-Eleven when buying a Slurpee.
Evan Wright
What are you doing?” I asked Loretta. “Stabbing a cushion,” she told me.
Joel N. Ross
Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter
A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.
Mark Lawrence
There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.
Criss Jami
Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak
I will learn your anger. I will lick your sadness.I will feast on your hunger.
Caitlyn Siehl
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
Alan W. Watts