Quotes by American Authors - Page 637

It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.
Jack Finney
To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.
Elaine Dundy
He sighed and bowed deeply. “Sundari. I was standing here thinking nothing could be more beautiful than this sunset tonight, but I was mistaken. You standing here in the setting sun with your hair and skin aglow is almost more than a man can…fully appreciate.
Colleen Houck
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
C.D. Wright
When we are able to realize that life is endless and not ephemeral and that life is transformational and not static—then all fears will vanish from our hearts.
Debasish Mridha
Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.
Rachel Caine
Every advantage is temporary.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.
Roger Zelazny
I’m a man of integrity. My heart is locked and I have given you the only key.
Delano Johnson
You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.
Karen Joy Fowler
The greatest gift you can give yourself is to develop your full potential.
Carolyn E. Cobelo
Love anyone and everyone, don't fear for rejection. Love is an inner perception, there is only love, no place for rejection.
Debasish Mridha
Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.
April Mae Monterrosa
Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One.
Erich Fromm
A new day is born in gleaming fire, rippling pools of light racing in from the horizon. It is one of the most breathtaking sights you can see. And we miss every second of it. We only have eyes for each other.
April Daniels
Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
I’m proud of you, son,” he said. “I guess it has finally sunk in that it’s important to stand up for yourself in this world.”Rocky shook his head. “It’s more important to stand up for someone who can’t stand up for herself,” he had answered.Rocky Ryan speaking with his father.
Karen Mueller Coombs
He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time.
Donna Lynn Hope
Did you really think I'd steer you wrong?" Then William pointed to the wide-open country beyond the next ridge. "New York's that way. My compass is unerring.
Garth Risk Hallberg
I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.
Gail Carson Levine
I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.
Mike Weaver
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.
Susan Taylor
I wanted to bathe myself in that burn, to let the radiation take my skin and flesh and bones until I was nothing but charged particles dancing in space.
Bethany Hagen
Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
Jaleigh Johnson
Evil doesn't just go away.
Heather Graham
Such a funny thing death is for mortals. You cry. You morn. You grieve. You get angry. But death is not always tragic, dear one. Sometimes death is the ultimate expression of love.
R.K. Ryals
Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met.
Amy Sohn
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
Zora Neale Hurston
... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.
Dan Brown
Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that of informing and empowering lives.
Aberjhani
The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by what she cannot judge anyway. The humble woman is grateful for her successes but not disheartened by her failures. She enjoys her gifts and readily admits her mistakes. She maintains a sense of humor, whether the news from Wall Street is giddy or glum. She faces her character defects without getting discouraged. Her humble confidence in God’s love and her enchantment with the kabod Yahweh shape a hedge of thorns against self-absorption and frees her for an unselfconscious presence to others.
Brennan Manning
Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!
Deborah Day
Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
Nicholas Sparks
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
Benjamin Franklin
Think people really want to know what's out there?""Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck
Lizzy Ford
I welcome monsters into my bedand set a place for them at breakfast,leave sugar out for their coffeegoddamnI’ve always been so good at loving monsters
Fortesa Latifi
After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz.
Nick Nolan
When you seek, you lead in discovery.
Jean Hamilton-Fford
Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad
Charles Fishman
Until people learn to love others more than they love to hate others, not much will change in this world.
Rob Liano
Dinner was served on mismatched plates with paper napkins and silverware that looked like it had been stolen from a school cafeteria. The spaghetti was from a box that was still poking out of the garbage pail, the sauce from a jar that was sitting beside the sink. I got the definite impression that he chose to make dinner because he couldn't afford to take me out.
Arlene Schindler
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
Lois McMaster Bujold
A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated
Viola Shipman
Vulnerability has a strength of its own.
William Zinsser
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
Ursula K Le Guin
Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.
Kenneth Patchen
Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process..
Germany Kent
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
Melodie Ramone
FORKED BRANCHESWe grew up on the same street,You and me.We went to the same schools,Rode the same bus,Had the same friends,And even shared spaghettiWith each other's families.And though our roots belong toThe same tree,Our branches have grownIn different directions.Our tree,Now resembles a thousandOther treesIn a sea of a trillionOther treesWith parallel destiniesAnd similar dreams.You cannot envy the branchThat grows biggerFrom the same seed,And you cannotBlame it on the sun's direction.But you still compare us,As if we're still those twoKids at the parkSlurping down slushies andEating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)
Suzy Kassem
Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
James St. James
In the mornings, my pain was magnified by about a thousand. In the morning there weren’t only those sad facts about my life. Now there was also the additional fact that I was a pile of shit.
Cheryl Strayed
...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
William Stafford
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
Jacqueline Carey
I think a lot of science can seem like magic before it's explained properly. Sometimes we don't have the observations, the data, or the right words yet to explain it. Surely there was a time long ago when people watched a butterfly emerge from a chrysalis and thought of it as magic.
Gina Linko
Dreaming is good, but actions are better. Actions are what transform dreams into reality.
Debasish Mridha
We always want what is not ours. It’s intriguing. We think if we can just get that, we’ll finally be happy. The lure of what we do not have is deceptive.True freedom, however, is found in being content with what we already have. Can you imagine it? Can you imagine being whole, complete, fulfilled - content with what you already have? It sounds too good to be true.Utter satisfaction? That is freedom.That is what everyone is searching for.Where, though, can you find this kind of contentment?I've noticed that the more I’ve come to know Jesus, the less I've desired material things.Materialism is what happens when you find your joy in things. Contentment is what happens when you find your joy in Jesus. They’re complete opposites. You can easily differentiate a materialistic person from a content person.
Cole Ryan
The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.
George R.R. Martin
With each tweet, post, share and comment, we are building and adding to our digital iceberg.
Tiffany Sunday