Quotes by American Authors - Page 643

I love you always. Time is nothing.
Audrey Niffenegger
Part of the forces that sent Sam trudging across the white prairies was love of life, a gladness for health and youth that filled him as Mozart's gayest music filled him; and part of it was his belief that the earth on which he walked had been designed by the greatest of artists, and that is a man had the courage and fortitude not to fail it, it would not fail him. In Sam's rough mountain-man philosophy those persons who became the wards of sadness and melancholy had never summoned for use and trial more than a part of what they had in them, and so had failed themselves and their Creator. If it was a part of the inscrutable plan that he was to live through this ordeal, and again cover the bones of wife and child with mountain lilies, the strength was lying in him, waiting, and he had only to call on it- all of it- and use it, without flinching or whimpering. If he showed himself to be a worthy piece in the Great Architect's edifice he would live; in Sam's philosophy that was about all there was to it.
Vardis Fisher
To nourish your soul, see the beauty of nature and feel the love.
Debasish Mridha
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.
Gary L. Francione
Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.
M.B. Dallocchio
A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.
Margo Kelly
Jesus "...It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who do Evil Shit in My Name.
Kevin Hearne
Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses—one black, one white, and the third red.
Holly Black
Love doesn't go away just because you realize you can't be with someone
Lexi Ryan
The dividing line forms-fashioned from:Dragon's tearsMissed yearsOvercome fearsThe fire and ice paradoxSeen with True SightDarkness does not always equate to evilLight does not always bring good
P.C. Cast
Will you wear my ring so all the world knows yer mine?"Beck wasn't asking for her hand in marriage, but it was so close he might as well be. Riley was deeply touched and she struggled to find the right words."Yes," she began. "I'd be proud to.
Jana Oliver
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Gloria Steinem
It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God’s Word.
Billy Graham
As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.
Elizabeth George
It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.
Rebecca Donovan
Bravery usually looked stupid from the outside.
Damon Suede
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
Diane Keaton
The acrid odor of overloaded circuitry permeated the air, the horrid smell witness that at least one of his senses was working as sights and sounds became one with the unknown. Eventually he collapsed to the floor, wondering if he'd wake up in mortality. Then the muddled spectra went black, the silence that followed only possible in the deepest sectors of space. Or death.
Marcha A. Fox
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Michael Jackson
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
Lauren DeStefano
I'm afraid to have a boyfriend. I don't know how to do that and not lose who I want to be. And I'm afraid of what it means to be close to a guy, a guy I might really like."There it was: the truth.
Julia Karr
The Law was never given to gentiles but to Jews only, so why do so many gentiles struggle today with mixing law and grace?
John Paul Warren
John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
H.W. Brands
The author relates that the word "OBSCENE" springs from the concept in Greek drama that certain actions would be performed outside the scene or off the stage. He clarifies that the Greeks did not shy away from shocking actions, but they knew that portraying them in the audience's view would drown out the emotional subtlety of the character development and ethical dilemmas.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
Lemony Snicket
Next time when I dive into the territory that I had lived next to, where my sister grew up, I know what to expect. I would be ready. I would be prepared.
Erica Sehyun Song
It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.
J.R. Rim
Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she'd stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city.
Gillian Bradshaw
I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don’t live in decent society.
Jessica Anthony
If we are not living IN our bodies, honoring them as our TEMPLE, we are closing off the divine channels (nadis) of energy that run through us. Additionally, when we are not in good physical shape, we limit our enjoyment of our life experience. Thus, yoga is spiritual and physical.
Dashama Konah Gordon
Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.
Neal Stephenson
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.
Thomas Szasz
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
Chuck Palahniuk
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
William Goldman
No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.
George R.R. Martin
As he walked, he felt the darkness behind him, following him. He swore he heard it whisper, “Run!
Michael Chrobak
True freedom comes only from true wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.
Steve Maraboli
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.
Criss Jami
TRUTHWhenever you stand up For your conscience, Be prepared to be hated By the wicked. But never, ever,Let that scare you;For whenever you Stand up for God, By him, You are loved.
Suzy Kassem
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Paul Theroux
A bit of adviceGiven to a young Native AmericanAt the time of his initiation:As you go the way of life,You will see a great chasm. Jump.It is not as wide as you think.
Joseph Campbell
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
John Green
To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.
Robert M. Drake
In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don't want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom.
Ken Wilson
I can't settle for merely liking a man when I've known what it’s like to love one.
Emily Ann Benedict
How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?
Robert Nathan
And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.
Elizabeth Gilbert
You're the Baba Yaga?" He gazed at her in disbelief. "But the Baba Yaga is an ugly old crone, and you're, you're... not!
Deborah Blake
Mindfulness is a quiet strength and deeply rooted value which many other cultures understand and often practice better than we do. It can be puzzling to people from other countries as to why Americans are so task-driven and action-oriented.
Susan C.Young
Ego and pride is a two headed twist.
T.F. Hodge
When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Joyce Carol Oates
As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one of those drunken long shots which just might, at least theoretically, once in ten thousand tries, throw a relationship right out of its orbit and send it whizzing off on another. Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.
Christopher Isherwood
In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States.
Susan Quinn
But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.
Kelly Cutrone
Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.
Kamal Ravikant
Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.
Michael Cunningham
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
Russell Shorto