Quotes by American Authors - Page 654

Mychael Eiliesor. Guardian paladin, sacred protector, master spellsinger, fashion consultant.
Lisa Shearin
I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.
Anne Fadiman
God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability.
Mary Kay Ash
Let it be love that you are living in.
Debasish Mridha
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.
Stephen King
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn Monroe
Our thoughts make everything possible in this impossible world.
Debasish Mridha
Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
Truly," remarked Nandi as we entered a darkened tunnel, "it is amazing that you have not died yet, mistress." "Well, hang in there. The night is young.
Richelle Mead
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Madeleine L'Engle
Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.
Myles Horton
Wanting and wishing are very different
Jonathan Friesen
Consciousness blooms with the expansion of the heart.
Lindsay Godfree
All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience.
Erwin Raphael McManus
The SleepingI have imagined all this:In 1940 my parents were in loveAnd living in the loft on West 10thAbove Mark Rothko who painted cabbage rosesOn their bedroom walls the night they got married.I can guess why he did it.My mother’s hair was the color of yellow applesAnd she wore a velvet hat with her pajamas.I was not born yet. I was remote as starlight.It is hard for me to imagine thatMy parents made love in a roomful of rosesAnd I wasn’t there.But now I am. My mother is blushing.This is the wonderful thing about art.It can bring back the dead. It can wake the sleepingAs it might have late that nightWhen my father and mother made love above RothkoWho lay in the dark thinking Roses, Roses, Roses.
Lynn Emanuel
I canna let you die like Da,” he said softly.t“And yet ye canna let me live,” she replied.
Madeline Martin
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
Okay, well, on Borelletrox V, the males are kept completely isolated from all images of the female until Binding Day and the females are, erm, let's just say they’ve' got a lot of--
Jackson Lanzing
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Ben Ames Williams
All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.
Criss Jami
What do you think? Overkill?""I don't believe there is any such thing.But in this case, 'yes, overkill.
Howard Tayler
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
Bill Hicks
Tell me what you want, Mads.""You," she said in a shaky whisper. "I want you, Ronan.
Sara Humphreys
When we actually refer to God’s blueprint, we gladly work in fascinated conjunction with it, suddenly realizing that any other action outside of that blueprint is foolhardiness and lunacy of the worst sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I learned that within the confines of God’s story, nothing had been stolen from me, but rather everything was given to me. My life, which felt so out of control, was in reality in complete control – God’s control.
Wendy Blight
It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing.
Kate DiCamillo
When faith simplifies things that need to remain complex, instead of giving us strength to live with complexity, when it gives us answers where none exist, instead of helping us appreciate the sacredness of living with questions, when it offers certainty when there needs to be doubt, and when it tells us that we have arrived when we should be searching-then there is a problem with that faith.
Brad Hirschfield
How do you get rid of unhappiness? You must release yourself from the prison you have unknowingly placed yourself in. Come to terms with the fact that there are things that you cannot control. But, just because you don’t ‘control’ something, doesn’t mean it’s going to fall to pieces. That may be the hardest part. We get bent out of shape when something happens that is out of our control, because we don’t understand why it’s happening or where it’s coming from. It’s unsettling. You put your fighting arms up and prepare to battle the world. But, stop for a moment. Think. Where are all of these things coming from?The world is not a wild, untamed place, where things are a free for all. Understand that there is a higher power running the world.
Leigh Hershkovich
We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves.
Marty Rubin
My new elf husband wasted no time in carrying me to the bed, then tumbling us both onto the coverlet.
Cristina Rayne
Wherever you love everything around you, forgive the past, show the gratitude, feel the joy of life, because you are a miracle still alive.
Debasish Mridha
I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.
Stephen Dunn
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
Freedom is not an individual effort.Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
Sergio Aragonés
At evening when the lamp is lit,The tired Human People sitAnd doze, or turn with solemn looksThe speckled pages of their books.Then I, the Dangerous Kitten, prowlAnd in the Shadows softly growl,And roam about the farthest floorWhere Kitten never trod before.And, crouching in the jungle damp,I watch the Human Hunter’s camp,Ready to spring with fearful roarAs soon as I shall hear them snore.And then with stealthy tread I crawlInto the dark and trackless hall,Where 'neath the Hat-tree's shadows deepUmbrellas fold their wings and sleep.A cuckoo calls — and to their densThe People climb like frightened hens,And I'm alone — and no one caresIn Darkest Africa — downstairs.
Oliver Herford
The profoundest thing writing teaches us is how much we contradict ourselves.
Marty Rubin
I had a dream about you last night. I was writing a ‘Sex for dummies-Christians That Secretly What to be Porn Stars- 1st edition.’ And you helped me with the illustrations.
Crystal Woods
Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.
Theodore Roethke
Americans share an affinity to establish a distinctive identity and know one’s self in a physiological, psychological, and spiritual sense, and we strive to attain self-actualization, self-realization, and/or bliss.
Kilroy J. Oldster
I believe that courage is all too often mistakenly seen as the absence of fear. If you descend by rope from a cliff and are not fearful to some degree, you are either crazy or unaware. Courage is seeing your fear, in a realistic perspective, defining it, considering alternatives and choosing to function in spite of risks.
Leonard Zunin
I always say that my success has been three parts support and encouragement from my amazing network and one part piss and vinegar.
Amber Hurdle
Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too.
Beth Fantaskey
I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.
Jess Rothenberg
As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.
lauren klarfeld
And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart that's Mary too not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it Lily that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to persist in love.
Sue Monk Kidd
Man cannot control himself, and if he will not be controlled by Jesus Christ, then he will be controlled by Satan.
Billy Graham
In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will be our delight, our joy. This experience is humanly impossible. No ordinary person can speak in truth like this. If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace.
John Piper
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.
Emily Giffin
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
William S Burroughs
Most people give up finding their soul mate, and settle down to just having a flesh mate.
Anthony Liccione
What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach
Lee Child
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
Allen Klein
Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns of animals that he hunts, in order for us to heal, to achieve and maintain a state of mental and physical health,we must be in touch with our body and be aware of the symptoms of illness. Our ability to heal, and the healing process itself, should never be taken for granted. Vanity often keeps us from accepting that we’ll all inevitably face cycles of being weaker and stronger,sicker and healthier.
Ori Hofmekler
There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules. …There is pride, too, though–pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.
Anthony Doerr
When you change your thinking, you change the world.
Debasish Mridha
We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can’t feed the living.
James Jean-Pierre
He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.
John Willis Zumwalt