Quotes by American Authors - Page 661

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?""If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try.
Tamora Pierce
The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.
Jim George
Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.
Sven Birkerts
A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.
Catherynne M. Valente
Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.
Kelly Rossi
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
Those who master money are free to serve others still mastered by it.
Orrin Woodward
You create the possibility of reaching your desired destinations if you have the courage to begin your journey.
Debasish Mridha
And thus I wonder about so many gay men I’ve met since, pillars of the community, out to everyone else but Mom, who still refer to their lovers as something between a roommate and a valet. Just who is being protected here, and who thinks queer is wrong?
Paul Monette
Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy and enjoy life…!
James A. Murphy
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
Rollo May
In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.
James Martin
The only way out is through
Robert Frost
I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To “prove” I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.
Christina Enevoldsen
If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and that is the greatest pleasure ever.
Marina Budhos
You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.
Janet Jackson
No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.
Craig Groeschel
Why Is It That When You Wash Two Socks You Only End Up With One? Is There Life After Death? and Where Did The Other Sock Go?
Margaret Weis
Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
Jim Butcher
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
Bodie Thoene
I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm not able to give you those. Not for the others, anyway. For myself? Guilt. Shame. Fear. Self-belittlement. I discovered at an early age that I was-- shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general world than the other one. I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me--and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame. Shame. Shame.' It's society's way of dealing with someone different.
Ken Kesey
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry".
Erich Wolf Segal
GlowtWhat can you do and how can you be in order to bring out the best in others and truly help them shine?•tBe complimentary; say something nice.•tBe a great listener and make them feel like you are hanging on every word.•tCreate enthusiasm and anticipation for the person they are getting ready to meet.•tAct as you have personally invited them to the party and help ensure they have a wonderful time.•tGive people an experience, not just a conversation
Susan C.Young
I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.
Cesar Millan
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
Oprah Winfrey
But if a girl don't have her intuition, she don't got anything.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.
Buffy Andrews
When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the constant noise that pervade our world, and find rest in the probing depths of God's love.
Adam S. McHugh
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most...they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.
Brad Meltzer
Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.
Ricky Maye
If there is someone whom you would really like to impress, learn as much as you can to be informed, enlightened, and aware of them before you meet.
Susan C.Young
All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
Sarah Dessen
If we have not changed, we have not learned
John G. Miller
The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.
Leslie Marmon Silko
You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.
Kiera Cass
They were looking at videos, and the woman was giggling quietly, as they often do in porn stores, unable to believe what they’re seeing, the monuments men have built to vaginas and to the very notion of sex.
Drew Nellins Smith
One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It’s like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face.
Cheryl Strayed
She’s beautiful. Her responsiveness is intoxicating. I have to have this woman.
D.L. Hess
Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.
Rick Riordan
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.
Robert K. Greenleaf
Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?
Kevin Wilson
My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.
Dean Koontz
We do not know what it's like to be a bat, we do not know what it's like to be in coma. we can't even say that we know what it's like to be sleeping. We can say what it's like to be restored to consciousness after sleeping. If there are no dreams during our sleep then the sleeping life is an empty life. We might say of such a life that it's not like being anything. We protect that life on the assumption that come the morning its normal functions will be restored. Suppose it was the case however that such functions were only restored every two days... every eight days... twice a year but only briefly. I assume the point is clear. Actions that end life are irretrievable. If we are mistaken at that point there is no going back.
Daniel N. Robinson
We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.
Shannon L. Alder
You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.
Lisa Cach
The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.
R.F. Georgy
It's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose
And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop.
Ally Carter
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
Anita DeFrantz
A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well.
John Green
In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library of Congress, that 'Coca-Cola has become an integral part of people's lives by helping to tell these stories,' it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us.
George Saunders
Repetition opens doors, you know?
Tim Lucas
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
Libba Bray
By any measure, we live in an extraordinary and extreme time. Language can no longer describe the world in which we live. With antique ideas and old formulas, we continue to describe a world that is no longer present. In this loss of language, the word gives way to the image as the 'language' of exchange, in which critical thought disappears to a diabolic regime of conformity - the hyper-real, the omnipresent image. Language, real place gives way to numerical code, the real virtual; metaphor to metamorphosis; body to disembodiment; natural to supernatural; many to one. Mystery disappears, replaced by the illusion of certainty in technological perfection.
Godfrey Reggio
We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us
Suzanne Collins
This boy needs a dog.What makes you say that?He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.
Kent Haruf
In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Their necks also beautifully demonstrate the jury-rigged nature of evolution while simultaneously refuting the notion that some divine Artificer intelligently designed organic life
Brian Switek