Quotes by American Authors - Page 662

Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?
Hannah Harrington
Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums--at least not outside of one's own home, which could result in vicious, spurious rumors.
Anna Godbersen
This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps, delivered arhythmically so you couldn't know when the next one was coming.
Elizabeth Kostova
Hey, mister, I don’t think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.
Rainbow Rowell
All we are not stares back at what we are.
W.H. Auden
He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in...
Alicia Keys
At times in life you must rediscover your footing.
Coleen Innis
The obvious," Noah goes on, a little out of breath, "being that he is probably some super secret assassin or something. And I'm not as tough as I look.""That's OK," I tell him. "I'm way tougher than you look.
Ally Carter
Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone in this world. Our sense of loneliness and isolation not only makes us feel depressed and miserable, but it also causes us to be anxious and afraid of the world and everyone in it. Because of this inherent fear, we put up all kinds of barriers to protect us from the world—barriers that we have created to keep us safe, but that really end up making us feel more alone, more miserable, and more afraid, as they prevent us from being our natural selves.
Joseph P. Kauffman
Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the people you love don’t see things like you do. There will be Pharisees in your life that will laugh it off, deny that it happened, or will mock your experience based on righteousness they think you don't possess. God won't deny you a spiritual experience because you are not a spiritual leader. He loves everyone equal. The only people that really matter in life are the people that can “see” your heart and rejoice with you.
Shannon L. Alder
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.
T.L. Rese
A flower may die after giving beauty, love, and joy, but it will not vanish. It will transform into a fruit of eternal joy.
Debasish Mridha
I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.
Cheryl Strayed
Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard
I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. Salinger
Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.
Dara Horn
Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.
Walter M. Miller Jr
A relationship is more likely to succeed if positive attributes are confidently set in place and adhered to.
Delano Johnson
Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a bonnet.'Mr. Postlethwaite was silent. And then his eyes crept toward the marquess's hairline.'It will be a gift for a woman, Mr. Postlethwaite.''Of course, sir.' The marquess wished the 'of course' sounded a bit more sincere. He'd scarcely been in the shop for more than three minutes and already his dignity was fraying.
Julie Anne Long
My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me which way to go, Shakespeare.
Lisa Kessler
It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
When Frey asked students to draw the creation, the other kids drew animals and Adam and Eve. Caroline covered her paper in black crayon, then held it up to reveal she had punched out holes for the stars and the moon. 'And then there was light', she said…
Christopher Andersen
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
Sherry Turkle
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
Beyoncé Knowles
A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.
Brian Spellman
The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole.
Richelle E. Goodrich
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.
Kim Edwards
Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
Eugene Mirman
In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.
Rebecca MacKinnon
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
Paul Romer
What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it’s as fugly as you see it, or as it lets you see it.
John Vamvas Olga Montes
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.I do. But I like to hear you say it.Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.
Joss Whedon
If you’re not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you’re building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you’re not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.
Alice Bag
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.
Deanna Raybourn
The greatest joy is in giving; after all, God gave Christ for us.
Ashley Ormon
If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be.
Bill Bryson
You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords.""Only for you.
Darynda Jones
No, that's where you are wrong. Your mind was full of sadness and darkness. That is a very different thing entirely. On earth it's nearly impossible to know it, but our minds are not at all who we are. Our brains are just an organ. When we died, our minds died too. All of this, all of what is to come, it's your soul. Our souls never die. They are the very root of who we are, not what we are, but who we are.
Kathryn Perez
Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
Ezra Pound
In the long run, success or failure will beconditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt
What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation."Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.
Gail Carriger
Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.
Shannon L. Alder
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Harlan Ellison
You shouldn't panic so much," Siris said. "You'll never be a good thief if you panic.
Sean F. Hogan
If I were you, I’d clear those cobwebs out because there isn’t a shop-vac out there strong enough to handle that job.
Flora Roberts
Don't call what isn't prophecy "prophecy." Don't say "the Lord told me" if you're not about to quote a Bible verse.
Dan Phillips
Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.
Carolyn Parkhurst
You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'Emma Darwin to husband Charles
Deborah Heiligman
The fear of losing someone you love can turn people inside out.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.
Henry Clay
All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
Donald Miller
Now is the right time for you to become excellent. By taking action on your dreams of excellence, you start polishing the rough diamond you are. As you buff and shine yourself with practice, sparkling success becomes yours.
Mark F. LaMoure
I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven.
Jamaica Kincaid
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
Jonah Lehrer
You reminded me what it feels like to love. You made me fall in love and, fuck, I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose you.
Nyrae Dawn
The reason why I changed the meaning of the golden rule is because everyone has forgotten to the critical law of do on to others
Johnny Corn
Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.
Andy Andrews
In the context of today, this WAS heroism.
John Howard Griffin
People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow’s workforce won’t.
Bill Jensen