Quotes by American Authors - Page 669

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.
Wendell Berry
People generally believe that stress is responsible for depletion, but apathy and uninspired systematic repetition are equally responsible. Or rather, systematic repetition produces as much or more stress and anxiety as anything else.
Darrell Calkins
C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!
Daniel Clowes
This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Well I'm finding it harderto be a gentleman every dayAll the manners that I've been taughthave slowly died awayBut if I held the door open for youIt wouldn't make your day.
The White Stripes
Just because you can’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You’ve got to change the way you’relooking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.
Richard N. Bolles
I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.
Justina Chen
Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.
Gary Rohrmayer
Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
All you need to know, boy," Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins.
Bernard Cornwell
It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then He would have been only a great teacher and a great example, but not a Redeemer. It was more important for Him to fulfill the purpose of the coming, to redeem man from sin while in the likeness of human flesh. Teachers change men by their lives; Our Blessed Lord would change men by His death. The poison of hate, sensuality, and envy which is in the hearts of men could not be healed simply by wise exhortations and social reforms. The wages of sin is death, and therefore it was to be by death that sin would be atoned for.
Fulton J. Sheen
You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.
Vernon Howard
Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you.
Debasish Mridha
I used to think that kid might become a preacher. Now I don't see how he's going to stay out of prison. Nobody in this family ever went to prison for sex crimes. He'd be the first."Yes," says Jesus, "you never know about these things."He and Grandpa are drinking cups of coffee and eating ginger snaps. Grandpa says, "When are you planning to return to earth?"Soon as I finish this coffee," say Jesus. "Pretty good, isn't it.
Garrison Keillor
Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.
Eben Alexander
Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.
Katherine McIntyre
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Life turns out to be best for those who tried their best.
Debasish Mridha
I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.
Margaret George
Sometimes it feels like even ifEvery inch of my skin was touching yoursI still wouldn’t be close enough to you.
Justin Wetch
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
John Kenneth Galbraith
Deepen your faith in yourself.Nothing will be ableTo frighten or weaken you.
Sri Chinmoy
Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in an even deadlier game than before.
Cassandra Giovanni
The day we put an end to believing in hope will be the day we stop existing, for without hope, we are nothing.
Kale Lawrence
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin.
Elizabeth Wein
This was shaping up to be the worst conference call of my life, even worse than that time I accidentally clogged the school toilet back in the first grade with my Boba Fett figure (I was pretending it was the Sarlaac pit).
Rick Gualtieri
The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.
Bryant McGill
I dream of a land of peace where everyone can live in harmony.I dream of a land of joywhere everyone can live without agonyI dream of a land of fairy where everyone can live with beauty.I dream of a land of forgiveness where everyone can live with unity. I dream of a land of tranquilitywhere everyone can live with diversity. I dream of a land of lovewhere we can live in peace as a beloved humanity.
Debasish Mridha
I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.
Diet Eman
Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.
Tim Weiner
Marc to Gabe: "What do you know about the lemon stuff? You weren't in desert combat. You were a park ranger. I'm not dissing that. It's an important job. Someone has to keep the chipmunks in line. I've watched Chip and Dale. I know how sneaky those little bastards can be.
Pamela Clare
Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one else to blame. If you will and you do, the world will beat a path to your doorstep…
James A. Murphy
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Benjamin Franklin
Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.
Bonnie Marcus
For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.
Jayne Ann Krentz
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.
Harlan Ellison
Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your life, too, from bedtime stories you may have heard as a child to news stories you see on TV or read in a newspaper. We might even say that a major goal of living is to created the story of our own lives, a story we hope to take pleasure and pride in telling.
Andrea A. Lunsford
City of memories, city of mirrors.
Justin Cronin
My heart's cracking apart all over again because of the way I've missed him.
Jolene Perry
In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.
Bobby Knight
As soon as you say, 'I'm going to use the legal system to impose my will on you,' you're buying into a lie,' schlichtmann said. 'You'll get chaos, and the system will dissapoint you. You'll get decision-making that only makes sense in Bedlam. We think the legal system is there for us, but it's not. It's there only for itself.
Dan Fagin
It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.
Rachel Hawthorne
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.
Criss Jami
Every city, every town, hides beneath a certain amount of glamour that- either intentionally or not- can misdirect the eye or hide something worth finding. Learning to see through those glamours is part of the process of calling any place home.
Kate Milford
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
Brennan Manning
Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love.
Debasish Mridha
Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.
Suzy Kassem
Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.
Allan Lokos
Are ya glad to see me, or is that a roll of poker chips in your pants?
Susannah Scott
It's essential you create a fiery will from within--harness that power of decisiveness--and choose to be your strongest self.
Karen Salmansohn
To Polish the Gold & Help Others Shine . . . Be complimentary:Find something positive to say to compliment another person. Whether they are being a great parent, dressing nicely, maintaining a gorgeous yard, or winning a recent 5K run, pick something to acknowledge which is noteworthy.
Susan C.Young
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
Rachel Klein
Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No,” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.
Nicola Yoon
Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.
Larry McMurtry
‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive.
Craig Hart
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
Lauren Oliver
I have to get off this elevator.I can't ride with him, Can't look at him, Can't be this close to him. Can't, Can't, can't.
Elana Johnson