Quotes by American Authors - Page 678

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
Wendell Phillips
I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.
Josh Lanyon
Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it
Julie Schumacher
I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul.
Lynn Cullen
My favorite words in the world are t
Richelle E. Goodrich
The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and wallow and where drupelets of their larvae cluster and then hatch to devour siblings.
Eugene Lim
That's what makes it so right. Your eyes—your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That's the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you've seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.
Bree Despain
And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.
Paul Auster
And since I am a man, I would appreciate it if you would cry for us both, gatita.
Cherise Sinclair
People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
Emily Giffin
Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.
Miles Hassell MD
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
Robert Charles Wilson
...aim to look good naked...and more often than not, everything will fall in place - fitness, health, you name it!
The Fitness Doc
I cannot make my kids obey. But I can control my responses to their disobedience—that is, I can respect their choices and provide wise consequences for their actions, so they can learn just as much about wisdom from disobeying as from obeying. And I can respond in ways that create an environment in which their poor choices are their problem.
Jeff VanVonderen
The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.
Iimani David
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
Robert Penn Warren
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
Frank Lloyd Wright
...She squeezed Niall's hand and bleakly said, "I don't want you hurt.""Oh, Serena, that's all I have to know." And with that, he kissed her so passionately, she felt as though she had fae transported to the moon and back...
Terry Spear
While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.
Jessica Valenti
It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million." "How many words are in the English language?""Not the point.
Sandy Hall
We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.
Billy Graham
When I mentioned that I'd always wanted to have sex against the wall with a woman in a skirt, she said, "Well, how convenient. I just so happen to have a skirt on, and there are several walls in here.
Cindi Madsen
He still had the problem with getting the album finished. Now was definitely not the time to be messing around with a reporter or a woman. And now he had both those things rolled into one glorious package. He just hoped he survived them both.
Samantha Chase
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
Stephen King
She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.
Cora Carmack
God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.
Gary Rohrmayer
You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.
Allan Lokos
If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.
Satya Nadella
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
Jane Espenson
The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.
Roger Ebert
Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.
Robin Williams
Some biblical scholars believe that the story of the fall from the Garden of Eden was a cultural memory of the transition from foraging to agriculture: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” 79 So why did our foraging ancestors leave Eden? For many, it was never an explicit choice: they had multiplied themselves into a Malthusian trap in which the fat of the land could no longer support them, and they had to grow their food themselves. The states emerged only later, and the foragers who lived at their frontiers could either be absorbed into them or hold out in their old way of life. For those who had the choice, Eden may have been just too dangerous. A few cavities, the odd abscess, and a couple of inches in height were a small price to pay for a fivefold better chance of not getting speared
Steven Pinker
Theo was so pleased with her, so proud of her. In love with her, whatever love was.
Annabel Joseph
... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
Eisenhower on LBJ: "He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.
David Pietrusza
When you take an action to improve humanity, you are happy.
Debasish Mridha
I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.
Steven Ramirez
Victory - a matter of staying power.
Elbert Hubbard
Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
Paolo Bacigalupi
One of the tribes of Lisser, Kisera, has a saying. "Tra ulea keyē milyenura keyē gryētu - you only live on through that which you leave." You have to leave something for others to remember.' She gazed at his solemn face, pulling the cord of her cloak open, grasping half the heavy material and launching it over his shoulders. He pulled it further until in encompassed them both. Then she did something both of them were surprised at - she slid her hand into his. ‘And you will.
Jessica O'Toole
Ooh!” Willy pipes up. “Maybe he'll write a story about Santa and Mrs. Claus getting caught with their pants down with other people. If we get lucky, maybe he'll kill-”“Don't finish that sentence, elf.”“Randy, you're such a spoilsport. You can't say you haven't conjured up that scenario in your big head a time or a dozen. Continue. Maybe I'll write that story.”“No, you won't. Your idea of a good story is nothing but sex, sex, and more sex. You'd never make it through writing a chapter because you'd have to stop and jerk off a half dozen times.”“Ew! Not about Santa and Mrs. Claus. Yuck,” Willy comes back at him with a sour look on his face. “That's not even funny, Randy.
Candi Kay
I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.
Rachel Caine
You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.
Bryant McGill
Wilson (1975) defines biological communication relatively broadly as 'the action on the part of one organism (or cell) that alters the probability pattern of behavior in another organism (or cell) in a fashion adaptive to either one or both of the participants.
Robert K. Vander Meer Michael D. Breed et al.
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]
James A. Michener
Dancing was like sex, and I knew when she and I were together it would be amazing. Physical desire and lust had nothing to do with it. We just understood when the other person would move before the actually did it.
E.L. Todd
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
What you become is what counts.
Liz Smith
Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.
Orrin Woodward
So, you think your coffee-addicted mother is amusing.” She pushed at his shoulder. “I’ll get even with you. I’ll show your naked baby pictures to your girlfriend.” ~ Chapter 9 The Truth and Nothing but Lies
Cheri Vause
In her head is warAll the time just warI put her to bedI bring peace to the world
Darnell Lamont Walker
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
Anne Lamott
Always act like you are the king of your own world that you created on the day of your birth. Enjoy your kingdom.
Debasish Mridha
When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.
Joe L. Wheeler
He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into a waistcoat pocket, he took from it a thin gold locket, the size of a silver dollar, which he opened and handed to her. One interior face of it was lined with a photograph of Berenice as a girl of twelve, thin, delicate, supercilious, self-contained, distant, as she was to this hour.
Theodore Dreiser
Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.
Charlie Huston
This was the kind of guy who should be someone's first love. Someone who brought you flowers and refilled your water glass without your having to ask. Someone who watched you across the crowded rooms just to make sure you were okay. Someone who loved you quietly from a distance, without pressuring you or wanting you to change.
Una LaMarche
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
F. Scott Fitzgerald