Quotes by American Authors - Page 683

People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands.
Lionel Suggs
Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in your answer was rounded incorrectly; who tucked in his periodic table T-shirt, corrected every student who said "weight" when he or she meant "mass", and made everyone, including himself, wear goggles even while mixing sugar water. Now try to imagine someone whom your teacher would hate for being anal-retentive. That is the kind of person who works for a bureau of standards and measurement.
Sam Kean
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
Patrick Ness
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence.
Dan Brown
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.
Martha Graham
Keeping me a virgin waiting for him for so long proved he owned me even more than fucking me would have.
Tiffany Reisz
The battle is always the same, just with different chapters.
G. Norman Lippert
I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.
J.A. Redmerski
My father knew our way mile by mile; by day or by night, he knew where we were. Everything that changed under our eyes, in the flying countryside, was the known world to him, the imagination to me. Each in our own way, we hungered for all this: my father and I were in no other respect or situation so congenial.
Eudora Welty
There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries
Patrick Ness
Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn’t dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open
Ellen Hopkins
The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of inferiority, of missing the mark, of being out of harmony with God and with oneself, a sense of wrongness. Divine forgiveness wipes out all that sense of inner hurt and condemnation. Brings a sense of at-homeness- at home with God and oneself and with life. The universe opens its arms and takes one in. You are accepted- by God, by yourself, and by life. All self-loathing, self-rejection, all inferiorities drop away. You are a child of God; born from above, you walk the earth, a conqueror, afraid of nothing. Healed at the heart, you can say to life: "Come on, I'm ready for anything.
E. Stanley Jones
So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Moon is always there. A half blink of shadow, a crescent of an eyelash, opulent in fullness, spellbound in nothingness, and a friend.
Carolyn Riker
God gave the Bible to us because He wants us to know Him and love Him and serve Him. Most of all, He gave it to us so we can become more like Christ.
Billy Graham
Julian smiled back, his full lips pulled back over white teeth as he rolled the blanket back a little bit. “Is he really a heart breaker?” t“I’m the breakiest of heart breakers,” Leo interjected, his tone deadpan as he dumped a handful of greens into the pot on the stove. tJulian wrinkled his nose. “That’s not even a word,” He complained and fell into a sulky silence from his place on the bed.
Hazel Blackthorn
Dragons are fire made flesh.
George R.R. Martin
Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say 'tell the truth,' and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?
Rick Riordan
From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.
Justina Chen
You aren't happy," Estela says."I can't be happy," I say."Look at me, Kenzie.""I'm looking at you, Estela.""Do you know your own heart?""I don't know anything.""Go," she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.
Beth Kephart
At first, one only recognizes particular instances to be worth of critique; critique appears synonymous with rejection, implying deficiency in the object. Over time, one discovers that everything warrants critique. This can produce cynicism: nothing is above reproach, nothing is pure, therefore nothing has value. But followed through to its logical conclusion, this insight inspires a profound optimism: if everything can be critiqued, then no matter how bleak things are, there is always a way to improve them. Those who comprehend this can pass beyond the binary of approval and disapproval to identify the conflicting currents within any subject of inquiry. There are sides to take inside every position, as well as between them.
CrimethInc.
Brennan's inner jaguar roared to life then with the need to protect this woman- protect my mate, must protect my mate it snarled.
Zoe Chant
Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.
Lauren Kate
Often we concentrate on the process and forget the results.
Debasish Mridha
Messy, isn't it?
Richard Brautigan
to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings
If you can be content with who you are, how you look and then try every day to make a difference to someone else, then it leads to a wonderful life. It’s a shame more humans can’t grasp that fact.” - M.K. Clinton
M.K. Clinton
Someday you'll understand. You'll have your own children, and they'll mean more to you than the world. A wife has to defend her children, even against her own husband. Not that I expect you to be easily cowed. But sometimes, despite all you say and do, your husband won't be dissuaded from folly. When that happens, as a mother you have to close ranks. Your first responsibility is to your children. To salvage what you can. Even if they hate you for it.
David Walton
Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.
Craig Groeschel
Activists have not been passive. For decades, we have tried every tactic to shift the course of our governments. We have voted, written editorials and manifestos, donated money, held signs, protests in marches, blocked streets, shared links, signed petitions, held workshops, knitted scarves, learn to farm, turned off the television, programmed apps, engaged in direct action, committed vandalism, launched legal challenges against pipelines . . . and occupied the financial districts. All this has been for naught. A new approach to activism and a new kind of protest are desperately needed.
Micah White
A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.
Bette Lee Crosby
It could be a thousand things, distractions, worries;but very often I think what keeps a writer from finding the words is that she grasps at them too soon, hurries, grabs. She doesn’t wait for the wave to come in and break. She wants to write because she’s a writer; she wants to say this, and tell people that, and show people something else — things she knows, her ideas, her opinions, her beliefs, important things — but she doesn’t wait for the wave to come and carry her beyond all the ideas and opinions, to where you cannot use the wrong word.
Ursula K Le Guin
A good sweat with the blood pounding through my body makes me feel alive revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.
Arthur Dobrin
Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.
John Rothchild
Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.
Sandy Blair
Spirit is love inside the love.
Debasish Mridha
If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.
Kemi Sogunle
You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.
Jay Asher
The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.
Linda Bender
I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.
Marlon James
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.
Gillian Flynn
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
Ezra Taft Benson
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.
Jenna Blum
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.
Kevin Powers
Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.
Linda Collison
They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
James C. Dobson
There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.
Scott Stabile
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
Sam Harris
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied 10 minutes later" Gen. George Patton,
Walter Danley
You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It make them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children.
Jean Webster
I believe that purpose is not only a destination but it is the energy that pushes us toward its fulfillment.
Suzette R. Hinton
Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear—all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.
Max Brooks
But even the Gallagher Academy hadn't figured out a way to help us protect our hearts.
Ally Carter
Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.
Carolyn Kenmore
An author’s strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher’s commitment to it.
Sterling Lord
Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.
Sarah Mlynowski
This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.
Penny Chenery Secretariat
If someone you love and care for is determined to traverse the path of despair, natural law obliges that they ‘will’ regardless of any and all efforts to redirect their lowly path.
T.F. Hodge
Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.
Sharon Weil
Hindsight is always zo/20.
Billy Wilder