Quotes by American Authors - Page 697

Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.
Lisa Samson
Love, positivity and gratitude are the most essential ingredients to a happy and fulfilled life.
Eileen Anglin
Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.”Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?”Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman!
Rick Riordan
Now we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other some winter night before bedtime, stirring poison into our cups of whiskey-spiked chamomile tea, wearing party hats. Then, nervous about our double homicide, we could lie in bed together, holding hands again, frightened and waiting, still wondering, after all these years, if we even believed in our own souls.
Timothy Schaffert
The “result” of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.
Pearl Zhu
With support from the women in Nia, I decided to take white belt and realized that I could come back into my body. That I did not have to stay out of my body, That I was safe coming back to myself,That I could love my body again,The connection was madeThat it is safe for me to be in my body and to love myself, That I can express my true feelingsThat I can sound and tell my truth
Julie Jewels Smoot
The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.
Norman Cousins
Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family.
Zoe Kazan
(J)oy deserves always more.
Linda McCarriston
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.
Hodding Carter
There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.
R. Alan Woods
The Nazis are well remembered for murdering well over 11 million people in the implementation of their slogan, 'The public good before the private good,' the Chinese Communists for murdering 62 million people in the implementation of theirs, 'Serve the people,' and the Soviet Communists for murdering more than 60 million people in the implementation of Karl Marx's slogan, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.' Anyone who defends any of these, or any variation of them, on the grounds of their 'good intentions' is an immoral (NOT 'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the proverbial) road to hell.
Rick Gaber
Some people say Earth is the bottom level of Purgatory.' She pointed toward the floor and frowned.'I call it the top floor of Hell.
Tara West
Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.
Albert Einstein
We all have the choice as to how we want to create our world.
Mark Andrew Poe
When you do choose to speak," she told me, "speak truths.
Lisa Graff
I have a friend [whose] mom is very, very Christian and crazy religious…She’s like that for all the wrong reasons and isn’t actually true to her word. She doesn’t practice what she preaches. The things she does preach, she contradicts them all the time. She can be really hypocritical. It went out to her and anybody else like that…A lot of our fans are having issues with loving themselves and coming to terms with their sexuality…A lot of those kids have a really tough home life where their families are exactly like the people I’m talking about in ‘Holy.’ They’ve really latched onto that one because that’s the life they have to deal with and the people they’ve had to deal with. I think everyone knows people like that
Lynn Gunn
I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.
Melika Dannese Lux
It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
Rick Yancey
She was a Seeker now, marked for life.She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.
Arwen Elys Dayton
My point is this — you don't know. When I was first here, people looked at my hair, noticed apples on my tray, and thought 'hippie.' Then, from 'hippie' they thought 'druggie.' From there it went to 'will get me in trouble' and 'not worth my time,' and then they stopped thinking at all. No one bothered to find out if what they thought about me was true. No one wanted to hear what I thought. No one cared what I believed in. No one cared about talking to me or asking what my plans were for the day or night. And then came you. Don't let what you think you know make him into what I could have been. Don't become someone who doesn't think, just because you don't like him for some reason. Because, quite frankly, I like how you think. Except for now, of course.
Rebecca McKinsey
Inflation made it possible to divert the fury of the people to 'speculators' and 'profiteers'. Thus it proved itself an excellent psychological resource of the destructive and annihilist war policy.
Ludwig von Mises
You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn’t need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.
Lynn Austin
Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, I must admit, for when I look back on those years now, I see quite clearly that rarely did I stand alone. Always there were friends, true and dear, lending me support even when I believed I did not want it, and even when I did not realize they were doing it. ...These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my life.
R.A. Salvatore
I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.
Nnedi Okorafor
You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.
Gayle Forman
To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.
Shannon L. Alder
You went to a party, did a keg stand, and got so drunk you forgot half the night. Congrats on this amazing milestone in your life." He squeezed my leg. "What are you gonna do next?""Uh, Disneyland?
Cindi Madsen
Without literature, life is hell.
Charles Bukowski
When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.
Therone Shellman
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Arthur E. Morgan
Sometimes I guess it just feels better to know that you have someone to help you when you can’t even help yourself. ~ Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)
Rebecca Gober
It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed, of many other languages, that we use this same word, "depression" to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide.
Andrew Solomon
We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.
James C. Emlund
Love yourself to fill your heart with kindness.Then love others to fill the world with happiness.
Debasish Mridha
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.
Randy Cohen
Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
Robert Collier
The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.
Billy Graham
If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.
Steve Stockman
The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.
Catherine Lacey
I am not celebrity rich, but I have a job, therefore I can help someone else in need, really, it's not that difficult.
Charmaine J.Forde
faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced... the lines between sinner and saved [are] more fluid; the sins of those who come to church are not so different from the sins of those who don't... You [need] to come to church precisely because you [are] of this world, not apart from it; rich, poor, sinner, saved you [need] to embrace Christ precisely because you had sins to wash away... that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world...
Barack Obama
Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.
Sharon Salzberg
I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.
Felicia Day
You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.
Margaret Mitchell
The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.
Jeannette Walls
(People) either overestimate Satan's influence and power, living with an inflated, erroneous perspective of his abilities. Or they underestimate him. They don't assign him any credit at all for the difficulties he's stirring up beneath the surface of our lives... Satan is not God. And he is not God's counterpart or peer... Satan is nothing but a copycat trying desperately to convince you he's more powerful than he actually is... So even though he's given temporary clearance to strategize and antagonize, we don't need to pray from a position of fear or weakness against him... But we can't expect to experience this power unless we're serious about joining the battle in prayer.
Priscilla Shirer
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.
Bill Hicks
Happiness does not mean being free from problems and trials, but finding purpose in problems and trials can result in abundant happiness.
Hank Smith
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities.
John B. Gough
Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.
Benjamin Franklin
The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.
James MacDonald
The true poetic feeling is a feeling of boundless gratitude.
Marty Rubin
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
Sylvia Plath
I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.
Curt Flood
If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.
Ransom Riggs
Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Michael Dorris