Quotes by American Authors - Page 700

The ethics of eating people are blurry at best in the fog of my undead amnesia, but I expect more for such a high price. What I want are the moments I will never have. The warm ones. The living ones.
Isaac Marion
Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.
Catherine Carrigan
You're going to make it;You're going to be at peace;You're going to create, and love, and laugh, and live;You're going to do great things.
Germany Kent
Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.Here in my domain, there is no one to protect.
Katherine Applegate
She lifted a shoulder casually and slowly blinked."Where do you want to be?""With you," he answered without hesitation.
Donna Grant
You can't be in my world...You live in this one.
Donna Lynn Hope
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan
My son will not allow any fires tonight," Gaea said from the depths of the warehouse. "He is the void that consumes all magic, the cold that consumes all fire, the silence that consumes all speech."Leo wanted to shout: "And I’m the dude that’s all out of here!
Rick Riordan
You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.
Logan Henderson
I ordered a single espresso because I wanted a drink I could hook up with.
Randy Kagan
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
John Dewey
He exuded wisdom-even the wisest...were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.
Aprilynne Pike
We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night
W.S. Merwin
Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
Jennifer Donnelly
I may be small, but I've got friends that make me ten feet tall.
Mickey Mouse
I think a lot of people are really scared right now. Not every person makes good choices, and sometimes, when people are scared, there are people who try to take advantage of that fear.
Ezekiel Boone
This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I've ever met, wants to kiss me.I take over control as soon as she tilts her head. Our lips touch for the briefest moment before I lace my fingers in her hair and keep kissing her soft and gentle. I cup her cheek in my palm, feeling her baby-soft skin against my rough fingers. My body urges me to take advantage of the situation, but my brain (the one inside my head) keeps me in check.A satisfied sigh escapes Brittany's mouth, as if she's content to stay in my arms forever.I brush the tip of my tongue against her lips, enticing her to open her mouth. She tentatively meets my tongue with her own. Our mouths and tongues mingle in a slow, erotic dance until the sound of the front door opening makes her jerk
Simone Elkeles
When a friendship ends, people don't always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships ... most of the time, friendships end in a different way - slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don't really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different.
Jennifer Close
A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.
Latif Mercado
Let us create the tsunami of love to flatten the world with joy.
Debasish Mridha
Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.
Khaled Hosseini
If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.
Michele Zackheim
People think I am younger then I really am,because I act so immature.
James Hauenstein
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
David Mamet
I can still choose to be a person who is kind and full of love, a person who extends compassion to her fellow humans and even if I feel like our country is regressing a little, even if I'm embarrassed of our leader I still have control over the kind of person I am.
Ashley Mardell
Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.
Carl R. Trueman
Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.
Donna Lynn Hope
Without pushing an agenda (okay, maybe I've pushed a bit), I've spread a little veganism wherever I've gone. I've become friends with chefs at the meatiest restaurants you can imagine, and shown them a few things that opened their minds (and their menus) to vegan options. It's easy to be convincing when the food is delicious. It doesn't feel like a sacrifice--it feels like a step up.
Tal Ronnen
What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is calledthe Christ?” (Matthew 27:22 NIV). This is the most important question that has ever been asked. It is also the question you must ask yourself.
Billy Graham
Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination.
Jared Taylor
To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life.
Bryant McGill
The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
Orrin Woodward
Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.
Pearl Zhu
The air was motionless, carved, a block of warm copper fitting neatly around the earth, molded while soft to fit every house and every human being on the earth, and now hardened forever so that no man could move and no air ever came through. The earth rumbled down its alley like a golden bowling ball, shining.
Peter S Beagle
Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?
Andy Stanley
Her two worlds, two lives that she tried so hard to keep separate, were crashing together. And she felt helpless to stop it.
Aprilynne Pike
There were pecans, there were cashews and then there was just plain nuts.
Mary Hughes
That’s why I admired that kid who spelled it wrong on purpose so he could sit down. He knew he wasn’t going to win, so why stand there for 3 hours. First round. “Cat, K-A-T, I’m outta here.” Then as he passed you, “Ha! I know there’s 2 T’s.
Brian Regan
To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring in the female body, tear ducts attached directly to the frustration meter. Trying to explain to men that no, I wasn't being manipulative, I just couldn't stop my eyes from leaking salt water, only added to the aggravation.
C.E. Murphy
Our feelings and intuition are two of our greatest gifts. Too often we don't trust, rely, or act on them. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him.
Jeaniene Frost
Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
Bob Dylan
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Mies Van Der Rohe
I prefer my justice to be blind.
Amy A. Bartol
I'm a misunderstood genius.""What's misunderstood?""Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Bill Watterson
As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the monopoly of a few, but universal, such atrocities are scarcely ever heard of.
Edward Bellamy
When we will learn to seethere is no you and me.You and me becoming we,in the world peace will be.
Debasish Mridha
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
Tessa Dare
When someone says "just saying" what they really mean is, "You would be a colossal idiot to not take my advice." (on Facebook)
Stephen Altrogge
An absolute law without hope of appeal that's despotism!
Phineas Flynn
Our current contempt for poverty stems from information overload--this is the enabler---our over education as privileged people-- perhaps the real culprit--and our secret assurance that we ourselves owe no one anything beyond the exhausting daily round. We will defend our lack of idealism to anyone and be horrifyingly well received in this age. Indeed, many so called financial "philosophies" are in fact nothing more than elaborate justification for one petty selfishness after the next.
John Thomas Allen
Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.
Steve Maraboli
you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.
David Levithan
We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.
Michael Prelee
I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.
Mark Lawrence
Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.
Marty Rubin
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
Mitch Albom
In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is, is the imprints that event has left on your mind and in your sensations... the discomfort you feel and the agitation you feel and the rage and the helplessness you feel right now.
Bessel A. van der Kolk