Quotes by American Authors - Page 712

Too easy to lose the way.Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who youare and where you should be.Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.
Diana Rowland
Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful.
Kristin Cashore
Only love can be shared endlessly and still your heart will always remain full.
Debasish Mridha
Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.
Dannye Williamsen
However, if your agenda is truly to serve, your ROI (return on investment) will substantially expand. As we know from the "Law of Reciprocity," what you give is what you get. If you are helping people only to see what you can get out of it, your pie stays small and your opportunities stay limited. However, if you sincerely want to help people succeed, you will not only enjoy more success, but expand your possibilities beyond your expectations. Once you see the benefits from all directions, you will not want it any other way!
Susan C.Young
Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.
Dean Koontz
Whether the changes that are coming in your life will be unexpected or determined by your choices and actions, the wheels are in motion. The adventure has just begun.
Teresa R. Funke
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Mark Twain
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner
Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.
Ron Suskind
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
Gregory Maguire
Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and their minds went away. They lost the will to survive. They curled up and surrendered to madness.
Paolo Bacigalupi
If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.
Emily Matchar
Pride ruined the angels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with what they have, how hard they are willing to fight, and how far they are willing to go to set things right.
Sarah Cross
The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.
Orison Swett Marden
They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.
Cassandra Clare
There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.
Jessica Fortunato
Your lips are so soft and girly. I really must know what you use on them.
Leia Shaw
There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.
C. JoyBell C.
If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.
Laurie Notaro
But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.
George R.R. Martin
He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.
David Halberstam
That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.
Ravi Zacharias
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.
Mark Twain
Claiming our birthright means living in beauty inwardly regardless of our outer circumstances. It means cultivating the qualities coded in our hearts.
Lori Cash Richards
He smiled and as his lips parted, little bits of solid waste fell from them. Hellelujah, we can only be what we are, I thought and wondered if I was as repulsive to him as he was to me. I don't think so, because even though he literally wore a shit-eating grin, I sensed he was genuinely happy to see me
R.E. Vance
Be calm. Keep reading.
Tom Cardamone
It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.
Richie Norton
Miss Edmonton: I don't even know where to start. It's too horrifying to even speak of.Jenny: Nonsense. Let's start with the basics. What did your aunt tell you?Miss Edmonton: My aunt said that my husband will come into my room and pull my skirt up. And then he'll put himself inside of me. She said it hurts. She suggested I hold my tongue and pretend I am somewhere else until he is done.Jenny: Yes. I should think it would hurt if you did it that way. Good heavens.
Courtney Milan
Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.
Debasish Mridha
i finally got t this place were it feel right were i knew i belong were i didn't give crap maybe is not the right place but i feel save
Anita Rodriguez
Excuses are great, they come in handy in life. Except when they come between a relationship.
lauren gould
She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.
Dennis Sharpe
It's not about you. It's about them.
Clint Eastwood
Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47)
Jim Harrison
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.
Alice Hoffman
A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person's feelings
Heather Wolf
Okay, listen, I don't know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn't born yesterday so I am gonna go now and leave you to whatever dumb idiot girl is gonna buy that line.
Andrea Portes
All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.
Paula Heller Garland
Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.
Sharon Salzberg
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.
Craig Ferguson
Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.
Wally Lamb
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
David R. Hawkins
My mouth fell open in incredulity.“Ah, Maria. Are you trying to tell me you’ve taken up the sport of fly-catching with your mouth?”Ros reached over and lifted my chin.“And an assistant too. So that you don’t scare the little flies away. How wonderful; I didn’t realise it was a team sport. Interesting. Tell me, what do they taste like? I can’t imagine a fly filling any hole in your stomach. How many have you caught?”“That’s disgusting.” Ros screwed her face up.“My thoughts exactly.
Kelly Batten
When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.
Mark Batterson
Forget about self-image and self-judgment. It's about self-love, and no one teaches you that at school. No one teaches you that if you accept and love yourself, nothing and no one can touch you. This is the only face and body you're ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.
Connor Franta
And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?
Poppy Z. Brite
Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?
Darrel Ray
We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is used so often in profanity in the entertainment world that sometimes it is embarrassing to watch television.
Billy Graham
LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.
Mina Loy
Don't tempt fate.’‘My fate? I already know it and I have it in front of me.’ He put an arm around me and pulled me to his lips.‘I haven't said “yes” yet.’‘No need. I know what the answer is.
Debra Strattford
Our only fate is to lie in the beds that we make.
Michael Moreci
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.
Steve Sheinkin
The heart, I think, which is the home of all things rhythmic, is where learned poems go to live.
Bill Richardson
Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?
Henry David Thoreau
Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.
Kate Karyus Quinn