Quotes by American Authors - Page 714

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
Igor Stravinsky
Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it.
Leila Sales
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Ellen DeGeneres
To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
In each case, the relative cost of postponing the purchase for buyer and seller determines the intensity of competition between the [past and future] selves of the seller. If the buyer has a lower cost of postponing the purchase (delay, making do with an interior model) than the seller (inventory, staff salaries) the buyer has the bargaining power.
Rakesh V. Vohra
Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?
Chris Sardegna
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester Nimitz
The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It's as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.
Lynn Austin
There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.
A.E. Samaan
Sweetie, you don't need to drive me to the brink of insanity... I'm close enough to walk!
Tanya Masse
most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.
Tullian Tchividjian
And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.
Frank Herbert
To keep your sanity, when everything seems like it's going wrong, focus on the one thing that's going right!
Diamante Lavendar
If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle.
Billy Graham
Sometimes you just have to hold on even when you don’t believe in what you’re holding on to anymore. Sometimes you have to hold on to empty and distant memories, even if it feels like there isn’t any ‘you’ left. I think that’s what faith is all about, doing what you need to do even when the feeling isn’t there anymore.
James Rozoff
To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.
John W. Gardner
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Albert Einstein
Not everything is meant for all to hear.
Terry Tempest Williams
For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.
Carolyn Parkhurst
Allah loves His creation. That’s why He rewards so greatly for serving them.
Yasmin Mogahed
Eating disorder recovery becomes possible when you keep making the next right decision over and over. With time, these decisions become automatic.
Brittany Burgunder
You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.
Sue Monk Kidd
Vaccination was, and is, thoroughly infused with our politics, our social values, and our cultural norms. By acknowledging and understanding the divergent reasons why we've vaccinated in the past, however, we just may ensure the continued success of vaccination in the future.
Elena Conis
I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.
Philip K Dick
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
John Howard Griffin
The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.
Nicola Yoon
I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.
Sara Raasch
Home is where the heart is. That's what they always say. But where does home begin,If you have lost your way. Do you turn to family or neighbors you don't know? You heart may wonder far and wide until you learn to grow. You go outside and look around to see what you can seeFrom little birds too big tall trees you realize beauty is free.
Peace Gypsy
What's another word for thesaurus?
Steven Wright
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
Ernest Hemingway
Forever is a really long time.
Nely Cab
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.
Finley Peter Dunne
This is a forum for readers. Authors walk these halls at their own risk. I’ve been to the Coliseum in Rome. GR is just that. Books are gladiators. Readers are ravenous citizens awaiting their next bite of entertainment, all Caesars with thumbs readied for judgement. Even champions fall prey to sword now and then. And you know what they say about the pen and the sword…the analogy is a bit muddled, but it’s in there somewhere.
Willow Madison
The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
Mircea Eliade
But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table.
Sheryl Sandberg
The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.
Todd Crawshaw
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Will Rogers
The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.
Carl Safina
No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why.
Siri Hustvedt
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.
Daniel Wallace
The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.
John Steinbeck
Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Do not wander in the deeps,Where the Shriker's shadow creeps.When he rises from beneath,Beware the Sharpness of his teeth.
Janet Lee Carey
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.
A.E. Samaan
Elaine: Ugh, I hate people.Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.
Jerry Seinfeld
We go from curiosity to a search for communion.
Sherry Turkle
If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.
Shannon L. Alder
Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.
William Gaddis
Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.
Orrin Woodward
Oh fuck, he was right there. I was wet as hell and he could probably smell me now. I should have eaten strawberries or melon or a dozen roses or an entire mint plant. Did that work for women? I read an article that it worked for men. Their spunk tasted like what they ate. Did my vagina taste like spaghetti right now? God dammit! I shouldn't have eaten dinner!
Tara Sivec
The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.
Stephen D. Krashen
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
Margaret Deland
Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons".
John Paul Warren
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold Geneen
What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.
Sri Chinmoy
Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I go out ina sun I’m black When I git cold I’m black When I git scared I’m black And when I die I’m still black. But you white fella When you’re born you’re pink When you grow up you’re white When you git sick you’re green When you go out ina sun you go red When you git cold you go blue When you git scared you’re yellow And when you die you’re grey And you got the cheek to call me coloured?
Steven Pinker