Quotes by American Authors - Page 717

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
Veronica Roth
Their marriages had been Old Testament, hers a matter of honoring her covenant with Charles, Tom's a matter of fearing Anabel's wrath and judgement. In the New Testament, the only things that mattered were love and free will.
Jonathan Franzen
If a person is not inspiring you positively. There is no reason for you to be around them. You don't need their negativity in your life. There's already too much in the world. Surround yourself with people who are going to uplift you and encourage you to move forward with your dreams and goals.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
If you have to ask, ask for the ability to help others.
Debasish Mridha
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
Green Day
I[John/Four] scratched Bernie Kosar's head. I don't think I could get used to calling him Hadley, but maybe I could get used to calling Six Maren Elizabeth. "I think you should take on a human name," I say. "If not Maren Elizabeth, then something else. I mean, at least for when we're in front of strangers." Everyone grows silent, and I reach behind me into the Chest for the velvet bag holding the Lorien's solar system. I set the six planets and the sun in my palm and watch them hover and glow to life. As the planets begin to orbit their sun, I find that I am able to dim their brightness with my mind. I intentionally lose myself in them, successfully forgetting just for a few moments that I might ba seeing Sarah soon. Six turns to look at the faint solar system that floats in front of my chest, and then she finally says. "I don't know; I still like the name Six. Maren Elizabeth was when I was a different person, and right now Six just feels right. It can be short for something if Someone asks." Sam looks over. "For what? Sixty?
Pittacus Lore
I have never been to the North Pole, and yet I believe there is a North Pole. How do I know? I know because somebody told me. I read about it in a history book, I saw a map in a geography book, and I believe the men who wrote those books. I accept it by faith. The Bible says, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” [Romans 10:17 KJV].
Billy Graham
It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. "Tread lightly on the paths," he had told me. "Others will come when you have gone."That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.
Louis L'Amour
Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome. I ask these activists to weigh the horrors of Bladen County's industrial farms and the Tar Heel slaughterhouse against the consequences of doing nothing to alleviate the hour-to-hour sufferings of its victims. Is not a life lived off the factory farm and a death humanely inflicted superior to the terrible lives we know they lead and the horrible deaths we know they suffer in Bladen County today?
Steven M. Wise
Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one’s life.The first kiss, the birth of one’s first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss.
Benjamin M. Strozykowski
...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.
Bob Goff
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
When he grasped her hand, he felt the calluses on her palm. He was thinking about how tough she was, and then she smiled. It was tentative and brief but it touched his heart, and then she was gone. He watched while she disappeared over the hill and then took the box into the kitchen, refilled his coffee and opened the lid. 36%
Sharon Sala
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.
Liz Armbruster
When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Dig Deep! When the task at hand seems to be very difficult. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel you're drifting away from your intended course. Dig Deep! When others doubt you and say it can't be done. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel like giving up. Dig Deep! When life throws you a curve ball. If you quit, you'll never hit that homerun
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.
Blake Crouch
You won't understand where home is until you realize it is the only place your mind takes you back to when every journey ends badly.
Shannon L. Alder
Come and discover a love you don't have to work for.
E'yen A. Gardner
Dust motes swirled in the air like tiny orbs of rainbows.
Micalea Smeltzer
Flowers are the gift to us from nature, out gift to nature is our love.
Debasish Mridha
How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”“The Creator didn’t make love conditional,” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.
Peter V. Brett
We all fall on hard times,” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.
Kristen Ashley
He didn’t want to do this…He had come here to hide.
Christina Dodd
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??
A.E. Samaan
The logic behind magic is that we create what we are imagining.
Mary Faulkner
You have every right to be free, Miss Langdon. No one is denying you that. But freedom is only valuable if you use your freedom wisely.
Melanie Dickerson
What happens when you pray for an angel and get a vampire instead? R E Mullins
R E Mullins
The mind can't delete what the heart won't let go of.
Peggy Toney Horton
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
Sarah Dessen
Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.
Nathan Feuerstein (NF)
You can't escape an assasin," He leaned forward, shadows swallowing his eyes. "Hangings, bumbling bureaucrats, dishonest crewman, jail - those you can talk your way out of, you try hard enough. But this kind of death is the is the only kind of death.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?""Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again.""For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.
Jim Butcher
Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.
John Capecci and Timothy Cage
If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.
Deborah J. Levine
Never pursue happiness, just be happy.
Debasish Mridha
It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
Chester I. Barnard
Evil does not fight against evil, rather it struggles against Good. Where as, Good does not struggle against evil, rather it overwhelmingly defeats it".~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
Lauren DeStefano
John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.
Harold Holzer
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.
Rollo May
That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.
James A. Owen
I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.
Kiera Cass
We saw the same sunset.
S.E. Hinton
Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn -- can all act as touchstones when least expected.
Andrew McCarthy
I’m not a follower. I never have been. But I’ll definitely become someone I’m not for a few hours if it’ll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.
J.A. Redmerski
A woman's love for a man is ha;f animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him. If a man is worth having, he must be a woman's superior; if he is her superior, part of her must hate him. It is only in beauty we surpass you, and it is therefore no wonder that we worship beauty above all else.
Jed Rubenfeld
I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.
Geoff Johns
If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.
Gayle Forman
This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
Vance Havner
If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.
Jack R. Cotner
Life is a risk.
Diane Von Furstenberg
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In the lean approach, companies are taught that prices are set by the market and that one way to improve profit margin is to reduce costs. This thinking flies in the face of "cost plus" thinking, where we look first at our own costs and set prices based on our desired profit margin. The reality is that most companies whether manufacturers or hospitals, do not have market power to set prices as they wish.
Mark Graban
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.
Marguerite Yourcenar
To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.
Mary E. DeMuth
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.
Nicole Krauss