Quotes by American Authors - Page 8

Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious effort to control his temper and keep from breaking Kevin’s hand. Off. Why couldn’t guys find a more original way to test each other’s manly prowess? Arm wrestling might have been more subtle. Or maybe comparing the length of their…canines.
Rachel Vincent
For what was burned at the stakes beyond the fires did endure
T. M. Lakomy
They intend to make people's very appetites the next weapon of uncountable destruction. They intend that your people will lust themselves into oblivion in front of little boxes of changing light. Addictive light. A light that makes you feel like you live a life, when all you really do is eat what the light tells you to eat and squirt pee and pump poo. And watch the changing light!
Robert Stikmanz
People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.
Chuck Klosterman
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.
William James
Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume!
C. JoyBell C.
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.
Ludwig von Mises
Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.
Bryant McGill
Photography helps people to see.
Berenice Abbott
What you are looking for is not out there. It is inside of you. You just have to reveal it.
Debasish Mridha
The requirement for the United States to craft a national security strategy (NSS) document was first codified in the National Security Act of 1947, and amended by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. The 1986 amendment requires the President to submit the document on an annual basis to Congress to provide a comprehensive report on U.S. national security strategy. Both pieces of legislation mandate that the strategy include a "comprehensive description and discussion of worldwide interests, goals, and objectives...that are vital to the national security of the United States." It would also address foreign policy, world wide military commitments, U.S. national defense capabilities, short- and long-term uses of the elements of national power, and the requirement to have the strategy transmitted to Congress in both classified and unclassified form. A number of national security strategies were developed over time prior to the Goldwater-Nichols legislation, to include what many believe was the most significant grand strategy of the era, NSC-68, the key containment strategy against Soviet and Chinese communism. All were crafted during the pre-Goldwater-Nichals Act period at the classified level.
Alan Stolberg
We have become so tolerant and accepting of the world’s ways that it is hard for many in the church to notice the sin much less answer how it crept in. The church is to be in the world, but worldliness is not to infiltrate the church.
Billy Graham
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
Benjamin Franklin
Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.
Claudia Gray
Lovers, forget your love,And list the love of these,She a window flower,And he a winter breeze.
Robert Frost
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.
Steve Erickson
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.
Allan Bloom
It could have been a second, an hour, a year, a hundred millennia; all were correct. The first thing I saw when my wits returned was the utter shock in Sethian’s eyes. It had been my thought that the experience was the elf’s doing. His expression was telling me I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Cristina Rayne
What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic.
Kate DiCamillo
Courage is just dreams with shoes on.
Reba Riley
The dead never truly die. They simply change form.
Suzy Kassem
Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it
Nella Larsen
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
James Dickey
I have never tried to be a good person, or to appear to be a good person. What I do and what I have done is merely a side effect of my desire to become me. I have only wanted to be me; if people think I'm good, then so be it. If people think I'm bad, then so be it. But if anything, my greatest struggle is to not come across as so good. I always find myself asking, "Why do I keep on giving off this immense impression of goodness?" Can I ask the world, am I not simply allowed to be me; without needing to be classified as either good or bad? Being known as good has its own prison just as much as being bad has its jail bars. I am so tired of the need to classify people. I am me.
C. JoyBell C.
Human life is a great story written by the mysterious, mystical and magical human mind.
Debasish Mridha
He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.
Bernard Pomerance
Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing critics and evading responsibility - for incompetence or worse. It generates an elite, a band of brothers in whom the national confidence can be reliably vested, unlike the great mass of citizenry on whose behalf the information is presumably made secret in the first place. With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science.
Carl Sagan
Competition can damage self-esteem create anxiety and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.
Mariah Burton Nelson
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch.
Bill Maher
When you teach, you learn twice
Andrea Goeglein
Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.
Louis I. Kahn
Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.
Richard Powers
Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.
Nathaniel Macon
And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.
Mira Grant
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.
Fulton J. Sheen
…I am certain of this one truth: men can achieve closeness without intimacy, while women can achieve intimacy without closeness.For example, Bobbie knows every intimate detail of her dental hygienist’s private life. She doesn’t have a close relationship with her, but she knows more about the woman who cleans her teeth twice a year than I do about most of the guys I play basketball with every week. And still I feel a closeness with every one of them. Maybe it’s because I don’t know too much.
Alan Eisenstock
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.
David Richo
I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.
Rae Carson
I’ll make you a deal. I’ll toast to us becoming great friends if you promise to tell me when you want something more with me."My eyes rounded, then I tossed back my head, laughing at his deliberate word choice. When, not if."You're something else," I teased.He shook his head. "Nah, just optimistic.""All right." I lifted my glass. "You've got yourself a deal.
Kerry Lonsdale
Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!
Clare B. Dunkle
Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.
Billy Graham
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
Alice Hoffman
It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need.
Pearl Zhu
Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
Mark Manson
Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.
Peggy Noonan
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
Sylvia Plath
At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth.
Saul Bellow
When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same.
Criss Jami
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
Hey…you don’t look like a rabbit.
Elle Lothlorien
Love yourself like you would a treasured love or a cherished child.
Amy Leigh Mercree
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive whereas fear is negative.
John Paul Jones
The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?
Michael Chabon
Dating--the socially accepted alternative to the rack.
Lois Greiman
‎"What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave.
C. JoyBell C.
You're here to love and appreciate.
Debasish Mridha