Quotes by American Authors - Page 279

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
Christopher Hitchens
It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.
David Wroblewski
It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117)
Sheldon B. Kopp
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
Therese Anne Fowler
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
Anne Lamott
2) Members will attend events together as a group, including, but not limited to, Homecoming, Prom, parties, and other couply events, despite possibly being labeled as freaks and getting jealous looks from guys who wish we were their hot dates, but instead have to settle for some lame wannabe.
Elizabeth Eulberg
She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.
Susan Donovan
3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.
Elizabeth Eulberg
Rules help us live our liveswhen we lose the will to do it on our own
Yvonne Woon
Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread
Mario Puzo
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
Vera Nazarian
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Douglas MacArthur
How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
Caroline Stevermer
Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.
Janet Fitch
I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.
Anna Kendrick
The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.
John Green
Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.
Kimberly Novosel
It’s okay to feel whatever you need to feel. Just promise me that you will never, ever feel guilty. Promise me that you will never blame yourself. It’s not your fault. You’re just a little girl and it’s not your fault that your life is so much harder than it should be. And as much as you’ll want to forget these things ever happened to you and as much as you’ll want to forget this part of your life existed, I need for you to remember.
Colleen Hoover
My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.
Veronica Roth
Without doubt, it is the greatest act of courage that is often the most fearful.
Christine Brodien-Jones
Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave.
Christine Brodien-Jones
The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.
Bryant McGill
I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.
Peter S Beagle
This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.
Cassandra Clare
We can't be brave without fear.
Muhammad Ali
Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.
Donna Lynn Hope
Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out
Sara Bareilles
Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you liveMaybe one these days you can let the light inShow me...how BIG your BRAVE is!
Sara Bareilles
Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.
Gary Ponzo
Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain.
Katherine McIntyre
It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.
Joan Didion
Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
Veronica Roth
I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not
Veronica Roth
Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!
Gerald Morris
Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.
Holly Black
If you're brave enough to follow truth it will shatter you and your illusions at the same time.
Bryant McGill
it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
Lois Lowry
Fortune favors the brave."Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!
Sherry Thomas
Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing in the world is to let someone love you.
Jennifer Probst
Ruexner chuckled and put away his knife. Gisela kept her eyes on Valten. Even though her bottom lip trembled, she still looked like the bravest woman he had ever seen.
Melanie Dickerson
She whispered, "Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and I know you can do it. You are the boldest, bravest, most noble knight in the Holy Empire.
Melanie Dickerson
If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.
Debasish Mridha
Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.
Debasish Mridha
Most times you only have to be Brave ENOUGH.
andrea T Goeglein
It’s just you, Little Monster. Own it or it will own you.
Penelope Douglas
When the song is over, she bows and I clap. I wonder how come she seems so brave. There is no part of her she hides. Lakeisha sits with me now on the bed and says,"Wanna hear a story?" I don't have to say yes before she tells me .
Heidi W. Durrow
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert Schuller
I knew what I wanted to do. Sometimes you just had to be brave.
Gwenda Bond
She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.
Glennon Doyle Melton
The only choice you have right now is the color you want the house painted, and your choices are white and white." She was yelling by the time she finished, her face flushed.
Linda Howard
Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruinedpurse. She slid the shoes on and straightened her shoulders. "I will go as a lady should," she claimed bravely. "In patent leather heels.
Abigail Roux
Be brave, be victorious
Mary E. Pearson
Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.
Brandon Sanderson
The way to be brave was to behave as if she were not afraid, even though she was.
C.J. Brightley
When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we make others brave. Brave is good.
Lynda Cheldelin Fell
When people told me I was so strong for surviving my daughter’s death, I wanted to scream. But the truth is that deep inside we are far more resilient, brave, and incredibly strong for having survived at all. So scream, be brave, and embrace your power. It will become your biggest asset.
Lynda Cheldelin Fell
We created Brave wherever we were brave.
Katherine Locke
She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
Ann Brashares
You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.'Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I was very frightened.'You risked your life.'But I didn't even think about that! I was only thinking of-'He interrupted her,smiling. 'That's all that brave means-not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. So did I.
Lois Lowry
I remember it so well. Dying. It was the most painful thing I've ever experienced. I couldn't scream because my lungs were torn apart or full of blood. I don't know. I just had to lie there, trying to breathe, hoping to drop dead as quickly as possible. And the whole time, the whole time I kept thinking about how I'd spent my entire life being a coward, and how it got me nowhere. And I knew that if I had the chance to do it all again, I'd do it differently. I promised myself I'd finally stop being afraid.
Tahereh Mafi