Quotes by American Authors - Page 289

Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.
Sam Wazan
I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.
Viola Shipman
Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought.
Marilynne Robinson
I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.
Bill Walton
You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation.
Julia Quinn
So much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know were passed along brother to brother, sister to sister, and this sufficient for most purposes, despite inevitable error and sensational.
Marilynne Robinson
I prick my hand as I seize the rose from her. “I’ll think about it.” A small spot of blood forms on my palm and I realize I’ve been bleeding on the inside this whole time, all these years. It was only a matter of time before it showed on the outside.
Tracy Krimmer
Holy crap, Caleb! You're my uncle." Nick"No!" Caleb"It's worse. He's the half-brother of your great-grandfather." Kody"You're not helping." Caleb"No, but I'm entertaining myself at your adorable expense." Kody"Yeah, y'all are missing the important fact. To a Cajun, that makes him my uncle." Nick"Great. I always wanted to be a monkey's uncle. Nice to know I finally succeeded." Caleb
Sherrilyn Kenyon
..All of us are vulnerable to intense, non-productive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first family—in particular, losses and cutoffs. If we do not observe and understand how our triangles operate, our anger can keep us stuck in the past, rather than serving as an incentive and guide to form more productive relationship patterns for the future.
Harriet Lerner
like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.
James Hannaham
Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.
Denis Markell
I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.
Sibella Giorello
At that period, rising in the world meant giving up working with your hands in favor of work in a store or an office. The people who lived in town had made it, and turned their backs socially on those who had not but were still growing corn and wheat out there in the country. What seemed like an impassable gulf was only the prejudice of a single generation, which refused to remember its own not very remote past.
William Maxwell
So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis—there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.
Stephen Covey
But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.
Elizabeth Strout
We may view it as our responsibility to control something that is not in fact within our control and yet fail to exercise the power and authority that we do have over our own behavior. Mothers cannot make children think, feel, or be a certain way, but we can be firm, consistent, and clear about what behavior we will and will not tolerate, and what the consequences are for misbehavior. We can also change our part in patterns that keep family members stuck. At the same time we are doomed to failure with any self-help venture if we view the problem as existing within ourselves—or within the child or the child’s father, for that matter. There is never one villain in family life, although it may appear that way on the surface.
Harriet Lerner
Can I sleep with you?" asked Oz. "Kinda scary in my room. Pretty sure I saw a troll in the corner." Lou said, "Get up here." Oz climbed next to her. Oz suddenly looked troubled. "When you get married, who am I going to come get in bed with when I'm scared, Lou?" "One day you're gonna get bigger than me, then I'm going to be running to you when I get scared." "How do you know that?" "Because that's the deal God makes between big sisters and their little brothers.
Baldacci
This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.
Nayomi Munaweera
An orange day, a happy day, a brand-new day in the secret language that only the three of us seemed to understand."Mmmmm," Daddy said, taking a bite of his roll. "Orange wakes you up, but cinnamon makes you remember.
Judith Fertig
There’s no such thing as half family.
Sasha Martin
Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.
Trevor Noah
Which meant it was time for the centerpiece of the celebration, the reason they were all gathered on Saturday, the weekly episode of what, as far as many of the Davidsons including Jody were concerned was the greatest television show ever made. Hee Haw. While Roy and Buck sang the opening song, everyone would bicker and talk back and forth, what was better about the show, the music or the humor, what have you, the natural result of 40 people crowded around one rabbit eared television set. But once Hee Haw started, the talking was over. After that, it was all about the love. And so was everything before, really.
Brian Holers
Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family sat around the table, even Adien.Lukel had been talking animatedly, but he cut off as he saw Sarene. "Speak the name of the lion," he said, quoting a Jindoeese proverb, "and he will come to feast.
Brandon Sanderson
In my family strange is relative.
Kate Rockland
Your best is good enough.
Vivian E. Greenberg
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
Dorothy Allison
With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
Sarah Dessen
the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.
Karl Taro Greenfeld
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
Maggie Stiefvater
Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.
Rebecca Wells
Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?''She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family.
Ally Carter
...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.
Brady Udall
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
Maya Angelou
When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.
Stan Slap
Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?
Stan Slap
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Stan Slap
The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.
Stan Slap
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
Stan Slap
The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.
Stan Slap
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
Stan Slap
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
Stan Slap
Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.
Stan Slap
To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.
Stan Slap
Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.
Stan Slap
Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.
Stan Slap
When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.
Stan Slap
Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.
Stan Slap
Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.
Stan Slap
Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.
Stan Slap
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
Stan Slap
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
Stan Slap
Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.
Stan Slap
Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.
Stan Slap
Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.
Stan Slap
The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.
Stan Slap
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.
Stan Slap
Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.
Stan Slap
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
Stan Slap
This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.
Stan Slap
What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.
Stan Slap