Quotes by American Authors - Page 3193

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
Judy Collins
What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?
Janet Fitch
For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.
Richelle Mead
Beware how you take away hope from another human being
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left.
Seanan McGuire
Things doesn't always start out the way we want them to. It's how they end that's important.
T.M. Frazier
I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman’s legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It’s a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly.
Karen Marie Moning
He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking...
Lloyd Alexander
Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.
Jodi Picoult
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Barack Obama
Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
Sarah Addison Allen
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Jonas Salk
False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.
Charlie Rae
At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most.
Robert M. Drake
His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. They were an ocean of betrayal. They probed her, searching for the smallest sign that she didn't mean it. That spark of hope that never seemed to go out.
Aprilynne Pike
Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
John Johnson
If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
Suzanne Collins
I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I've died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created.
Robert M. Drake
People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!
Vera Nazarian
And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.
Eleanor Cameron
Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.
Cora Carmack
Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope,Even in the sunset of your life.
Sri Chinmoy
Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.
Jennifer Elisabeth
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.
Jerome Groopman
The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.
Bob Sorge
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
Robert Ludlum
I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
Sara Zarr
Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.
Robert M. Drake
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
Richard Ford
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester Nimitz
All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found
Lemony Snicket
What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.
Mary Karr
I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.
Jennifer Elisabeth
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.
Kahlil Gibran
Can I join you at lunch?" She paused. "You have every other day." He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. "Yes. But you resented it every other day." "What makes you think I won't resent it today?" "Hope. It's what I live on...
Melissa Marr
Hope,... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion... It's a law of motion, a fact of physics..., no different from the stages of white dwarves and red giants. Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.
Ian Caldwell
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit
She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.
Robert M. Drake
She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.
Robert M. Drake
Instead of being encouraged to feel completely protected, loved, honored, and respected by the Divine Force, you've been taught that you're being judged. Because you've been taught that, you feel guilt and fear. But guilt and fear do not open you connection to the Divine; they only serve to close your heart. The reality is that God's way is love, and you can see this for yourself.
Michael A. Singer
And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
Ray Lamontagne
Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.
Robert M. Drake
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
Christopher Reeve
I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.
Switchfoot
I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
Orson Scott Card
Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.
Naomi Benaron
I'm really hoping he’s being genuine because I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He’s the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me. I don’t really want to fall hard for anyone at all, especially someone who’s only making an effort because he thinks I'm easy. I also don’t want to fall for someone who has already branded himself hopeless. But I'm curious. So curious.
Colleen Hoover
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.
Nicholas Sparks
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.
Hal Lindsey
Hope can get you through anything.
Jamie Ford
There is hope in forgiveness
John Piper
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Failure is a greater teacher than success
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.
John Green
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Whoopi Goldberg
Love is only one fine star away.
Stevie Nicks
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
Peter Kreeft