Quotes by American Authors - Page 3299

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.
Laura Kreitzer
Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.
T.S Eliot
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.
Lauren F. Winner
The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.
Megan Chance
As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.
James Van Praagh
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
Jodi Picoult
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
Flannery O'Connor
You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
Dean Koontz
The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.
Nakia R. Laushaul
This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your ‘spiritual security’—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.
Mitch Albom
but even the facts do not always tell the truth
Paul Auster
All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.
Vera Nazarian
Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
Nicholas Sparks
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.
Mitch Albom
Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth [identity] is may be none of our business…but it is there, guiding us along the path of greater becoming; a true awareness. It is so self-sustaining that our recognition of it is not required. We are offspring’s of such a powerfully divine force – Creator of all things known and unknown.
T.F. Hodge
If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.
Sarah Dessen
For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
Mike Norton
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
Chuck Palahniuk
You taste like sugar," he pants through a smile, still out of breath."Somehow I doubt that. But I appreciate the thought.
Addison Moore
Some people would rather be right than free.
Vivian Amis
We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.
Joseph Smith
Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
Rachel Held Evans
The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.
Richard Henry Pratt
Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
George R.R. Martin
Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit
Christopher Moore
I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.
Joan Didion
The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128
Kim Stanley Robinson
The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.
Marty Rubin
And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
David Mutti Clark
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.
Orson Scott Card
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
Criss Jami
The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.
Shannon L. Alder
Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.
Suzy Kassem
God is my only leader. Truth is my only sword. Guided only by my conscience, I am a true citizen of the world.
Suzy Kassem
When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.
Suzy Kassem
A relationship that is truly genuine does not keep changing its colors. Real gold never rusts. If a relationship is really solid and golden, it will be unbreakable. Not even Time can destroy its shine.
Suzy Kassem
Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.
Suzy Kassem
There are two missions we are obligated to carry out during our life journey. The first, is to seek Truth throughout our lifetime. The second, is simply to be good. Engrave it in your mind that life is just one big board game where you have to make it from start to finish by being good. That is all you have to do. The hardest part, is dealing with all the obstacles that prevent smooth sailing. The trick is, to always strive to be the right person in all situations – regardless of personal cost to you. Your aim is to make sure the right book on your shoulder weighs more that the bad book on the left. The scales are real. Regardless of your chosen faith, there is a measurement system to be found in all of the world's religions. After all, does it make sense for all souls, good or bad, to end up in the same place? Of course not. To really secure the very best setting in the afterlife, the vibrations of your good deeds must surpass your death.
Suzy Kassem
In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitionsof the truth.
Roderick Vincent
I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.
Gary Webb
Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.
Suzy Kassem
Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.
Suzy Kassem
Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.
Suzy Kassem
Ignoring your conscience is the first violation of Truth.
Suzy Kassem
The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by God. Weakness is not a virtue praised by God. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? Doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to God. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? Because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end — we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?
Suzy Kassem
The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.
Sara Pennypacker
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
Suzy Kassem
Spiritually is finding the truth in you.
Wes Adamson
All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.
Milford Zornes
She's my daughter. She's my sister.
Robert Towne
It took me years to realize that I could do all kinds of drastic acts like quitting jobs, relationships, towns (or all of the above), but what showed up at the next job, relationship, & town was still ME.
Summer Pierre
You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.
Michael Crichton
The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the indifference this might suggest, supplied him liberally with personal information; which isn't to say she always told the truth, how many people in love do? or can? but at least she permitted him enough truth to account more or less accurately for all the life she had lived away from him. It was her feeling, however, that he would as soon not hear her confessions: he seemed to want her to be as elusive, as secretive as he was himself.
Truman Capote
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
J. Donald Adams
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!
Sidney Howard
There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.
Richard Marek
The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.
E'yen A. Gardner
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
Vera Nazarian
When it rains," her father said "it pours.
Jodi Picoult