Quotes by American Authors - Page 3366

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Mark Twain
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
T.S Eliot
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
Patti Smith
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
Kirk Cameron
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.
Gertrude Stein
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
Theodore Roosevelt
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
Jodi Picoult
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
Zig Ziglar
Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.
Wil Wheaton
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Hunter S. Thompson
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Georgia O'Keeffe
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--
Emily Dickinson
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
Terry Brooks
A truth that no one knows is still the truth.
Sharon Shinn
Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.
Anaïs Nin
I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.
Steve Maraboli
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
Henry David Thoreau
Truth builds trust.
Marilyn Suttle
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.
Anaïs Nin
The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
Ellen Hopkins
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Oprah Winfrey
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.
Zora Neale Hurston
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Maya Angelou
In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.
Steve Maraboli
No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.
Josh Groban
I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.
Mark Andrus
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
Francesca Lia Block
But there's always a first time for everything
Melissa de la Cruz
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
I do like the world quite a lot.
Shannon Hale
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Trina Paulus
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
Jason Fried
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
Max Lucado
Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
Lloyd Alexander
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Stephen King
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
Taylor Swift
All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
Byron Katie
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Albert Einstein
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
Garth Stein
Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.
Kelly Cutrone
I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.
Amy Harmon
People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.
Miley Cyrus
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
Laini Taylor
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
Emily Dickinson
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
Sarah Dessen
What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
Shannon Hale
It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.
James Patterson
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
Stephen King
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.
Will Smith
The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
Ally Carter