Quotes by American Authors - Page 3385

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mary Harris Jones
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
Leo Buscaglia
Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.
Steve Maraboli
Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
Ellen DeGeneres
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.
Roy T. Bennett
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
Rob Sheffield
there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.
Raymond Carver
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
P.C. Cast
There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.
Joe L. Wheeler
Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.
Margaret Mitchell
So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break
Billy Joel
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
Cormac McCarthy
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?
Jodi Picoult
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.
Andre Agassi
Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.
Alysha Speer
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
Robert Jordan
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Ming-Dao Deng
It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
Amy Poehler
I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.
Deepak Chopra
We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.
John Eldredge
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
Brené Brown
In a well-ordered universe...
Morgan Matson
Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.
Roy T. Bennett
What am I dying for?
Stephenie Meyer
Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.
Roy T. Bennett
I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead
Michael Summers
I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.
Amy Sommers
There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.
Robyn Schneider
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.
Tonya Hurley
What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?
James Dashner
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
Jimmy Buffett
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
Steve Maraboli
The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.
Mary Daly
The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
Jeff Foxworthy
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making
Reba McEntire
The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.
Susane Colasanti
After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when I left.”“You do have that effect on people.
Darynda Jones
Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.
Shaun David Hutchinson
Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.
Katie Kacvinsky
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.
Ernest Hemingway
How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.
Gena Showalter
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
Sylvia Plath
If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.
Quentin R. Bufogle
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?
Tim Burton
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.
R.A. Salvatore
Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.
Roy T. Bennett
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
Conan O'Brien
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
Quentin Tarantino
You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.
Hank Moody
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
Aaron Sorkin
Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?""I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!
Charles M. Schulz
His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.
Emily Giffin
Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Suzanne Collins
The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.
Karen Thompson Walker
Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
Chuck Palahniuk