American Author Quotes

We are striving to forge our union with purpose.
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there... because we are never there but always here, now!

In most cases there is something horrible in the idea of being bought and sold; it sent a thrill to my heart, a shiver through my brain. For a moment I felt dizzy, but a moment only. I had experienced too much trouble and anxiety to be overwhelmed by this. Then, too, I thought that though my perishable body was at their disposal, my soul was beyond their reach.

You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

Nell Freudenberger

Many companies are not tech companies, they are brands.

The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything.

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

Coincidence is the evidence of the True Believer.

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.

Christopher Locke

A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.

Once the data is in, the theory has to follow along meekly.

Michael Swanwick

Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want.

I am telling you now: I might be young, but I am good. I work hard, and I'm a good person. I know what's right. I know what's wrong. And if you give me this chance-- if you just give me one shot to show you how good I can be, how hard I work, how much I believe in doing the right thing -- I won't let you down. I promise.

We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it ― so, atheism is the default position. Although some children are not indoctrinated with a specific religion before the age of reason, there are many more who are.

David G. McAfee

It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.

Miles J. Stanford

When Spirit comes into your life, It will uplift you and give you an understanding into the problems and the joys of your daily life. It gives direction, and for many people this is the first time that they have found it.

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

Charles Macomb Flandrau

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

It's easier to be authentic if you don't say you are authentic.

B. Joseph Pine II

Streets like the one she lived on were no accident. They were the North's lynch mobs, she thought bitterly; the method the big cities used to keep Negroes in their place.

Take care not to listen to anyone
who tells you what you can
and can't be in life.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

Human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.

Sally Carrighar

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions... Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

Ellen Hunnicutt