American Author Quotes

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking... seize control in small ways.

God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

Robert Jeffress

Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

Phyllis Chesler

For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.

Leah Hager Cohen

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

Daniel Wallace (author)

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.

Louis J. Camuti

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

Elizabeth McCracken

Picking the right name for the baby is beset with difficulties.... whatever name you choose, the baby, some years hence, will hate it anyway, and decide to have his friends call him Slats or Rocky...

Robert Paul Smith

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It's the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.

Death's power is limited — It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while That is the only power death can claim —No more

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

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

Lincoln Barnett

He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be menaingful; to the extent that through it you express your unique talents, it will be joyful.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.

Closer to showtime, the jovial crowd now arrives in droves. Laughing. Smiling. Until they hear the melodic sounds of This Land Is Fagland, being sung by small children. With the most vigor, even the tiniest join in, big smiles, swaying their heads like it were the Barney the Dinosaur song. The chubby, red-haired girl actually jumps while singing—she's that happy.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

Chérie Carter-Scott