American Author Quotes

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I had a dream... that all babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

William Lyon Phelps

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.

By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...

M. F. K. Fisher

Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.

One's words must glide across the page like a swan moving across the waters. One must be conscious of the movement without a thought of what is causing it to move.

Robert Crichton

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

The cost for the recipient of God's grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Elizabeth Fishel

A fact has no "why." There it stands, self demonstrating.

Robert A. Heinlein

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

James Branch Cabell

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

Richard A. Knaak

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

John Jay Chapman

I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round. "It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.

Carol Patrice Christ

Her eyes sprang fully opened, and she beheld Howard's rickety bookshelves. P-h-y-s-i-c-s. A coil of radiant energy shot from the word, flooding into her skull like a sunbeam passing through glass. She closed her eyes. Her dendrites danced. Her synapses sparkeld.

James K. Morrow

The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

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