American Author Quotes

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

Karin Slaughter

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

B. Joseph Pine II

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

Peter Matthiessen

It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

A scientist is looking for general laws, it is true; but at the same time he wants to solve individual cases or problems; laws are not science, but only a means to get science; and if a law does not solve a specific problem, the scientist will change the law and not the problem. Thus science, like ethics, aims at the individual case.

Fashion is in ceaseless pursuit of things that are about to look familiar and in uneasy flight from things that have just become a bore.

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

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

John Perry Barlow

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

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

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Here he was, not quite twenty-five years old, and he was going to have to make a new life for himself. A host of options lay before him, but, tipsy with Chablis and sunshine, at the moment all he could truly feel was a powerful sense of loss and uncertainty. All the routes to his previous self—the self that had tried to survive as a loner in Fort Walton Beach—were blocked, and he did not know which new path to choose.
Ciao, he said again, and this time he was not talking to his mother.

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

One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else.

Raymond Charles Barker

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.

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

Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.

The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job

Robert O. Young

It was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse