American Columnist Quotes

There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all the drugs, whores, and booze you'll need to pass an eventful weekend.

There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

Aleksandar Hemon

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

Charles L. Allen

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

The sheep are down at the water, a-drinkin' their bloomin' fill,
An' me and the dog are dozin', as herders and collies will;
The world may be movin' somewheres, but here it is standin' still.

Steve Jobs has created his own precious little walled garden. He's looking more and more like Howard Hughes, holed up in his penthouse, making sure he doesn't come in contact with any germs. Now Google is saying, hey, nice garden, have fun sitting in it. By yourself.

I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art.

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

Chuck Klosterman

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

A rule of thumb in the matter of medical advice is to take everything any doctor says with a grain of aspirin.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Marjorie Holmes

While it is a misfortune to a woman never to be loved, it is a tragedy to her never to love.

That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

Margarita Engle

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

George Matthew Adams