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Quotes by American Authors
Ennui
Tea-leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,
Designing futures where nothing will occur.
Cross the gypsy’s palm and yawning she
Will still predict no perils left to conquer.
Jeopardy is jejune now: the naïve knight
Finds ogres out-of-date and dragons unheard-of,
While blasé princesses indict
Tilts at terror as downright absurd.
The beast in Jamesian grove will never jump,
Compelling hero’s dull career to crisis;
And when insouciant angels play God’s trump,
While bored arena crowds for once look eager,
Hoping toward havoc, neither pleas nor prices
Shall coax from doom’s blank door lady or tiger.
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
"But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend."
"The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face."
"Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security."
"One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter."
"A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip."
"I believe it went like this-and stop me if I'm wrong, Mousey: 'Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we have a big country over in America too."
"We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious."
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."
"We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too."
"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows."
"The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture . . . taking a verse out of context . . .deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited-these are some of Satan's favorite tricks."
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
"I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"Don't ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen."
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen."
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
"I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich."
"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
"Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me."
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
"If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by."
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