Quotes by American/USA authors (page 68)

"The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"The police must obey the law while enforcing the law"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for"

Earl Warren, Judge

"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Failure is success if we learn from it"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention"

Michael Graves, Architect

"I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another"

Thomas Merton, Author

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire"

Thomas Merton, Author

"I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"It is not only the living who are killed in war"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

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