Famous quotes by Authors

"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, boldness"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"I am what time, circumstance, history have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without, and know we cannot live within"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

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