Famous quotes by Authors

"He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards'"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"There are no second acts in American lives"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"April is a promise that May is bound to keep"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology"

Clive James, Author

Clive James

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time"

Thomas Merton, Author

Thomas Merton

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"After all is said and done, more is said than done"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"See how these Christians love one another"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides"

Andre Malraux, Author

Andre Malraux

"Men and women have strengths that complement each other"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"Nothing very, very good and nothing very, very bad ever lasts for very, very long"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

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