Famous quotes by Authors

"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

"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

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

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

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"There are no second acts in American lives"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"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

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"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

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

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

Thomas Merton, Author

Thomas Merton

"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

"Appearances are often deceiving"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

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

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

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

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"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

"The only paradise is paradise lost"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up"

A. A. Milne, Author

A. A. Milne

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Christians are made, not born"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

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

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"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

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