Famous quotes by Authors

"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

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome"

Brené Brown, Author

Brené Brown

"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"History is a vast early warning system"

Norman Cousins, Author

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred"

Tom Robbins, Author

Tom Robbins

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange"

Elias Canetti, Author

Elias Canetti

"Quality has to be caused, not controlled"

Phil Crosby, Author

"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric"

Phil Crosby, Author

"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Food is not just about nourishment, it's about pleasure and joy"

Gail Simmons, Author

Gail Simmons

"Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine"

Nora Ephron, Author

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley"

Joel Rosenberg, Author

"The power of social media is it forces necessary change"

Erik Qualman, Author

"Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out"

Pierre Berton, Author

"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy"

Scott Alexander, Author

"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky"

Paul Auster, Author

"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust, I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement"

Penelope Lively, Author

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"A human being is only breath and shadow"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me. It is the parts that I do understand"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"I can live for two months on a good compliment"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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