Famous quotes by Authors

"I desire no future that will break the ties with the past"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"To be always intending to make a new and better life, but never to find time to set about it, is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"Appearances are often deceiving"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand"

Charles Eastman, Author

Charles Eastman

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you"

James Lane Allen, Author

James Lane Allen

"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration"

James Lane Allen, Author

James Lane Allen

"Hemingway's remarks are not literature"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"Many are called, but few get up"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"Love is a friendship set to music"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Christians are made, not born"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"Headlines twice the size of the events"

John Galsworthy, Author

John Galsworthy

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority"

Ken Blanchard, Author

Ken Blanchard

"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"A big iron needle stitching the country together"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives"

Jordan Belfort, Author

Jordan Belfort

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