Famous quotes by Authors

"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

"Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny. They're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance. If the circumstances around them suck, they change them"

Jordan Belfort, Author

Jordan Belfort

"Profits, like sausages, are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"Two great talkers will not travel far together"

George Borrow, Author

"If men liked shopping, they'd call it research"

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day"

Orlando A. Battista, Author

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it"

Orlando A. Battista, Author

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain"

Pliny the Elder, Author

"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible"

Alexander Chase, Author

"Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live"

Lin Yutang, Author

"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve"

James Allen, Author

"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it"

John Henrik Clarke, Author

"The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes"

William Feather, Author

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth"

Jules Verne, Author

Jules Verne

"No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady"

Keith Miller, Author

"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries"

Michael Ondaatje, Author

"Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise"

Thomas Love Peacock, Author

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road"

Stewart Brand, Author

"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country"

Henry Wotton, Author

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate"

Elizabeth George, Author

"Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly"

Terry Waite, Author

"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else"

David Brin, Author

David Brin

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within"

Ariel Durant, Author

"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

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