Famous quotes by Authors

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right"

Clive James, Author

Clive James

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

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it"

Manuel Puig, Author

Manuel Puig

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while, then a layer of scum floats to the top"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

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

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church"

Charles Eastman, Author

Charles Eastman

"More than this, even in those white men who professed religion, we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material"

Charles Eastman, Author

Charles Eastman

"You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place"

James Lane Allen, Author

James Lane Allen

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts"

James Lane Allen, Author

James Lane Allen

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