Famous quotes by Authors

"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

Evelyn Waugh

"Every person is the architect of their own fortune"

Jordan Belfort, Author

Jordan Belfort

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it"

Jordan Belfort, Author

Jordan Belfort

"Power is paradoxical"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Leap, and the net will appear"

John Burroughs, Author

"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else"

John Burroughs, Author

"There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action!"

Tony Robbins, Author

Tony Robbins

"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society, He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner"

James Bovard, Author

"The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are"

Paul Tournier, Author

"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out"

Iris Murdoch, Author

Iris Murdoch

"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris"

Larry Wall, Author

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose"

George William Curtis, Author

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments"

Rose Kennedy, Author

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