Famous quotes by Authors

"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear"

Joan Didion, Author

"When people are lame, they love to blame"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant"

Joan Didion, Author

"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these"

William Dean Howells, Author

William Dean Howells

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way"

E. L. Doctorow, Author

"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players"

Blaine Lee, Author

Blaine Lee

"Trouble shared is trouble halved"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"The weather is like the government, always in the wrong"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"To the dumb question, why me? The cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: 'Why not'"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain"

Thomas Malory, Author

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through"

Jules Verne, Author

Jules Verne

"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help"

Judith Martin, Author

"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment"

Ellis Peters, Author

"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation"

Ron Chernow, Author

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away"

Eudora Welty, Author

"I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him"

Kathleen Winsor, Author

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use"

Emily Post, Author

"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things"

Chaim Potok, Author

"My own parents loved each other very much"

Jilly Cooper, Author

Jilly Cooper

"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place"

Ignazio Silone, Author

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts"

James P. Hogan, Author

"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"Advice is one of those things: it is far more blessed to give than to receive"

Carolyn Wells, Author

"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been"

Arthur Ransome, Author

"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do"

Ted Nelson, Author

"The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose"

Richard Grant, Author

"The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin"

William Gurnall, Author

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