Famous quotes by Authors

"The tighter you squeeze, the less you have"

Thomas Merton, Author

Thomas Merton

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"No matter what we want of life, we have to give up something in order to get it"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world"

John Le Carre, Author

John Le Carre

"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak"

Neil Gaiman, Author

Neil Gaiman

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"He who is contented is rich"

Lao Tzu, Author

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

"Trust dies, but mistrust blossoms"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say, is what counts"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions"

Ken Blanchard, Author

Ken Blanchard

"It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

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