Famous quotes by Authors

"I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves, and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: We become the powerful force ourselves"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"We all need each other"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"The past is but the past of a beginning"

H.G. Wells, Author

"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"

H.G. Wells, Author

"In England, we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it"

H.G. Wells, Author

"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Cynicism is humor in ill health"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Biologically, the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning"

H.G. Wells, Author

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here'"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us"

Helen Keller, Author

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his"

Helen Keller, Author

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good"

Helen Keller, Author

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant"

Helen Keller, Author

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others"

Helen Keller, Author

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