Famous quotes by Authors

"Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate"

Dean Koontz, Author

"And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"We don't control the world around us, but we control how we respond to it"

Ryan Holiday, Author

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition"

Ryan Holiday, Author

"Years teach us more than books"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps"

Nelson DeMille, Author

"People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success"

Jerry Gillies, Author

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding"

Mary Chesnut, Author

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need"

Jerry Gillies, Author

"Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold"

Esther Forbes, Author

"Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face"

Nelson DeMille, Author

"The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to"

Paula Danziger, Author

"I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single"

Paula Danziger, Author

"I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life"

Esther Forbes, Author

"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read"

Athenaeus, Author

"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness"

Athenaeus, Author

"My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"I've always enjoyed poor health"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper, Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement"

Michael Bergdahl, Author

"The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula"

Herbert Croly, Author

"It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done"

Benjamin Hoff, Author

"Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet"

Benjamin Hoff, Author

"To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity"

Herbert Croly, Author

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect"

Terry McMillan, Author

"When the doctors came, they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills"

Kate Chopin, Author

"I loved the world of imagination"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

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