Famous quotes by Authors

"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"Instead of this absurd division into sexes, they ought to class people as static and dynamic"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"The secret of happiness is something to do"

John Burroughs, Author

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral"

John Burroughs, Author

"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am"

John Burroughs, Author

"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare"

John Burroughs, Author

"A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying"

John Burroughs, Author

"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Teaching is the royal road to learning"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Human life is beyond comprehension"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic"

Norman Cousins, Author

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country"

Norman Cousins, Author

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness"

Norman Cousins, Author

"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends"

J. K. Rowling, Author

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