Famous quotes by Authors

"It is the sweet, simple things of life, which are the real ones after all"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people"

James Bovard, Author

"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Hardware works best when it matters the least"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of Republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush"

James Bovard, Author

"The optimum committee has no members"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble"

Elias Canetti, Author

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things"

Bruce Barton, Author

"When you're through changing, you're through"

Bruce Barton, Author

"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"No one can remember more than three points"

Phil Crosby, Author

"Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically"

Phil Crosby, Author

"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander"

Marcus Terentius Varro, Author

"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past, where time hovers ghostlike"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable, without having to qualify for that acceptance"

Paul Tournier, Author

"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Tearless grief bleeds inwardly"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

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