Famous quotes by Authors

"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"You either make dust or eat dust"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

"The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows"

Brené Brown, Author

Brené Brown

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat"

Rebecca West, Author

"A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can"

Paul Tournier, Author

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"We have the best government that money can buy"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"

Lao Tzu, Author

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination"

Ben Sweetland, Author

Ben Sweetland

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort, you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

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