Author Quotes: Inspiring Words from Literary Masters (Page 2)

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important"

C. S. Lewis, Author

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

C. S. Lewis, Author

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"

Alice Walker, Author

"It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world"

Joel A. Barker, Author

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms"

Sophocles, Author

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

Mark Twain, Author

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so"

Mark Twain, Author

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"

Lewis Carroll, Author

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact"

George Eliot, Author

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

Mark Twain, Author

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

Mark Twain, Author

"He who is contented is rich"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own"

Doug Coupland, Author

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