Famous quotes by Writers

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"Art is not a thing; it is a way"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Ignorance is not innocence, but sin"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying"

William Edward Hickson, Writer

William Edward Hickson

"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle, or children playing in the park?"

Ralph Marston, Writer

Ralph Marston

"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work"

Ralph Marston, Writer

Ralph Marston

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

Robert A. Heinlein

"They can because they think they can"

Virgil, Writer

"Love conquers all"

Virgil, Writer

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

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