Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.
Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!
If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace!
Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!
The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.
Go to a forest and kiss the stream, kiss the tree, kiss the light leaking through the trees! Give your love to those that give life to you!
Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.
One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.
She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm.
Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.
I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel a bit medicinal.
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.
Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.
Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.
I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.
You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?
I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.
Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.