Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person.
And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
- When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 12, 2003
- So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882
- Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
- Michael Pritchard
- Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it.
It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
- Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
- Emile Chartier
- A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
- Joseph Rickaby
- Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
- The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.
- David P. Mikkelson, Snopes.com, 04-10-04
- This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004
- Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
|
|