Mark Twain
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
Year: 2008
Pablo Picasso
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.”
J. D. Salinger
“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
Robertson Davies
“Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a …
George Bernard Shaw
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
Laurence J. Peter
“Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Jean-Luc Picard
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
Budd Schulberg
“Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?”
David P. Mikkelson
“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 …
Shimon Peres
“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with …
George Eliot
“There’s folks ‘ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i’ their boots.”
Ellen Goodman
“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The greater man the greater courtesy.”
Erica Jong
“If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.”
the Dhammapada
“If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse… If one speaks or acts with a pure …
Gertrude Stein
“In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.”
Eric Hoffer
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”
Jane Wagner
“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.”
Oscar Wilde
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”
John Keats
“Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and …
Arnold Bennett
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a …
Horace
“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”
Ann Radcliffe
“Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.”
Amy Bloom
“Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.”
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”
Anton Chekhov
“Man is what he believes.”
Ben Stein
“I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest …
Natalie Goldberg
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”
Helen Keller
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
Frank Tyger
“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”
Og Mandino
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
Sir Francis Bacon
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”
Plato
“You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile …
Aristotle
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
Evan Esar
“Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.”
Cullen Hightower
“Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.”
Casey Stengel
“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”
Oscar Levant
“There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”