Tag: quotes
member name: Sheryl L.
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April 03, 2009 09:36 AM EDT --
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a . . .
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April 09, 2009 10:53 AM EDT --
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
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April 02, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
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Life is like a beautiful melody, only . . .
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April 01, 2009 11:38 AM EDT --
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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April 04, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety . . .
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April 06, 2009 09:58 AM EDT --
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers . . .
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April 07, 2009 10:56 AM EDT --
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to . . .
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April 10, 2009 10:48 AM EDT --
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made . . .
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May 04, 2009 11:34 PM EDT --
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from . . .
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May 17, 2009 12:29 AM EDT --
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank
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I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Don't . . .
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May 13, 2009 12:09 PM EDT --
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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All autobiography . . .
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May 20, 2009 09:23 AM EDT --
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. . . .
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May 22, 2009 12:23 PM EDT --
Classic Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Scottish writer
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
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A long shot, Watson, a very long shot!
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May 27, 2009 03:13 PM EDT --
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
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Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and . . .
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May 31, 2009 11:03 AM EDT --
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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After you have . . .
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April 05, 2009 04:08 PM EDT --
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Character is power.
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Character, not circumstances, . . .
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April 11, 2009 09:31 AM EDT --
What subsists today by violence, continues tomorrow by acquiescence, and is perpetuated by tradition, till at last the hoary abuse shakes the grayhairs of antiquity at us, and gives itself out . . .
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April 13, 2009 10:18 AM EDT --
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
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A coward is much more exposed . . .
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April 14, 2009 02:21 PM EDT --
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
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April 16, 2009 08:57 AM EDT --
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. . . .
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