Top 87 Taylor Caldwell Quotes
#1. If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
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#5. We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.
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#6. One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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#7. If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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#8. It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough.
A Prologue to Love
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#9. The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's,
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#10. Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
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#11. A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
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#12. People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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#13. Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
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#14. I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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#16. I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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#18. Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living ...
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#20. Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.
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#23. I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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#24. If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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#25. The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
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#26. Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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#27. Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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#29. The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
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#31. One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.
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#32. Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.
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#35. If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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#36. But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
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#37. The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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#39. I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
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#40. Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
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#41. God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often.
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#42. I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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#44. I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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#45. I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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#47. No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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#48. An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.
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#50. You'll notice that it is the haters of humanity who are always trying to reform it. They want to feel superior to the general run of mankind.
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#51. If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it.
A Prologue to Love
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#52. It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state ... And absolute security is absolute slavery.
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#53. You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.
A Prologue to Love
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#55. It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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#56. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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#58. A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
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#59. Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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#60. It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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#64. In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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#66. Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
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#67. I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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#69. Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
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#70. I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
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#74. It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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#75. Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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#76. Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.
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#77. I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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#80. No man is more abhorred than a man who is different from his neighbors. They feel violated and threatened if one dares to be as they are not.
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#82. I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
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#83. I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
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#84. I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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#85. Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?
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#86. Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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#87. My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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