Quotes By Famous Authors: [W]
Victory isn't defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say, 'I did the best I could, I gave ...
That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by ...
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. - Voltaire
Him talking in accents as unmistakably American as had been
Couldn't, either. They didn't know this
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, ...
When you're on a golden sea, you don't need no memory...
My rage is not malicious; like a sparkOf fire by steel inforced out of a flintIt is no sooner kindled, but extinct.
As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of ...
Singing is my form of expression; it's what I've always done and I hope that in some capacity I'll always have that outlet. In the ...
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable ...
Life is Beauty, Mystery, Sweetness and Terror. Get married soon as possible so when you get divorced, you're not too old. Miss Agony
The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.
A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do ...
When Stacey Curtis found the dead man on the bed, she knew it was time to get her own apartment.
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes ...
Even the finest of plans can fail when they're poorly instantiated.
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards ...
Hiking is sort of like strip poker: by the end, all the participants are hot, sweaty, and nearly naked, and the winner is the person ...
Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
And by focusing on the character of the victim, we inadvertently take the focus off the powerful and instead train our eyes and judgment on ...
Passion is about the calling. Passion is the motivator behind the mission. Passion focuses us on "being" and not on "doing.
Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can ...
If we survive all this we'll have some beer and a Firefly-a-thon.
As you listen to the murmur of the rain, remember that it is the touch of God. And that just as it unites heaven and ...
The number of interrogators who have been bamboozled since the dawn of history by the body language and appealing manner of pretty prisoners is, to ...
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and ...
I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
Writing fiction is: Imagination and structure first and foremost - then revision, revision, revision! Then, revision!
The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.
... it often occurs that a work of art - even though incomprehensible - remains in the mind, and produces its effect years later, when ...
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's ...
Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is ...
She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look like the tooth ...
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
People don't follow titles, they follow courage.
White froth bubbles from the mouth of Chow Sze Teck. The airconditioner is still running and the room is dark. Slumped over the mahogany desk ...
Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape...
We celebrate success by giving credit to others. To be successful, you need to share and give power freely. And you need to celebrate their ...
The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
Two Confederate senators proposed a night attack on McClellan employing exotic tactics - "5000 [men] stripped naked to storm the camps of the enemy with ...
Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.
Policy is the people you work with.
I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that ...
The teacher knows best what these helpful connections are and must help the pupil to make them.
He who is good is happy.
'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, ...
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.