Dianetic Quotes

#1. A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.

L. Ron Hubbard

#2. Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.

Mariella Frostrup

#4. Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.

Steve Jobs

#6. What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on

Bruce R. McConkie

#7. You're dead mister and you died for nothing.
You're dead mister.
Dead.

Dalton Trumbo

#8. Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

Dale Carnegie

#9. Still hate the water, bitch?"
"Wh-What?

Elisabeth Naughton

#10. Stop making excuses and start making history.

A.D. Posey

#11. I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

Paul Auster

#12. God gives each his due at the time allotted.

Euripides

#13. A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

#14. The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.

Umair Haque

#15. I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses".

Leah Thomas

#16. A chocolate you did not want to eat does not count as chocolate.

Terry Pratchett