Ensaios Montaigne Quotes

#1. I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

Zadie Smith

#2. I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#3. If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

Tim Ferriss

#4. The harder you work ... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

Seal

#5. My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

Joe Taslim

#6. The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

#7. I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

Alan Garner

#8. O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.

Aimee Semple McPherson

#9. Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

Ayn Rand