Fructifying Def Quotes

#1. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.

George Orwell

#2. A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Nelson Mandela

#3. Only two were unmarked. Tolya and Tamar led the charge, eyes wild, blades flashing, roaring my name.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

Robin Williams

#5. With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.

Emily Browning

#6. Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Russell Conwell

#7. ...the human animal is a selfish beast...

Tennessee Williams

#8. Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

#9. The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.

Grace Baruch

#10. It's a comfortable thing, music is.

William Faulkner