Great 20 Letter Quotes

#1. Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Fulton J. Sheen

#2. When men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

James A. Michener

#3. No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere
("Between Four Yews")

Reggie Oliver

#5. Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Antonio Machado

#6. Water. Deep water. Infinitely deep water of the primordial ocean, where everything is possible.

Paulo Coelho

#7. There are no bigger donkeys than these workers ... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

Karl Marx

#8. Does it help?" he asks. "The e-mailing."
She nods. "A tiny bit. It's strange. You're writing a letter to someone who's never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

Melina Marchetta

#9. History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#10. We are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#11. Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be.

Susan Cooper