Kate Dicamillo The Magician's Elephant Quotes

#1. There is beauty in the written word,

T.J. Klune

#2. Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Abbie Hoffman

#3. The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

Lawrence Summers

#4. But that is impossible," said Peter.
"Magic is always impossible," said the magician. "It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic.

Kate DiCamillo

#5. Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

Roger Scruton

#6. The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

Leland Stanford

#7. Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You

Edouard Leve

#8. Finding a positive motivation also engages your emotional brain to work for the change, not against it. Remember, it wants to go toward pleasure. So the more emotionally pleasurable your positive motivation, the more it will help you achieve your goal.

M.J. Ryan

#9. Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

William Shakespeare

#10. Josiah Royce wrote a book with the title The Philosophy of Loyalty.

Atul Gawande