Overlived Quotes

#1. I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

Deborah Ellis

#3. A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

Napoleon Hill

#4. There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

Buck Martinez

#5. I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.

Ellen Datlow

#6. Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

Fernando Pessoa

#7. After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

William Henry Maule

#8. Your speech is your ultimate art.
Your deeds are your ultimate creation.
Your destiny is your ultimate masterpiece.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Be Prepared ... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Robert Baden-Powell

#11. If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

Rumi

#12. Everyone you see is you in a different time & space.

Ralph Smart