Proprietyof Quotes

#1. Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

John Muir

#2. She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day.

Sarah Addison Allen

#3. Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Gene Hackman

#4. It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

#5. Being one's true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.

Andrew McMillan

#6. Don't become bigoted about bigots.

Scott Ross

#7. I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

Robert Plant

#8. We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

Alain De Botton

#9. I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

Patti Smith

#10. Believe it or not, stories don't function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.

Film Crit Hulk!

#11. Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

Adolf Hitler

#12. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid ...

L. Frank Baum