Prouty Quotes

#1. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle.

#2. Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth

#3. The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

Pope John Paul II

#4. There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.

Simon McBurney

#5. the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

Pat Cadigan

#6. The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

Anna Quindlen

#7. Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.

Olive Higgins Prouty

#8. A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#9. Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

Billy Bragg

#10. Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!

Olive Higgins Prouty

#11. I lived in a place where the weather holds a grudge against humans. Winter in Chicago is winter defined (..)

Royce Prouty

#12. Oh, well, naturally I've read a few novels. And then, too," she went on, "there are broad plays and musical shows and moving pictures for giving information to inexperienced but curious spinsters like me.

Olive Higgins Prouty

#13. I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.

Olive Higgins Prouty

#14. I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

Og Mandino

#15. Sweet and clean out-of-doors, and I need purifying. My wanderings disturb Lucy. She is always on the lookout for me, in the hall or living-room or on the porch, especially if I do not come back until after dark. She needn't

Olive Higgins Prouty

#16. There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

Brownie McGhee

#17. As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

James S. Coleman

#18. I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

Adam Ferrara

#19. What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!

Tamora Pierce