Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 11

• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  Larry L. King

  Eye, Writing, Leaving

  Larry L. King (1987). “None but a blockhead: on being a writer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

  Leigh Hunt

  Animal, People, Office

  7 Copy quote

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Children, Animal, Pet

  In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

  Po Bronson

  Inspirational, People, I've Learned

  7 Copy quote

• I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Book, Hands

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.131, Barnes & Noble Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Needs, World

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Government, People

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.396

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

  John Ruskin

  Venice, Spirit, Splendour

  7 Copy quote

• More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

  Robert Menzies

  Things In Life, Indifference, Good Things

  73 Copy quote

• The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Lying, Planets, New Frontiers

  44 Copy quote

• The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Sometimes, Born

  5 Copy quote

• When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Bully

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, Expectations, Realization

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Envelopes, Way

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.2778, e-artnow

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Names, Fame, Misunderstanding

  20 Copy quote

• To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Judgment, Breathe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Wander, Anxious

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.105, Vintage

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Earth, May, Possibility

  4 Copy quote

• I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

  4 Copy quote

• A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

  William Allen White

  Mistake, Doe, Littles

  16 Copy quote

• The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

  Chester Bowles

  Attitude, Reason, Characteristics

  4 Copy quote

• Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Maxims, Commonwealth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Desire, Events

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.447, Routledge

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We understand nature by resisting it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Resisting

  Gaston Bachelard (2002). “The formation of the scientific mind”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source