Quotes by Writers - Page 86

The nature of everything is, fair and based on justice. We make that unfair and unjust.
Ehsan Sehgal
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I love religious nuts. They make me remember I have them too. So, being a health nut, I scratch them religiously. Just as I do my butt.
Fakeer Ishavardas
If you haven't failed you haven't tried anything new...
Reshma Saujani
Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;
Frederick Douglass
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
Emma Goldman
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
Chuang-tzu
As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.
Wil Wheaton
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
A.M. Jenkins
...you definitely are deep water Dr. Fisher. Fathoms deep.
J.M. Richards
Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible reaction, envy, admiration, pity, irritation, fury, fondness, jealousy, love, disgust. But in the end all human beings became candidates for compassion, all of us, without exception...and if we could recognize this from the beginning, what a saving in pain and grief and misery.
Rohinton Mistry
The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.
Mervyn Peake
It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.
Cyprian
What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I've only experienced through photos, visits, food. It's not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.
Durga Chew-Bose
As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses.--"Tango
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.
Rebecca McKinsey
To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.
Eva Ibbotson
Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
Dejan Stojanovic
Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.
Leza Lowitz
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Voltaire
The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a girl been naturally joyus yet all that had befallen her must surely have driven away the bright birds, one by one, from her breast. As it was, made of more sombre clay, capable of deep happiness, but more easily drawn to the dark than the light, Fuchsia was even more open to the cruel winds of circumstance which appeared to have singled her out for particular punishment.
Mervyn Peake
A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.
Sharanya Haridas
The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
Norman Podhoretz
The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot
Carlos Marighella
When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.
Chris Avellone
Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.
Eva Figes
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
Lin Yutang
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven.
Samuel Johnson
You get what you work for.
Mark Boyer
A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story
Enrique de Hériz
Superiority is always detested.
Baltasar Gracián
Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.
Otto Weininger
Years have passed, I suppose. I'm not really counting them anymore. But I think of this thing often: Perhaps there is a Golden Age someplace, a Renaissance for me sometime, a special time somewhere, somewhere but a ticket, a visa, a diary-page away. I don't know where or when. Who does? Where are all the rains of yesterday?In the invisible city?Inside me?It is cold and quiet outside and the horizon is infinity. There is no sense of movement.There is no moon, and the stars are very bright, like broken diamonds, all.
Roger Zelazny
I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.
George Sanders
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.
Rebecca Goldstein
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.
Lorraine Hansberry
Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.
Marjorie Watts
Once the frontiers of horror have been crossed, one will pass from form to form beyond the human and from metamorphosis to metamorphosis to accomplish, in the anguish of an impossible return, the most terrible journey to the depths of darkness.
Georges Limbour
Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine' -the Wisdom of our Creed is revealed through these words - 'We work in the Dark, to serve the Light. We are Assassins.' --Machiavelli
Oliver Bowden
My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Here we have baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
Eugene Field
I'm going to take care of you. I gotcha. Because that's my job, right? Taking care of my pain in the ass little brother.
Eric Kripke
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
Henry Saint John
Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus
Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.
Oli Anderson
I may have power but I do not have strength.
Rebecca Ethington
There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.
Dejan Stojanovic
The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.
Andrew Murray
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp
Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
If only I had used my powers for good instead of for trivia!
Hermester Barrington
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.
Savitri Devi
A young homosexual friend recently said, "It's no secret that you, that one, has such-and-such color hair, is yea high, weighs thus and so, and so on, but when you keep one part of yourself secret, that becomes the most important part of you."And that is true, I think; it may be the most important truth of all.
Merle Miller
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.
Niccolò Machiavelli