Quotes by American Authors - Page 102

Few great men could pass personnel.
Paul Goodman
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Lyndon Johnson
Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
Bert Sugar
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead Spenser is dead so is Milton so is Shakespeare and I'm not feeling so well myself.
Mark Twain
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.
Wendy Liebman
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
John Steinbeck
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.
Robert Orben
Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.
James Humes
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
Henny Youngman
Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.
Rita Rudner
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
Casey Stengel
Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.
Robert Orben
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties a creature whose function is to solve problems?
Gorham Munson
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.
Thomas Paine
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Ben Ames Williams
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.
Sojourner Truth
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
William F. Halsey
There is no movement without our own resistance.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.
Paule Marshall
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.
Candice Bergen
We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
Walter E. Cole
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail
When you can't solve the problem manage it.
Dr. Robert H. Schuller
There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
Bernard M. Baruch
When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hard-working. Never be fainthearted. Be resolute but never bitter.... Permit no one to dissuade you from pursuing the goals you set for yourselves. Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor.
Ralph J. Bunche
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.
Jeannette Rankin
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Dr. Frank Crane
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles F. Kettering
When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.
Bonnie Blair
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.
Bernard M. Baruch
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Important principles may and must be flexible.
Abraham Lincoln
If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.
Benjamin Franklin
Principles become modified in practise by facts.
James Fenimore Cooper
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
James Russell Lowell
The proud hate pride - in others.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride ruined the angels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
J.D. Salinger
Freedom of the press is the staff of life for any vital democracy.
Wendell L. Willkie
Freedom of conscience of education of speech of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
F. D. Roosevelt
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
George Mason
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.
Constitution of the United States
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
George Washington
They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
Adlai Stevenson
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Thomas Jefferson