Quotes by American Authors - Page 144

By learning to contact listen to and act on our intuition we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.
Shakti Gawain
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller
All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Mary Caroline Richards
Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor
I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
Tallulah Bankhead
I feel there are two people inside of me-me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.
Kim Basinger
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder
They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Johnson
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
Henry David Thoreau
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Josh Billings
If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
Walter Colton
The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Alice Hawthorne
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate bad as it is at least treats the neighbour as a thou whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned is manifest in the phrase T couldn't care less.'
Joseph Fletcher
Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
Rollo May
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Arthur E. Morgan
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
William McKinley
There is no death! the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.
John L. McCreery
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Charles J. Ingersoll
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
William Ellery Channing
We love in others what we lack ourselves and would be everything but what we are.
R. H. Stoddard
Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Benjamin Franklin
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.
Walter Colton
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.
Carson McCullers
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Ned Rorem
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
George Santayana
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Arthur Miller
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish I wish he'd stay away.
Hughes Mearns
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
Thornton Wilder
The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.
John Holt
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel Boorstin
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
Rita Mae Brown
Whatever people in general do not understand they are always prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
L. E. Landon
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen
I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
Life is my college. May I graduate well and earn some honors!
Louisa May Alcott
Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
I don't know what humor is.
Will Rogers
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
Bobby Murcer
In baseball you don't know nothing.
Yogi Berra
I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.
Geraldine Page
I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship we will never feel the free wind blow.
Sonia Johnson
We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.
Betty Friedan
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible they begin to see it as possible.
Cherie Carter-Scott
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done then they begin to hope it can be done then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett