Quotes by American Authors - Page 187

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
Olga Broumas
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.
Agnes Thornton
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John E. Kennedy
I'm often wrong but never in doubt.
Ivy Baker Priest
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.
Olin Miller
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Edgar Watson Howe
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
Eric Hoffer
All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing having to change taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Ernestine Ulmer
I'm from Missouri you must show me.
Colonel Willard D. Vandiver
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Gentlemen of die Jury: The one absolute unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world the one that never deserts him the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.
Senator George Graham Vest
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!
Arthur Guiterman
You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damn'd if you do You'll be damn'd if you don't.
Lorenzo Dow
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.
Walter Colton
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
Henry Ward Beecher
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
J.G. Holland
Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Mary Baker Eddy
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
James Whitcomb Riley
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Woodrow Wilson
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
John Burroughs
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
Benjamin Franklin
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring Who bides his time.
James Whitcomb Riley
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Starhawk
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can't have genius without patience.
Margaret Deland
Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
Peggy Cahn
Who longest waits most surely wins.
Helen Hunt Jackson
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
Thornton Wilder
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.
Katherine Anne Porter
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly many an unbearable situation would become manageable and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.
Claire Weeks
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
Death is a door life opens.
Adela Rogers St. John
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T.S Eliot
You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller
We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.
Maria Weston Chapman
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness Our burden is our boon The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.
John Greenleaf Whittier
I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.
Mike Todd
Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.
Theodore Tilton
Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.
Alison Cheek