Quotes by American Authors - Page 3266

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
Suzy Kassem
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
Helen Simonson
Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Benjamin Franklin
I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to be clear about that, and advocate for no use. Although rape and child molestation are ubiquitous, we do not have campaigns for “humane” rape or “humane” child molestation. We condemn it all. We should do the same with respect to animal exploitation. Second, animal welfare reform does not provide significant protection for animal interests. Animals are chattel property; they are economic commodities. Given this status and the reality of markets, the level of protection provided by animal welfare will generally be limited to what promotes efficient exploitation. That is, we will protect animal interests to the extent that it provides an economic benefit.
Gary L. Francione
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
Sarah Jessica Parker
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
Aberjhani
You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.
Thomas M. Sterner
It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
Mary E. Pearson
People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.
Glenway Wescott
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
Carl Sandburg
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
Norman Vincent Peale
Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.
Luanne Rice
When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.
Dale Carnegie
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
George Sheehan
The most talented people are always the nicest.
James Caan
People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.
Jaeda DeWalt
Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.
Shannon L. Alder
Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.
Dee Marie
I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.
Amanda Hocking
When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
Alexandra Bracken
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Anne Bradstreet
No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters.
Christopher Healy
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have
Joyce Meyer
Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food
Deepak Chopra
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
Abraham Lincoln
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Bill Moyers
Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children
The RZA
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Dorothy Parker
Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.
Noah Benshea
If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.
Amanda Hocking
Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
T.F. Hodge
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.
Tom Robbins
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.
Lama Surya Das
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
Mortimer J. Adler
I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.
Anasazi Foundation
For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.
Suzy Kassem
Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.
Sri Chinmoy
Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.
Nancy B. Brewer
Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.
Suzy Kassem
The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
Carolyn Mackler
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.
Marva J. Dawn
we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood
William James
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Mortimer J. Adler
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
Henry David Thoreau
That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.
Emma Campion
We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.
Jayce O'Neal
Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.
Hailey Edwards
A house divided cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
Washington Irving
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
Kathleen Norris
We all have scars, Mia; they are supposed to make you stronger, not paralyze you.” ~Cole
Tina Carreiro
The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.Eternity ended ten years ago.
Brandon Sanderson
There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.
Joe Vigil
Cheap booze is a false economy.
Christopher Hitchens
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.
Suzy Kassem
She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.
Khaled Hosseini
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
Walter M. Miller Jr
‎They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are angry with you?" "Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have chicken feet, I have eagle wings." "And what is so wrong with having eagle wings and no chicken feet?" Asked the old owl. "I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to find out." "They hate you because you know that you are an eagle and they want you to think you are a chicken so that you will peck at the ground looking for ants and worms, so that you will never know that you are an eagle and always think yourself a chicken. Let them hate you, they will always be chickens, and you will always be an eagle. You must fly. You must soar." Said the old owl.
C. JoyBell C.