Quotes by American Authors - Page 36

I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding patient persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle thought by thought fact by fact.
Elihu Burritt
Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.
Edward S. Finkelstein
Home wasn't built in a day.
Jane Ace
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two and I know it was not the last blow that did it but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
Mary Caroline Richards
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time take one step at a time we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.
Dorothy Day
The world doesn't come to the clever folks it comes to the stubborn obstinate one-idea-at-a-time people.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!
Judi Adler
The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time.
Lloyd Frankenberg
Time wounds all heels.
Jane Ace
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
Dean Rusk
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Shelby Foote
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all.
Tennessee Williams
Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.
H.L. Mencken
Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.
Emily Dickinson
Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
George Ade
The mind grows by what it feeds on.
J.G. Holland
Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
The moment of change is the only poem.
Adrienne Rich
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
Henry David Thoreau
It is privilege of living to be ... acutely agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
Marya Mannes
We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Beynon Ray
Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.
Julia Child
The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
Ruth Benedict
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.
Joyce Carol Oates
A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there doing that thing in the moment. ... He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.
John Brodie
To finish the moment to find the journey's end in every step of the road to live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Sherwood Anderson
I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
Hugh Prather
Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
Louis L'Amour
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.
Mary Catherwood
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'
Edith Hamilton
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fisher
Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.
Fogg Brackell
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
Kin Hubbard
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.
Learned Hand
The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.
Henry James
Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.
Josiah Royce
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.
James Harvey Robinson
The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.
Francis C. Benedict
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
John Dewey
All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
Robert Frost
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.
Lewis Thomas
Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.
Theodore Roszak
An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.
Austin O'Malley
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E B White
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
James Russell Lowell