Quotes by American Authors - Page 71

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
I would rather be right than President.
Henry Clay
Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.
H. Jack Geiger
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
Pearl Buck
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H.L. Mencken
Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
A. Eustace Haydon
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
Mark Twain
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow
How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
Charles Curtis
Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?
Groucho Marx
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.
Henry B. Whipple
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.
Mary Baker Eddy
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Phillips Brooks
Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.
J. Ruth Gendler
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
Malcolm Boyd
If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
Dwight L. Moody
We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.
Austin Phelps
Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says "I care."
Dick Eastman
If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.
Dick Eastman
The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.
Howard Chandler Robbins
Some pray to marry the man they love my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Rose Pastor Stokes
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
Phillips Brooks
Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.
E.W. Kenyon
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."
A.B. Simpson
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
James Russell Lowell
Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.
Dean Register
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.
Gordon Lindsay
Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
George Mueller