Quotes by American Authors - Page 74

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Faith and hope and patience and all the strong beautiful vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer his personal salvation and personal Christian graces have their being bloom and fruitage in prayer.
E.M.Bounds
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
E.M.Bounds
Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.
Charles G. Finney
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher
Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.
Peter Bowman
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
Mark Twain
Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.
John Gardner
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Jack Woodford
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
Sydney J. Harris
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.
Kin Hubbard
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffer
Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
Henry Ward Beecher
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Ambrose Bierce
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Benjamin Franklin
Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Walter Colton
Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.
Eric Hoffer
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann
Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
Theodore White
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature but to the injustice of man.
Henry George
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
Will Carleton
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
J. K. Galbraith
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
Eric Hoffer
The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
Eugene O'Neill
There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Spencer Tracy
Poverty - one thing money can't buy.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
John Quincy Adams
If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.
Ronald Reagan
If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day
Man has bought brains but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.
Emma Goldman
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
George Washington Carver
When a man is small he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.
M.F.K. Fisher
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Donna Douglas
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
John Grogan