Quotes by Authors - Page 105

No doing without some ruing.
Sigrid Undset
The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.
Germaine Greer
Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it or as if under compulsion we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking though on the contrary it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive a form that really leads only to self-torture.
Emma Jung
To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.
Michel Montaigne
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Thomas Jefferson
Reform must come from within not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
James Cardinal Gibbons
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't.
Clarence S. Darrow
Reforms should begin at home and stay there.
Anonymous
Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.
Darrell Royal
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
Your luck is how you treat people.
Bridget O'Donnell
Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
Susan M. Dodd
I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
Katharine Hepburn
Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.
Christy Mathewson
Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances for good and bad judgment.
John Chatfield
Motivation triggers luck.
Mike Wallace
Luck is believing you're lucky.
Tennessee Williams
Luck is good planning carefully executed.
Anonymous
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.
B.C. Forbes
When something bad happens to me I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.
Christie Brinkley
Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.
Liza Cody
To get it right be born with luck or else make it.
Ruth Gordon
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
Where I cannot satisfy my reason I love to humour my fancy.
Sir Thomas Browne
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell
The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)
Finley Peter Dunne
We take our shape it is true within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
James Baldwin
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.
G.K. Chesterton
Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges that it should be resistant should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.
C.S. Lewis
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
If anything is poisoning our lives and weakening our society it is reality - and not the fabrication of television writers and producers.
Martin Moloney
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
T.S Eliot
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Joseph Heller
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?
Margaret Titzel
Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Jan de Hartog
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.
Stephen Hawking
In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.
Karl von Clausewitz
In combat life is short nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier he is concerned with his literal life chances.
Charles E. Moskos
My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.
Ellen Sue Stern
For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
Elizabeth Bowen
Prospect is often better than possession.
Thomas Fuller
So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.
Anonymous
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible ask him to dribble a football.
Anonymous
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do.
Bruce Crampton
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
George Eliot
Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.
Edgar Watson Howe
It is impossible to control creation.
Evelyn Scott
Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
Alan Paton
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
Louis L'Amour
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction perhaps illusory that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
Henry David Thoreau
If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling so fragrant so intoxicating as possibility!
Søren Kierkegaard
Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
Maggie Scarf