Quotes by Authors - Page 109

The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking and may have valuable results.
Agatha Christie
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.
Candice Bergen
We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
Walter E. Cole
When you can't solve the problem manage it.
Dr. Robert H. Schuller
There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
No matter how big and tough a problem may be get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst so long as you don't do it the same way twice you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.
George F. Nordenholt
When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.
Isaac Asimov
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Dr. Frank Crane
A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known (b) what is unknown and (c) what is sought.
Edward Hodnett
It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.
G.K. Chesterton
When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Boom
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
I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Principles become modified in practise by facts.
James Fenimore Cooper
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor a fast flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
Thomas Fuller
Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller
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
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
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
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
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
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
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.
Sydney Smith
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
Preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
Anonymous
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Prayer is the voice of faith.
Anonymous
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Phillips Brooks
The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
John Masefield
Doubt not but God who sits on high Thy secret prayers can hear When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
Anonymous
Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer like radium is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
In the calm of sweet communion Let thy daily work be done In the peace of soul-outpouring Care be banished patience won And if earth with its enchantments Seek thy spirit to enthrall Ere thou listen ere thou answer Turn to Jesus tell Him all.
G. M. Taylor
The wings of prayer carry high and far.
Anonymous
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
God dwells where we let God in.
Menachem Mendel
I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.
Thomas Lye
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.
Anonymous
I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.
Leo Tolstoy
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
Malcolm Boyd
We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.
Austin Phelps
The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.
George E. Rees
To pray together in whatever tongue or ritual is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
Madame de Stael
Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says "I care."
Dick Eastman
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
André Gide