Quotes by Authors - Page 115

There is no hope but in prayer.
Andrew Bonar
Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
Prayer changes things.
Anonymous
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.
Georges Lefevre
In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
Anonymous
Only man among living things says prayers. Or needs to.
Peter Bowman
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. 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 to one another.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
Michel de Montaigne
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
Thomas Morton
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Jack Woodford
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
Sydney J. Harris
Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
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
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Ambrose Bierce
Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
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
Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.
Peter Newman
Liberal - a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
If absolute power corrupts absolutely where does that leave God?
George Daacon
Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.
Eric Hoffer
The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind freedom a rarely acquired characteristic.
R. H. S. Crossman
Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Søren Kierkegaard
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
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
André Gide
It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.
Anonymous
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
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 poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F Kennedy
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.
Jerome K. Jerome
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
Poverty - one thing money can't buy.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Douglas Jerrold
There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.
Clarence Day
Possession they say is eleven points of the law.
Jonathan Swift
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
Louis L'Amour
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Gerald Brenan
The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
Anonymous