Quotes by Authors - Page 123

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
Anonymous
In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety ... we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
Jerry W. McCant
If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.
Henry Miller
If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry
The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
Henry Miller
1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
Edith Cavell
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.
William Faulkner
My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.
Karl Beveridge
The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
André Malraux
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
Marianne Moore
The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.
Mark Twain
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
Mark Twain
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce
People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
Eric Hoffer
Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
Life on the farm is a school of patience you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
Henri Fournier Alain
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
Elliot Paul
The slow rhythm of waiting.
Adrian Cowell
Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy
Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
Thomas Percy
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Thomas Hobbes
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Billy Crystal
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain causes eyes to sparkle cheeks to glow blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
Anonymous
If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
Happy are those lovers who when their senses require rest can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
Giacomo Casanova
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy
If love is blind why is lingerie so popular?
Anonymous
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
Hunter S. Thompson
Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry
In my sex fantasy nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes
Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.
Thomas Fuller
Nobody has ever measured even poets how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.
John Lyly
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
Maria Edgeworth
Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.
Henry S. Haskins
The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
Follow your heart and you perish.
Margaret Laurence
The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Oscar Wilde
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Robert Keith Leavitt
He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Albert Camus
What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.
Søren Kierkegaard
Party honesty is party expediency.
Anonymous
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
Oh has thou forgotten how soon we must sever? Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever Oh why art thou silent thou voice of my heart?
Julia Crawford
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
John Holt
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
Who doesn't desire his father's death?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr