Quotes by Authors - Page 194

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."
Pearl S. Buck
Where an opinion is general it is usually correct.
Jane Austen
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
Dorothea Brande
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Decisions determine destiny.
Frederick Speakman
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To know just what has do be done then to do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osier
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.
B.C. Forbes
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
Timothy Fuller
Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
Angela Barron McBride
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl
You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.
W.H. Auden
The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.
Robert Grant
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy."
Mary Howitt
Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
Bret Harte
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.
Robert Burton
You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?
Joel Chandler Harris
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.
Alan Seecer
Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep.
Anonymous
There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.
John L. McCreery
The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.
Anonymous
Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.
Anonymous
In the midst of life we are in death.
Anonymous
Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.
Anonymous
It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
Dorothy Parker
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
Ernest Becker
If this is dying I don't think much of it.
Lytton Strachey
Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.
Anonymous
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
You don't die in the United States you underachieve.
Jerzy Kosiński
A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
Alan Gregg
You have to learn to do everything even to die.
Gertrude Stein
Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
Anonymous
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
Michel de Montaigne
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Thomas Browne
Let the tent be struck.
Robert E. Lee
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain
Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Ambrose Bierce
Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
Ambrose Bierce
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
B.F. Skinner
It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens
I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
Hermann Hesse
Death - the last voyage the longest the best.
Thomas Wolfe
For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
John Oxenham
Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Thomas Fuller