Quotes by Authors - Page 220

If you bear the cross unwillingly you make it a burden and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.
Thomas à Kempis
The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
Henry Miller
There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
Margot Asquith
A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
Michel de Montaigne
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.
Fay Weldon
Whatever is-is best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
If you have arthritis calmly say I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.
Anonymous
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
One cannot get through life without pain. ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Bernie S. Siegel
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.
Harvey Oxenhorn
A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
Louis L'Amour
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
Thomas à Kempis
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
Clarence Day
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural death is the obscene mystery the ultimate affront the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
H. Bertram Lewis
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
Norman Cousins
Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Good enough never is has become the motto of this company.
Debbi Fields
The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
Simone de Beauvoir
Acceptance says "True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."
Catharine Marshall
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur Gordon
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Colette
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
James Froude
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F Drucker
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country and thereby serve his children his neighbours his fellow men and the cause of freedom.
David Lilienthal
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
Edgar Watson Howe
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Brooks Hays
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.
George Eliot
Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.
Julia Louise Woodruff
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
H. P. Liddon
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Henry David Thoreau
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.
Justice Arthur Goldberg
There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)
David Lloyd George
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned but give him a little metal a few chemicals some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and vroom! There he is up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
Russell Baker
Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was itself under a spell--so unnaturally, up and down the whole prospect of known and rather ugly objects, the blankness and the silence lasted. Had they ever, he asked himself, the hard-faced houses, which had begun to look livid in the dim dawn, had they ever spoken so little to any need of his spirit? Great builded voids, great crowded stillnesses put on, often, in the heart of cities, for the small hours, a sort of sinister mask, and it was of this large collective negation that Brydon presently became conscious--all the more that the break of day was, almost incredibly, now at hand, proving to him what night he had made of it.
Henry James
A rhinestone skein, a jeweled brocade of light,–the city is a garment stretched so thinher festive colors bleed into the night.
Michael Burch
Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system.
Steven Magee
The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?
Leigh Brackett
On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.
Ross Macdonald
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.
Jane Jacobs
To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:1. The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two...2. Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent.3. The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they must produce. This mingling must be fairly close-grained.4. There must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there...
Jane Jacobs
When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.
Markus Zusak