Quotes by Authors - Page 43

Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre Lorde
Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
Dorothea Brande
What man can imagine he may one day achieve.
Nancy Hale
If we have not achieved our early dreams we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.
Rosalynn Carter
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
Ruth Ross
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
Charles Dickens
Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.
Sir Francis Bacon
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Louisa May Alcott
When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift
No doubt alcohol tobacco and so forth are things that a saint must avoid but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
George Orwell
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
Samuel Butler
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Albert Camus
There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Winston Churchill
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.
Norman Mailer
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher Morley
Violence is essentially wordless and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
Thomas Merton
Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.
Brian Aldiss
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel Montaigne
How beautiful is victory but how dear!
Anonymous
Laugh and the world laughs with you snore and you sleep alone.
Katharine Whitehorn
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Mark Twain
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Nora Ephron
She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions.
Louise Lotz
Let's just say he has too many pigeons on his antenna.
Anonymous
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
Anonymous
I'm not at all stuck up . . . although judging from those around me I have every right to be.
Anonymous
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said "No bablo ingles."
Ronnie Shakes
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.
Anonymous
When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.
Russell Baker
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz
The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.
Anonymous
She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.
Dorothy Parker
Deep down I'm really shallow.
Linda Merkin
He talks at the drop of a pause.
John Mason Brown
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
I never gossip but I can give you the names of certain people who do.
Judy Hampton
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The ability to sin differs among people. For example a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one.
Anonymous
I don't believe in astrology - of course that's very typical of Leos.
Wendy Morgan
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Molly Ivins
My mother said "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said "Just wait."
Judy Tenuta
Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.
George Carlin
He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.
Anonymous
If individuals have no virtues their vices may be of use to us.
Junius
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.
Samuel Butler
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
Thomas Browne
He who hates vice hates men.
John Morley
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Bret Harte
When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Michel de Montaigne
Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.
Finley Peter Dunne
As for an authentic villain the real thing the absolute the artist one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Colette
The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
All for one one for all.
Alexander Dumas