Quotes by Authors - Page 50

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Jerome K. Jerome
A man's home is his wife's castle.
Alexander Chase
Fortunately for children the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
Gelsey Kirkland
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
D.H. Lawrence
I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
Louis L'Amour
For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Louis L'Amour
The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
Gene Brown
The future is much like the present only longer.
Dan Quisenberry
The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.
Anonymous
It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
George MacDonald
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
When I look to the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream.
G.K. Chesterton
I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.
Bette Davis
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Marilyn French
The future is wider than vision and has no end.
Donald G. Mitchell
When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The future is a great land.
Anonymous
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
It is not the cares of today but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
George MacDonald
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
Ruth Benedict
The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.
Louis L'Amour
I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.
Louis L'Amour
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict
There is hope for all of us. Well anyway if you don't die you live through it day in day out.
Mary Beckett
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Bovee
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
The future is hidden even from those who make it.
Anatole France
There is no data on the future.
Laurel Cutler
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen
There is only one large circle that we march in around and around each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future.
Lorraine Hansbury
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
Anya Seton
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
The world will be saved by one or two people.
André Gide
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized past.
Robertson Davies
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Kathleen Norris
Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play escaping the city heat.
E B White
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.
E B White
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
Albert Camus
Farmers worry only during the growing season but town people worry all the time.
Edgar Watson Howe
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
Jane Jacobs
City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
Henry David Thoreau
When caught reading the Bible W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.
Jesse Jackson
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
Mark Twain
The English of the Bible has a pithiness and raciness a homely tang a terse sententiousness an idiomatic flavour which comes home to men's business and bosoms ... a nobility of diction and ... a rhythmic quality . . . unrivaled in its beauty.
John Livingston Lowes
Brotherton So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart.
Arthur Guiterman
Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. Give praise to that All-Gracious One by whom their steps were led And thanks unto the harvest's Lord who sends our "daily bread."
Alice Williams
Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.
Henny Youngman
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Troy Anderson