Quotes by Authors - Page 59

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Dag Hammarskjöld
You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.
Nancy Ditz
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
B.C. Forbes
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple and the simple thing is the right thing.
Oscar Wilde
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do it is not perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them.
Louisa May Alcott
If you walk just walk. If you sit just sit. But whatever you do don't wobble.
Anonymous
Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Anonymous
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
If it's working keep doing it. If it's not working stop doing it. If you don't know what to do don't do anything.
Dr. Melvin Konner
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear the way children see it?
Rosie Thomas
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself to keep one's head above the accumulations the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over steadily almost irresistibly like falling snow.
Rose Macaulay
Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
Anonymous
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood Anderson
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
G.K. Chesterton
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated he forgets truths which are too simple.
Dame Rebecca West
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
Diana Cooper
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it.
Mark Twain
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.
Dean Rusk
Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
André Maurois
Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
George Eliot
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
G.K. Chesterton
I'm exhausted from not talking.
Sam Goldwyn
He has the gift of quiet.
John le Carré
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy
Sickness is a belief which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.
Mary Baker Eddy
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Miguel de Cervantes
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible.
P.J. O'Rourke
If there is reincarnation I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.
Woody Allen
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
Henry Miller
Definition of a Jewish nymphomaniac: A woman who will make love the same day she has her hair done.
Maureen Lipman
It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up.
Joan Rivers
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
Woody Allen
All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.
Rita Rudner
When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department I'll tell him 'Count your blessings you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!'
Richard J. Needham
Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious rewarded and ready for more.
Alex Comfort
Amoebas at the start were not complex -They tore themselves apart and started sex.
Arthur Guiterman
Whatever else can be said about sex it cannot be called a dignified performance.
Helen Lawrenson
I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
Jimmy Carter
When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
Colette
Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500 000 000 years ago.
Mark Jerome Walters
Sex unlike justice should not be seen to be done.
Evelyn Laye
Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2 000 000 000 years asexual reproduction was the rule. You know if you were a creature you just separated into two clones.
Mark Jerome Walters
It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.
Barbara Cartland
He profits most who serves best.
Arthur F. Sheldon
They serve God well Who serve his creatures.
Caroline Norton
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration unselfishness the only real religion.
Israel Zangwill
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
Robert C. Peale
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.
Margaret Sanger
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.
Jane Rule
Put your trust in God my boys and keep your powder dry!
Valentine Blacker
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
Pearl S. Buck