Quotes by Authors - Page 77

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
New roads new ruts.
G.K. Chesterton
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get except the blinding headaches.
Fred Allen
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.
Carrie Snow
Before I started working here I drank smoked and used bad language. Thanks to this job I now have good reason.
Anonymous
When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."
Melvin Helitzer
I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!
Anonymous
A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.
Anonymous
She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.
Fred Allen
Few great men could pass personnel.
Paul Goodman
Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
Anonymous
A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.
Anonymous
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Lyndon Johnson
Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
Bert Sugar
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead Spenser is dead so is Milton so is Shakespeare and I'm not feeling so well myself.
Mark Twain
I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.
Wendy Liebman
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
John Steinbeck
I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.
Anonymous
Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.
Anonymous
Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.
Anonymous
Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.
Anonymous
Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.
James Humes
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
Henny Youngman
Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.
Rita Rudner
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties a creature whose function is to solve problems?
Gorham Munson
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.
Thomas Paine
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Ben Ames Williams
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
Barbara Ward
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
The best way out of a problem is through it.
Anonymous
There is no movement without our own resistance.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.
Paule Marshall
The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking and may have valuable results.
Agatha Christie
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.
Candice Bergen
We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
Walter E. Cole
When you can't solve the problem manage it.
Dr. Robert H. Schuller
There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
No matter how big and tough a problem may be get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst so long as you don't do it the same way twice you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.
George F. Nordenholt
When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.
Isaac Asimov
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Dr. Frank Crane
A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known (b) what is unknown and (c) what is sought.
Edward Hodnett
It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.
G.K. Chesterton
When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Boom
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.
Bonnie Blair
I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Principles become modified in practise by facts.
James Fenimore Cooper
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor a fast flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
Thomas Fuller