Quotes by Authors - Page 87

Life has indeed many ills but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.
Lydia H. Sigourney
Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
Katherine Mansfield
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Emily Brontë
Man's rise or fall success or failure happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
James Lane Allen
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present-love health family friends work the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure-the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Teenagers travel in droves packs swarms. ... To the librarian they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him.
Margaret Drabble
The pure the beautiful the bright That stirred our hearts in youth The impulse to a wordless prayer The dreams of love and truth The longings after something lost The spirit's yearning cry The strivings after better hopes These things can never die.
Sarah Doudney
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr
Being tall is an advantage especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child
If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort make friends everywhere and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Louisa May Alcott
If you think you can you can. And if you think you can't you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!
Eleanor Roosevelt
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
Katherine Paterson
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.
John Lilly
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch
If you constantly think of illness you eventually become ill if you believe yourself to be beautiful you become so.
Shakti Gawain
Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
William Thackeray
If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.
Theodore Roosevelt
The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.
Austin O'Malley
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
Anonymous
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics
Anonymous
Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.
Jay Leno
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.
Wendy Morgan
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble often by not asking questions. However it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer.
Jay Leno
A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.
Ivern Ball
Liberals think you can reform an ax murderer. They don't want to kill anything. They want to change the Listerine labels to "Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath."
Marc Price
Men in high levels of government seldom surf.
Rita Rudner
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.
Anonymous
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F Kennedy
One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Robert F. Kennedy
Money is the mother's milk of politics.
Jesse Unruh
Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.
Winston Churchill
I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.
Everett Dirksen
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.
George Orwell
In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
John P. Roche
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.
Aneurin Bevan
The lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.
Sam Himmel
This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.
Nellie McClung
Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
Ely Culbertson
Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.
Henry David Thoreau
Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.
John Morley
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
Albert Camus
Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan
Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.
John Bailey