Quotes by Authors - Page 89

If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.
Janet Malcolm
Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Susan Sontag
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Froude
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Philosophy is doubt.
Michel de Montaigne
In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed that life can be fixed up. In Europe the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.
Jonathan Miller
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
T.S Eliot
All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
Anything that comes easy comes wrong.
Josephine Tessier
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Lord Bowen
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
Anonymous
Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?
Dorothy Parker
Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.
P.G. Wodehouse
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
Hair is another name for sex.
Vidal Sassoon
One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.
John Galsworthy
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas Fuller
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.
Richard J. Needham
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
Nikolai Gogol
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.
Charles Dickens
Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
The waters wear the stones.
Anonymous
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
As an entrepreneur I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well persevere comes from the Latin roots purse as in "money " and sever as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.
Brian Morgan
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.
Anonymous
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first the lesson afterwards.
Anonymous
By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If you want your ship to come in you must build a dock.
Anonymous
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
Dear God I pray for patience. And I want it right now!
Oren Arnold
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Anonymous
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
Toni Morrison
Grudge no expense-yield to no opposition-forget fatigue-till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome.
Maria Weston Chapman
There are many lovely women but no perfect ones.
Victor Hugo
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.
Geraldine Ferraro
We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.
Sparky Anderson
When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
Perfectionism is slow death.
Hugh Prather
The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
Winston Churchill
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Anne Wilson Schaef
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
Hugh Kingsmill
Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.
Ursula K. LeGuin
I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.
Hugh Prather
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
Ned Rorem
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins