Quotes by Writers - Page 2

It's probably not easy for a woman to understand what it's like to be a man. Imagine you're starving, and someone puts a huge buffet in front of you. There's delicious, mouth-watering food all around you, and it's really really hard not to eat it all. That's what it's like to be a man around attractive women. The urge to want to hump everything that moves is part of a man's natural programming. It's a deep-seated hunger. To suppress that hunger takes civilization and a lot of willpower.

Oliver Markus

What I have learned from the year past is something about miracles--miracles of healing and answered prayer and unexpected happy endings. Each came quietly and simply, on tiptoe, so that I hardly knew it had occurred.All this makes me realize that miracles are everyday things. Not only the sudden, great good fortune, wafting in on a new wind from the sky. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same.Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn't know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle.

Faith Baldwin

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

Voltaire

Philosophy is about everything when I say everything I mean both something and nothing. Something is what we can perceive and nothing is beyond our senses.

Mark D. Ekperi

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.

Dejan Stojanovic

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.

Fakeer Ishavardas

A beautiful woman can have almost any man she wants. A rich man can have almost any woman he wants.

Oliver Gaspirtz

If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.

Vauvenargues

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

George Sand

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

Faith Sullivan

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

I cry as the laughter inside me drowns and descends into the water with the ghosts of our union.

A.P. Sweet

most men know what they hate few what they love

Charles Caleb Colton

No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

John Ruskin

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

A.P. Fuchs

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

Agona Apell

That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.

Mark A. Rayner

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

Samuel Johnson

The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh and full of natural juices the food was, even though the food was fake.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.

Renée Manfredi

I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me

Sahndra Fon Dufe

Less is more.

William Zinsser

The skies bend, the time stops, the lanes move and the fires dance,It can mean only one thing that I am with you.You are enigmatic yet so beautiful that I have lost my sense, You are as immaculate as the unadulterated morning dew And your beauty leaves me in a mystified trance.I do not foresee what you and I will beBut I promise to be with you till the rocks keep meeting the sea.

Faraaz Kazi

Suicide may be a choice, but not as much as it is expected when everything else fails.

Mark Brightlife

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

Hester Mundis

Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the smallest nixie to highborn sidhe, for want of a storyteller.

Eugie Foster

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?

A. Manette Ansay

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Elbert Hubbard

Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Boys fight the wars. We’d have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.

Herman Wouk

Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth.”“You don’t seem to agree.”“I don’t know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

Rebecca Goldstein

Child, you do not forgive because the person who wronged deserves it.You misunderstand the point of forgiveness entirely. The only cage that a grudge creates is around the holder of that grudge. Forgiveness is not saying that the person who hurt you was right, or has earned it, or is allowed to hurt you again. All forgiveness means is that you will carry on without the burdens of rage and hatred.

Merrie Haskell

The nature of everything is, fair and based on justice. We make that unfair and unjust.

Ehsan Sehgal

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The cure for grief is motion.

Elbert Hubbard

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.

Samuel Johnson

I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.

Dejan Stojanovic

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

Joseph Campbell

Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!

Mark Denman

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

José Saramago

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

Samuel Johnson

That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

Daniel C. Dennett

Something in me whispered that I needed to stop thinking, that I should above all not go too farwith thinking. But that never worked; I always thought things through to the end, to their mostextreme consequence.

Herman Koch

Thence it is possible to arrive by easy stages at the happy notion, not uncommon among 'intellectuals', that taste consists of distaste, and that the loftiest of pleasures is that of feeling displeased; and thus to end by enjoying almost nothing in literature but one's own opinions, while oneself incapable of writing a living sentence.

F.L. Lucas

I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent.

Mia Sheridan

First rule of spirituality - thou shall not believe in your own bullshit.

Fakeer Ishavardas

I try not to judge people. It's wrong and unfair and a terrible way to go about being a human.

Joselyn Hughes

Fuck the lot of you and your hypocritical bullshit. You sit around spouting brotherhood. You don't know the first thing about being a brother. Or being a man. Because a real man sure as hell would never have disrespected a woman the way each and everyone of you have disrespected Maysie.

A. Meredith Walters

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

Aldous Huxley

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Goethe

Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait.

Renee Vincent

You have dwelt overmuch upon pain. Pain is a swift distress; it ends and is forgotten. Without memory and fear pain is nothing, a contradiction to be heeded, a warning to be taken. Without pain what would life become? Pain is the master only of craven men. It is in man's power to rule it.

H.G.Wells

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