English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

Diana Wynne Jones quote: "SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one..."

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

Diana Wynne Jones

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working. Robert Klein
Brad Bird quote: "My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic..."
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff. Brad Bird
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church. Charles Williams
Stephen Hadley quote: "Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some..."
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror. Stephen Hadley
Booker T. Washington quote: "In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet..."
In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. Booker T. Washington
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me. Franz Schubert
Stephen Ambrose quote: "We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace... Stephen Ambrose
Johann Kaspar Lavater quote: "Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you..."
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. Johann Kaspar Lavater
Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense and heavy clouds, are rising, slowly it is true, but not less surely, to Heaven, to pour their after-vengeance on our heads; if we heard but one instant, in imagination, the deep testimony of the dead men's voices, which no power can stifle, and no pride shut out; where would be the injury and injustice: the suffering, misery, cruelty, and wrong: that... Charles Dickens
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. Mother Teresa
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton quote: "There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose..."
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Andrew Wiles quote: "I loved doing problems in school."
I loved doing problems in school. Andrew Wiles
Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek? why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish. Steven Pinker
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar. Groucho Marx