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:

Having Quotes (page 967)

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem. Ronald Reagan
Margaret Atwood quote: "Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Margaret Atwood
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our... C. S. Lewis
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it. Vaclav Havel
Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done? Leo Tolstoy
Neil Gaiman quote: "Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our..."
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all. Neil Gaiman
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot. Sherman Alexie
Mignon McLaughlin quote: "We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it..."
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. Mignon McLaughlin
I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto. Charlotte Bronte
Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens. Jane Austen
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death! Eugene O'Neill
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. Haruki Murakami
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion. Abraham Lincoln
Emil Nolde quote: "All important things in art have always originated from the..."
All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being. Emil Nolde
on war and conquest: in the realm of human affairs one also needs a pretext. it is important to give it the rank of a universal imperative or of a divine commandment. The range of choices is not great; either it is that we must defend ourselves, or that we have an obligation to help others, or that we are fulfilling heaven's will. the optimal pretext would link all three of the motives. Ryszard Kapuscinski

Popular Topics

Popular Author